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Have you learned English and gained an intermediate level? Do you want to practice more and enhance your English communication skills ?
Topics: English communication skills, Best spoken english courses online
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12/18
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People tend to speak English fast knowingly or unknowingly under the pressure. However, speaking English fast might create a negative effect as the listeners may not understand what you speak.
Topics: English Communication Skills, advanced spoken english courses online
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May 20, 2018
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These recordings are samples of audio productions made by participants of the media training opportunity “Women speak up for themselves” at AfricanTide Union e.V. (ATU) in Dortmund . Women c a me together tak ing first joint steps in produc ing their own Med i a, explore and gain know-how in how they could tell their stories to make themselves heard in the “information age”. In interviews and conversations, the women talk about a life between different cultures, education of the...
Topics: Dortmund, Germany, AfricanTide Union, Africa, Nigeria, Guinea, Schwarze Deutsche, Ghana, Cameroon,...
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These recordings are some samples of footage recordings made by the participants of the "Digital audio storytelling course" hosted by AfricanTide Union in Dortmund (ATU) and facilitated by Claudia Wegener/ radio continental drift. The aim of this course is the development of media and communication skills among ATU staff. A skilled in-house production team of digital-media literate staff is intended to assist the inclusiveness of ATU's media output as the organisation moves ahead in...
Topics: Germany, Dortmund, AfricanTide Union, NGO, workshop, digital storytelling, women, AFRICA, training,...
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These recordings are some samples of footage recordings made by the participants of the "Digital audio storytelling course" hosted by AfricanTide Union in Dortmund (ATU) and facilitated by Claudia Wegener/ radio continental drift. The aim of this course is the development of media and communication skills among ATU staff. A skilled in-house production team of digital-media literate staff is intended to assist the inclusiveness of ATU's media output as the organisation moves ahead in...
Topics: Dortmund, Germany, AfricanTide Union, Africa, Nigeria, Somalia, Schwarze Deutsche, Ghana,...
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index
Topics: Communication, Communication, Personnel Communication skills Development, Personnel Training
Host Stanford Freed of the Caregiver Resource Network talks with Dr. Carol Robinson of Making Choices Michigan about establishing end of life preferences.
Topics: end of life Preferences, family strife, end of life care, chronically ill, family patient family...
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As Leaders it is paramount we listen to our employees. Effective listening skills are the lifeline to the success in our organizations. In this leadership short, In this 9 minute lesson, Chris Cebollero discusses the finer points of developing a reputation of being an active listener.
Topics: Active listening, Chris Cebollero, Leadership Development, Communication skills
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Developing Your Listening Skills
Topics: Leadership Development, Communication Skills, Professional development, Chris Cebollero
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Part comedy show and part improv skill training, Stevie Ray's Skills for Life Project" is coming to the Sheldon Theatre in Red Wing! This program uses improvisation as a tool to develop valuable communication skills. Tickets are available through the Sheldon Theatre at https://www.sheldontheatre.org/event/hope-coalition-presents-stevie-rays-skills-for-life-showcase/."
Topics: Minnesota, Red Wing, City of Red Wing, MN, Government Access TV, Community Media, PEG, Youtube,...
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Topics: Oral communication, Language and languages, Oral communication, Communication, Instructional media,...
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Topics: Employees, Performance, Educational programs, Adult education, Interpersonal relationship,...
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Anjaneya is the most popular devotee of God. Anjaneya is the most powerful and intelligent amongst Gods.By reciting His glory as sri anjaneya dandakam gives health,strength,happiness,and salvation.Anjaneya is an embodiment of communication skills,project planning,and dedication to duty.
Topics: sri anjaneyadanakam, hanuman chalisa, jai hanuma, anjaneya, personlity development, ramayana,...
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of a joint attention intervention program on improving joint attention and communication skills in children with autism disorder. Participants were ten children between the ages of five and seven who attended a school for children with developmental disabilities (Tarbya Fekrya ). A pre-post design was used to examine the joint attention intervention program on on improving joint attention and communication skills of the target students....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Skills, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Attention Control,...
Communication specialists have contributions to make to the study of death education and to health professionals in caring for the terminally ill and their survivors. Communication specialists can assist with identifying the communication behaviors associated with "stigma" reactions to death by the patient, the family, and the helping professional; can point to the significance of the setting for dying; can help coordinate psychological resources for the patient by helping various...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Death, Health Services,...
This document presents the National Health Care Skill Standards, which were developed by the National Consortium on Health Science and Technology and West Ed Regional Research Laboratory, in partnership with educators and health care employers. The document begins with an overview of the purpose and benefits of skill standards. Presented next are overviews of the following groups of core and cluster skill standards: (1) health care (academic foundation, communications, systems, employability,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Standards, Accountability, Allied Health Occupations Education, Basic...
The Career English Curriculum Guide has been prepared to better equip students with communication skills required in the working world. Basic skills of reading job-related materials and writing brief resumes are blended with the less measurable skills of developing good relationships with fellow employees and good attitudes toward work in general. Concepts, objectives, and suggested activities are outlined for three units: seeking employment, on the job, and improvement of communication skills....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Skills, Curriculum Guides, English Curriculum, Integrated Curriculum,...
The general purpose of the occupational analysis is to provide workable, basic information dealing with the many and varied duties performed in the bookkeeping occupation. The document opens with a brief introduction followed by a job description. The bulk of the document is presented in table form. Eight duties are broken down into a number of tasks and for each task a two-page table is presented, showing on the first page: tools, equipment, materials, objects acted upon; performance knowledge...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bookkeeping, Business Skills, Communication Skills, Job Analysis, Knowledge Level,...
The urgency of the issue stated in this article is caused by the need for mastering skills and patterns of self-regulation when being an adolescent since this time is sensitive for developing processes of personal understanding and evolution. Thus, mastering skills and patterns of self-regulation as a necessary part of the whole ability of personality formation as well as mastering reflection as the main age-dependent formation is an important stage of adolescents' individual development. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Self Control, Skill Development, Sensory Experience, Psychological...
This teacher's guide was developed for the first of four courses in Valencia Community College's Interdisciplinary Studies Program, a 2-year core general education curriculum which chronologically examines the major developments in the evolution of human knowledge. The guide provides an introductory overview of the semester's topic (i.e., the evolution of abstract thinking and critical inquiry during the Classical Greek period); introduces each unit; discusses each topic within each unit,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art, Communication Skills, Course Content, Course Objectives, General Education,...
A study to determine whether five Pittsburgh hospitals have communication training programs and whether the programs have been or are currently being evaluated examined the following research questions: (1) whether they have ever used a communication training program (i.e., writing, interpersonal communication, public speaking, group leadership); (2) if so, what was the background of the program (i.e., content, who initiated the program, where was it conducted, how long did it last); (3) why it...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation...
This paper discusses the problems surrounding intercultural business communication as well as approaches to teaching college level business students appropriate communication skills for intercultural settings. Considered are the classification of countries by cultural context, i.e. how large a role culture, social values, and traditional social customs play in business dealings, and problems associated with doing business in high- and low-context culture countries. Also presented are means by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Communication Skills,...
Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders, enhance communication with supervisors and co-workers, and encourage greater involvement through team building and critical thinking. This training...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution,...
Self-report measures of perceived communication competence used properly can help build understanding of communication behavior, but used as indications of communication performance can only retard such efforts. Not all uses of such instruments are either legitimate or appropriate--for example, using self-report measures to determine an individual's actual communication competence. None of the scales currently used to measure perceptions is appropriate because none asks the subjects to estimate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Communication, Public...
This report presents the activities, accomplishments, and outcomes of a study of the long-term outcomes of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions with individuals with severe communication disabilities. The study evaluated long-term outcomes for 7 young men (ages 19-23 years) who had used AAC systems for at least 15 years. Outcomes were measured in the following domains: (1) receptive language; (2) reading comprehension; (3) communicative interaction; (4) functional...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Aids (for...
Acknowledging major reform reports that name reading, writing, speaking, and listening as the most essential skills in the work of any school, this brochure discusses important first steps for school boards pursuing excellence in the language arts. These concrete suggestions are grouped under five broad directives: (1) declare that the highly skilled use of English is a priority in the district, (2) find ways to reduce composition class size, (3) establish a climate and provide the means for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Boards of Education, Communication Skills, Educational Change, Educational...
Purpose: The purpose was to investigate higher education quality because there are links between the main society and university graduates and the university. Methodology: This research sought aspects of the teaching quality of the Faculty that could be improved. The spheres were: improvement in qualifications of the teachers; finding ways to improve theory and practice unity, improve faculty student interaction; listening to the needs of the students, and development of Faculty communication...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Teacher Qualifications,...
Understanding the Early Years (UEY) is a national research initiative. It provides communities with information to enable them to make informed decisions about the best policies and most appropriate programs for Canadian families with young children. This report is based on one of seven communities studied in 2001-2002. Children's outcomes were assessed in physical health and well-being, cognitive skills, and behavioural measures. The evaluation comprised measures for: (1) Family background...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Child Development, Young Children, Physical Health, Thinking...
Preserving a literary-based curriculum, creating a sensitivity to the literature, and encouraging communicative skills relative to the literature are significant goals in foreign language study. Therefore, a program involving strategic interaction and cooperative learning techniques applied to the study of literature fosters communication and comprehension within a cultural context. Three categories of relative, effective, and practical tools for literary based discourse are discussed in this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Skills, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Context, Interaction, Literature...
Epideictic rhetoric, expression of praise or blame, animates much communication, from gossip to sermons, from commercial ads to love letters. Even when writing for purposes other than to judge, writers often frame their talk with implicit or explicit expressions of praise for individuals or groups or ideas considered "good." Epideictic rhetoric is an especially rich area of study for those who teach college students persuasion and argumentation. Students at the University of Iowa,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audience Awareness, Communication Skills, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse,...
Throughout students' academic careers, they are required to perform a variety of speech-related activities. According to one study, students with demonstrated communication anxiety are less successful academically. Both the instructor and the librarian can contribute to assisting the student with communication anxiety. Using a variety of instructional techniques and providing independent learning opportunities reduces interpersonal interaction while preparing the student for assignments...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classroom Techniques, Communication Apprehension, Communication Skills, Elementary...
In order to evaluate the Project ALERT (Adult Literacy Enhanced & Redefined through Training) Workplace Literacy Project, data were collected to gauge the impact of the program on individual participants, the organizations in which they were employed, and to provide the use of whole language and multimedia techniques in workplace literacy programs. In addition, case studies of the implementation of the program were developed on a site-by-site basis. Data collection were collected through...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Communication Skills, Continuing Education, Education Work...
The Accelerated Schools Project (ASP) at the University of New Orleans (UNO) was established in spring 1990, funded by a 3-year grant from Chevron. Beginning with 1 pilot school in 1991, the UNO Accelerated Schools Center has expanded to 36 schools representing 19 school districts in Louisiana and 3 schools from the Memphis City Schools district. During the first 5 years of accelerated schools, the primary objective was to develop a multiyear stable funding base and expand systematically...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial...
This article seeks to examine "Ways of Knowing Through the Realms of Meaning" (2007) by Dr. William Allan Kritsonis as a framework that transformational educational leaders can use to guide members of the Site Based Decision Making Team through development of the Campus Improvement Plan. The Campus Improvement Plan serves as a blueprint for holistically addressing the needs of the campus as it strives to bring its vision to fruition. The six fundamental patterns of the meaning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Transformational Leadership, Holistic Approach, Ethics, Improvement, Aesthetics,...
Innovations, ETS's corporate magazine, provides information on educational assessment for educators, school leaders, researchers and policymakers around the world. Each issue of Innovations focuses on a particular theme in assessment. This issue reports on how new technologies in classrooms around the world are enhancing teaching, learning and education policy. Articles in this Fall issue include: (1) What's Inside: New Technologies Improve Automated Scoring; (2) Learning to Write, Writing to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Writing Evaluation, Periodicals,...
This short report explores how many young people sit down with their family at mealtimes, how often they talk with their family when they do and the relationship between mealtime talk and young people's confidence in and attitudes towards communication skills. Using data from the latest annual survey of 34,910 children and young people, it shows that that children and young people who sit down to eat dinner and talk with their family are more confident communicators than those who do not. There...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Family Environment, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills, Attitude...
The main purpose of this pilot study is to describe the Communications English (CE) program that was designed to help underachievers gain competence in communications skills. The subjects were 75 tenth graders assigned to three CE classes and 75 Regent English (State recommended English syllabus) tenth grade students. Based on diagnosis of pretest scores, an instructional prescription was prepared for each CE student. As the student progressed through different materials, his prescription was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Skills, Critical Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, English Instruction,...
The purposes of the study are to examine thoroughly the components to constitute individual perceptions of prospective teachers concerning important acquisitions of geography fieldworks and to facilitate its applicability as a teaching method through their own observations and suggestions, and in this context to obtain information about the nature of geography learning in fieldworks. 155 female (43%) and 207 male (57%) prospective teachers (n = 362) participated in the research. Obtained data...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Geography, Communication Skills, Student Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teachers,...
Empathy has been defined, operationalized, and assessed in many different ways. A study was conducted to determine whether selected empathy measures actually measured a similar construct when they were applied in interpersonal communication settings. The five measures chosen for analysis were those typically used by researchers to assess predictive empathy, perceived empathy, and self-report empathy. A correlational analysis was applied to data collected from 90 college students enrolled in a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Communication Skills, Empathy, Higher Education, Interaction,...
Repetitive behaviors such as excessive straightening are commonly observed among individuals with autism. Attempts to prevent these behaviors may increase the likelihood of other problem behaviors. The present study was designed to assess and treat the excessive straightening and associated destructive behaviors of a 16-year-old boy who had been diagnosed with autism and moderate mental retardation. Following a series of functional analyses, an intervention that incorporated functional...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Moderate Mental Retardation, Autism, Behavior Modification, Aggression, Adolescents,...
This curriculum guide is intended to assist educators to maximize the performance of gifted students and others in required subject areas and is keyed to initiatives of the Kansas State Board of Education (KSBE). Part 1, the introduction, describes the guide's development, states the guide's purpose, specifies the students to be served, and considers program design for the gifted. Recommended program design policies address 10 areas including minimum time, budget, homogeneous grouping, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Methods, Educational...
All educators should want to provide students with the best possible education, and this is done through curriculum selection. "Ways of Knowing Through the Realms of Meaning" by Dr. William A. Kritsonis (2007) presents a detailed plan for schools to develop and implement modern curriculum that is perennial. Following Dr. Kritsonis's fundamental patterns of meaning allows schools to easily connect curriculum across subject areas. Educational leaders have the duty, and expectation, to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, National Curriculum, Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Relevance (Education),...
To examine the developmental process of communication competence and the resulting relationship between competence and college success, a longitudinal study of college students was undertaken. In this study, pertinent background factors and measures of communication skills were collected on the same population over the course of a student's college career. Although this longitudinal study is only partially complete, with two of the four years of data having been collected, some indications are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, College Preparation, College...
This report focuses on the perceptions and experiences of teachers and administrators during the first year of REACH implementation, which was in many ways a particularly demanding year. These experiences can be helpful to Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and to other districts across the country as they work to restructure and transform teacher evaluation. This report is the first in a series of studies on Chicago's REACH teacher evaluation system. Chapters 1 and 2 of this report describe the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Public Schools,...
The field of scientific and technical communication (STC) has experienced extraordinary growth in recent years. To meet the needs of a new generation of technical communication leaders, a Master's program must include the study of writing, editing, publication, math, computer science, science and engineering literature, rhetorical principles, and genres of the workplace. Graduates in scientific and technological communication must be able to adapt to new technologies, learn methods of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Communication, Communication Skills, Communications, Curriculum Development,...
An honors lecture has been given each year since 1973 by a person chosen by the Secondary Education Division members of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Several lecturers have provided insights into each decade of scholastic journalism and its relationship to society. Lecturers have discussed four major points as current problems: recruitment of dedicated students, help and support for advisers, language skills, and the need for research in scholastic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Skills, Educational History, Educational Trends, Journalism Education,...
For a university service learning educational research project addressing Legionnaires' disease (LD), a Yes/No questionnaire on community awareness of LD was developed and distributed in an urban community in North Carolina, USA. The 456 questionnaires completed by the participants were sorted into yes and no sets based on responses obtained to the first question on whether the participant has heard of LD, and 194 participants (~43%) answered in the affirmative. For the other nine questions the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Service Learning, Educational Research, Age Differences, Diseases, Biology,...
A number of adults were interviewed about memories of their favorite teachers. While many could remember specific instances of connections of learning had occurred, there were only 20 who could clearly remember and articulate this form of remembering. From this relatively small group, the dominant and most enduring memory was one of emotional introspection. This memory was enduring because it was an active constituent in their daily life. While these teachers used a variety of teaching...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Skills, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education, Reading...
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The ten titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effect of dramatic improvisation on the attitudes of high school teachers toward their students; (2) the effects of training teachers in interpersonal cognitive problem solving skills on teacher-student interaction, classroom social and emotional climate, and children's problem solving abilities; (3) novice interviewers'...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Communication, Communication Research,...
Two newsletters focus on alternatives for community living and approaches to teaching social skills to children and youth with disabilities. The first issue provides information on some family support services and community-based living arrangements that are currently available for children with severe and profound handicaps or chronic illnesses. Funding through federal and state governments is described along with private medical insurance and funding through private sources. Also discussed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Communication Skills, Community Programs,...
