The JD First Year Experience: Design Issues and Strategies

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

the relationship between critical thinking and reading strategies

during the process of reading, sometimes learners use ineffective and inefficient strategies and some factors may influence their use of strategies. perhaps critical thinking is one of these factors. this study aims to identify those categories of reading strategies that are mostly used by iranian efl learners and to see if there is any significant relationship between the critical thinking abi...

The FIRST+ Year Information Systems Faculty Experience

Design Issues and First Experience with a Visual Database Editor for the Extended NF2 Data Model

The extended NF (eNF) data model permits structured data values like (sub-)relations, lists and tuples to be included as attributes in relations. While it is a very powerful data model, it is not easy to handle and even harder to implement. In this paper we descibe a visual database editor for the eNF 2 data model for simple tasks like browsing in the database, data entry and editing. We believ...

Design Experience from Experience Design: Towards Strategies for Enhancements

Enterprises within the experience-based economy face big challenges when investing in IS applications for their products and services. Especially, organizations and services that offer different kinds of attractions and experiences have realized the emergent use of mobile technology. In this paper we explore in what way an IS (information systems) design can enhance experience-based activities ...