This paper analyzes some frequently occurring problems concerning pronunciation of English learners in China. Factors leading to these problems are interference of Chinese, learners’ age, attitude, and their insufficient knowledge of phonology and phonetics systems of the English language, etc.

nowadays, more attention is being paid to customers’ satisfaction as funding decisions are made. extension organization, which plays an important role in educating farmers, must know how far the learners are satisfied with its educational program. accordingly, this study was conducted in yazd province (iran) with the main objective of investigating the pomegranate growers’ satisfaction with the...

Escalating adolescent pregnancy and risky sexual behaviour is becoming more common amongst young adolescents and especially amongst black adolescents in South Africa. Statistics confirm that South African adolescents as young as fourteen are already sexually active and become pregnant. The decision to become sexually active with resulting adolescent pregnancy whether planned or not, are directl...

Integrative motivation was found to correlate significantly with sign language proficiency of adult learners at a post-secondary program for deaf students. Instrumental motives, however, were perceived as less important. Higher achievement in ASL was also associated with a positive cultural attitude toward deaf people. Learning of ASL as a second language may be enhanced if instructors design s...

OBJECTIVE To describe the correlation between Self-directed Learning (SDL) and medical students' attitude towards research, based on the premise that self-directed learners are independent, motivated, and curious learners. STUDY DESIGN Observational cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Rawalpindi Medical College, Rawalpindi, from August 2011 to January 2012. METHODOLOGY One ...

Virtual Campusis a research project which aims to provide a comprehensive and innovative e-learning environment for authoring, fruition and evaluation. The paper presents the Tutoring and Validation module developed for Virtual Campus. The Validation tool tracks the learners’ behaviour within the Virtual Campus environment and defines the “user model” in terms of learning attitudes (derived by ...