You Need to Speak Up!

To many general notions, SPEAKING is a difficult skill to master, yet many learners truly acknowledge its power as a dynamic instrument to communicate, interact, advise, educate, and more as the list goes on. If you spend one day just to count the values of being a good speaker, then I believe you would need a long stick of pencil and a dozen ofblank pieces of paper to jot down the advantages as your thoughts flow through the extent of your attention. The point is there are numerous positive effects from being a good speaker (I bet know them too clearly).It upsets me every time my students come admitting the false facts that because they...

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Posted in: Learning Tips,Self-Development,Speaking,Strategies

Dictionary Effects

What is a dictionary? Answer: It is a rather special book filled with words and explanation. Most dictionaries are arranged by the order of the alphabets, known as "Alphabetic order." Some dictionaries are small, thin, and colorful, while some others are large, thick and heavy. A smaller size dictionary is called "Pocket Dictionary" for the reason that you can just put it in your pocket…very portable (easy to carry with you). A thick and large size dictionary is generally known as Reference dictionary, Corpus, and Encyclopedia. These books provide larger information about words, history of words, meaning and definition,…etc. What...

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Posted in: Learning Tips,Research,Vocabulary

Brain as a Lazy Machine

"Teacher, what is brain?" asked a young boy while scratching his head. The teacher paused for a couple seconds and explained "It's simply a machine." "I don't understand", the boy continued. "Well little one, it is in everyone's head, ...and is like a machine that works non-stop", answered the teacher. However, many times this machine gets lazy because the machine owner doesn't use it so often. "So, you mean our brain is lazy if I don't do anything with it?", the boy confirmed. "That's right boy! You can become the most intelligent young boy ever, if you keep using your brain", the teacher petted on the boy's head and told him...

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Vocabulary to Enrich Communicative Competence

A popular saying from the past says "Words are even sharper than a two edge sword." Words could pierce through people hearts and change their attitudes; they are capable of making someone tear and ending up turning to be negative. Words help a user to express himself/herself more clearly. Some words are weak, while some others are strong, potential, affective, and expressive. Thus, the knowledge of words truly determines our capability in performing thinking and carrying out a task. Vocabulary to Learners  How are words best learned? Dr. Steven Krashen in his Monitor Model regarding natural ways of learning  language (Acquisition) suggests that a learner must strive to learn many words that are suitable to his ability, which he calls "Comprehensible Input." I personally advise...

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Posted in: Learning Tips,Teaching,Vocabulary

Research Design

Writing a research report is no easy, yet is highly valued by many academic societies. The world credits research articles even more than books and other referential sources. Research is more than just dozen pages of papers; they must hold credibility and researchers are required to undergo a particular procedure for pre-research, while-research, and post-research. The following guide by Prof. R.E. Khan provides the feasible ways to understand and to conduct research. The demonstration in this PowerPoint presentation will help pump awareness and deep thought into one's mind. Enjoy! Research Design More PowerPoint presentations from devilal ...

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Posted in: Research Methodology