Download or read book A Systems Level Focus on the Efficacy of Classroom Sound Field Amplification on the Language Development of Children in Seven Urban Deis Primary Schools in Dublin written by Sylwia Kazmierczak-Murray and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sound field FM Amplification written by Carl C. Crandell and published by Singular. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTSForeword by Mark Ross, Ph.D. Preface. Contributors. Acknowledgments. Part A: A Theoretical Foundation for the Use of Sound-Field FM Amplification. Rationale for the Use of Sound-Field FM Amplification Systems in Classrooms. Speech-Perception Processes in Children. Speech Perception in the Classroom. Speech Perception in Specific Populations. Part B: Practical Applications of Sound-Field Amplification. Acoustic Measurements in Classrooms. Acoustical Modifications Within Schools. Identifying and Managing the Learning Environment. Sound-Field Amplification: A Review of the Literature. Considerations and Strategies for Amplifying the Classroom. Inservice Training for the Classroom Teacher. Listening Strategies for Teachers and Students. Marketing Sound-Field Amplification Systems. Index.
Download or read book The Influence of Improved Acoustics on English First Additional Language Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Phase written by Mpho Otlametse Marumo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English First Additional language is introduced to the non-speakers of the language in Grade 1. This is in line with the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement, which requires English to be introduced to Grade 1 learners irrespective of their home language or their language background (Department of Basic Education, 2012). To the majority of learners in South Africa, English is a second or a third language. Learning a new language poses numerous challenges, such as inability to decipher the sound system of the language. Moreover, primary school classrooms are known for being action filled and accommodative of what is known as "productive noise", which makes it difficult for Foundation Phase teachers to be audible to all learners in the classrooms. Options that are commonly used to reduce noise are hanging curtains and fitting tennis balls on the legs of chairs. This study focused on the use of a dynamic sound field amplification system as one way to improve acoustics in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to document the teachersaÌ22́Ơ4́Ø experiences when using dynamic sound field amplification system. Although this study was not an intervention, the concept evaluation was used to understand teachersaÌ22́Ơ4́Ø experiences and challenges as regards the background noise in their classrooms. This study was conducted in three Grade 1 mainstream classrooms where English First Additional Language is used for teaching and learning in the North West Province, South Africa. The classroom observations afforded me the opportunity to see how the learners reacted in the improved acoustic classroom. Lastly, the discussions with the teachers enabled me to hear how they feel about the use of the dynamic sound field amplified system. Components of the Programme Theory Evaluation with its relevance on change underpinned this study. For the purpose of this study I focused on the five steps or levels of theory of change i.e. inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impact (Evaluation Exchange, 2006). The practical application of the Programme Theory Evaluation guided the documentation of the teachersaÌ22́Ơ4́Ø experiences. The use of dynamic sound field amplification system helped with the early identification of learning barriers and interventions in the three schools. This lessened the number of learners who were wrongly referred to special schools because of poor performance. TeachersaÌ22́Ơ4́Ø health, high rates of absenteeism and voice fatigue were reduced, and classroom management was facilitated. The study found that the participants were not aware of the importance of acoustics in the classroom before dynamic sound field amplification system was introduced. They had to speak at the top of their voices and often repeated themselves for their learners to hear and understand. The dynamic sound field amplification system changed all that, the teachersaÌ22́Ơ4́Øvoices were amplified and that improved the acoustics in the three classrooms. The dynamic sound field amplification system is effective in the overcrowded classrooms where the background noise is normally high; it operates by amplifying the teacheraÌ22́Ơ4́Øs voice relative to the background noise. The teacheraÌ22́Ơ4́Øs amplified voice remains constant all the time and equally audible to all learners in the classroom at all the times. (DiSarno, Schowalter & Grass, 2002). The recommendations of this study are to share the information gathered from the three schools and the two district officials with the senior management of the North West Department of Education. They will be in the position to study the outcomes and assist schools accordingly by deciding if they see the importance of treating acoustics in the classrooms.
Download or read book Europe and MENA Cooperation Advances in Information and Communication Technologies written by Álvaro Rocha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-25 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a selection of articles from The Europe, Middle East and North Africa Conference on Technology and Security to Support Learning 2016 (EMENA-TSSL'16), held between the 3th and 5th of October at Saidia, Oujda, Morocco. EMENA-TSSL'16 is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges in Information & Communication Technologies, and Security to support Learning. The main topics covered are: A) Online Education; B) Emerging Technologies in Education; C) Artificial Intelligence in Education; D) Gamification and Serious games; E) Network & Web Technologies Applications; F) Online experimentation and Virtual Laboratories; G) Multimedia Systems and Applications; H) Security and Privacy; I) Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing; J) Cloud, Big Data Analytics and Applications; K) Human-Computer Interaction; L) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; M) Online Languages and Natural Language Processing N) E-content Development, Assessment and Plagiarism; O) Secure E-Learning Development and Auditing; P) Internet of Things and Wireless Sensor Networks.
Download or read book Law and the Social Role of Science written by Harry W. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Popular Music and Public Diplomacy written by Mario Dunkel and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular genres in diplomatic contexts, including rock, pop, bluegrass, flamenco, funk, disco, and hip-hop, among others. This volume illuminates the interrelation of popular music and public diplomacy from a transnational and transdisciplinary angle. The contributions argue that, as popular music has been a crucial factor in international relations, its diplomatic use has substantially impacted the global musical landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Download or read book Child Protection and Welfare Practice Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning to Sell Sex ism written by Aileen O'Driscoll and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first in-depth exploration into the gendered attitudes and worldviews of advertising students. Offering a significant contribution to other cultural sociological works concerning the cultural and creative industries, Learning to Sell Sex(ism) adds further weight to the argument that it is imperative that we look closely at the people who create media texts in order to better account for and challenge sexist media content. In this study, such media creators are the advertising industry’s next generation of practitioners and creatives. Involving a mix of in-depth questionnaires, qualitative surveys, interviews with students, observational data, as well as an examination of the components comprising advertising modules, O’Driscoll documents the dominant gendered discourses articulated by advertising students and offers an opportunity for the advertising educational sector to reflect on how it might play its part in reducing stereotypical and sexist content emanating from the industry. Learning to Sell Sex(ism) will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including media studies, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies and marketing.
Download or read book Towards a Better Future written by John Coolahan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law Science written by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette and published by Science, Technology, & Human Values. This book was released on 1978 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1655 selected references primarily to American journal articles, journals, monographs, and government documents that concern the interaction between the legal system and the scientific world. Classified arrangement. Name index.
Download or read book Heritage Language Education written by Jim Cummins and published by Toronto, Ont. : Ministry of Education : Publications Sales, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. This book was released on 1983 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research literature concerning the effects of incorporating the heritage languages of minority students into the regular school curriculum either as subjects or as mediums of instruction is reviewed. Program evaluations from Canada, the United States, and Europe consistently show that the use of a minority language as a medium of instruction for all or part of the school day entails no long-term loss in the development of academic skills in the majority language. There is also evidence that bilingual programs can both encourage minority parent involvement in their children's schooling and facilitate the development of minority students' academic skills. However, this pattern does not invariably emerge in the evaluation data, and further research is required to understand fully the complex interactions that appear to exist between language of instruction and a range of individual, educational, and social factors. Virtually no research data are available on the academic effects of teaching heritage languages as subjects, as opposed to using the languages as a medium of instruction. Also, because most program evaluations focus primarily on academic outcomes, little or no data are available on the impact of bilingual or heritage language programs on the educational system as a whole. Three major policy implications of the research are addressed. (Author/SW)
Download or read book The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this collection, written by medievalists and Renaissance scholars, are part of the recent "cultural turn" in translation studies, which approaches translation as an activity that is powerfully affected by its socio-political context and the demands of the translating culture. The links made between culture, politics, and translation in these texts highlight the impact of ideological and political forces on cultural transfer in early European thought. While the personalities of powerful thinkers and translators such as Erasmus, Etienne Dolet, Montaigne, and Leo Africanus play into these texts, historical events and intellectual fashions are equally important: moments such as the Hundred Years War, whose events were partially recorded in translation by Jean Froissart; the Political tussles around the issues of lay readers and rewriters of biblical texts; the theological and philosophical shift from scholasticism to Renaissance relativism; or European relations with the Muslim world add to the interest of these articles. Throughout this volume, translation is treated as a form of writing, as the production of text and meaning, carried out in a certain cultural and political ambiance, and for identifiable - though not always stated - reasons. No translation, this collection argues, is an innocent, transparent rendering of the original.
Download or read book All it Is It s a Carnival written by Mária Németh Lenke and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Task Force on the Travelling Community written by Ireland. Task Force on the Travelling Community and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 1995 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Off board Fare Payment Using Proof of payment Verification written by Thomas F. Larwin and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2012 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 96 examines the application of proof of payment (PoP) on transit systems in North America and internationally. TCRP Synthesis 96 updates TCRP Report 80: A Toolkit for Self Service, Barrier Free Fare Collection. Issues address by TCRP Synthesis 96 include evasion rates, inspection rates, enforcement techniques, duties of fare inspection personnel, adjudication processes, and the kinds of penalties involved for evasion.
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Download or read book Mechanical Engineering and Materials written by Wen Jin and published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 2080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The present papers, drawn from both academia and industry, reflect the international flavour of this event; devoted to the topics of: Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Properties, Measuring Methods and Applications, Methodology of Research and Analysis and Modelling, Materials Manufacturing and Processing, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mechanical Engineering, Design and Manufacturing, etc.
