After these conversations with Sally, while reflecting on what I learned about chimpanzees from her, I was reading Sacks (1985) book about humans’ need to be understood communicatively. I was working with the young chimpanzees in the Yerkes nursery, and watching how they interacted with other p...
The class period began with a small quiz over the previous week's vocabulary, and then the instructor began the new lesson. She went down a list of new vocabulary terms in the book, saying each word. The students would then repeat the word after her. After a page of this vocabulary, ...
Results on students’ reveal that technical (80%) and business (70%) students responded that they were not given any opportunity to speak in English in the class and only technical (20%) and business (30%) agreed that they are tested on speaking skills. This throws ball on the teachers’...
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