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" Interestingly, the Chinese took to calling Japan by the name that the Japanese had invented, and the English nameJapanultimately derives from the Chinese version. In Mandarin Chinese, one of the descendants of Middle Chinese, the phrase evolved toRìběnguó.Marco Polo records an early form ...
Richard Fung is an artist and writer born in Trinidad and based in Toronto. He holds a diploma from the Ontario College of Art, a degree in cinema studies and an MEd in sociology and cultural studies, both from the University of Toronto. He is Professor in the Faculty of Art at OCAD U...
To illustrate how parents provide a support system for language learning.
Full size table The participants were asked about the characteristics that make a good teacher in ward rounds. Nearly all the participants agreed on being interested in teaching (95.1%), communicating appropriately with the patients (94.7%), understanding the learning needs (94.4%), communicating ap...
Full size table Reliability analysis The overall Cronbach’s alpha and McDonald’s omega for the PACV-Viet were 0.72 and 0.70, respectively. Out of 315 parents, 84 questionnaires were returned from the retest after two-week intervals. As shown in Table 4, the ICC was good to excellent for...
The high value placed on learning leads a large proportion of young Vietnamese Americans to pursue higher education. Almost half of Vietnamese Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 in 1990 were in college, compared with 39.5 percent of white Americans and 28.1 percent of black Americans in...
Both teachers had similar backgrounds. They attended the same three-year course at college. Since graduation, they had been teaching at primary schools and together in the same school for over four years. Both had achieved the B2 certificate of English proficiency and attended a 180-h workshop...
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“You’re talking about a totally different world,” David Knock said. He has firsthand experience instructing high school and college students in Vietnam with limited learning resources. Educators are at the mercy of their instructional tools. No one knows t...