iosr-JRME   Volume-10 ~ Issue-1 ~ Jan. - Feb .2020

Abstract: To achieve sustainable development (SD) is to strive to live a human and nature-friendly life in the present and future generation. Living such a life implies adding to nature more than one intends to remove from it. SD goals are 17 development goals created by the UN in September 2015 to enable the global community have common understanding of global problems and be committed towards them. This paper is concerned with SDG 4 which is focused on inclusiveness in education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities. To achieve SD goal 4, inclusiveness in learning is imperative. Inclusiveness bereft of community participation and particularly involvement of rural women implies that SD will hardly be achieved and gender gap in education will continually get widened. This is because rural women are drivers of all kinds of human development. Involving......

Key words: Repositioning, Adult Education, REFLECT Circle, Non- formal Education, Inclusiveness, Sustainable Development, Rural Women

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Abstract: Teachers with sound mental health are the prime requirement of the country. To understand the mental health status a comparative study was undertaken through descriptive survey method. To collect the data a twenty eight item "General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28)" was administered on a stratified random sample comprising of 363 male and 234 female teachers selected from 30 schools of West Bengal, India. From the results it was observed that the male teachers were more extravert than their female counterparts; and female teachers are more neurotic than their male counterparts; otherwise there was no gender difference in the rest of the factors of personality.

Keywords: Personality, Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism

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Abstract: The purposes of assessing the performance of university teachers are to guide relevant personnel to increase the investment in teaching,perfect the teaching links, and improve the teaching quality. Thus, the university management would be able to clarify the constitution and function of the evaluation mechanism of university teachers.Then,the innovation and optimization toward the operating mode of the evaluation mechanism,the anti-deviation control system of the evaluation mechanism, and the application process of the evaluation mechanism would be effectively realized.

Keywords: University Teacher; Evaluation Mechanism; Innovation

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Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the impact of educational application of smart devices on developing the academic achievement for Students with Dyscalculia, the researchers used the experimental approach ( the Quasi-experimental Design),The study was conducted on 30 students with Dyscalculia from East Gaza-Palestine. Results showed significant differences at significant level (α≤0.05) among the average scores of the student's achievement test of the experimental group in the pre- and post- application. The findings of the study indicate that the mathematical skills of the participants have developed and there has been significant increase in their speed of answering and that the educational application of Smart Devices has a significant impact with ɳ2=0.961

Key Word: (smart devices ,Academic Achievement,Dyscalculia)

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Abstract: The primary purpose of the present investigation was to examine the influence of non-native English speakers' accents on listening comprehension. The paper followed a thematic synthesis review that involves the development of structured summaries of studies to elaborate on and contextualize the extracted information. The sixteen publications selected for review included five quantitative, one integrative appraisal, and ten that employed experiments. The qualitative synthesis resulted in the identification of three thematic areas, which are considered as the approaches through which non-native accents can shape English comprehension. These encompass the perceptions of the native English speakers towards non-native English accented speakers, prosodic qualities of the language, and the foreign-accented English speaker's speech rate. The findings of the review suggest that the exclusion of the diversity of English in ESL listening tests is likely to disadvantage test takers of non-native English backgrounds.

Keywords: accents, non-native accents, native, listeners, perceptions, comprehension

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Abstract: The globalization process has resulted in the widespread of English as lingua franca, thereby compelling countries like Lebanon to embrace English as a second language for teaching and communication. Various techniques have been employed to encourage English learning and use among students in Lebanon, including classroom assessment techniques. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of formative and summative assessments in motivating English Second Language (ESL) students to learn English in Lebanon. The integrative review research design was adopted to identify relevant studies focusing on the application of formative and summative judgments in ESL classes. The integrative appraisal resulted in the selection of thirteen papers that met the study's inclusion criteria, including three studies that employed mixed-methods, two quasi-experimental......

Keywords: formative, summative, ESL, evaluations, learning

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Abstract: The existing portraits of patrons of the artists and temples stored within the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are important evidence of the caves' construction, and the study of the existing patron portraits of the Dunhuang Grottoes is of great significance. As in all studies in this field, understanding must come from multiple angles. In the Mogao Grottoes, almost every cave contained inscribed portraits of patrons. Due to the special geographical conditions of Dunhuang, the patrons and their clothing depicted in these paintings show distinct characteristics of the era in which they were painted. Portraits of patrons existed as a special form of ancient Chinese portraiture, serving as a self-depictions of Buddhists in the process of accumulating good deeds, and were ancient China's most extensive field of portraiture in terms of coverage of all people of all classes and ethnicities. For the person.....

Keywords: Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang Grottoes, patrons, clothing

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Abstract: Interestingly, the smallest fabric scraps should never end up as wasted materials by burying and covering it over with soil, especially as a method of filling in or extending usable land. Finally, polluting the environment. The fabric collage, however, at different-sized fabric scraps (linen, cotton or silk...etc.) could be transferred to pleasing the senses and the mind aesthetically. However, to acquire knowledge of creativity, therefore, should be by merging elements of different fabrics to erect a montage. The process or technique of selecting, editing and fabrics piecing together as well as the separate sections of an image constructed by fabrics is to form a continuous harmony image with the environment. The technique can be done manually, by machines sewing or other related technique such as composite fabrics. Each result, therefore, will be different, unique, very beautiful.......

Key words: Fabric Collage, fabric scraps, environmental sustainability

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Abstract: In communicating, humans sometimes take politeness strategy is needed to compensate for actions that threaten that self-esteem. The purpose of this journal is to analysis the politeness and cooperation aspects in the "lady Bird" film Script. This research method is qualitative descriptive. The data in this research is the form of dialogue that occurs between characters in the film "Lady Bird". This research was carried out by watching movies directly and reading the script film. In collecting data, this study uses film scripts. Then, collect the words (text) from the dialog contained in the script. After analyzing the movie script, it was found that there were several aspects of politeness such as bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and bald off record and then cooperation aspects which were marked by several maxim such as maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relevance, and maxim of manner

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