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The NATO official was quoted as saying that common languages such as French or German can be managed however “we can cross-check and say, that’s not exactly the right term, doesn’t capture the nuance  – Dari and Pashto, we had to accept because none of us could interpret it” (p. 1).

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Robinson et al. (2008) discussed online translator training in terms of its relationship to social constructivist theory.  The emphasis on social interaction and information sharing between individuals that then produces greater understanding and the development of meaning is akin to an interactive online learning environment that places the learner at the center of the conversation and encourages self-direction and self-reflection impacted and tempered through exchanges with others (see also Tirkonne-Condit, 2005).

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One of the observations made by Banzet and de Geoffroy (2006) was that low rate of urbanization in the country made the provision of adequate schooling to all of the nation’s children a genuine challenge. Remote agricultural areas lacked the physical structure to house a school and lacked of curriculum materials or teachers versed in teaching across different ages. However, parents often eschewed school, needing their children at home to assist in subsistence farming. For many Afghan families education is still a formidable luxury. Unfortunately, security also remains a challenge as Roshan (2004) and others have noted that teachers and in some instances, students, have been attacked and schools destroyed by insurgent elements bent on returning Sharia Law and reversing the course of Western influence.

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While the burst of school enrollments that have occurred under the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan have swelled the number of students enrolled at the primary school level (Shirazi, 2007), secondary education in Afghanistan, as in most developing countries has been a “neglected sector” (Moreno, 2005, p. 381).

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Despite a recent, rapid growth around the world in interpreter training programs at the university-level, there is “very little [known] about what actually transpires in the interpreting classroom” (Pochhacker, 2010, p. 4).   Some translator training occurs in other environments but by and large most instructors of translation work come from a university environment (Kelly, 2008).  This is one reason why it’s unexpected that there is a dearth of experimental research on curriculum effectiveness, coupled with what Pochhacker (2004) identified as a “surprising lack of descriptive data,” (p. 4).  The researcher noted that one university program, students enrolled across 25 interpreter training programs covering 11 languages reported very limited encounters with regular classroom assessment practices:  only 12% had received feedback on audio-recorded translation exercises and just 16% had received direct correction from instructors while practicing translation in-class.

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Rather than have the students work in one large team, as they had in the first project and had reported finding unwieldy for communication and job delineation, Kim (2005) broke them up into four smaller teams that each worked on their own translation of the assessment tests.  This produced four different versions of the translated tests that were then discussed by the class and both strengths and areas for improvement were identified.   Noting that the students had reported feelings of dissatisfaction with the feedback processes realized during the first authentic task, Kim modeled constructive criticism for students.  Once changes were made to the various translations, Kim selected the most accurate one and that was presented to the clients.

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While the Afghanistan was reported to be one of the world’s largest refugee populations, many of Afghan children have received a substantial amount of their education in other countries. Hoodfar (2007) reported that the large Afghan refugee community lives in Iran or in Pakistan.

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In all above tests and analysis, we concluded very specifically to analyze any given set of data regardless of its sample size which is a finite set of data. Initially, we generated frequency tables to closely assess the data in terms of variables: risk, gender, purpose of loan, employment and job. Through these analyses we concluded that in our sample size of 1000 how many are good risks and how many are bad risks. We came to know that more than 60 person of the population show good risk. Then we analyzed the number of credits at the bank based on the ability to pay back the loan. It is found that 63.3 percent of the loans taken are paid back duly.

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Essay: What is Philology

March 20th, 2012 | Posted by bernard in Eduaction | Sample Essays - (0 Comments)

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Philology concerns itself with both form and meaning of linguistic expression and combines both linguistics and literary studies. . The invention of recording equipments proved to be a boon for the nascent science of sociolinguistics enabling researchers for the first time to record and consider speech directly rather than inferring it indirectly from written documents.

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Essay: Witold Pilecki

March 17th, 2012 | Posted by bernard in Eduaction | Sample Essays - (0 Comments)

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The story revolves around Witold Pilecki, a leader of the outlawed Polish Army, who is reported to have allowed himself to be captured by the Nazis who promptly put him in Auschwitz. This was a scheme hatched by him to initiate the military underground in the camp. Once inside, Pilecki was able to make a small outfit consisting of Polish nationals of varying ideologies called the Union of Military Organization or ZOW as it was known to the Poles.

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