The place and practice of pronunciation teaching in the context of the EFL classroom in Thessaloniki, Greece

As part of an extensive survey of the relevant literature on the place and practice of pronunciation teaching, over 50 ‘ELT’ and ‘Pronunciation’ handbooks were reviewed. The main ideas and arguments of all handbook writers were drawn together in the form of 11 themes which provided the basis for the research questions and the research instrument of the study reported in this thesis. The study provided a comprehensive overview of current attitudes and practice in terms of pronunciation status and role, pronunciation models and targets and pronunciation teaching techniques in one major European city,Thessaloniki, Greece. Questionnaires were completed by 327 upper intermediate and advanced EFL learners and 47 EFL teachers. Additionally, interviews were conducted with 12 EFL teachers. The study explored the extent to which ELT writers’ views agreed with EFL teachers’ views. In many cases discrepancies emerged between what the experts advised and the teachers’ perceived priorities and reported practises; possible explanations and appropriate recommendations are provided as part of this thesis. A number of factors are identified as having a different effect on the perceived status of pronunciation; learners’ age, level of English, language learning purpose, language context and L1. This thesis is an attempt to seek to establish a rightful place for pronunciation in TEFL. In terms of pronunciation models, there was an overwhelming preference for RP and GA by the teachers and learners of this study. Nevertheless, the teachers would be largely content with accented international intelligibility whereas many learners would aspire to native-like pronunciation (NLP). It is recommended that teachers should help those learners who wish to achieve NLP to do so and that an updated version of RP or GA is the most appropriate pronunciation model for the teachers to adopt and the learners to follow in the context of TEFL in Greece

The 7th Annual Conference on "Relooking at Development, Value for Money and Public Service Delivery"

The fire services are a salient contestation which are often overlooked by the Social Science scholars. The Department of Cooperative Governance has ultimately promulgated a White Paper on fire services in May 2020. This study therefore aims to review and examine the legislation with a purpose of traversing the intricacies entrenched within the fire landscape. The review and analysis of policies have the potential to analyse the realities and the misnomer which are a perfect avenue to create dialogue. The theoretical framework of manipulation and elitism are employed for attributing meaning towards the study perspectives for practicality and simplicity. The paper follows a systematic procedure of reviewing documents, and policies to elicit information as a methodology adopted for the study. Gaps identified in the White Paper are uncovered and fully discussed. The content was studied, contextualised, and synthesised intellectually to derive meaning on all the aspects. It is the contention of this paper to attribute meaning to policy improvement in the fire services with a consequential contribution to the world of science for sustainable development.University of South AfricaDevelopment Studie

Report of the Secretary of the Interior; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-fourth Congress : Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1876

Annual Message to Congress with Documents; Pres. Grant. 5 Dec. HED 1, 44-2, v1-5, 7574p. [1741-1751] Hostilities in the Black Hills caused by the avarice of the white man in his search for gold; cession of the Black Hills; annual report of the Sec. of War (Serials 1742-1747); annual report of the Sec. of Interior (Serials 1749-1750); annual report of the Gen. Land Office (Serial 1749); annual report of the CIA (Serial 1 749), including allotments of reservations, Indian Territory, the Sioux Commission of 1876, the Sioux war, the Nez Perce Commission, and reports of Supts., agents, schools, and farms; etc

Data bases and data base systems related to NASA's aerospace program. A bibliography with indexes

This bibliography lists 1778 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system, 1975 through 1980