The role of the students according to the New Curricular Transformation in activities related to the speaking skill of English as a foreign language in the ninth grade of the Public School José Dolores Estrada of Pueblo Nuevo-Jinotega, during the second semester 2010

The Nicaraguan educative system has experienced a big change with the implementation of the New Curricular Transformation which takes aim at finding better and effective ways of teaching, in order to improve the acquisition and application of the basic English skills which are acquired through the teaching learning process of English. For this reason it has been important to analyze the role of the students in activities related to the speaking skill, because developing the speaking skill is the main goal of the communicative competence. Another essential aspect is related to motivation, since it is the key to perform the basic English skills, especially the speaking skill. This research shows how to achieve the communicative approach. It has been elaborated through a process of researches and analysis, taking into account how to teach speaking, which is based on the communicative competence in the teaching‐learning process of English. It also makes emphasis on motivational process such asintrinsic and extrinsic motivation, as well as speaking activities, in relation to the students’ and teachers’ roles in the execution of them. Additionally, through its process of study, it guides to describe that. The role of the students in activities related to the speaking skill is focused on guaranteeing their own learning process. They have to be monitors, as well as active participants because they have to be the center of the teaching and learning process in order to create a cooperative learning especially in speaking activities because learning is acquired individuall

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead