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Afghanistan Higher Education Announcement!

 

 

For some time now, the Afghanistan Higher Education portal has started its work under the Higher Education Project and wants to establish an educational competition in order to equip universities and improve the portal. Instructors from 14 faculties of education will participate in this competition and the top five faculties that would engage the most participants in the discussion board, will receive a projector and a laptop for their faculty.GLP will give five classroom projectors to the highest posting faculties of education. As you all know, every month Afghanistan Higher Education Portal introduces two educational topics for discussion in the message board and the faculty members post their responses about each topic.

 

Now, in order to increase the number of participants in the discussion as well as making academic discussion a custom/ ritual, the portal staff has established the above competition and the following criterions for this competition:

 

• By the end of December 2010, whichever faculty has the highest percentage of instructors attending these discussions and the highest number of posts, will be the winner of a projector for their faculty. The winner faculty will be chosen based on percentage system; for example if  -50 professors out of the 150 total professors from Kabul Education University participating regularly in the discussion board would count as 33%, and 13 professors out of the total 40 professors from Herat would count as 33%. GLP team would also be counting the number of posts by these professors from August through December 2010.

 

• In this competition, only discussion posted from August 1st, 2010 until December 31st, 2010 will be included.

 

• Each instructor has to write his/her name, department and province somewhere on the page when replying to a discussion post.
 
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Categories » [English Language Program (ELP) ] » English Language Discussion » What are the ways to improve student's spelling skills?
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What are the ways to improve student's spelling skills?
12/13/11 11:35 AM
What are the ways to improve student's spelling skills?
RE: What are the ways to improve student's spelling skills?
1/27/12 5:15 PM as a reply to Razia Khuram.
The following are some of the techniques by which a student may begin to improve spelling:

* Identify strengths: Being able to identify where a student is not making errors gives a grounding sense of strength, so that the frustrations of the errors are more inconvenient than faulty.
* Target the errors: Once errors have been identified, using various tools such as mnemonic devices such as "I before E except after C" will provide a starting point to keep it from happening again.
* Etymological study: One of the great strategies competitive spellers use to improve spelling is studying the origins of words, their root languages, and the ways language changes. Like learning a biological evolutionary chart, a thorough understanding of a word's origins helps integrate the correct spelling into the student's consciousness.
* Identifying patterns: As students increase their vocabulary, being aware of the common elements in the spelling of words reinforces the correct knowledge.
* Using spelling tools: Teaching children how to use the various print and electronic tools such as YourDictionary to check on words they are unsure of establishes a habit of reaching out for verification. Spell checkers used in word processing programs are also useful, but the student needs to be aware that even the best spell checker is no substitute for context. A program will not catch the homophonic error "I think I ate two much" as easily as a human eye.

Perhaps the best strategy for improving spelling, however, is to encourage a student to read more. Simply having the words in front of them, absorbed as a story is unfolding from the pages, will instill an instinct in them that is bound to improve spelling. The more a child reads, the more the way words are written will simply "feel" more or less right to them. With practice, they will begin to sense when a trip to the dictionary might be necessary to validate a word. At the same time, it is often a good idea to have the students read aloud so that the sounds of words associated with the print on the page become more closely associated. This can also avoid errors in pronunciation.
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