Understanding Student Attitudes toward Delivering English Oral Presentations

Oral Presentations Oral Presentations

ORAL PRESENTATIONS Discussion: Cross-resistance to different antibacterial agents including quinolones and nalidixic acid, chloramphenicol, trimethoprim and in some cases b-lactam antibiotics is a common phenomenon in Gram-negative bacteria (Gutmann et al., 1995). In this study adaptive resistance in Salmonella enterica and E. coli O157, O55 and K-12 was readily achieved by passage in sublethal...

Student Attitudes Toward Reading: A Case Study

Over the last 15 years, researchers have become increasingly interested in children’s motivation to read. Because reading is an exigent activity that often involves choice, motivation is crucial to reading engagement. The purpose of this case study was to investigate student attitudes toward reading at summer reading clinic through an urban teaching college in upstate New York. It was hypothesi...

The Effect of Powerpoint Presentations on Student Learning and Attitudes

In recent years, the uses of PowerPoint (a form of multimedia) presentations in classroom instruction have significantly increased globally without examination of their effects on student learning and attitudes. In this study, we test whether using PowerPoint in an accounting course enhances student short-term memory, long-term memory, and attitudes toward class presentation and the instructor....

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PowerPoint Presentations Increase Achievement and Student Attitudes Towards Technology

Seventh grade students were tested on their knowledge of sentences and nouns in a language arts classroom. The classes consisted of 28 males and 31 females. All students were Caucasian with the exception of two African-American males. Students were predominantly from middle class families. All three classes were grouped heterogeneously. During instruction for two units, classes were taught with...