The authors studied whether Latin or French as a foreign curricular language is a better preparation for learning Spanish. Fifty native German speakers who took a university Spanish course concluded their course with a translation test. English was the 1st foreign language for all students, whereas half of them had learned French and the other half had learned Latin as their 2nd foreign languag...

Graduate students in the humanities are hungry for career exploration as they face limited academic options and feel called to work beyond academy. Career preparation is typically left graduate advisors, then, focus tends be on preparation. This article details how a required, introductory class was reimagined integrate using framework at heart of Ignatian spirituality education: discernment. T...

The outbreak of COVID-19 worldwide in 2020 has posed tremendous challenges to higher education globally. Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) is among the many areas affected by pandemic. unexpected transition online teaching increased for improving and/or retaining students’ proficiency. WeChat, popular social application China, was widely used TEFL at Chinese universities before COVI...

This cross-sectional study explored the reasons behind academic failure among Iranian students of teaching English as a foreign language. Interviews were used to collect data from 56 graduate (19 men and 37 women) three officials university. Results indicated that four main factors led students, namely, (1) student, (2) professor, (3) university, (4) source materials. Moreover, results chi-squa...

Drift chambers are now among the most important detector elements in present day high energy physics experimental detectors . Resolution of 100-200 win per measurement can be obtained without great difficulty . Higher resolution can be achieved by pressurizing the chamber [1]. To achieve good position resolution of tracks, the position of the sense wires must be known accurately . There are sev...

The aims of this study were to identify the level of interexaminer agreement among preclinical operative dentistry faculty members when grading Class II preparations performed by first-year dental students; to develop discrimination exercises for specific preparation components where interexaminer agreement was poor; and to evaluate if the discrimination exercises were able to improve inter- an...