Bank Clerks’ Occupational English Language Needs | Chapter 6 | An Overview of Literature, Language and Education Research Vol. 3

 

Nowadays, English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is a major area of interest around the world. The researchers believe that ESP is an enterprise involving education, training and practice; it draws upon three major realms of knowledge: language, pedagogy and the student’s areas of interest. ESP courses are offered in all academic disciplines with the aim of providing the essential knowledge and skills of the target language to the learners. This study investigated the present and target occupational English needs of Iranian bank clerks (IBCs). For this purpose, two groups (a total of 60 participants) were studied. The first group included 40 IBCs out of 10 banks in Rasht, Iran, and the other group included 20 English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) teachers from two universities in Rasht. They were MA and PhD holders in English Teaching and Applied Linguistics. The data were collected through two semi-structured interviews and two questionnaires for both groups and then analyzed using the SPSS software. The results obtained through descriptive and inferential statistics including the Mann-Whitney U Test revealed a statistically significant difference between IBCs’ and EOP teachers’ perceptions of present and target occupational English needs. Many EOP teachers (p = 76%) and IBCs (p = 84%) supported the existence of such problems in EOP learning. Besides, both groups emphasized EOP teachers’ limited competence and lack of compatible equipment as the main problems and challenges of teaching and learning EOP in Iran. Moreover, most of them reflected that the number of credits devoted to EOP courses for banking affairs was not adequate. Furthermore, both groups mostly believed that an integration of three methods, namely, Task-Based Language Teaching, Interaction Learning Teaching and Participatory Approach is highly effective for IBCs to be mastered. Therefore, it is proposed that stakeholders take these perceptual mismatches into consideration, as they influence the effectiveness of EOP classes and courses to a great extent.

 

 

Author(s) Details

Davood Taghipour Bazargani
Department of English Language, College of Humanities, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.

Mina Delchei
Department of English Language, College of Humanities, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.

Majid Pourmohammadi
Department of English Language, College of Humanities, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.

 

 

Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/aoller/v3/1301

A DFT Study of Structural, Electronic and Electronstatic Properties of Substituted Piperidone Phenyl Hydrazines | Chapter 4 | Chemical and Materials Sciences - Developments and Innovations Vol. 1

 

The present study reports DFT calculations to study the molecular structure of 3ECl, 3MCl and 3,5-DMCl using Mulliken atomic population, molecular electrostatic potential, frontier molecular orbital, and non-linear optical property. Molecular docking is such type of a technique that gives a basic idea of the binding potency of a ligand with different selective proteins in a 3D arrangement. The quantum chemical calculations of organic compounds viz. (E)-1-(2,6-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-3-ethylpiperidine-4-ylidene)-2-phenyl-hydrazine (3ECl), (E)-1-(2,6-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-3-methylpiperidine-4-ylidene)-2-phenylhydrazine (3MCl) and (E)-1-(2,6-bis(4-chloro-phenyl)-3,5-dimethylpiperidine-4-ylidene)-2-phenylhydrazine (3,5-DMCl) have been performed by density functional theory (DFT) using B3LYP method with 6-311G (d,p) basis set. The electronic properties such as Frontier orbital and band gap energies have been calculated using DFT. To forecast the chemical stability and reactivity of the molecule, the global reactivity descriptor has been calculated. By mapping the molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) surface over optimal geometries and comparing these with MEP maps obtained over crystal structures, the chemical reactivity locations of compounds were predicted.  The charge distribution of molecules predict by using Mulliken atomic charges. The non-linear optical property was predicted and interpreted the dipole moment (µ), polarizability (α) and hyperpolarizability (β) by using density functional theory. By interpreting all these properties, it yields the information about the distribution of electrons within the molecule and helps to predict the stability, reactivity, insights of molecular geometries and symmetry, molecular interactions and so on.

 

Author(s)details:-

 

S. Pooja Shri
Department of Chemistry, Dr. N.G.P Arts and Science College, Coimbatore – 641048, Tamil Nadu, India.

 

S. Keerthana
Department of Chemistry, Dr. N.G.P Arts and Science College, Coimbatore – 641048, Tamil Nadu, India.

 

R. Ravikumar
Department of Chemistry, Dr. N.G.P Arts and Science College, Coimbatore – 641048, Tamil Nadu, India.

 

M. Dinesh Kumar
Department of Chemistry, Dr. N.G.P Arts and Science College, Coimbatore – 641048, Tamil Nadu, India.

 

Please See the book here :-  https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/cmsdi/v1/8511E

Understanding the Challenges to Differentiate at Higher Educational Institution in Hong Kong | Chapter 10 | Research Highlights in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 7

 This book branch explains the challenges and issues of executing differentiated demand (DI) in higher education in Hong Kong. The challenges and questions are synthesised from an action research study and a review of prior research in this area. The challenges of charming students and schoolteachers through a student-centred education approach are discussed, and the unit provides realistic insights for coach training and professional incident. The chapter urges for unified research to promote DI and a undergraduate-centred teaching approach in Hong Kong. A research approval is proposed to address culture-connected challenges for successful DI endorsement in higher education.

Author(s) Details:

Allison Wong,
Caritas Institution of Higher Education, Hong Kong SAR.

Thomas Y. H. Chan,
Caritas Institution of Higher Education, Hong Kong SAR.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RHLLE-V7/article/view/11218