Learning English Collocations: Problems and Recommendaions

The present study focuses on investigating the problems and difficulties facing EFL learners regarding English collocations. It reports the various factors influencing the process of reception and production of English collocations. To achieve the purposes of the study, two tests were given to 25 students majoring in English Language and Literature at the Department of English at Al-Baath University: a gap-filling productive test and a multiple-choice receptive test. There was also a translation productive test (from Arabic into English), and it was given to 25 students majoring in translation in the open learning program at the same department. The three tests were analyzed and then results and findings were presented. The results showed that the participants had poor collocational knowledge and their reception and production of collocations was unsatisfactory, but they performed better in the receptive test. The study also concluded that they sometimes resorted to their first language or to paraphrasing the collocational expression. They made other types of error like general errors (completely irrelevant answers) and leaving blank answers. Moreover, it was found that the students majoring in translation performed slightly better than the students majoring in English Language and Literature. Finally, the study concluded with implications for pedagogy.

A study Of Some problems Facing Extension Agents In Tartous Province

This research dealt with an identification of some problems that confronting with Extension Agent works in Tartous province. This research depended on a questionnaire traditional indent in which data were collected ,through the correspondence with a random sample of 224 quid ,and data were analyzed statistically by using repetition and percentages whereas the majority of the inspected were basically suffering from lack of financial motivations, additional wages, adequate transportation, the large number of rurals who are required to deal with ,the lack of requirements of the guidance work ,the lack of flexibility to do the necessary adjustments in the guidance program, and there is so no freedom to make decisions a pant from the managers of work .consequently ,the study recommended a set of recommendation which improve the vitality of guidance work in Tartous , and raise the status of agriculture agents in front of their guidance audience.

Problems of the Open Learning from the Viewpoint of the students of the Open Learning in Damascus University

This research has aimed to identify the most important problems in the Open Learning from the students' viewpoint in the University of Damascus. The survey has been applied on the enrolled students of the Final Year of the Open Learning in 2012- 2013 . The original population of the study is (2100) students. As for the study sample, it included (210) students from the original population which might constitute 10% of the original population, they have been chosen randomly. The researcher has followed the descriptive analytical approach in her survey and she has used the questionnaire as a means to achieve the objectives of the research for the students at the University of Damascus, Open Learning, after it was tested for its validity and reliability. It included four dimensions:(the administrative affairs (16 items), curricula (10 items), examinations (4 items), teachers ( 5 items)).

Social Type: Problems and Sources

This paper elaborates on the various scientific problems and difficulties regarding the notion of social type in the social sciences, particularly in sociology. An extensive body of literature on this topic is reviewed, and numerous ambiguous and vague points associated with this concept are identified. Some conceptual clarification and resolution is proposed to articulate the precise difference between social type and the concept of role. A typology of four major mechanisms or sources from which social types may emerge and be identified by sociologists is presented: occupational, psychological (inborn traits), cultural/,sub cultural, and mythological. Each source/mechanism forms a different, or slightly different, type of social type.

The perspectives of post graduate students in the educational colleges at Mu'tah and Yarmouk Universities of the problems that face them

This study aimed at investigating the perspectives of post graduate students in the educational colleges at Mu'tah and Yarmouk Universities regarding the problems that face them. The sample of the study consisted of (324) students during the first semester of the academic year 2006|2007. A questionnaire consisted of (53) items was distributed at three domains: problems related to students, staff member, and university administration, in order to achieve the study goals.

The problems of teaching critical thinking from the point of view of teachers of first stage of first stage of Basic Education in Jableh

This research aims defining the problems critical thinking related to each of the following themes: (teacher, classroom environment, curriculum content, teaching techniques, calendar, school environment) from a sample of teachers of the first cycle of basic education schools look numbered (125) teachers and a teacher in the city of protoplasm. Where the use of a questionnaire included the education problems of critical thinking in each of the previous hubs, have reached research is to identify a range of problems including: asylum teacher to orders and instructions in dealing with students, double the rehabilitation of teacher training, lack of interest in school administration by providing guide instructs the teacher to how teach critical thinking, not to employ modern technologies in educational activities, fit the calendar with methods that focus on conservation and memorization techniques.