Both in the introduction to the Student Book and more extensively in the Teacher's Guide, heavy emphasis is placed on communicative competence, strategic competence, self-efficacy, learner autonomy, problem solving, and meaning making as the ideals the innovation seeks to achieve.
In general, respondents were united in viewing brain cancer as unique amongst malignancies, due in large part to the premium placed on mental competence and cognitive functioning.
An additional theme identified, which will be discussed in more detail below, dealt with the premium that patients placed on mental competence.
Not only can members access resources like reading lists and newsletters but they can also participate virtually by interacting with colleagues in a members-only web area, indicating the value placed on members' competence.
Together the present findings point to an urgent need for dental professionals and the government to address these disparities by improving public awareness of successful HIV infection control and confidence placed on the competences of dentists in order to minimize avoidance behaviour and to help establish dental health care patterns in this region.
Each item represented a competence and was answered by means of a two-part scale, one of which focussed on the value placed on the radiographers' competence and the other on the frequency of its use.
Results indicated that adult warmth and competence judgments were independent from one another and placed groups in warmth by competence space in ways consistent with past work.
In addition, the attempts at definitions vary, depending on the theoretical approach: In the context of developmental psychological theories, for example, emphasis is placed on adjusting social competences to social standards and rules, while the assertion of one's own interests is more strongly stressed within the framework of clinical psychological approaches (Kanning 2005).
Currently, children who fail a test of English competence are automatically placed in bilingual classes, but parents may request to have them moved into E.S.L. classes.
The president had brought new clarity to the task, increased capability, and placed a welcome emphasis on competence, both American and Afghan.
