Comparison Between Secondary School Pupils' English Achievement in General Certificate of Secondary Education And Their Health Sciences College English Admission Test Achievement

The Impact of Professional Schemata on the Reading Comprehension of Libyan University Students Studying ESP in the College of Health Sciences-Gharyan

This study reviewed using peer correction as a teaching technique in dictation exercise and explored the attitude of second year university students studying health sciences in the Colleague of Health Sciences in Gharyan towards peer correction. More than seventy students participated in this study. The study participants exposed to lecturer's feedback and colleague's feedback and their attitudes towards both techniques were measured by using a questionnaire. The results revealed that the majority of the questionnaire respondents preferred their dictation exercise to be corrected by their lecturer, while a small number of the respondents favoured their colleagues' feedback. The participants gave many reasons behind their preferences. These reasons were discussed in relation to the advantages and limitations of peer correction presented in the literature review. It seems that preparation, both psychologically and linguistically, is needed before applying peer correction to get the hopeful benefit of this teaching technique.

Key words: peer correction, lecturer' feedback, teaching technique

This study investigates whether Libyan university students studying English as a foreign language are able to correctly interpret substituted items found in written texts such as one, ones, do,, so and not and whether this positively impact their reading comprehension. As a cohesive relation between linguistic items such as clauses or independent sentences, substitution is a sort of counter which is used in place of the repetition of a particular item. It is hypothesized that Libyan students learning EFL encounter problems in correctly interpreting these substitutes and consequently fail to have satisfactory understanding of their reading materials. A quasi-experiment was organized to test the ability of a hundred Libyan university students to interpret a number of substitutes mentioned in modified statements and consequently comprehend the message of these statements. The results revealed that the majority of the study participants failed to get the passing mark which is 50 over a hundred and the average mark they got was 45. This result may have many pedagogical implications which concern the syllabus and the teaching methods.  

The bacterial strain (Bacillus subtilis) was isolated from soil sample using different composed culture for alkaline protease production in Submerged Fermentationby. The eight different submereged media were prepared to study of enzyme activity. Then the effect of pH, carbon sources nitrogen sources, Nacl concentration and metal ions on protease production were studied. The results indicated to: MD8 produced highest amount of alkaline protease (62.5 U /ml), The extracted crude enzyme was precipitated using varied precentages of ammonium sulphate was studied. The effect of pH,carbon,nitrogen sources sodium chloride concentration and metal ions was studied here and results tom maximum enzyme activity was as pH11 to MD4(17.97U/ml),glucose showed maximum yield in MD2(49.21U/ml) ammonium chloride affected maximum (132.81U/ml) to MD6 and the maximum activity was seen in case of MD5 with 11%NaCl(46.09U/ml) and lastly the metal ions effect was Mncl2(85.94U/ml))

This paper focuses on the revision of the literature related to the reading skills as a background and reading for comprehension as the final desirable product of practising reading. This includes an overview of reading theories, reading skills, and reading strategies and the difference between them. The involvement of conjunctions as defined and classified by Halliday and Hasan (1975) in the reading theories, reading skills, and reading strategies will be highlighted. The study offers important pedagogical recommendations for teachers and curriculum designers. Explicit teaching of reading strategies with clear focus on conjunctions may contribute to the development of reading for comprehension and other English language skills.

Key words: reading comprehension, skills, strategies, conjunctions.

Testing reading comprehension can be achieved by using many types of tests. Tests such as open-ended, multiple-choice and rational cloze tests are widely used by school teachers and language researchers. In this research a multiple-choice rational cloze test was used as the measuring instrument for both pre and post-tests. 

Soil samples were used to isolate different protease producing bacteria. Casein hydrolysis media was used to screen proteolytic bacteria which produced clear hydrolyzed zone. Isolates showing positives result for all isolates. The media (MD8) indicated maximum protease production for Bacillus cohinii. Glucose showed maximum enzyme activity of 14.49 U/ml for BS1. In nitrogen source , ammonium chloride showed to be best with enzyme activity as 7.85 U/ml for BS1 in MD5 media. MD5 media supplemented with NaCl works best for alkaline protease production. But a concentration of 11% NaCl showed maximum activity with 10.87 U/ml for BS1. It was found that all the isolates showed maximum protease production at 45°C in MD5 media

Bacteria were isolated from soil samples using serial dilution method. Different isolates were then screened for their alkaline protease producing capability using skim milk hydrolysis test. The bacterial species were identified as Bacillus cohnii using 16S rRNA amplification and phylogenetic analysis. BLAST program and the 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity demonstrated that the query sequence was 99% similar to Bacillus cohnii (gb|JF689927.1) strain APT5.

•This paper examines the ability of Libyan university students studying EFL to identify the language items which are called conjunctives and recognize their meanings and functions before they can benefit from them in their reading and writing skills