Posty

From Right to Left it Had No End: Better Prioritization

Obraz
A criminal intelligence system is a vital resource for crime control. Such a system not only enhances the effectiveness of an agency’s component law enforcement arms but also, as a central repository of criminal intelligence information, contributes to a more productive exchange of information among law enforcement organizations. Operational intelligence collection and analysis support both routine case investigations and complex investi- gative research projects. Strategic intelligence analysis serves a broad spectrum of crime control needs both within and without the agency; internally in the areas of planning, the allocation of resources, and the development of sound law-enforcement  strategies; and externally in responding to requests for crime trend analysis. A vital criminal intelligence system involves more than compiling data that is used primarily to react to immediate investigative needs. Lack of a fully developed strategic and tactical intelligence capability seriously h...

Methodology in Language Learning: Cultural Counselor

Obraz
  We need to unpack what is meant by culture because this is a term in common usage, but with a variety of di ff erent meanings. Second, we need to examine the roles teachers and learners can take in the language classroom. As we showed in the vignette above, teacher and learner roles may be culturally determined and learners may bring to the classroom di ff erent expectations of their own and their teachers’ roles. Further, teacher and learner roles may be assigned—by the institution and its expectations of what is appropriate behavior for teachers and learners.     By its very nature, ELT is an intercultural enterprise. Learners are learning a language so they can interact with English speakers from around the world. In fact, given the much larger number of learners in the Expanding Circle, it is most likely that learners will interact with NNSs, rather than NSs. The reality of English as a global language is that a Belgian engineer may be working for a Japanese company b...