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  2. Assertiveness - Wikipedia

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    Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive to defend a right point of view or a relevant statement. In the field of psychology and psychotherapy, it is a skill that can be learned and a mode of communication.

  3. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    Reading comprehension and vocabulary are inextricably linked together. The ability to decode or identify and pronounce words is self-evidently important, but knowing what the words mean has a major and direct effect on knowing what any specific passage means while skimming a reading material.

  4. Wikipedia:Saying something doesn't make it so - Wikipedia

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    Asserting something without explanation or demonstration is known as an empty assertion. IRL , we can often see that saying something doesn't make it so: no matter how much an adult wishes to be six foot five (or five foot six), one is stuck with the height one is at.

  5. Observational learning - Wikipedia

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    According to Bandura's social cognitive learning theory, observational learning can affect behavior in many ways, with both positive and negative consequences. It can teach completely new behaviors, for one. It can also increase or decrease the frequency of behaviors that have previously been learned.

  6. Silent Way - Wikipedia

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    A Silent Way classroom with teacher and students working on English. The Silent Way is a language-teaching approach created by Caleb Gattegno that is notable for the 'silence' of the teacher. (Who is not actually mute, but who rarely, if ever, models language for the students.) Gattegno first described the approach in 1963, in his book Teaching ...

  7. These are the most popular slang words teens are saying ... - AOL

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    Instead, it's another way to say "yes" or that you agree with someone. While bet and sus may be easier to understand after hearing them in a sentence, "yeet" is likely much tougher to understand ...

  8. 10 Genius Phrases To Use Instead of 'I'm Busy,' According to ...

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    The One Time It's Best To Say "I'm Busy" All of the above responses are great swaps for "I'm busy," but Dr. Cooper says there's one time when the phrase is the best one to go with.

  9. Speech act - Wikipedia

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    For much of the history of the positivist philosophy of language, language was viewed primarily as a way of making factual assertions, and the other uses of language tended to be ignored, as Austin states at the beginning of Lecture 1, "It was for too long the assumption of philosophers that the business of a 'statement' can only be to 'describe' some state of affairs, or to 'state some fact ...