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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader +2 more
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A Kind of suspicious numeral in The History of Beyhaqi [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2016 Numeral adjectives include cardinal, ordinal, distributive and fractional ones, According to the type of the numeral adjective, the position of the numerals and the enumerated nouns are determined in a way that the numeral sometimes precedes the ...
Maryam Mahmoodi
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Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture the broadest patterns of lexical variation.
Taehyeong Kim +4 more
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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined how task design, task motivation, and learner engagement influenced L2 vocabulary learning by comparing learner‐generated content (LGC) and teacher‐generated content (TGC) in a classroom setting. One hundred sixty‐three Japanese high school students from five intact classes were assigned to LGC, TGC, or a test‐only control ...
Gaia Oikawa, Takumi Uchihara
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SVLGaussian: Single View Language Gaussian Splatting
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Open‐vocabulary 3D querying based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) shows great promise in facilitating accurate 3D query capabilities of AI systems. These methods typically rely on pre‐captured multi‐view images to enable natural language interactions with 3D scenes. In practice, when embodied AI encounters unexplored scenes, it is difficult to
Jiachen Wang +7 more
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Understanding of Abstract Nouns in Linguistic Disciplines
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014 AbstractDespite centuries of studying abstract nouns, linguists have so far failed to come to unanimous understanding of this category but agree on the ambiguity of the term and the concept itself. The main issue every researcher faces is the lack of clearly defined term ‘abstract’. Moreover, there have been suggested numerous and diverse approaches to
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British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract In this study, we apply the upper echelons theory (UET) lens to investigate how M&A rumours influence deal completion. Based on our findings, we propose a two‐stage channel that drives the rumour‐specific effect. In doing so, we provide theoretical arguments and empirical support for the relationship between M&A rumours and deal completions ...
Yama Temouri +3 more
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Complement of adverb, adverbial phrase or Prepositional phrase? [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2016 Discussion of complement types is among new grammatical issues, not addressed in all its aspects yet. Place of adverbial complement in the sentence is also worthy of attention and study, since it is categorized as types of adverbs and also types of ...
Maryam Heidari
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Public Inquiries and UK Press Regulation: A Case of ‘Fading into Forgetfulness’?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Why were the proposals for reform of UK press regulation made by Lord Leveson in 2012 not implemented in full, despite popular and parliamentary support for the report's recommendations, and despite the creation of the legal framework for the reformed system of regulation?
John Street +2 more
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