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The Reflexive Turn in Systems Engineering: A Disciplinary Response to Complexity
Systems Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Future of Systems Engineering (FuSE) programme has called for the discipline to evolve as a transdiscipline capable of engaging complex eco‐socio‐technical challenges. Yet the pace of that evolution has been slower than the arguments for it would predict. This article examines why.
Raul Leal Ascencio
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Revisiting the Relationship between the Properties of Atelicity and Partitivity
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010 The paper aims at revisiting the relationship between the properties of (a)telicity and partitivity in Romanian. It is a better motivated extension of Crăiniceanu (2009).
Ilinca Crăiniceanu
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Managing Competency‐Based Resistance in Video‐Mediated L2 Peer Feedback Sessions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Though there is growing empirical evidence on managing advice resistance as an institutional work of higher status party with superior epistemic knowledge domain (e.g., trainer) across diverse settings (e.g., supervision meetings), there is still a lack of research on how second language (L2) learners handle peer resistance in real time once ...
Kübra Ekşi
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Bare Nouns in the Typology of DPs [PDF]
, 2004 This paper investigates two types of bare nouns in Malagasy: bare nouns in possessor raising contexts and bare noun objects. It is argued that these two types are structurally distinct.
Paul, Ileana
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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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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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Understanding perspective-taking in multiparty conversations: insights from Mandarin nouns
Frontiers in PsychologyIndividuals frequently adopt others’ perspectives both when interpreting language and when formulating their own responses in conversation. This experiment tested how participants used perspective information to resolve references for bare nouns in ...
Xiaobei Zheng, Chao Sun
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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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Noun-modifying clause constructions in Sino-Tibetan languages
, 2017 After a short background introduction on Sino-Tibetan noun modifying clause constructions generally, this paper demonstrates, using naturally occurring data, that the Mandarin pre-head noun-modifying clausal construction is grammatically unlike a ...
Randy J. LaPolla, LaPolla, Randy J.
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