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Behavioral Sciences, 2020 Late-life depression (LLD) affects about an eighth of community-dwelling seniors. LLD impacts well-being, with loneliness and small social networks being typical.
Jelle Brouwer +4 more
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Humor competence in English as a second or foreign language [PDF]
Zbornik radova (Univerzitet u Kragujevcu. Pedagoški fakultet u Užicu), 2021 Developing humor competence in a second or foreign language is difficult, but it is very important for successful intercultural communication. The nature of humor and its sociocultural functions make humor competence one of the last hurdles even advanced
Petkova Maria H.
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The Effects of Language Teaching Pedagogy on Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 With the field of late-life language learning (LLLL) expanding fast, ample attention has been paid to cognitive benefits ensuing from LLLL. However, these studies have yielded mixed results, which may be partly explained by seniors’ language learning ...
Mara van der Ploeg +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Spelling is a fundamental literacy skill facilitating word recognition and thus higher-level reading abilities via its support for efficient text processing (Adams, 1990; Joshi et al., 2008; Perfetti and Stafura, 2014).
Katherine I. Martin +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The psychological factors of English as a foreign language (EFL) and English as a second language (ESL) teachers have significant roles in any language learning context.
Xiaochuan Song, Xiaochuan Song, Xuan He
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Simulation through virtual exchange in teacher training
Edutec, 2021 The project presented here reports a learning experience based on virtual exchange and simulation. It aims to know the potential of virtual exchange amongst pre and in-service teachers, and of web-based simulation to broaden the knowledge of future ...
María Laura Angelini, Rut Muñiz
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International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2021 This study investigates how upper secondary school English teachers experience using the vocational orientation (VO) approach when teaching English as a second/foreign language (L2) in vocational study programmes.
Kaja Granum Skarpaas +1 more
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The Attitudes of Students from ESL and EFL Countries to English
Register Journal, 2013 This research is to study the attitudes of English students from English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) country in English and Foreign Languages University (EFL University), Hyderabad to English.
Muhamad Hasbi
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Language learning, motivation, and well-being in later life
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 Besides challenges such as age-related illnesses, our ageing world also brings opportunities for lifelong learning, and learning a language at an older age (later-life language learning; LLLL) has been named as one such opportunity.
Mara van der Ploeg +2 more
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Recasts, prompts and noticing: A comparative study
Studies in English Language and Education, 2021 Noticing has been regarded as an important theoretical construct in the mechanism of how corrective feedback (CF) facilitates second language acquisition.
Choo Siow Chin +2 more
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