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Implications of the Course of Study Reforms on English Language Teaching in Japanese Secondary Schools: Toward Teaching English as an International Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Many universities in Japan have been offering the teaching certificate programs to train highly qualified teachers. Even though graduate schools have set up programs for more disciplinary courses for English language teaching (ELT), few have been ...
Fujieda, Yutaka
core  

Screening for lung cancer: A systematic review of overdiagnosis and its implications

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Low‐dose computed tomography (CT) screening for lung cancer may increase overdiagnosis compared to no screening, though the risk is likely low versus chest X‐ray. Our review of 8 trials (84 660 participants) shows added costs. Further research with strict adherence to modern nodule management strategies may help determine the extent to which ...
Fiorella Karina Fernández‐Sáenz   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

High-Growth Elementary Schools in Arkansas Based on Performance on the ACT Aspire Examinations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This section highlights elementary schools across the state whose students demonstrated high growth on the Arkansas ACT Aspire exams. The ACT Aspire was administered to students in grades 3 through 10 in April 2018 in Math and ELA courses which include ...
McKenzie, Sarah C., Reid, Charlene A.
core   +3 more sources

Eliminating Language Barriers for LEP Individuals: Promising Practices from the Public Sector [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
While the focus of this report is on eliminating language barriers for limited English proficient (LEP) individuals, any strategy to improve communications with this population must also include English learning and address the shortage of high-quality ...
Ted Wang
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Promoting teacher–learner autonomy through and beyond initial language teacher education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
With the growing international market for pre-experience MA in ELT/TESOL programmes, a key curriculum design issue is how to help students develop as learners of teaching through and beyond their formal academic studies. We report here on our attempts at
Brown, Peter J.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Developing evidence‐based, cost‐effective P4 cancer medicine for driving innovation in prevention, therapeutics, patient care and reducing healthcare inequalities

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The cancer problem is increasing globally with projections up to the year 2050 showing unfavourable outcomes in terms of incidence and cancer‐related deaths. The main challenges are prevention, improved therapeutics resulting in increased cure rates and enhanced health‐related quality of life.
Ulrik Ringborg   +43 more
wiley   +1 more source

A constructionist approach to Arabic active participles

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This paper aims at analyzing the active participle in Modern Literary Arabic. In this type of nominalization, the active participle is ambiguous between a nominal and a verbal reading. We first show how this construction is similar to nominal structures;
Ayman Yasin, Osama Abdelghafer
doaj   +1 more source

Demotivation in English Language Courses:

open access: yesCrossings, 2014
The study aims to find out the factors of demotivation, which hinder the learning of the students in English language courses in Bangladesh. Even after learning English as a compulsory subject for twelve years in schools, students enter into university ...
Nasreen Sultana
doaj   +1 more source

Standards and separatism: the discursive construction of gender in English soccer coach education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Affirmative action is a problematic, but common, organizational approach to redressing gender discrimination as it fails to address discourses underlying organizational definitions and practices in highly masculinized sites like English football ...
Fielding-Lloyd, Beth, Meân, Lindsey J.
core   +1 more source

What drives success in English medium taught courses? The interplay between language proficiency, academic skills, and motivation

open access: yesStudies in Higher Education, 2020
This article explores the relationship between course performance, English language proficiency, motivation, and academic language skills in an English medium instruction (EMI) university context. It analyses test and questionnaire data from 146 students
H. Rose   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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