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Exploring the components of EAP learners’ emotional engagement and their relationship with language achievements

open access: yesFrontiers in Education
This study has explored emotional engagement among learners who learned English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in the context of a key provincial university in China.
Jianjuan Li, Zuhana Mohamed Zin
doaj   +1 more source

Variables associated with Grade R English Additional Language acquisition in multilingual rural Mpumalanga schools

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Education, 2016
In a previous study Moodley, Kritzinger and Vinck (2014) found that formal English Additional Language (EAL) instruction contributed significantly better to listening and speaking skills in Grade R learners, than did a play-based approach. The finding in
P Moodley, A Kritzinger, B Vinck
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A Return to Normality: A Descriptive Qualitative Interview Study Exploring the Patient Experience of Gout Flare Resolution

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Although the definition of a gout flare is well established, the state of gout flare resolution has not yet been defined. This study aimed to explore patients’ experiences and perceptions of gout flare resolution. Methods Semistructured interviews were conducted with 24 people with gout, guided by open‐ended questions exploring their ...
Sarah Stewart   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How is their word knowledge growing? Exploring Grade 3 vocabulary in South African township schools

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Childhood Education, 2017
In this article, we report on a study that examined the active and receptive English vocabulary of two different groups of Grade 3 learners in South African township schools. The groups consisted of English Home Language (HL) learners in the Western Cape
Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Lieke Stoffelsma
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What Do Large Language Models Know About Materials?

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
If large language models (LLMs) are to be used inside the material discovery and engineering process, they must be benchmarked for the accurateness of intrinsic material knowledge. The current work introduces 1) a reasoning process through the processing–structure–property–performance chain and 2) a tool for benchmarking knowledge of LLMs concerning ...
Adrian Ehrenhofer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES AND VOCATIONAL LEARNERS’ EFL PROFICIENCY

open access: yesLingual, 2019
Language learning strategies (LLS) are perceived as tools for teacher to educate the learners behave self-directed learning. It also known, improving language proficient.
Hilda Yustitiasari
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Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Second Language Learners’ Perceptions of Conversations in English Materials

open access: yesSAGE Open
This study addresses how Chinese learners of English as a second language (L2) perceive conversations in English materials as compared to speakers of English as a first language (L1).
Yu Hui, Thora Tenbrink
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Improving Testing for English Language Learners

open access: yesStudies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2008
Improving Testing for English Language Learners is a comprehensive book that provides relevant information on testing English language learners (ELLs) from kindergarten through twelfth grade in schools in the United States. The author, Rebecca J. Kopriva, blends her research background and experience with current issues surrounding the testing of ELLs.
openaire   +4 more sources

Ontology‐Aligned Structuring and Reuse of Multimodal Materials Data and Workflows Toward Automatic Reproduction

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Reproduction of stacking fault energy calculations from literature with a semi‐automated large language model‐assisted extraction procedure: extraction of simulation protocol, atomistic structures, computational parameters, and reported results, ontology alignment, knowledge graph construction and, finally, recomputation forvalidation.
Sepideh Baghaee Ravari   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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