The Status Quo of Language Assessment Literacy among Syrian EFL Teachers [PDF]
With the increasing importance of Language Assessment Literacy in recent years, identifying the assessment literacy components in different contexts becomes essential to ensure that language teacher professional development is on the right path, thus ...
Duaa Sulaiman+2 more
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Manifestations of Racial Discrimination as Shown in selected Poems by Maya Angelou [PDF]
This research aims to highlight the unique existence of black women as they go on their daily lives in a land in which tyranny over women is still evident. Maya Angelou is a poet who presents the existence of being black, poor, and female.
Hanaa Eid+2 more
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The Effect of Teaching Writing Skills on Ideology Transfer in Academic Writings of EFL Students: The Case of Iranian IELTS Candidates [PDF]
One strategy that eases the process of teaching argumentative writing might be teaching them how to express their thoughts, beliefs, and in general, ideologies in academic essays.
Maryam Kooshafar+2 more
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Native Language-Based DIF across the Subtests: A Study of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam [PDF]
This paper reports on an investigation of native language-based differential item functioning (DIF) across the subtests of Iranian Undergraduate University Entrance Special English Exam (IUUESEE).
Parviz Ajideh+2 more
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A Study of Different Aspects of Hutcheonian Parody in Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs
The purpose of the present article is to investigate Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs (1997) within a theoretical context set by Linda Hutcheon’s definition of parody. In Hutcheon’s view, parody is a repetition with critical distance.
Farhad Najafi, Alireza N/A Farahbakhsh
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Can Working Memory Be Trained through Learning an Additional Language? the effects of TPR versus PPP [PDF]
Given the seemingly important link between children’s working memory (WM) and their scholastic performance, it would be a worthwhile research enquiry to explore language learning as one potential way to improve WM. To this end, the present study examined
Maryam Ranjbar+2 more
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Appraisal Resources in Book Reviews: A Study of Cross-Gender Variations [PDF]
Writing a book review is an instance of evaluative academic writing where thewriter is involved in an interaction with the author and the reader, evaluates theviewpoints stated in the book and voices his own position and stance in a dialoguewith the ...
Ali Hashemi+2 more
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The Freedom of Commitment: The Role of the Writer in Sartre’s What is Literature?
The commitment of literature stirred up controversy in the face of European cataclysm of the post-war period. The significance of literature in political spheres fell under suspicion.
Susan Poursanati+1 more
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The study analyzed the current English language teaching/learning materials in line with the academic and professional needs and interests of diploma theology students. The study was a descriptive survey that made use of a mixed-method approach.
Wakgari Deressa+2 more
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A Corpus-driven Scoping Systematic Review of Four Decades of Teacher Professional Development Research: Exploring Research Foci, Content Areas, Designs Methods and Trends [PDF]
This study represents the findings of a systematic review (SR) of literature in the teacher professional development (TPD) domain to outline the research patterns through content examination of 199 research articles (RAs) in the area of TPD over the ...
Farzaneh Arjmand+3 more
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