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Developing and Validating the Translanguaging Utility Scale for Navigating International Students’ Academic Success

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On the heels of the multilingual turn, more attention has been paid to the strengths of multilingual students, including translanguaging strategies. While existing empirical research examines student attitudes or intrinsic value, Situated Expectancy‐Value Theory indicates that for a strategy to be sustained and effective, students must also ...
Timothy James Elliot Neufeld, Lawrence Jun Zhang   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF EXTENDED SHELF LIFE (ESL) MILK IN COMPARISON WITH OTHER KINDS OF PASTEURIZED MILK COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ON THE MARKET

Scientific Study & Research: Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Food Industry
This research investigated milk commodities' physicochemical characteristics and sensory quality related to their processing techniques, namely ESL milk, compared to raw and pasteurized milk. Several chemical, physical, and sensory tests were carried out,
NAYIL DINKÇI , ALEXANDRINA SIRBU
doaj  

Exploring Interactions Between Young Chinese as Second Language Learners and Chinese‐Speaking Students in Hong Kong: Influence of Interlocutor and Patterns of Interaction

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oral interaction plays a facilitative role in second language acquisition. While numerous studies have explored adult learners’ interactions, research that has examined young learners’ interactions, especially among Chinese as a second language learners (CSLs), is lacking. This study focused on CSLs and Chinese‐speaking students (CSSs) in Hong
Jing Yan
wiley   +1 more source

Iteratively Designing a Theory‐Driven Gamified Morphological Awareness Intervention to Improve EFL Learners’ Reading Performance and Engagement

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gamification has been increasingly implemented for language learning purposes across the globe. However, there remains unknown regarding how the change in gamification design might maximize students’ language learning outcomes and engagement.
Shen Qiao, Susanna Siu‐sze Yeung, Samuel Kai Wah Chu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What a Nerd! Beating Students and Vector Cosine in the ESL and TOEFL Datasets

, 2016
In this paper, we claim that Vector Cosine, which is generally considered one of the most efficient unsupervised measures for identifying word similarity in Vector Space Models, can be outperformed by a completely unsupervised measure that evaluates the ...
Chiu, Tin-Shing, Huang, Chu-Ren, Lenci, Alessandro, Lu, Qin, Santus, Enrico   +4 more
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Co‐Designing and Evaluating a Digital Competencies Toolkit for Nursing Students

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To offer a student‐focused critical evaluation of the content and use of a digital competencies discipline‐specific toolkit that was co‐designed with students, offering ideas for training and development across several digital skills areas, such as digital creation, research, communication, innovation, and wellbeing.
Konstantina Martzoukou, Errol Sadullah Luders, Moisés Piedade Henriques, Khairun Nisah Kamaruzaman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Shadow Presence of U.S. Models of Parental Involvement in Postcolonial Multilingual Language and Literacy Reforms in Western Highland Mayan Rural School Districts in Guatemala

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of students’ previous learning on graph-comprehension in the English as second language (ESL) textbooks in a Pakistani university

Educational Futures, 2013
The recent emphasis on the importance of English language teaching and learning in public universities in Pakistan has resulted in the introduction of a new English as Second Language (ESL) programme including revised textbooks.
Irfan A Rind , Sajjad Alhawsawi
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What Is the Ideal Time to Provide Corrective Feedback? An Approximate Replication of Li, Zhu, and Ellis (2016)

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This replication study examines feedback timing in vocational language learners and verifies the hypothesis that the advantage of immediate over delayed feedback found in the original study (Li, Zhu, & Ellis, 2016) is due to practice opportunities in immediate feedback.
Shaofeng Li, Jie Li, Jiancheng Qian
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Digital Interactional Competence for Second‐Language and First‐Language Chinese Speakers: Effects of Proficiency, Mode, and Setting

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Measurement of interactional competence (IC) has attracted increasing interest in language assessment research. One key question is whether proficiency sufficiently accounts for IC, making separate IC assessment unnecessary. This study examines the IC–proficiency relationship using a test that assesses Chinese speakers’ ability to manage ...
David Wei Dai, Carsten Roever
wiley   +1 more source