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Teaching learners to communicate effectively in the L2: Integrating body language in the students\u2019 syllabus [PDF]

, 2015
In communication a great deal of meaning is exchanged through body language, including gaze, posture, hand gestures and body movements. Body language is largely culture-specific, and rests, for its comprehension, on people\u2019s sharing socio-cultural ...
Busa', Maria Grazia
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ESL students’ perceptions of mobile applications for discipline-specific vocabulary acquisition for academic purposes

Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal, 2021
Undergraduates are often advised to expand their discipline-specific vocabulary in order to cope with the rigor of reading and writing academic texts. For the students studying in English-medium settings, it is in their interest to acquire vocabulary in ...
Lucas Kohnke, Adrian Ting
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Reconstructing Native Language Typology from Foreign Language Usage [PDF]

, 2014
Linguists and psychologists have long been studying cross-linguistic transfer, the influence of native language properties on linguistic performance in a foreign language.
Berzak, Yevgeni, Katz, Boris, Reichart, Roi   +2 more
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STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ ASSESSMENT WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE SUBJECT OF ENGLISH

Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu, 2021
Using research investigating the effect of teacher assessment practices in secondary schooling in Croatia on student perceptions of fairness, this paper1 points out participating students’ perception of fairness of assessment, focusing on teacher ...
Tania Blažević, Mara Ruža Blažević
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Lidando com piadas na aula de ESL: uma proposta pedagógica centrada na compreensão [PDF]

, 2019
This paper makes a pedagogical proposal to delve into jokes in the ESL classroom and sensitise learners to their complexity. It consists of five instructional phases and is based, on the one hand, on another proposal to teach the pragmatics of speech ...
Padilla Cruz, Manuel
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Comparing the self-efficacy and writing-related abilities of native and non-native English-speaking students

Cogent Education, 2016
The internationalisation of higher education generates several issues related to quality, uniformity of subjects taught across campuses and the role of differences in English-speaking ability, which may affect student learning and skills development ...
Gerry Rayner, Theo Papakonstantinou, Roslyn Gleadow   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Evaluation of Grammatical Concord in Written Assignments of Level 100 Students in a South African University [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This study investigates the use of grammatical concord in the written assignments of first-year students at a South African university. Using purposive sampling and Critical Discourse Analysis, selected student texts were analysed to assess proficiency ...
Ernest Kwesi Klu, Ndishunwani Vincent Demana   +1 more
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Characterizing the Diffusion Properties of Prostate Tissue Using Paired MR Microscopy and Multidimensional Diffusion MRI. [PDF]

Magn Reson Med
ABSTRACT Purpose To characterize the diffusion properties of prostate epithelium and stroma in benign tissue and cancer. Methods Paired MR microscopy (20 μm) and multidimensional diffusion MRI (dMRI) (160 μm, b = 1000–2000 s/mm2, ∆ = 15–120 ms) were performed at 16.4 T on 17 fixed prostate tissue samples (14× benign, 2× Gleason 3 + 3, 1× Gleason 4 + 4).
Phipps A, Kurniawan ND, Watson G, Sved P, Dowland S, Panagiotaki E, Atkinson D, Bourne R.   +7 more
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Effects of adjunctive eslicarbazepine acetate on serum lipids in patients with partial-onset seizures: Impact of concomitant statins and enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs. [PDF]

, 2018
PURPOSE: To evaluate the effects of eslicarbazepine acetate (ESL) on lipid metabolism and to determine whether reduced statin exposure during ESL therapy has clinical consequences. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We conducted a post-hoc analysis of pooled data for
Ben-Menachem, Elinor, Blum, David, Carreño, Mar, da Silva, Patrício Soares, Gidal, Barry E., Grinnell, Todd, Li, Yan, Mintzer, Scott, Moreira, Joana, Rogin, Joanne B., Schwab, Matthias, Wechsler, Robert T.   +11 more
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Rejuvenated Amorphous Alloys: Processing Methods, Microstructures and Mechanical Properties

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Three rejuvenation methods – mechanical and thermal rejuvenation, and other rejuvenation routes such as ultrasonic processing – can be used to modify structures of glassy alloys, especially atomic clusters, and therefore enhances plasticity and activates work‐hardening behaviors.
Can Yang, Yu Chen, Chunguang Tang, Si Lan, Jun Tan, Heng Ye, Hua Chen, Zhifu Yao, Jürgen Eckert, Dongxian Zhang, Jian‐Zhong Jiang   +10 more
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