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Grammar Searches for Wh‐Questions in Beginning‐Level Child Second Language Learners
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is important for learners to be able to ask wh‐questions in interaction. However, making wh‐questions can be difficult for beginning‐level EFL leaners, particularly for those learners whose L1 and L2 differ in the way wh‐questions are formed.
Haerim Hwang
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Is multicultural effectiveness related to phrasal knowledge in English as a second language? [PDF]
, 2018 The present study investigates the role of personality in language learning, with a special focus on the association between multicultural effectiveness and phrasal knowledge in L1 Dutch L2 English learners in Belgium (n=97).
Arvidsson, Klara +3 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how self‐efficacy, self‐regulation, and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) ‐related factors interact to shape academic success and general English proficiency (GEP) within an EMI context. It draws on data from 754 EMI students at a major public university in Turkey, focusing on the social sciences and engineering ...
Mehmet Barış Horzum +3 more
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Recursion Formula of Second-Order Recurrent Sequences
Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 2007 Let \(\{w_n\}\) be a second order recurrence sequence. The author proves a recursion formula for certain reciprocal sums whose denominators are products of consecutive elements of \(\{w_n\}\). This extends results of \textit{Brother A. Brousseau} [Fibonacci Q. 7, 143--168 (1969; Zbl 0176.32203)] and \textit{R. S. Melham} [Fibonacci Q. 41, No. 1, 59--62
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'R.I.P. man...u are missed and loved by many': entextualising moments of mourning on a Facebook Rest in Peace group site [PDF]
, 2014 Digital media offer new domains for people to articulate aspects of their everyday selves, as well as to share resources, views, attitudes, and emotions on an unprecedented scale (Barton and Lee 2013; Georgakopoulou 2006; Jones and Hafner 2012).
Giaxoglou, Korina
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Catch Me If You Can: The Dynamic Nature of Bias in Machine Learning Applications
Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bias in machine learning (ML) applications represents systematic differences between expected and actual values of the predicted outputs, such that certain individuals or groups are systematically and disproportionately (dis)advantaged. This paper investigates the dynamic nature of bias in ML applications.
Monideepa Tarafdar, Irina Rets, Yang Hu
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A Theory of Leadership Meta‐Talk and the Talking‐Doing Gap
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We identify managers' meta‐level talk about the positive purpose, meaning, and significance of their actions as an overlooked type of leadership behaviour and call it leadership meta‐talk. We outline why leadership meta‐talk is not necessarily truthful or deceptive, but selective and loosely coupled with leadership practice.
Thomas Fischer, Mats Alvesson
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Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Anglica WratislaviensiaThis study aimed to find out which of the three tasks, summarizing (SUM), discussion (DIS) or retelling (RT), was more effective in teaching L2 English formulaic sequences to a group of Polish teenagers. In so doing, 108 EFL learners were assigned to one
Tomasz Róg
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Analyzing Use of Thanks to You: Insights for Language Teaching and Assessment in Second and Foreign Language Contexts [PDF]
, 2011 This investigation of thanks to you in British and American usage was precipitated by a situation at an American university, in which a native Arabic speaker said thanks to you in isolation, making his intended meaning unclear.
Crompton, Peter, Lanteigne, Betty
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Seeing the Speaker's Face Enhances Second Language Shadowing: Neural and Behavioral Evidence
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated how facial cues influence second language (L2) shadowing among 42 Japanese learners of English. Participants completed four conditions that varied by task type (listening vs. shadowing) and visual input (face vs. mosaic).
Hyeonjeong Jeong +7 more
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