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Lextale_FR A Fast, Free, and Efficient Test to Measure Language Proficiency in French

Psychologica Belgica, 2013
Recent research in our lab has confirmed that performance-based assessment of second language proficiency provides more useful information than subjective ratings.
Marc Brysbaert
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A Drug‐Gated, Modular STAb‐T Immunotherapy With External Control

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Engineered STAb‐TON cells act as programmable living factories that continuously secrete inactive antibody modules, which assemble extracellularly into a functional T cell engager only upon small‐molecule administration. This externally controlled platform enables reversible, on‐demand regulation of antitumor immunity, establishing a new paradigm for ...
Susana Luengo‐Arias, Carmen Domínguez‐Alonso, Ivana Zagorac, Antonio Tapia‐Galisteo, Eva García‐Veros, Laura Rubio‐Pérez, Marina Gómez‐Rosel, Patricia Fuentes, Patricia Hernández‐López, Óscar Aguilar‐Sopeña, Laura Almagro‐Puente, Sonia Martínez‐González, Lucía Cañizares‐Moscato, María Rivas‐Sánchez, Belén Blanco, Ángel Ramírez‐Fernández, Laura Díez‐Alonso, Carmen Blanco‐Aparicio, Javier Arroyo‐Ródenas, Jorge Martínez‐Torrecuadrada, María L. Toribio, Pedro Roda‐Navarro, Anaïs Jiménez‐Reinoso, Luis Álvarez‐Vallina   +23 more
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English and French Teachers’ Assessment Practices in the Ukrainian Context: Understanding Language Assessment Literacy Needs Across Two Languages

Education Sciences
This paper explores assessment practices of teachers of English and French as a second language in the Ukrainian educational context with the aim of shaping the language assessment literacy (LAL) construct for teaching it to pre-service teachers. Seventy
Olga Ukrayinska
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Les stratégies d’apprentissage de l’écrit en français langue étrangère d’étudiants égyptiens

Multilinguales, 2016
This research work addresses the teaching of writing in French as a foreign language. Our objective is to determine the strategies used by the Egyptian students for whom French represents the second foreign language. Thus, we initially outlined the state
Doaa Mohammad Hamdan Ahmed
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Increased Disarray of Extracellular Matrix Collagen‐I Fiber Network and Compromised Biomechanics in Aortae From Marfan‐Syndrome Mice Assessed Through Combined Opto‐Biomechatronics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Combined structure‐function assessment in aortic rings from Marfan mice using MechaMorph Opto‐Biomechatronics technology relates increased elasticity (stiffness) and dynamic viscosity and less ordered extracellular matrix 3D‐structure (collagen) as potential causes for impaired Windkessel function and compromised haemodynamics in Marfan's syndrome ...
Dominik Schneidereit, Anika Nagel, Vanessa I. T. Zwaans, Laureen Schurr, Jonas Ahr, Michael Haug, Anna Piluso, Alexandra Sporkova, Matthias Karck, Andreas H. Wagner, Oliver Friedrich   +10 more
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Review Essay: A Critique of Flynn's Parameter-Setting Model of Second Language Acquisition [PDF]

, 1988
This paper is a critique of the parameter-setting model of second language acquisition proposed by Suzanne Flynn. Flynn has applied the notion of a universal head direction parameter to the prediction of acquisition of English adverbial clause structure ...
Chaudron, Craig, Bley-Vroman, Robert
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Conformal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Cylindrical Geometry Perspective

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Cylindrical reconfigurable intelligent surfaces are explored for low‐complexity beam steering using one‐bit meta‐atoms. A multi‐level modeling approach, including optimization‐based synthesis, demonstrates that even minimal hardware can support directive scattering.
Filippo Pepe, Ivan Iudice, Giuseppe Castaldi, Marco Di Renzo, Vincenzo Galdi   +4 more
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Assessing Government Subsidies for Reducing Pesticide Use: A Meta‐Analysis

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the efforts being made by governments to reduce pesticide use, subsidies are an important instrument to encourage farmers to adopt more sustainable practices. Yet, their effectiveness remains uncertain due to diverse designs and contexts.
Gaëlle Leduc, Douadia Bougherara, Thi Thanh Mai Ha, Laure Latruffe   +3 more
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Ethnographic Inquiry into Second Language Acquisition and Instruction [PDF]

, 1988
IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, we in ESL have become increasingly aware of the important role culture and cultural differences play in communication, learning, and thinking.
Watson-Gegeo, Karen Ann, Ulichny, Polly
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The Power of “Can Do” statements: Teachers’ Perceptions of CEFR-informed Instruction in French as a Second Language Classrooms in Ontario

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
This article reports on French as a second language (FSL) teachers’ perceptions of using the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)-informed instruction (action-oriented instruction focusing on language use) in FSL classrooms in Ontario.
Farahnaz Faez, Suzanne Majhanovich, Shelley Taylor, Maureen Smith, Kelly Crowley   +4 more
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