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German as a foreign language

, 2015
openaire   +2 more sources

Merger Efficiency and Coordinated Effects: Nothing to Sneeze at? Evidence From Cough and Cold Medicines in the Philippines

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the competitive effects of a merger in the cough and cold medicines segment between GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer. The parties offered efficiency gains, and authorities concluded the merger would not lessen competition. Using product‐level data from the Philippines, we estimate a structural demand model to assess efficiency ...
Farasat A. S. Bokhari, Sean Ennis, Carlos Vega, Weijie Yan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Speaking the Same Language With the Caretakers Associate With a Higher Neuraxial Labor Analgesia Use Rate? [PDF]

Acta Anaesthesiol Scand
Pirsko L, Väänänen ALU, Jernman R, Väänänen A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Illuhmannating Technological Innovation Systems: Towards a Systems Perspective

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Technological Innovation Systems framework operates from an economic perspective, investigating the generation, diffusion and utilization of a specific technology within a particular institutional infrastructure. Emerging from innovation sciences, the TIS framework inherited methodological individualism as the micro‐level approach to ...
Richard Pretorius, Madis Talmar, Gunter Bombaerts, Bob Walrave   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

"I am like a camel struggling in the desert": understanding Chinese foreign language teachers' perceived identities through metaphors. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Yan Y, Lu H, Ge S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Managing Competency‐Based Resistance in Video‐Mediated L2 Peer Feedback Sessions

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Though there is growing empirical evidence on managing advice resistance as an institutional work of higher status party with superior epistemic knowledge domain (e.g., trainer) across diverse settings (e.g., supervision meetings), there is still a lack of research on how second language (L2) learners handle peer resistance in real time once ...
Kübra Ekşi
wiley   +1 more source

From "carbohydrate" to standardized Chinese terminology: historical evolution and implications for nutrition communication. [PDF]

Front Nutr
Zeng S, Zhang H, Miao P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Using Virtual Exchange for Teaching BELF Pragmatics: Developing an Online Negotiation Activity

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Teaching Business English (BE) is experiencing a paradigm shift to reflect the communicative needs of the global workplace. With the majority of interactions in English now taking place among multilingual speakers, there are increasing calls to integrate perspectives of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) into English language and ...
Miya Komori‐Glatz, Kaisa S. Pietikäinen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural diversity in urban park use and perception. [PDF]

Disc Cities
Aliyev T, Fischer M, Bolliger J, Pakizer K, Zinn N, Schmid N.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Just My Presence, Just Using These Words Is Not Enough”: Shifting from Identity‐Based Inclusion to Structural Transformation in Language Education

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study focuses on 17 in‐service language teachers who graduated from a social justice‐oriented MA program in Teaching Languages to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Teaching Foreign Languages (TFL) at a US higher education institution. Drawing on multiple data sources that connect participants' pre‐service and in‐service experiences,
Deniz Ortactepe Hart
wiley   +1 more source