American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes significant mental and physical distress, yet only a small subset of individuals exposed to trauma develop the disorder. Scientists and clinicians are still unable to predict who will get the disorder or how it will manifest.
Brandy M. Fox
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Estimating Literacy Rate: A Study Relating Literacy Rate with Combined Gross Elementary and Secondary Schools Enrollment Rate [PDF]
Literacy is one of the core indicators utilized to measure social development. It is necessary that planners and policymakers be aided in their evaluation of past literacy performance and formulation of future education policies.
Alba, Michael M.
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Collecting Sensorial Litter: Ethnographic Reflexive Grappling With Corporeal Complexity
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2020 In this three-part narrative paper, I put forward “collecting sensorial litter” as an innovative method for helping ethnographers reflexively grapple with complicated corporeality during fieldwork.
Kathleen A. Hare
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Learning English for a life of choice in New Zealand : a case study of Afghan women refugees' bilingual class experiences in Palmerston North : a research project presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of International Development Development Studies, Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2015 This thesis looks at the experiences of a group of women refugees learning English as part of their resettlement in New Zealand. The women’s husbands were working as interpreters for the New Zealand Police in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
Hermawan, Erika Soraya
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia +3 more
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Scientific ReportsThe AI era has ushered in a new wave of opportunities for enhancing classroom education, particularly in the realm of higher education. This study investigates the integration of AI and mobile learning technologies to promote innovation and reform in ...
Shanshan Guo +2 more
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Language development for literacy ; the case of Shiyeyi in Botswana [PDF]
, 2009 Since independence, the government of Botswana has practiced an exclusive language policy in which only English has been used in government circles at the exclusion of all the 26 languages represented in the country, with a limited use of the national ...
Nyati-Ramahobo, Lydia
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong +7 more
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Experiences of ESL students and instructors using Grammarly in academic writing
Studies in English Language and EducationIncorporating artificial intelligence writing assistants (AIWAs) into academic writing provides opportunities to improve higher educational formative assessment.
Yueh Yea Lo
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How can Speech Language Therapists and Audiologists enhance language and literacy outcomes in South Africa? (And why we urgently need to) [PDF]
, 2016 Basic education in South Africa faces a crisis as learners fail to achieve the necessary outcomes in the related areas of language and literacy. The aims of this paper are twofold. Firstly, we aim to describe and discuss the education crisis by outlining
Kathard, Harsha +8 more
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