Development and Validation of Language Assessment Literacy Scale for High School EFL Teachers: A Mixed Methods Approach [PDF]
Teachers need to keep up to date with a set of clear and common expectations and formidable challenges that arise in classroom assessment practices.
Salah Addin Rahimi +3 more
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Cognitive Study of Compound Adjectives in Hawrami Kurdish of Paveh [PDF]
In this descriptive-analytic study, firstly, compound adjectives of Hawrami Kurdish of Paveh gathered from Persian-Kurdish Dictionary (Mardukh Ruhani et al., (3 Vols.), 2006), along with 25 others added by one of the authors who is the speaker of Hawrami
Payman Safiei +3 more
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An Investigation into the Effect of Foreign Language Learning on the Use of Taboo Words in the Learners' First Language Discourse [PDF]
This study investigated if learning a foreign language like English, French or Arabic was effective on the learners' use of first language (Persian) taboos in their daily written and spoken discourse.
Mohammad Saber Khaghaninejad +2 more
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A Path Analysis of Autonomy Supportive Teaching, EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate, Self-regulation, Academic Engagement, and Perceived Locus of Control [PDF]
The current study investigated whether autonomy-supportive teaching (AST) could predict EFL learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC), self-regulation (SR), academic engagement (AE), and perceived locus of control (LOC).
saeedeh Javidkar +3 more
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Internationalisation and modern languages in Scottish Further and Higher Education [PDF]
This scoping study investigated the impact of internationalisation strategies on modern language provision in Scottish further and higher education and was commissioned by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. It follows on from
Doughty, H. +3 more
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This correlational research used the association between norm-referenced (NRTs) and criterion-referenced tests (CRTs) to predict CRT scores on the basis of NRT scores, homogenize English proficiency of university students, and design a structural ...
Kazem Barzegar +3 more
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The Differences in the Lexical Structure of Children’s Authored and Translated Books Based on the Principles of Natural Morphology: A Case Study of Persian Linguistic Database (PLDB) [PDF]
All over the world, translated books make up a significant part of children’s literature. Therefore, studying the linguistic structure and features of these books, and also the factors based on which children, their parents, and Children’s Books Council ...
Sara Rezghi +3 more
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Cross-sector collaborative activities to promote modern languages in Scotland [PDF]
The study was commissioned by The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS). It replicates the study by Davis (2006) on cross-sector activities to promote the study of modern languages in England and Wales,
, Subject Centre Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (Funder) +2 more
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Heritage language and linguistic theory [PDF]
This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers, or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from one language (their heritage language) to their dominant language (the language of their speech community). To demonstrate the relevance of heritage linguistics to the study
Scontras, Gregory +2 more
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African linguistics across the disciplines [PDF]
Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its faculty and of its
Bongiovanni, Silvina +9 more
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