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Selecting Informative Contexts Improves Language Model Finetuning

open access: yes, 2020
We present a general finetuning meta-method that we call information gain filtration for improving the overall training efficiency and final performance of language model finetuning.
Antonello, Richard   +2 more
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Combining Student-based Learning Activities with Teacher's Encouragements to Foster Learner Autonomy in Elt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Teacher's domination and authority used to prevail the traditional language teaching is now left and replaced by more acceptable concept of teaching. This concept emphasizes on developing the sense of learners' responsibility, independence, or autonomy ...
Lestari, L. A. (Lies)   +1 more
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The skills required for transition to university and study in biological sciences: A student perspective

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Bioscience students were asked for their opinions on the value and teaching of skills. 204 responded that teamwork, time management and study skills are necessary to reach University, that scientific writing, research, laboratory and presentation skills are taught effectively during their studies, while other skills are gained inherently through study ...
Janella Borrell, Susan Crennell
wiley   +1 more source

Self-assessment and Language Learner Autonomy: An Exploratory Study in a Vietnamese University

open access: yesVietnam Journal of Education, 2021
This paper aims to explore the role of self-assessment in developing language learner autonomy in the Vietnamese higher education context. Specifically, it focuses on how the assessment for English language learning is currently conducted and how this ...
Thao Thi Thanh Phan
doaj  

Language Play: Implications for the Second-Language Learner

open access: yesStudies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2007
Although humor and linguistic play are common in authentic speech and ubiquitous in the communicative classroom, language play has received little serious attention in the field of second language acquisition.
Tara E. Tarpey
doaj   +1 more source

Improving Modal Verb Treatment in English Textbooks Used by Chinese Learners: A Corpus-Based Approach

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2022
This study demonstrates how native and learner corpora can enhance modal verb treatment in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) textbooks used in mainland China.
Lexi Xiaoduo Li
doaj   +1 more source

Learning Spanish online : emotions and identity in role-play settings : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Second Language Teaching, Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study focuses on the dynamic interaction between the learner, the context, and the target language using as its framework the learner-context interface model (White 1999, 2003, 2005; White, Direnzo & Bortolotto, 2016).
Direnzo, Elida Raquel
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Why human connection is the true metric of research success

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Human‐centred mentorship can be shaped by mentor attributes, actions, intrinsic drive and career ambition. Drawing on reflections across Singapore and France, as well as workshop insights from FEBS‐IUBMB ENABLE 2024, this article shows that human‐centred mentorship creates the conditions for sustainable growth, well‐being and retention in research ...
Timothy Lin Yun Tan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning cultures on the move: where are we heading? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The paper analyzes the globally recognized cultural move towards a more learner-centred education and discusses the implications for the adoption of mobile technologies and design for learning.
Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes
core   +1 more source

Sudden anaerobization in Amphibacillus xylanus increases intracellular labile ferrous iron and inhibits cell growth

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Abruptly changing from aerobic to anaerobic conditions (sudden anaerobization) induced growth inhibition and a significant increase in intracellular labile ferrous iron in the aerotolerant anaerobe Amphibacillus xylanus. We found that free flavins mediate efficient electron transfer from NADH to ferric iron under anaerobic conditions, suggesting that ...
Shinya Kimata   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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