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IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA TOWARDS LANGUAGE SHIFT AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS [PDF]

, 2015
Social Media Applications are inevitable in today’s people’s lives, especially for university students who cannot be separated with their gadgets. It is undeniable that the use of social media changes the way people communicate with each other, from ...
Karjo, Clara Herlina
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Measuring the Similarity of Sentential Arguments in Dialog

, 2016
When people converse about social or political topics, similar arguments are often paraphrased by different speakers, across many different conversations.
Ecker, Brian, Misra, Amita, Walker, Marilyn A.   +2 more
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Understanding international students' agency in developing employability: Case study of a post‐1992 university in the United Kingdom

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Employability remains a critical issue for international students in the United Kingdom. This study adopts the Employability Agency Framework proposed by Pham et al. to explore how a group of international students actively exercised their agency to enhance their employability during their Master's studies in the United Kingdom.
Hoang Nguyen, Ming Cheng
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding exam access arrangements in practice: Challenges and opportunities

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Secondary students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) often face challenges with academic tasks, particularly with high‐stakes examinations. Exam access arrangements (EAA) are provided as reasonable adjustments to reduce disadvantage for students with SpLD.
Catherine Antalek, Amelia Roberts, Emma Sumner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Argumentation Mining in User-Generated Web Discourse

, 2015
The goal of argumentation mining, an evolving research field in computational linguistics, is to design methods capable of analyzing people's argumentation. In this article, we go beyond the state of the art in several ways.
Gurevych, Iryna, Habernal, Ivan
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Re‐thinking teachers' professional development: An analysis of National Professional Qualifications for school leaders in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers how teachers' professional development could be redeveloped to help address the current crisis in teacher recruitment and retention by offering greater intellectual rigour and more opportunities for intellectual growth. Our analysis is focused on the UK government's current policy for leadership development in schools in
Mark Innes, Elizabeth Gregory, Louisa Dawes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explication of Threat in the Bilingual Worldview of Belarusians: An Experimental Study

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
The study presents the results of a comparative study of the characteristics of the perception of verbal manifestations of a threat as an unlawful act in the aspects of its explication in the bilingual worldview of Belarusians. Additionally, the features
Anton A. Lavitski
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PATRIOTISM Concept in Context of Nationalist Extremist Discourse

Научный диалог, 2017
The problem of extremist texts analysis is considered. The research urgency is caused by necessity of studying the pragmatics of extremist texts, because they are in public domain and have a negative impact on an unprepared audience.
L. V. Korostelyova
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A pipeline crisis or a sustainability crisis? Local and national succession planning for headteachers in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recruiting and retaining school leaders is a challenge in many systems worldwide. Previous research has identified three distinct ways in which succession planning can be conceptualised and approached: a ‘pipeline’ approach seeks to match supply and demand for the posts that need filling; a ‘pool’ strategy involves proactively identifying and ...
Toby Greany, Pat Thomson, Tom Perry, Mike Collins   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reterritorialising literary studies: deconstructing the scripts of empire [PDF]

, 2008
In this article, I demonstrate the ways in which archival material can be gainfully employed within literary studies. Focusing on the figure of the Indian coolie of colonial Malaya, I argue that adopting such an interdisciplinary paradigm is a necessary ...
Shantini Pillai,
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