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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores an understudied question of who teaches English in the Singaporean English language teaching (ELT) industry. Study 1 analyzed the website contents of ESL schools, and Study 2 conducted questionnaire surveys and interviews with three schools.
Yoko Kobayashi
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Imperfective aspect in Chinese conversation: do speakers imitate one another’s constructions?
Cognitive LinguisticsSpeakers constantly align with one another in interaction (Pickering, M. J. & S. Garrod. 2022. Priming, prediction, and the psychological foundations of dialogue. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 37(1). 15–37).
Chen Qianrui +2 more
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Asymmetrical cognitive load Imposed by processing native and non-native speech [PDF]
, 2019 Intonation affects information processing and comprehension. Previous research has found that some international teaching assistants (ITAs) fail to exploit English intonation, potentially posing processing difficulties to students who are native English ...
Liu, Di, Reed, Marnie
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Interactive Videos in Multimodal Listening Assessments: Examining Language Learners' Perspectives
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The academic success of international students who speak English as a second language (L2) hinges on their ability to effectively communicate and comprehend information in English, which requires well‐developed listening skills. Given that real‐world listening mostly involves processing both auditory and visual information, incorporating ...
Shanshan He, Ruslan Suvorov
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2018 Mandarin manner adverbs like dasheng ‘loudly’ (lit. ‘big voice’) occur both sentence-medially and sentence-finally, whereas adverbs formed with the adverbializer de (地) like kuaikuaide ‘quickly’ occur only sentence-medially.
Larson Richard K.
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Scaffolding Singaporean Students to Write Vividly in the ‘Mother Tongue’, Mandarin
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2013 This paper details results from a three-year study investigating how to help students in Singapore write vivid compositions in Mandarin, the Chinese ‘mother tongue’.
Tzemin Chung +3 more
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Topicality and (Non-)Specificity in Mandarin [PDF]
, 2001 Current analyses of specificity are unable to provide an explanatory account for why specific and nonspecific uses of indefinites are available. While Abusch (1994), Reinhart (1997), and Kratzer (1998) provide successful mechanisms for deriving specific ...
Portner, Paul
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of male and female empowerment, as well as gender empowerment inequality, on the adoption of climate‐smart agriculture (CSA) practices. Using a conditional mixed process model, we analyse survey data from 743 households across Henan, Shandong and Hebei provinces in China.
Junpeng Li +3 more
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Agricultura Tropica et SubtropicaThe black scale, Parlatoria ziziphi (Lucas, 1853), is a significant citrus pest that weakens trees, reduces fruit quality, and significantly lowers production, thereby affecting profitability.
Mezerdi Farid, Gacem Kamila
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Genome sequence comparisons reveal interspecific hybridizations and admixture in citrus domestication : [W317] [PDF]
, 2014 Citrus is the most globally significant tree fruit, but its history of domestication is not well understood. Cultivated citrus types are believed to be direct selections from, or hybrids of, several progenitor species; however, the identities of these ...
Gmitter, Frederick G. Jr. +8 more
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