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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
wiley   +1 more source

Technical English: Modal verbs

, 2018
Presentación tutorial sobre los principales verbos modales en inglés, con ekemplos contextualizados de usohttps://polimedia.upv.es/visor/?id=bac976d0-4965-11e8-bf15-17cde44d787fSeiz Ortiz, R. (2018). Technical English: Modal verbs.
Seiz Ortiz, Rafael
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
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‘It is not a topic that should be assessed by a test’: Understanding teachers' assessment literacy in the teaching of ‘difficult histories’ such as the Holocaust

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores how history teachers in secondary education in England (a) see their role as assessors and (b) how they make decisions about assessing a difficult history: learning about the Holocaust. Assessment literacy (AL) is recognised as a potentially valuable aspect of good teaching and central to supporting students' learning ...
Mary Richardson, Rebecca Hale, Tom Haward, Kwaku Adjepong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng, Charlotte Bagnall, Caroline Bond, Elizabeth Birchinall, Pamela Qualter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Adjectives and Modal Verbs Used in Horoscopes in Dawn Newspapers and their Impact on Readers: A Corpus-Assisted Study

Corporum
Horoscope columns are among the permanent features of English Newspapers in Pakistan,especially the Dawn. The current study aims to analyze the use of adjectives and modal verbs in the horoscope columns published in the Dawn news paperand their ...
Saqlain Hassan, Jamshaid Anjum, Zafar Ullah Shaheen   +2 more
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Semantic and syntactic features of the verbs bati se ʽto fearʼ and upati (si/se) ʽto hope; to dareʼ in the Slovenian sentence

Slovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2019
Compared to the modal verbs of desire and possibility, the verbs bati se 'to fear', upati 'to hope', upati si/se 'to dare' are semantically more complex, since they combine the meanings of 'negative desire' (bati se - to fear), 'desire, expectation ...
Младен Ухлик, Андрея Желе   +1 more
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford, Roman Martin Wittig, Cedric Girard‐Buttoz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ON THE PROBLEM OF MODAL STATUS OF THE VERB LASSEN

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2014
The research describes the modern functional-grammatical specificity of the verb lassen in German, the influence of pre-grammatical changes in the semantics of the verb lassen on its present function.
A. A. Balakina
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