Higher education students perceptions of NNESTs' language proficiency: will it affect their learning effectiveness? [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Increasingly, higher education institutions are giving more attention to the language proficiency of non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) due to their growing numbers. Despite a recent surge in the literature on NNESTs in the global discourse of English language teaching (ELT), the impacts of NNESTs’ language competency within the higher ...
Bing X, Gao X, Yang Z.
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Computational model of collective nest selection by ants with heterogeneous acceptance thresholds. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2015 Collective decision-making is a characteristic of societies ranging from ants to humans. The ant Temnothorax albipennis is known to use quorum sensing to collectively decide on a new home; emigration to a new nest site occurs when the number of ants ...
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Epistemological Beliefs of NNEST’s based on the NEST-NNEST Dichotomy
European Journal of Education, 2022 Abstract The purpose of this study was to understand graduate and post-graduate EFL teachers’ epistemological beliefs based on the standardized English language and their beliefs on the NEST/NNEST dichotomy. In order to gain a deeper understanding two different group of teachers were formed consisting of graduate and post-graduate level ...
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Statistics of Merging Peaks of Random Gaussian Fluctuations: Skeleton Tree Formalism [PDF]
, 1999 In order to study the statistics of the objects with hierarchical merging, we propose the skeleton tree formalism, which can analytically distinguish the episodic merging and the continuous accretion in the mass growth processes.
Hanami, Hitoshi
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DIAMONDS: a new Bayesian Nested Sampling tool. Application to Peak Bagging of solar-like oscillations [PDF]
, 2014 To exploit the full potential of Kepler light curves, sophisticated and robust analysis tools are now required more than ever. Characterizing single stars with an unprecedented level of accuracy and subsequently analyzing stellar populations in detail ...
Corsaro, Enrico, De Ridder, Joris
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Professional Identity Construction in Becoming an NNEST
English Language Teaching, 2023 This study investigated the professional identity construction of NNESTs (Non-native English-speaking teachers) in Taiwan. The research paradigm was rooted in poststructuralism, which emphasizes subjectivity and exhibits the multiple, unstable, and non-linear properties of identity inquiry.
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Estimating solar radiation in Ikeja and Port Harcourt via correlation with relative humidity and temperature [PDF]
, 2016 This paper is part of the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability (ESUS 2015). http://www.witconferences.comRelative humidity and temperature data are more readily available to obtain from observatories than sunshine ...
Akinyemi, P. +2 more
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Fast and automated oscillation frequency extraction using Bayesian multi-modality [PDF]
, 2019 Since the advent of CoRoT, and NASA Kepler and K2, the number of low- and intermediate-mass stars classified as pulsators has increased very rapidly with time, now accounting for several $10^4$ targets.
Corsaro, Enrico
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Native and non-native speaker teachers: contextualizing perceived differences in the Turkish EFL setting [PDF]
, 2016 Although extensive research exists on learner perceptions of native and non-native English speaker teachers (NEST/NNEST), whether prior language learning experiences impact learner beliefs about these teachers has not been investigated.
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Accentedness, Comprehensibility, Intelligibility, and Interpretability of NNESTs [PDF]
The CATESOL Journal, 2008 Forty ESL students responded to extemporaneous stimuli produced by 4 ESL teachers of different language backgrounds. The listeners rated each stimulus for foreign accentedness and comprehensibility (estimation of difficulty in understanding an utterance) on 9-point scales. They also answered comprehension questions to measure speakers’ interpretability
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