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Excellence and Innovation in Learning and TeachingThis quasi-experimental study investigates the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on Algerian EFL university students’ comprehension of indirect speech acts.
Salma Aleb, Leila Loucif, Zohra Labed
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Empiricism, Stances, And The Problem Of Voluntarism [PDF]
, 2011 Classical empiricism leads to notorious problems having to do with the (at least prima facie) lack of an acceptable empiricist justification of empiricism itself. Bas van Fraassen claims that his idea of the empirical stance can deal with such problems.
Baumann, Peter
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Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance [PDF]
, 2017 Noises, similarities between words, slips of the tongue, ambiguities, wrong or false beliefs, lexical deficits, inappropriate inferences, cognitive overload, non-shared knowledge, topic organisation or focusing problems, among others, may cause ...
Cruz, Manuel Padilla
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Emerging Materials and Future Strategies for Solid Oxide Electrochemical Cells
Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.Solid oxide electrochemical cells operate under strongly coupled electrochemical and thermodynamic conditions, where performance is constrained by interactions among crystal structure, defect chemistry, and interfacial evolution. This review, based on a structure‐defect‐property‐durability framework, reveals the roles of lattice symmetry and defect ...
Qiuchun Lu +4 more
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THE ROLE OF PRAGMATICS IN UNDERSTANDING HUMAN COMMUNICATION IN AN INSTITUTIONAL SETTING [PDF]
Journal of Defense Resources Management, 2013 This study tries to show the importance of pragmatics in understanding human communication in an institutional setting. Speakers and listeners are actively involved in a negotiating process that leads to creating a cycle of actively changing contexts in ...
Hussain AL SHAROUFI
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Reverse dubbing and subtitling: Raising pragmatic awareness in Italian ESL learners
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2017 This paper reports a quasi-experimental study on the effects of reverse dubbing and subtitling on the pragmatic awareness of Italian English as a Second Language (ESL) learners using the web platform ClipFlair.
Jennifer Lertola, Cristina Mariotti
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Innovation and Self-Leadership: The Effects of Self-Leadership Knowledge on the Innovation Landscape [PDF]
, 2013 The open innovation landscape of today allows any individual the ability to work, use their creative ideas, and receive external ideas for innovation.
Eliason, Lynn
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Illuminating and applying “The Dark Side”: Insights from elite team leaders [PDF]
, 2014 In contrast to socially desirable behaviors, recent work has suggested that effective elite team leadership also relies on socially undesirable behaviors.
Collins, D., Cruickshank, A.,
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AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.The AWGS 2025 consensus shifts focus from diagnosing sarcopenia to promoting muscle health across the lifespan. It simplifies diagnosis to low muscle mass plus low strength, expands screening to middle‐aged adults, and integrates muscle health into the WHO ICOPE framework for early intervention and healthy aging.
Bi Jianghan, Li Jiaojiao, Kang Lin
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Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction
Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas, 2015 The present study attempts to investigate the degree of pragmatic awareness of learners of English as a foreing language and also whether explicit instruction facilitates the learners’ interpretation of these implicatures.
Luciana María Cignetti +1 more
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