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The Role of Situation Comedy in EFL Pragmatic Instruction: A Systematic Literature Review

SAGE Open
Pragmatic competence is central to successful English as a Foreign language (EFL) communication, as it involves the ability to interpret and produce contextually appropriate language across diverse social situations.
Yanbing Chen, Roya Pashmforoosh, Lu Chen
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Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Cordova, Julia Manek, Sara Buckingham, Camilla Ponti, Francesco Tommasi, Bradley Olson   +6 more
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LEARNING HOW TO WRITE SOCIALLY APPROPRIATE EMAILS THROUGH TEXTBOOKS: AN EVALUATION OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS

TEFLIN Journal
his study investigates email pragmatic instruction in four sets of international English textbooks. The prevalence of email communication in today’s technology-mediated world necessitates its inclusion in second language classroom instruction.
Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen, Willy Renandya, Thuy Thi Thanh Pham, Hanh Thi Pham   +3 more
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Transitioning to nonpunitive school policies for addressing student substance use: Qualitative interviews with key school administrators

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent policy change in Massachusetts encourages schools to limit their use of exclusionary discipline to “extraordinary circumstances,” but little work has explored the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to nonpunitive practices after student substance use infractions in schools.
Kristina Conroy, M. Grace Albright, Kendall B. Roberts, Meghan A. Costello, Anthony J. Jannetti, Alexis R. Wing, Randi M. Schuster   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community as the catalyst: A mixed‐methods evaluation of a promotora‐led wellness intervention to address mental health inequities in latine communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Latine communities face significant health and mental health inequities, which were exacerbated by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Structural barriers, including economic factors and a lack of culturally responsive care, prevent these populations from accessing necessary treatment. This study evaluates the implementation of a
Jasmín D. Llamas, Lucila Ramos‐Sanchez, Sol Caselles, Cristina Leal, Jennifer Saldana Luna, Myriam Bartz, Emma Stecher   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Differentiated Instruction on Students' Empowered Learning Skills

Education policymakers and teachers’ roles are vital in providing an environment that empowers learners. In a classroom, each learner has different learning profiles and in such an environment, a one-size-fits-all teaching method is ineffective.
Titus, Anto
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Assessing pragmatic comprehension competence in Farsi as a second/foreign language: From the perspective of speech acts in Farsi

Ampersand
Farsi's pragmatic comprehension development as a second or foreign language is examined in this paper with an eye toward learners' capacity to understand inferred meaning and contextually appropriate language use.
Hamed Ghaemi
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Explicit Pragmatic Instruction In Teaching English As A Foreign Language

, 2011
Teaching and learning languages involve more than targeting grammatical and lexical knowledge. To achieve communicative competence in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context, EFL learners need to develop their pragmatic competence which is better ...
Aufa, Fauzul
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli's De Hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina (1761): Mercury Mining, Mercurialism, and Preventive Reasoning in Eighteenth‐Century Occupational Medicine

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), a physician‐naturalist of the Enlightenment, is primarily remembered for his contributions to botany and entomology. Less attention has been paid to his medical work De hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina physico‐chymico‐medica (1761), written during his fifteen years of service as physician at the mercury mines
Alberto Zanatta, Paola Mason, Sofia Bollini, Giovanni Magno   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers and Enablers for Effective Support Coordination in the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Support coordinators act as intermediaries between the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and participants, facilitating access to funded supports. To optimise outcomes, they must navigate NDIS complexities, identify services that meet individual needs and engage with diverse stakeholders.
Sharyn McDonald, Lee Cubis, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source