GEOMATICS VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN CHINA: CURRENT SITUATION AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS [PDF]
Geomatics vocational education (VE) is very important for the high-quality development of geomatics industry and high-level supply of skilled talents. Firstly, the paper briefly introduced the development history of geomatics VE in China, and summarized ...
Z. Jia +5 more
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BACKGROUND Composition analysis of copper concentrate is an important method to determine its quality, especially the analysis of the main element copper.
ZHOU Cheng-ying +6 more
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Revisiting Grammatical Complexity in L2 Writing via Exploratory Factor Analysis
Since the 1990s, grammatical complexity has received substantial research attention in applied linguistics (Bulté and Housen, 2014). The representation of grammatical complexity has expanded in L2 writing with the application of diverse measures in ...
Ge Lan, Xiaorui Li, Qiusi Zhang
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The Effects of L2 Proficiency on Pragmatic Comprehension and Learner Strategies
The present study aimed to examine the effect of proficiency on the pragmatic comprehension of speech acts, implicatures, and routines, as well as the way learners of different proficiency levels employ strategies when comprehending a pragmatic task ...
Hsuan-Yu Tai, Yuan-Shan Chen
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The Proficiency Illusion [PDF]
Examines the tests states use to measure academic progress under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Deborah Adkins +3 more
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Effect of Second Language Proficiency on Inhibitory Control in the Simon Task: An fMRI Study
How learning a second language (L2) changes our brain has been an important question in neuroscience. Previous neuroimaging studies with different ages and language pairs spoken by bilinguals have consistently shown plastic changes in brain systems ...
Fanlu Jia
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Morphological Priming Effects in L2 English Verbs for Japanese-English Bilinguals
For native (L1) English readers, masked presentations of past-tense verb primes (e.g., fell and looked) produce faster lexical decision latencies to their present-tense targets (e.g., FALL and LOOK) than orthographically related (e.g., fill and loose) or
Jessie Wanner-Kawahara +5 more
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Destination-Language Proficiency in Cross-National Perspective: A Study of Immigrant Groups in Nine Western Countries [PDF]
Immigrants’ destination-language proficiency has been typically studied from a microperspective in a single country. In this article, the authors examine the role of macrofactors in a cross-national perspective. They argue that three groups of macrolevel
Kalmijn, Mathijs, Tubergen, Frank van
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Correlation of Motor Competence and Social-Emotional Wellbeing in Preschool Children
IntroductionThe relations of motor skills to different developmental domains, i.e., cognitive, emotional, and social domain, are well-documented in research on children with poor motor competence and children with disabilities.
Sanja Salaj, Mia Masnjak
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An Assessment of the Utilization of Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory Services in Ontario
OBJECTIVE: Diagnostic parasitology services in Ontario were assessed to determine whether the reduction in the number of provider laboratories from 209 to 70 over the period 1977 to 1994 has affected the availability and quality of service.
Harold Richardson +5 more
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