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Does Phonetics = Pronunciation? 100 Years of Phonetics in Pronunciation Teaching

ELOPE, 2020
The short answer to the question in the title is: not exactly, no. This paper examines the confusion between phonetics on the one hand and pronunciation on the other.
Patricia Ashby
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Directional Liquid Transport Enabled pH‐Responsive Hierarchical Composite for Enhanced Wound Healing

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A hierarchical composite with a gradient architecture transitioning from hydrophobic to hydrophilic layers integrates diode‐like liquid transport, efficient water absorption, breathability, and mechanical robustness. This device enables a multifunctional therapeutic platform with pH‐responsive dual‐drug release, providing synergistic anti‐inflammatory ...
Baolin Wang, Li‐Fang Zhu, Yuna Lang, Siyi Zhang, Fei Chen, Ming‐Wei Chang   +5 more
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Pronunciation teaching in minority languages: perspectives of elementary school teachers in a Chinese-English bilingual program in Canada

Cogent Education
Despite an increasing interest in pronunciation instruction in English as a majority language or international lingua franca, less is known about pronunciation learning in non-English minority languages, especially among child learners.
Youran Lin, Fangfang Li, Karen E. Pollock   +2 more
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Teacher professional development in the contexts of teaching English pronunciation

International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2017
In this study we focus on the effects of an intervention aiming to improve the English pronunciation skills of secondary school students in the Netherlands.
Frans Hermans, Peter Sloep, Karel Kreijns   +2 more
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Opportunities of Semiconducting Oxide Nanostructures as Advanced Luminescent Materials in Photonics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The review discusses the challenges of wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconducting oxides as a suitable material platform for photonics. They offer great versatility in terms of tuning microstructure, native defects, doping, anisotropy, and micro‐ and nano‐structuring. The review focuses on their light emission, light‐confinement in optical cavities, and
Ana Cremades, Pedro Hidalgo, David Maestre, Ruth Martínez‐Casado, Emilio Nogales, Beatriz Rodríguez, G. Cristian Vásquez, Bianchi Méndez   +7 more
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Teacher’s personality type and techniques of teaching pronunciation

Cogent Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to identify the most frequent techniques of teaching pronunciation used by Iranian EFL teachers and, (b) to find out any relationship between teacher's extroversion/introversion personality type and their ...
Karim Shabani, Atefeh Ghasemian
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Asymmetry of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in BaTiO3

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Phase transitions are typically assumed to behave identically in forward and reverse. This work shows that in the ferroelectric material barium titanate this is not true: heating drives an abrupt, first‐order jump, while cooling gives a smooth, continuous change.
Asaf Hershkovitz, Elangovan Hemaprabha, Rajesh Mandal, Pravin Kavle, Jamil Tanus, Maya Barzilay, Ching‐Che Lin, David Spirito, Semën Gorfman, Bo Wang, Ignacio J. Villar‐García, Neus Domingo, Long‐Qing Chen, Lane W. Martin, Yachin Ivry   +14 more
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CONSIDERAŢII PRIVIND IMPORTANŢA PREDĂRII PRONUNŢIEI CELOR CARE ÎNVAŢĂ LIMBA ENGLEZĂ CA LIMBĂ STRĂINĂ

Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2010
In the past pronunciation was not one of the main concerns of language teaching. Taking into account the Communicative Approach which took hold in the 1980s and is currently dominant in language teaching, using language to communicate should be central ...
USM ADMIN
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Porous Hybrid Soft Actuators From Liquid Crystal Networks and Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal Templated Hydrogels

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The graphic illustrates the design of a hybrid bilayer composed of a liquid crystal hydrogel (LCH) and a liquid crystal network (LCN). The figure highlights the magnetic alignment of the chromonic hydrogel and the thermal‐responsive actuation of the LCN along with the LCH when both layers are aligned or misaligned, enabling programmable, light‐driven ...
Ramón Santiago Herrera Restrepo, Irving Hafed Tejedor García, Matthew Gene Scarfo, Negin Bouzari, Negar Rajabi, Olga Bantysh, Joel Torres‐Andrés, Christopher W. V. James, Maria Guix, Amirreza Aghakhani, Jordi Ignés‐Mullol, Salvador Pané, Josep Puigmartí‐Luis, Hamed Shahsavan   +13 more
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Photochromic Cholesteric Liquid Crystals via Arylazopyrazole Functionalization of Hydroxypropyl Cellulose

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
We produce a new derivative of hydroxypropyl cellulose functionalized with arylazopyrazole side chains and demonstrate its photoswitchable behaviors in dilute and concentrated aqueous solutions, ultimately designing a series of photochromic cholesteric materials that can be photopatterned as write‐erase displays.
Simona G. Fine, Nina Hildenhagen, Walter R. Linke, Michael Ryan Hansen, Bart Jan Ravoo, Cécile A. C. Chazot   +5 more
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