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Personal Practical Knowledge and Effective Teaching: A Study of Turkish Teachers of English as a Foreign Language

open access: yesCenter for Educational Policy Studies Journal
The main aim of this study was to investigate English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ personal practical knowledge concerning their perceptions of effective teaching.
Fadime Yalcin Arslan, Ayse Nur Erdem
doaj   +1 more source

Regulating critical technologies: National security and intellectual property

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, claims of ‘national security’ have surged internationally to protect various security interests including public health, economic security and cybersecurity. National industrial strategies for building critical technologies challenge the scope of ‘national security’ in international intellectual property (IP) protection ...
Phoebe Li, Atilla Kasap
wiley   +1 more source

Effective When Distinctive: The Role of Phonetic Similarity in Nested Dependency Learning Across Preschool Years

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Parallel tracking of distant relations between speech elements, so‐called nonadjacent dependencies (NADs), is crucial in language development but computationally demanding and acquired only in late preschool years. As processing of single NADs is facilitated when dependent elements are perceptually similar, we investigated how phonetic ...
Dimitra‐Maria Kandia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differential Effects of Age, Linguistic Distance, Gender, and Education on English Proficiency: A Comparative Crosslinguistic Study of Immersion and Nonimmersion Learners

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Do immersion and nonimmersion learners’ English grammaticality judgment test (GJT) scores reflect the same underlying processes in language learning? Drawing on data from Chen and Hartshorne's (2021) study, we argue that they do not. Using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), we found that age of onset was the strongest predictor of GJT ...
Frans van der Slik, Roeland van Hout
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Psychological Well‐Being and Second Language Skills Among Refugee Students in Primary Education

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Teachers of young refugees express concerns about their students’ psychological well‐being and suspect underlying trauma is a hurdle for learning the host country language. This study examines how psychological well‐being (including post‐traumatic stress, internalizing behavior, externalizing behavior, and protective resources) relate to host ...
Hanneke Leeuwestein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

TASK-BASED MATERIALS FOR TEACHING HABITUAL FUNCTION OF –(I/A)r MORPHEME FOR TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

open access: yesZeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2016
When scanned literature related to Turkish language teaching to foreigners it was stated that instructives meet with difficulties about teaching of grammatical structures.
Duygu AK BAŞOĞUL   +2 more
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Too Much Finance: Mechanisms That Harm Growth and Policy Implications

open access: yesThe Manchester School, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The mechanisms for the financial sector to harm growth arise through short‐termism of financial markets. This leads to the misallocation of resources in the private sector, leading to financial crises and damage to growth. However, harm to growth comes not only from financial crises, but also from the failure of short‐termist financial markets
Arup Daripa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

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