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School entry, educational attainment, and quarter of birth: a cautionary tale of a local average treatment effect [PDF]
, 2016 Studies of the effects of school entry age on short-run and long-run outcomes generally fail to capture the parameter of policy interest and/or are inconsistent because the instrument they use violates monotonicity, required for identification of a local
Barua, Rashmi, Lang, Kevin
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More is more in language learning:reconsidering the less-is-more hypothesis [PDF]
, 2018 The Less-is-More hypothesis was proposed to explain age-of-acquisition effects in first language (L1) acquisition and second language (L2) attainment. We scrutinize different renditions of the hypothesis by examining how learning outcomes are affected by
Brooks, Patricia J., Kempe, Vera
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Ultimate behavior of idealized composite floor elements at ambient and elevated temperature [PDF]
, 2009 This paper is concerned with the ultimate behavior of composite floor slabs under extreme loading situations resembling those occurring during severe building fires.
Cashell, KA +2 more
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Tournament Mobility in Mathematics Course-Taking Pathways
Socius, 2020 This visualization represents the structure of mathematics course opportunities as seen in the progress through middle and high school for one cohort of students in Texas.
Paul Hanselman
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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2021 In part due to the significant influence of Andersen's Lexical Aspect Hypothesis, research on the L2 acquisition of tense and aspect has focused primarily on the construct of aspect representative of the beginning and intermediate stages of acquisition.
M. Rafael Salaberry
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Hadj of the Mystics in the Persian Poetry [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2003 Hadj literally means intention . It has practically come to mean to intend to pay pilgrimage to Kaa ba in order to observe pilgrimage ceremonies. For this reason, in religious works and reports pilgrims are referred to as guests of the Almighty .
mohamad sedghi
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Historical perspectives on Asian economic growth and development [PDF]
, 2010 The papers featured in this special issue are based on presentations made at the Harvard–Hitotsubashi–Warwick Conference on "Economic Change Around the Indian Ocean in the Very Long Run", held at the University of Warwick in Venice, Palazzo Pesaro ...
Balassa +17 more
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Linguistik Online, 2018 The main objective of this paper is to draw attention to the problem of the inconsistent and potentially confusing use of the terms near-native, nativelike and native with reference to study participants and their level of L2 ultimate attainment in age ...
Kamil Zubrzycki
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Experimental and analytical assessment of ductility in lightly reinforced concrete members [PDF]
, 2010 This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Engineering Structures. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting,
A.Y. Elghazouli +18 more
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Some Unresolved Issues in an ELT New Media Age: Towards Building an Interlanguage Semantics
Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2015 On May 10, 2011, students from Professor ZhaoHong Han’s Advanced Second Language Acquisition (SLA) class in Spring 2011 had the honor of attending an invited seminar in which Professor Larry Selinker, was the honorary speaker. A well-respected researcher
Larry Selinker
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