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Historical perspectives on Asian economic growth and development [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Is self-assessment in religious education unique? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper addresses the question: is self-assessment in religious education unique? It first presents an overview of some challenges for assessment from subject differences, and then reviews the generic literature on self-assessment.
Brooks, Val   +1 more
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Some Unresolved Issues in an ELT New Media Age: Towards Building an Interlanguage Semantics

open access: yesWorking 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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Genetic variation associated with differential educational attainment in adults has anticipated associations with school performance in children.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Genome-wide association study results have yielded evidence for the association of common genetic variants with crude measures of completed educational attainment in adults.
Mary E Ward   +10 more
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Exploring the Effects of Instructional Message Strategies on Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions: The Case of a Substandard Vaccine Incident

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2021
Extending the recent theorizing of the message-centric approach to instructional risk and crisis communication, this study identifies two distinct instructional strategies used by regulatory authorities and adopts a goal-attainment approach to measuring ...
Xiao Wang   +3 more
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Challenging Myths [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The article offers insights into teaching-related challenges posed by Advanced English methods as applied to adult Spanish learners. The analyisis highlights the importance of cognitive approaches adapted to classroom milieus and ...
D. G., Eugenia
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Ultimate attainment of anaphora resolution in L2 Chinese [PDF]

open access: yesSecond Language Research, 2014
The current study tests the Interface Hypothesis through forward and backward anaphora in complex sentences with temporal subordinate clauses in highly proficient English-speaking learners’ second-language (L2) Chinese. Forward anaphora is involved when the overt pronoun ta ‘he/she’ or a null element appears in the subject position of the main clause,
openaire   +1 more source

Good English Pronunciation Users and their Pronunciation Learning Strategies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The study investigates pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) deployed by those with good English pronunciation, as well as their beliefs concerning the variables that affect pronunciation competence.
Szyszka, Magdalena
core   +2 more sources

Sublime Happiness According to Ibn Miskawayh [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت اسرا, 2012
In addition to describing his own positions about sublime happiness (al-saÝÁdat al-quÒwÁ), Ibn Miskawayh gives an account of the views of the earlier philosophers and explores the views of Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
AynullÁh KhÁdemi
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Maturational Constraints on SLA: Access to Universal Grammar [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2002
Some scholars have argued that there is a negative correlation between the onset age of L2 acquisition and performance on different measures of L2 knowledge. A kind of biological scheduling is assumed to be responsible for this maturational constraint on
hasan iravani, parviz birjandi
doaj   +1 more source

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