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Pre‐task Vocabulary Support Enhances Lexical Learning but Dampens Positive Emotions: Interactive Task Implementation in English‐as‐a‐Foreign‐Language Classroom

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
wiley   +1 more source

Explaining the Comprehension-Production Vocabulary Gap Through Neural Networks and Cross-Syndrome Evidence: Insights From Williams Syndrome. [PDF]

Dev Sci
D'Souza D, D'Souza H, Mayor J, Tovar ÁE.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Becoming a TESOL Practitioner: Disciplinary Languaging and the Socialization of International Students in UK Higher Education

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article proposes the concept of disciplinary languaging to account for the regulated forms of communication that are characteristic of TESOL master's preparatory programs in the UK. It does so with a view to the effects on the socialization of international students who are attracted by the global promotion of such programs and the ...
Yunpeng Du, Miguel Pérez‐Milans
wiley   +1 more source

Strategies in Vocabulary Acquisition [PDF]

Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2017), 2018
openaire   +1 more source

“I Own My Life Now”: Implications of Trauma Survivors' Language Acquisition for a Pedagogy of Empowerment in TESOL

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the language experiences of refugees and asylum seekers who survived sex trafficking, domestic slavery, and sexuality‐based persecution. Drawing on a longitudinal study of 15 respondents followed across two time points separated by 6 years, all members of an England‐based therapeutic community, we focus here on four ...
Sally Rachel Cook, Jean Marc Dewaele
wiley   +1 more source

Videos and Vocabulary: How Digital Media Use Impacts the Types of Words Children Know. [PDF]

Dev Sci
Kucker SC, Barr RF, Perry LK.
europepmc   +1 more source

AAKD: A standardized and comprehensive acupuncture anesthesia knowledge platform for enhanced recovery after surgery and mechanism

VIEW, EarlyView.
Acupuncture anesthesia (AA) is an application of acupuncture innovation in surgical operations, combined with anesthetic techniques, and is a model of integrated Chinese and Western medicine. We proposed the Acupuncture Anesthesia Knowledge Database (AAKD), in which all data have been meticulously curated by field experts and assessed by a multi ...
Ying Wang, Honglian Huang, Chenchen Feng, Xueli Zhang, Weiting Wang, Ziyi Wei, Jing Li, Xintong Yu, Hanzhi Lu, Chunfang Gao, Ke Wang, Jia Zhou   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effectiveness of virtual reality for K-12 foreign language learning: a systematic review of recent randomized controlled trials. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Sun L, Song X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Robotic Cell Micromanipulation Skill Learning via Imitation‐Enhanced Reinforcement Learning

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Humans can learn complex and dexterous manipulation tasks by observing videos, imitating and exploring. Multiple end‐effectors manipulation of free micron‐sized deformable cells is one of the challenging tasks in robotic micromanipulation. We propose an imitation‐enhanced reinforcement learning method inspired by the human learning process ...
Youchao Zhang, Fanghao Wang, Xiangyu Guo, Yibin Ying, Mingchuan Zhou, Zhongliang Jiang, Alois Knoll   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explicit tier two vocabulary instruction for young deaf children. [PDF]

J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ
Klieve S, Leigh K, Grant L, Graham L.
europepmc   +1 more source