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• Peer feedback in an integrated, process-oriented ESL writing placement test 

  Kim, Ha Ram (2019-04-12)

  A prevailing question across studies has been whether and to what extent ESL writers can help each other when working in dyads or groups. While most research focused on the effectiveness of peer feedback, relatively few ...

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• A conversation analytic study of practices of affiliation and disaffiliation in Arabic in Aljazeera’s “The Opposite Direction” 

  Shalash, Dana (2019-04-12)

  This dissertation studies the discursive strategies used by the interviewer (IR) to further or block the interviewees’ (IEs’) agenda and stance in “The Opposite Direction,” a weekly news interview program that broadcasts ...

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• Re-envisioning assessment of interlanguage pragmatic competence through computer-mediated communicative tasks 

  Haider, Iftikhar (2019-04-19)

  Assessment of second language (L2) pragmatic knowledge is still a new and understudied area of research. Some researchers (Hudson, Detmer, & Brown, 1992, 1995; Roever, 2006, Walters, 2007) have played an important role in ...

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• A quantitative and qualitative analysis of competing motivations interacting in the placement of finite relative clauses in Hindi 

  Molina Munoz, Adriana (2019-01-04)

  Hindi has an unmarked SOV order (verb-final language), but constituents can be arranged in different orderings. While the focus of earlier studies has been on the rich set of word order variations; alternations at the ...

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• Comparing the interpretation of text message punctuation by native and non-native English speakers 

  Shaw, Rebecca (2019-04-26)

  The growing popularity of text messaging as a method for communicating in personal and professional settings raises questions about the ways different language groups perceive and produce various features of text messages. ...

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