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• A comparison of Chinese and American student academic email requests to faculty in higher education in the United States 

  Jia, Hanyu (2019-07-02)

  Emails have become one of the most commonly used medium for students to make requests to professors in institutional settings for their convenience and efficiency. However, many international students studying in the U.S. ...

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• Processing of canonical and scrambled word orders in native and non-native Korean 

  Kim, Myeong Hyeon (2019-07-08)

  The present study aims to investigate the nature of processing mechanisms in adult first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence processing, specifically, whether adult L2 learners are capable of developing native-like ...

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• An exploration of the LAL development of pre-service ESL teachers through the processes of item writing 

  Ho, Eric Chen Pei (2019-06-18)

  Language assessment literacy (LAL) has been recognized as an important component of language teacher development. Traditionally, TESOL programs have addressed the need of LAL for language teachers through language assessment ...

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• Spontaneous nasalization: An articulatory investigation of glottal consonants in Thai 

  Johnson, Sarah Ellen (2019-06-14)

  Vowel nasalization usually occurs through a two-step process whereby a vowel is nasalized via coarticulation with a nearby nasal segment; when the language later drops the nasal segment, a nasal vowel remains. Spontaneous ...

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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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