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(2021-07-20)Pronunciation matters for the success of second language learners, and yet it does not receive enough attention in the language classroom (O’Brien, 2004; Sturm, 2013; Wei, 2006). Especially for the students who received ...
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(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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(2017-12-06)This dissertation analyzes tense, in particular the past tense, within English in the framework of formal semantics. Previous tense theories are either indexical or quantificational—whether tenses refer to time or an ...
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(2017-07-21)This research project investigates one-on-one and group ESL writing conference practices and instructor and student views on how these collaborative writing conferences help improve students' academic writing skills. ...
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(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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(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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(2020-05-15)With the advancement of technology, the utilization of etextbooks as an educational tool has become a common practice in many different educational institutions in the US and other parts of the world. In such a context, ...
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(2018-04-09)In English, speakers highlight new or semantically focused information by prosodic enhancement–greater pitch, greater duration, and greater intensity–as compared to words that are already given in, or inferable from the ...
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(1981)The study reported on here was an investigation into the acquisition of English sentential complementation by adult native speakers of Finnish. A written test consisting of six production tasks and a small comprehension ...
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(2021-04-18)In second language (L2) learning scenarios in which learners have to learn a linguistic phenomenon that exists in the L2 but is absent in the L1, input informing learners that the phenomenon exists in the L2 is crucial for ...
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(2013-05-24)This study investigates adaptation of the University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA) English Placement Test (EPT) Specification (spec) to the Ukrainian argumentative writing test taken by Ukrainian high-school ...
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