Development of Educational Policies Based on Evidence and Use of Empirical Information by Decision Makers. by Santiago Cueto

“…In the portal mentioned above are summaries of the knowledge of educational research accumulated in various subjects: mathematics, reading, education in values, dropout, early childhood education, English as a second language, criminal behavior, adult education and learning assisted by pairs.…”
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ESL teachers' readiness in the teaching and learning of literature / Wilarmy Geniron Jebron by Jebron, Wilarmy Geniron

“…Malaysian English teachers are expected to teach not only the English language but also literature in the English as a Second Language (ESL) setting. They are greatly challenged as they are in a setting that needs a lot of enthusiasm and interest. …”
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Lingvocultural Specifics of the Communicative Behaviour in Arabic English-language Business Discourse by L. A. Kochetova, Yassien Sh. S. Al-Bayati

“…The study is drawn on a corpus compiled of business letters written by employees of United Arab Emirates companies who speak English as a second language (LBLC). The corpus LBLC comprises 160 letters, 33 907 words. …”
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Facing salient and non-salient time sequence orientation types expressed by adverbs in English, Mandarin and Serbian by Stamenković Dušan, Figar Vladimir, Tasić Miloš

“…The main aim of the second study was to identify potential differences in responses and response times to different orientations and time units between four experimental groups: native speakers of English with no second language, native speakers of English with knowledge of a second language, native speakers of Mandarin (with English as a second language), and native speakers of Serbian (also with English as a second language). …”
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Comparison of Reading Levels of Pharmacy Students and Reading Level of Primary Literature by Cathy H Ficzere, Angela Hagan, Genevieve Lynn Ness, Elisa M. Greene, Kayla Hill

“…NDRT grade equivalents were statistically different for students with different racial or ethnic backgrounds (t(98)=3.74, p=0.026), English as a second language (ESL) students (t(98)=5.19, p=0.021), and students that read works of fiction for pleasure (t(98)=4.31, p=0.002). …”
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Technology supported face-to-face collaborative knowledge building by Salam, Abdul Rahim

“…Thesis (Ph.D (Teaching English As a Second Language))…”
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“The In-between Crowd”: Contrasting Representations of Minority Language Students by Lynne Wiltse

“…The majority of the research participants was of Asian heritage, and spoke English as a second language. Drawing on the construct of learner identity, I explore how these minority language learners’ identities affected their experience in school. …”
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Acquisition of the English Article System by Speakers of Polish in ESL and EFL Settings by Monika Ekiert

“…This paper examines the second language (L2) developmental sequence of article acquisition by adult language learners in two different environments: English as a Second Language (ESL), and English as a Foreign Language (EFL). …”
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Some Considerations on the <i>’s</i> Morpheme in English: Acquisition and Theory by Elisa Di Domenico

“…This article starts from the discussion of some data concerning the acquisition of English as a second language, which suggest that genitival ’s and copular ’s are considered one and the same morpheme by the experimental subjects. …”
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Cultivating Successful Students in a Culturally Diverse Classroom by Tracey Schartz, Ignacio Molina, Rob Molina

“…This study examined the global classroom achievements of first semester respiratory program students when additional vocabulary and purposeful terminology assignments are given, where the concentrated emphasis is on those students who speak English as a second language.…”
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Apologies by the second language speakers in an educational setting / Noorzan Hj Mohd Noor

“…In this paper, [an assignment which was done for the graduate studies at an American University], the act of apologizing as realized in the speech of Malay and Chinese university students who are learners of English as a second language is compared to native speaker performance (Americans)…”
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SEMANTIC FIELDS AND EFL/ESL TEACHING by Gültekin Boran

“…Besides, some implications for Teaching English as a Foreign Language/Teaching English as a Second Language (TEFL/TESL) are suggested…”
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Plagiarism and Academic Writing of Learners of English by Virginia LoCastro, Mayumi Masuko

“…There seem to be three possible reasons that plagiarism is common among students writing in English as a second language. First is the desire to cut corners. …”
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Gabriele Stein. Developing Your English Vocabulary: A Systematic New Approach by Michaël Abecassis

“…It is intended to function as a teaching aid for teachers of English as well as a self-study book for learners of English as a second language. Lexical knowledge is a crucial part of language acquisition and depends on different external factors such as the age and profession of the learner, his/her goals, expectations and needs in learning a language. …”
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Metaphor-based calques in Croatian mass media by Schmidt Goran, Marinić Ivana

“…This research shows that even highly proficient Croatian speakers of English as a second language (L2) are sometimes not able to fully understand the calques used in Croatian mass media unless they are familiar with the meaning of their source template in English. …”
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Cohesion in ESL Classroom Written Texts by Moji A. Olateju

“… This paper examines the extent to which ESL (English as a Second Language learners) have been able to achieve cohesion in their written texts by examining the cohesive devices used by the students during their continuous writing sessions at school. …”
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Hedging: An exploratory study of pragmatic transfer in nonnative English readers’ rhetorical preferences by Laura Torrado Mariñas, María Alonso Alonso, Rosa Alonso Alonso

“…This paper aims at analysing the role of pragmatic transfer in the use of the rhetorical strategy of hedging in academic writing in English as a second language (henceforth, L2). Two groups of Spanish researchers (n=30) took part in the study, performing two different experiments. …”
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Peeking Inside Pandora's Box: One University's Journey into the Redesign of Teacher Educator Preparation by Frank O'Neil Dykes, Brenda K. Gilliam, Joanna Neel, Kathleen Everling

“…This manuscript will describe the development and implementation of a new certification program that integrates preservice teacher preparation, Special Education and English as a second language into a 123 hour degree program.…”
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Comparing indicators of authorial stance in psychology students’ writing and published research article by Robert Barr, Alice Henderson

“…This article presents the results of a pilot study examining the use of first-person pronouns, certain adjectives and grading adverbs in a corpus of 51 French psychology student papers written in English as a second language. These results were compared to a corpus of published psychology articles and to a sub-corpus of psychology student texts from the British Academic Written English corpus (BAWE). …”
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Teaching pragmatics: (im)politeness in an EFL classroom by Schepers, Bruna Milano

“…The main purpose of this paper is to discuss theories of politeness and impoliteness and the teaching of pragmatics in an English as a Second Language (EFL) classroom. An analysis of a brief conversation taken from an American sitcom will be proposed as a tool for teaching matters of (im)politeness in class. …”
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