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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"English major"”.
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Employing the English Major
… about employments for and assessments of the English major by graduates from 2 southwest Missouri state institutions for higher education. Representing a 22-year time span, respondents answered written survey questions concerning current employment, educational background, and personal …
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English major community college presidents: a narrative inquiry
… college presidents who were undergraduate English majors (English major presidents) construct the stories of their academic and professional journeys. Six presidents shared their stories in private, audio-taped interviews. Narrative inquiry was employed as a qualitative method for analysis …
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College and University English Departments and English Major Preparation in Black Literature
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7500313.pdf: 6319462 bytes, checksum: bb0bff43ad41a0ea1f2bb620ae1b5af0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Teaching Strategies to Improve Intercultural Competence of Business English Major Students in Jiangxi Province of China
… out the barriers and obstacles that the business English teachers encounter in intercultural education of business English majors in central part of China, and explore the teaching strategies that teachers are using to tackle those barriers. The teaching strategies were offered by a group of …
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Exploring inequalities in English language education in China: A comparative case study of English-major students from a sociological perspective
… societies. Considering the compulsory status of English from basic to higher education in China and its symbolic meaning in Chinese society, this study regards it as a window to explore educational inequality and its association with social structures. This study investigates the roles played by …
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An Initial Exploration of the Undergraduate English Major Curricula Issued by the 2000-2001 Member Schools of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
… <p>This study made the initial exploration of English major curricula among 101 members of the 2000-2001 Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), describing their nature and state and discerning evidence of Christian thought.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>Stewart’s (1989) Modified …
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Multidimensional predictors of English language proficiency: MSEM analysis in Saudi EFL students in higher education
… this multilevel study surveyed 3,980 Saudi English-major undergraduates nested within 185 professors and 91 academic advisors to examine how student characteristics, professors’ need-supportive teaching (NST), and advisors’ well-being jointly influence English Language Proficiency (ELP). …
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The value of journaling on multimodal materials: a literacy narrative and autoethnography of an experienced Saudi high school English teacher
… reflects on his literacy in both Arabic and English while tracing his path to becoming an English major at King Khalid University and an English teacher in boys’ high schools—first in the village of Hajur and then in Jeddah. He describes his first two years teaching in this remote village …
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Fostering Strategic Second-Language Writers: A Study of Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) Writers’ Self-Regulated Learning Strategies, Self-Efficacy and Motivational Beliefs
… Data were collected from undergraduate English-major students (N = 701) at five medium-ranking universities in Northeast China. Participants were recruited through convenience sampling. They were invited to complete self-report questionnaires designed to measure their reported use of SRL …
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Student engagement in postsecondary English classes in China: the teachers’ perspective
… requirements from the latest national college English curriculum issued in 2015 in China. However, abundant research has identified that both intrinsic and extrinsic obstacles impede the creation of an authentic student-centered learning environment. Meanwhile, limited research studies have …
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The Reported Activities and Beliefs of the Students Preparing for the Specialised English Test (SPE).
… of a high stakes test known as the Specialised English Test (SPE) which is used to admit English-major applicants into English departments at universities in Iran. A belief commonly held about the SPE Test is that students admitted to university since its introduction in 2002 have been more …
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Learner Attitudes Toward Studying English in a Rural Japanese University: Motivation, WTC, and Preferences for Instructional Activities
This study is a multi-faceted analysis of the English learning motivation of one particular population: first-year non-English-major Japanese university students in a rural area of Japan. In addition to traditional motivation measures, measures of group dynamics thought to be relevant to classroom …
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A Mixed Methods Investigation of Foreign Language Anxiety and Anxiety-Reducing Strategies in the Saudi Context
… of FLA and how FLA functions among undergraduate English major students within the Saudi context, by empirically testing – unlike much of the previous FLA research – the practicality of implementing FLA-reducing strategies and measuring their effect through a quasi-experimental design with an …
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Computer assisted tracking of university student writing in English as a foreign language
… along university levels in writing in English as a foreign language of students of two disciplines: English Language and Literature, and Computer Science.<br/><br/>Informed by the cognitive process theory of writing, other theoretical accounts of development in writing and findings of …
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English vocabulary learning applications and self-directed learning: how language learning theories and pedagogies underlying mobile applications designs influence users’ self-directed vocabulary learning behaviours
… pedagogical approaches influencing the design of English vocabulary learning applications, specifically their impact on learners' self-directed learning behaviours in an out-of-classroom context. This study aims to fill the aforementioned gap by first conceptualising and theorising English …
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A curriculum for the education of prospective teachers of English that balances writing and literature study
… of preparation of prospective teachers of English in composition, trace the historical background of the present situation, and provide model curricula to remedy the inadequacy.The inadequacy in composition in English preparatory programs was established in Chapter I by citing results of …
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The impact of implementing English proficiency tests as a graduation requirement at Taiwanese universities of technology
… at large recognise that a high level of English language ability among the workforce is essential for success in virtually all walks of life, as Taiwan is heavily dependent on international business for its economic growth. A growing concern for national standards of educational …
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Artificial Emotional Intelligence in Socially Assistive Robots
… of dialogues on different topics were created by English major students. An emotion recognition algorithm was designed and implemented and then integrated into the dialogue management system to empathize with users based on their perceived emotion. This study investigates the effects of this …
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Chinese Students’ Metacognitive Experiences in Learning to Write in English as a Foreign Language (EFL): Metacognitive Growth and Writing Development
… role of metacognition in learning to write in English as a foreign language (EFL). Although research on metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive strategies in the field of EFL writing has flourished, little is known about the effect of learners’ metacognitive experiences on their learning of …