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Changes in Attitudes Toward English Usage
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An Experiment – Rapid Improvement in English Usage and Spelling Skills
… administrators. Their scores in the Cooperative English Test ranked them in the lower third compared with college seniors in representative teachers’ colleges in this country. It was determined that a means should be devised to find out if these test results were acceptable as conclusive evidence …
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An Experimental Study of the Use of Diagraming in Teaching English Usage to Sixth Graders
… were to (1) discover the relationship of proper usage to sentence construction; (2) compare the effectiveness of this method of teaching syntax and standard procedures; and (3) reach a conclusion as to the effectiveness of diagraming at this age level.
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A Study in the Use of an Inductive-Deductive Audio-Lingual Approach to Teaching Standard English Usage
<p>If an aspect of the English teacher's job is to teach the non-standard speaker a different language (in part, at least), perhaps teachers should examine the process through which the child first learns his language. It would seem logical that this same process be followed as nearly as possible …
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The construction and informal evaluation of job-sheets for improving command of English usage in oral and written communication
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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Exemption from College Freshman Composition: The College Level Examination Program (CLEP) General Examination in English Composition and the American College Testing Program (ACT) English Usage Test
… of the oriqinal CLEP General Examination in English Composition (GE:E), a test used nationwide to grant exemption; and, second, to measure the impact freshman composition or exemption from it has on GPA. A comprehensive review of the literature on the GE:E revealed that some researchers had …
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Construction, administration, and validation of a test of oral language usage
We as teacher of English are faced with the task of preparing students for the world they will meet when they leave the classroom—a world that will judge them in part by their ability to manipulate the language to their advantage. And yet to measure the use of language, we rely almost exclusively …
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International students: Culture shock and adaptation to the U.S. culture
… and the experience of culture shock symptoms. English usage of English as a primary language in the students’ home countries accounted for a stronger social support network.</p> <p>These results have implications for college and university personnel in working with international students. </p>
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Acculturation and disability in Mexican American older adults
… included three measures of acculturation (English proficiency, English usage, and Mainstream contact), risk factors (age, gender, education, marital status, and BMI), disablement process factors (chronic pathology, cognitive status, and physical performance), and activities of daily living …
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Huffing and puffing about /f/-ing everything: language ideologies and phonological borrowing in South Korea
"Scholars have noted that English usage in Korean society is laden with indexical value. On the one hand English is linked with modernity (Lee 2005), chicness (Park H.J. 2004), and global cosmopolitanism (Park J.K. 2009). On the other hand, for a long time it has also been linked with negative …
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The Use of the Present Perfect and Simple Past in New Zealand English
A sample of speakers of New Zealand English was surveyed regarding metalinguistic perceptions of how the simple past (e.g., went) and the present perfect (e.g., have/has gone) can be used. All sections of the survey received at least 60 responses. Participants were exposed to a range of sentences, …
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A Corpus-based Approach to Determining Standard American English
… instructional designers turn to books written by usage experts to determine what is correct standard written American English. Unfortunately, though, experts often disagree about what is correct and what is incorrect, and this disagreement can create problems with validity when people create and …
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Some difficulties in responding to negative polar interrogatives and negative declaratives in English and pedagogical implications for Japanese EFL learners
Traditional Japanese learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are taught to respond to negative questions (e.g. Do you not like English?) with yes for positive answers (e.g. Yes, I do) and no for negative answers (e.g. No, I don't). However, this is subject to variation in native speaker …
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THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND THE CONTEST FOR NORTH SUMATRA 1858-1896
… I have adopted modern Indonesian and Malaysian usages wherever this is possible without pedantry. I have, for example, preferred the Indonesian 'Atjeh' over older English variants such as 'Achin' or 'Acheh'. 'Java' , however, appears much too well established in English usage to give way to …
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Does It Really Matter?
… I overly sensitive to imperfections in written English because of my English language education? Am I being too picky? Does it really matter?” One of the requirements of one of my graduate-level rhetoric and composition seminar classes was to write “reading responses” to assigned readings, and …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …