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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Explicitness"”.
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Explicitness in CALL Feedback for Enhancing Advanced ESL Learners' Grammar Skills
… of the types of feedback that vary in its explicitness in a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) environment, and (b) examine adaptive methods of feedback delivery based on learners' performance. Both issues were examined within the context of a computer-based tutorial designed to …
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Purchase intentions for products as related to preferences for explicitness in warnings
Four experiments are presented which explore consumer preferences for more detailed, or explicit warning information and the effects of such information on anticipated purchases of products. In Experiments 1 and 2, explicit and nonexplicit warning labels were presented for several common consumer …
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Age differences in risky decision making: the effects of explicitness, personality, and working memory
… current study, I examined the effects of age, explicitness of instructional materials, and personality differences on risky decision making while playing the Game of Dice Task (GDT). Participants were randomly assigned to one of two instruction conditions: Explicit vs. Standard. In the explicit …
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Does sex really matter? : the cognitive and emotional effects of sexual explicitness in video advertisements
… of this study was to examine how variations in explicitness of sexual visual imagery in video ads impact the way young adults cognitively and emotionally process advertising. Experimentation included a psychophysiological assessment of skin conductance and heart rate, as well as self-report …
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The effect of specificity of language test specifications on item construction
… construction method lies in the high degree of explicitness: The item writer is likely to ignore the detailed description of test specifications due to practical reasons such as lack of time and/or expense. Keeping these concerns in mind, this research aims to investigate the effect of the …
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The Effect of Explicit Teaching of Comprehension Strategies on Reading Comprehension in Elementary School
… of the lessons. Correlations between teacher explicitness scores and student achievement scores and a comparison of the achievement scores of high-explicit and low-explicit teachers (regardless of the school's program) did not demonstrate a significant relationship between explicit instruction …
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The Impact of Genre-Informed Persuasive Writing in the Chinese Tertiary Classroom
… difference between the two programmes was the explicitness of the genre knowledge. In the curriculum programme, the genre knowledge was partially included, and the explanations of the genre knowledge was implicit although the teaching was followed the L1 genre process. In the genre-informed …
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To the very End. A contrastive study of N-Rhemes in English and Swedish translations
… result in unit shifts, function shifts and explicitness changes. Furthermore, the results show that English and Swedish clearly have different clause structure preferences. English favours hypotactic structures where Swedish has paratactic structures, which is reflected in the translations. …
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One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish
… differing in definiteness marking and lexical explicitness. It is also shown, however, that the referential commitment of pronouns---both indefinite and definite---lag behind that of full noun phrases. Finally, an explorative dyadic eye-tracking study suggests that the moment-by-moment …
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Written corrective feedback at a Saudi University : English language teachers’ beliefs, students’ preferences, and teachers’ practices
… beliefs were incongruent concerning the explicitness of WCF, the use of positive feedback, and the source of WCF. Several contextual factors related to the university overall context (e.g. time allocated to cover the syllabus), teachers (e.g. teaching experience), and students (e.g. …
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Flexible grouping in first and second-grade: differentiating instruction to meet individual needs
… levels. Finally, instruction was modified by explicitness of directions, expectations for independent work, and/or teacher support. In the second-grade classroom, instructional time and instructional focus varied among performance levels. Children who struggled received increased emphasis on …
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Improving Decoding: A Multiple Case Study of Fourth Grade Striving Readers
… instructional decisions, c) there are degrees of explicitness needed during instruction, and d) there is a need for continued intervention by an expert reading teacher. Additionally, intrusions that affected intervention were identified.
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Visual grounded analysis : developing and testing a method for preliminary visual research
… though, there is an increased need for rigor and explicitness regarding every aspect about it, including all the work preliminary to it. This research aims to develop and test a systematic method for conducting and documenting visual research in the preliminary stages of the design process, …
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The Anatomy of a Controlling Message and the Impact of Reactance on Attitude Certainty
… a) test the interplay between varying levels of explicitness and dominance in persuasive messages and b) to examine how the experience of reactance impacts attitude certainty toward the topic of a message. Study 1 found choice-restricting language, and not the degree of explicitness, to be …
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Sexual tension : the imagined learner projected through the recontextualising of sexual knowledge into pedagogic communication in two curricula in South Africa and Ontario, Canada
… for recognising the relative implicitness and explicitness of regulative discourses and their respective relations to power and control over sexual knowledge.
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Implicit and explicit instruction: what type of knowledge is promoted? : An empirical study investigating the effects of processing instruction, metalinguistic rule instruction and textual enhancement
… Form-focused instruction varies in its levels of explicitness as it comprises implicit types of training such as input enhancement and more explicit interventions like processing instruction. The effectiveness of implicit and explicit form-focused instruction has not been conclusive. Namely, there …
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Verbal versus Nonverbal Interlocked-Behaviors in an Elaborated Account of the Metacontingency
… study was to examine the effects of low level of explicitness (i.e., ambiguity) of rules on performance at the dyad level, and determine effects of linguistic interactions in the formation of IBs under ambiguous conditions.The experimental conditions required interlocked behaviors of participants …
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Reasoning Tradeoffs in Implicit Invocation and Aspect Oriented Languages
… case-by-case analysis vs. abstraction, explicitness vs. implicitness; are some of them. By deciding a series of tradeoffs one can configure a reasoning scenario. For example if one decides for modular reasoning and explicit invocation a well-known object oriented reasoning scenario can …
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A Matrix Approach for Finding Extrema: Problems With Modularity, Hierarchy, and Overlap
… researchers gain important insights through the explicitness of the procedure.
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Relative clauses in dialects of English : a typological approach
… the cline of subordination and the cline of explicitness of structural means. Cognitive hierarchies and theories, such as Keenan & Comrie's (1977, 1979) Accessibility Hierarchy, Bever & Langendoen's (1971, 1972) account on the perceptual difficulty of zero subject relative clauses, and the …
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