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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Instructional effects"”.
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Information and Instructional Effects on Beliefs and Attitudes About Persons and Behaviors
Three studies were performed to test the effects of (1) a priori relevance of information, (2) instructional-set, and (3) availability of information on beliefs and attitudes about persons and behaviors. Study I verified that when both trait information about a person and outcome information about …
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Detecting intervention effects with a cognitive diagnostic model for learning trajectories
… in a longitudinal manner depend on the various instructional impacts. However, most current studies tracking transitions of students' mastery of skills rarely addressed instructional effects. For those studies involving intervention covariates, instructional effects are not differentiated …
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Evaluating the explicit pragmatic instruction of requests and apologies in a study abroad setting : the case of ESL Chinese learners at a UK Higher Education institution
This study aimed to determine the effects of an explicit instructional treatment, within a study abroad context, for improving the spoken pragmatic competence of Chinese English as a Second Language (ESL) learners in the UK. The intervention in this study specifically focused on the speech acts of …
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Effects of Prosody-Based Instruction and Self-Assessment in L2 Speech Development
… purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of form-focused instruction (FFI) on prosody with or without self-assessment on the prosodic and global aspects of L2 speech by Japanese EFL learners using a pre-post design. In addition, native English speaking (NS) and non-native English …
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Exploring the explicit knowledge of the Duchenne marker and asymmetry in smile judgment
Research has shown that individuals are sensitive to the activation of the orbicularis oculi muscle (Duchenne marker) and are able to detect asymmetry. It has been proposed that the differences in smile judgment performance might be explained by one’s explicit knowledge regarding the morphological …
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The Differential Effects of Explicit and Implicit Instruction: Focusing on the L2 Acquisition of Epistemic Stance by Japanese EFL Learners.
This study investigated the effects of explicit and implicit instruction on the interlanguage pragmatic development of Japanese EFL learners. The interventions, which were taught in intact classes, focused on the semantic-pragmatic domain of epistemic stance. The main research questions guiding …