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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Topic development"”.
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Topic development in the English oral proficiency interview for international teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The present study examines how a topic is initiated and is developed and expanded for additional questions in order to probe an International Teaching Assistant (ITA) candidate’s oral proficiency in an unscripted interview test. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) had employed …
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The language game of role-play: an analysis of assessed consultations between third year medical students and Simulated Patients (SPs)
… more, asking questions, controlling the topic development, opening and closing the conversation. Results showed that the SP rather than the student seems to have conversational control over the conversation, except in the opening of the consultation. Qualitative analysis shows that this …
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Forecasting Twitter topic popularity using bass diffusion model and machine learning
… logistics and supply chain. Sometimes a topic about a product will "explode" at a "peak day," suddenly being talked about by a large number of users. Predicting the diffusion process of a Twitter topic is meaningful for a company to forecast demand, and plan ahead to dispatch its …
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Collaborative Teaching Practices for a New Century: A Descriptive Case Study of Peer Coaching
… to practice it in isolation. In the past, staff development programs have focused on development of a singular skill with teachers practicing it in isolation. The teaching and learning process can better be developed through collaboration. In order for this to happen effective teachers must be …