2020 in Review: New Researchers (My First Paper) and Topic Experts (We Asked the Experts) from Across the Globe

the relationship between test-takers and experts perception of prompt difficulty

چکیده مهارت شنیداری برای مدتهای طولانی در آموزش ، تحقیق و ارزیابی مورد غفلت قرار گرفته است. اگرچه در سالهای اخیر به خاطر اهمیت قابل ملاحظه این توانائیها در آموزش و آزمون زبان ، توجه بیشتری به توانائیهای شنیداری شده است. هم چنانکه درک شنیداری در آموزش و ارزیابی زبان دوم اهمیت فزاینده ای می یابد محققین سعی نموده اند تا ماهیت مهارتهای مستتر در مهارت شنیداری را مورد بررسی و مطالعه قرار دهند. هدف ...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Sociolinguistic Justice in the Schools: Student Researchers as Linguistic Experts

The commitment of sociocultural linguistics to the cause of social justice has been central to the discipline since its foundation. This commitment is nowhere more evident than in the educational domain and particularly in the development of sociolinguistically informed curricula and teacher preparation programs. Such programs help ensure that students who speak politically subordinated linguis...

Praise from the Experts

Meeting between experts: evaluation of the first UK forum for lay and professional experts in intersex.

At present the clinical management of intersex is in turmoil. The policy of non-disclosure of diagnosis is widespread and cosmetic genital surgery is routinely performed on infants throughout the world. Some clinicians feel such practices are in the interest of the intersex child and the family, but some intersex adults are calling for a moratorium on sex assignment genital surgery. These widel...