Nutritional Assessment of Hostel Residential and non Hostel Residential Boys and Girl Students of Sindh University, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

An outbreak of Norwalk-like virus gastroenteritis in an aged-care residential hostel.

Norwalk-like viruses are members of the calicivirus family, first discovered in 1972 following an outbreak of gastroenteritis in Norwalk, Ohio, and more recently renamed Norovirus. They are a common cause of outbreaks of gastroenteritis in institutions throughout the winter months. The faecal–oral route is the primary method of transmission; however, airborne spread from vomitus and fomites (ob...

Subnormality Hostel

the speech act of advice and the introvert/extrovert distinction among iranian efl university students

the aim of this study is to examine the difference between the introverts and extroverts in preferred advice-giving style. furthermore, it explores the difference between l1 (persian) and l2 (english) regarding the giving of advice for the extroverts and introverts separately. it investigates whether an extrovert or introvert gives advice in the same manner in his l1 (persian) and l2 (english) ...

the relationship between locus of control and iranian efl university students’ beliefs about language learning

this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...