Request for Comments: 4882

THREE TYPES OF COMMENTS ON CONTENT: TEACHER VS. PEER FEEDBACK

This study was conducted to examine the effect of three types of comments, i.e. imperatives, questions, and statements, with different communicative purposes, i.e. giving information and making a request, given by an ELT teacher and peers on  students’ revision of their writings. Sixty-four female students, between 16 and 26 years old studying at high-intermediate level of English language prof...

Typological Description of Written Formative Feedback on Student Writing in an EFL Context

This study is a typological description of written formative feedback in an EFL context in Iran. Twenty M.A. students of TEFL participated in the study. They were required to summarize a scholarly article in each session on which the instructor would provide written corrective feedback (CF). Written formative comments were extracted, coded, and categorized into various types, such as asking for...

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A Contrastive Analysis of Persian and English Compliment, Request, and Invitation Patterns within the Semantic Metalanguage Framework

Speech acts shape the core of pragmatic competence and their mastery is a prerequisite for successful dis- course encounters in an L2. Cross-cultural comparisons, as claimed by Johnstone (2018), are very effec- tive for knowing and acquiring the speech acts. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to compare a limited number of communicative routines in English and Persian within the f...

Joy Mining Machinery

Joy Mining Machinery ("Joy") is submitting the following comments in response to the Request for Information for the above proposed Rule, 30 CFR § 75.1732 involving Proximity Detection Systems ("PDS"). In addition to the comments set forth below, we are attaching and incorporating a copy of Joy's previous comments on RIN 1219-AB65, which we submitted on March 29, 2010 in response to MSHA's prio...