abstract the present study examined the effect of genre-based tasks on efl learners' speaking performance and probed whether genre-based tasks may empower efl learners to perform better on speaking tests. a further concern of the study was to explore whether the effect of genre-based tasks on speaking ability of efl learners varied across different age groups, i.e. teenagers (13-16 years o...

one will no doubt be as successful as its predecessors. It lacks something in connected thought, for its "chapters" are in reality different lectures given to a wide variety of audiences and necessarily pitched at different levels under titles by no means mutually exclusive. The book is thus best read as a series of essays and these include, as in the author's other writings, sex and society, t...

This study was an attempt to investigate what metacognitive strategies are specifically employed by English learners when it comes to different speaking task types.60 students at advanced level (female) were randomly selected and given an OPT as a test of homogeneity. They were assigned to experimental and control groups. The MS questionnaire (Oxford, 1990) was also administered to see what MS ...

We argue that in analyzing panel-data econometric models, researchers rely excessively on statistical criteria to determine model specification, treating it primarily as a matter of inference. This inferential emphasis is most obvious the common practice using tests (e.g., Hausman test) choose between fixed- and random-effects specifications, often ignoring assumptions underpinning these tests....

This report from the field concerns a collaborative project which resulted in successfully adding Cyrillic fields to about 30,000 Ukrainian bibliographic records OCLC WorldCat, world’s largest online catalogue. Historically, English-speaking libraries were only provided transliteration according Library of Congress Romanization Table. However, current standards also require original script, suc...

We regard histogram density estimation as a model selection problem. Our approach is based on the information-theoretic minimum description length (MDL) principle. MDLbased model selection is formalized via the normalized maximum likelihood (NML) distribution, which has several desirable optimality properties. We show how this approach can be applied for learning generic, irregular (variable-wi...

Introduction: Topics of patient safety are being taught increasingly within medical eudcation. To date, however, there is no suitable means of measuring the status quo of medical students' attitudes towards patient safety in German-speaking Europe. The German validation of a short version of the Attitude towards Patient Safety Questionnaire (G-APSQshort) is meant to fill this gap with the aid o...

PURPOSE This article introduces theoretically driven acoustic measures of /s/ that reflect aerodynamic and articulatory conditions. The measures were evaluated by assessing whether they revealed expected changes over time and labiality effects, along with possible gender differences suggested by past work. METHOD Productions of /s/ were extracted from various speaking tasks from typically spe...

in the healthcare context, whistleblowing has come to the fore of political, professional and public attention in the wake of major service scandals and mounting evidence of the routine threats to safety that patients face in their care. this paper offers a commentary and wider contextualisation of mannion and davies, ‘cultures of silence and cultures of voice: the role of whistleblowing in hea...

conclusions the findings of this study indicate that older children are more proficient in comprehension of color words compared to younger children, and girls are more proficient than boys. the two easiest and two most difficult color words for children to comprehend within the 3 age groups were “black” and “red” and “phosphoric-green” and “turquoise-blue,” respectively. there was a positive r...