The potentials of mobile learning in teaching academic writing skills for ESL students are explored in this paper. Although there have been studies on MALL to improve writing skills, academic writing was never really touched. Few aspects are covered like the changes in educational technology, defining MALL, identifying issues in academic writing by ESL students, approaches used in academic writ...

In the presence of sunk costs to exporting, preferential tariff liberalization may have a prolonged, dynamic effect on the pattern of a beneficiary country’s exports. In particular, when preferential market access helps overcome product specific fixed costs to exporting, preferential tariff liberalization might trigger a geographic spread of exports to third markets outside the preferential tra...

This is a case study using an interactive digital game to teach grammar via Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL). The MALL aimed ease TESL students' fear and trigger their interest in learning grammar. uses the Theory of Variation (Marton & Booth) design exercises game. A survey questionnaire semi-structured interview were administered gauge students’ perceptions findings show that has ...

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Bartek Rajwa, Murugesan Venkatapathi, Kathy Ragheb, Padmapriya P. Banada, E. Daniel Hirleman, Todd Lary, and J. Paul Robinson Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories, Bindley Bioscience Center, 1203 W. State Street; School of Mechanical Engineering, 585 Purdue Mall; Molecular Food Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Food Science, 745 Agriculture Mall Drive, Purdue University, West Lafayette...

...................................................................................... 5 Introduction ...................................................................................... 7 I. Technological structure of manufactured exports....... 11 II. World trade patterns............................................................. 17 III .Regional distribution of developing world exports.....

introduction radiotherapy with small fields is used widely in newly developed techniques. additionally, dose calculation accuracy of treatment planning systems in small fields plays a crucial role in treatment outcome. in the present study, dose calculation accuracy of two commercial treatment planning systems was evaluated against monte carlo method. materials and methods siemens once or linea...

Temporal index decomposition analysis and spatial index decomposition analysis were applied to understand the driving forces of the emissions embodied in China's exports and net exports during 2002-2011, respectively. The accumulated emissions embodied in exports accounted for approximately 30% of the total emissions in China; although the contribution of the sectoral total emissions intensity ...

Exports have become an increasingly important source of revenue for both national and regional firms in the United States. U.S. exports are rising rapidly, especially from the Midwest. As a result, national and district firms must be ever more attentive to changes in U.S. export markets. One such change is the rapid growth of U.S. export markets in the developing nations of East Asia and Latin ...

Uutilizing unit root and cointegration techniques, we find out of 96 countries only 8 show unidirectional or bidirectional causality from exports to GDP with positive relationship between the two variables. Causality from GDP to Exports with positive relationship between the two variables is found for only 9 countries.