Recently, there is a need for fostering the critical reflective side of L2 teacher education. This study investigated the implications of personal narrative (PN) and reflective journal (RJ) writing for Iranian EFL teachers’ reflective writing. Sixty (36 women and 24 men) in-service secondary school EFL teachers were selected based on the convenience sampling from Iran. L2 teachers equally divid...

while many international organisations have independent evaluations, including the international monetary fund (imf) and world health organization (who), uniquely the world bank in its 2015 world development report sought to ascertain the potential biases that influence how its staff interpret evidence and influence policy. here, we describe the world bank’s study design, including experiments ...

Thread disentanglement is the task of separating out conversations whose thread structure is implicit, distorted, or lost. In this paper, we perform email thread disentanglement through pairwise classification, using text similarity measures on non-quoted texts in emails. We show that i) content text similarity metrics outperform style and structure text similarity metrics in both a class-balan...

We investigate the interaction of power, gender, and language use in the Enron email corpus. We present a freely available extension to the Enron corpus, with the gender of senders of 87% messages reliably identified. Using this data, we test two specific hypotheses drawn from the sociolinguistic literature pertaining to gender and power: women managers use face-saving communicative strategies,...

Reflective supervision is widely recommended as an effective way to support social workers think about their practice and make better decisions. Although previous research has proposed methods of pursuing reflective supervision, little known how supervisors attempt this in actual meetings. One method for elicit third person perspectives so that can consider a situation from different points vie...

University students, in groups of 3 or 4, discussed legal aspects of commercial surrogacy and aftenvards ranked the relative influence of each group member. As predicted, high-influence members spoke more words and had more successful turns during the conversation than low-influence members. The latter used a greater rate of intonation and intensifiers than the former. A closer examination of t...

Abstract This research aims to explain the problems currently understood by world and directly felt Indonesian citizens. Covid-19 pandemic is spreading rapidly throughout becoming a global problem. Even term New Normal topic of conversation around world. paper reveals how life happening in society. The occurrence culture shock one social conditions that occur our study uses literature review wh...