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Theory-Constitutive Metaphors, Similes, and Scientists' Narratives About Their Travel and/or Research Experience in Popular Science Articles: Examining Linguistic and Rhetorical Features
(2019-05-01)
Among popular science publications, the most common type is the Popular Science Article (PSA). The main purpose of PSAs is to convey the necessary scientific content in the form accessible to non-specialists. They also ...
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(1982-05)
Ecophilosophy of J.R.R. Tolkien: Rural, Urban, and Wilderness Roads to Conscientious Living and Environmental Guardianship
(2019-05-01)
A core message of J.R.R. Tolkien's canon concerning the human and non-human global community appears in The Lord of the Rings when Gandalf addresses the Captains of the West, as they prepare their plans to march on the ...
(Dis)embodying fat bodies: Erasure and resistance in cyberspace and the classroom
(2021-12)
Dominant anti-fat narratives written into and by the medical field, fashion, in virtual spaces, and the physical spaces we inhabit have disembodied fat people in their own stories, not allowing fat bodies space to write ...
Socializing role of codes and code-switching among Korean children in the U. S.
(2009-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This study examines the code-switching habits of Korean children in a Korean speech community in the United States in order to understand the socializing role of codes and code-switching. The ...
Predicting international teaching assistants' performance in a domain-specific test: The case of complexity, accuracy, fluency, and compensatory strategies
(2017-05)
International teaching assistant (ITA) assessment for screening purposes has gained crucial importance with the increase in the number of nonnative speaker graduate students across North American campuses. Although previous ...
Comparative study of oral proficiency in direct (OPI) and semi-direct (VOCI) testing modes: Measures of complexity, accuracy, and fluency
(2020-05)
This study aims at comparing oral proficiency performance at two oral proficiency testing modes, namely Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and Video Oral Communication Instrument (VOCI) in terms of specific measures of ...