Despite notable exceptions, research on requests in world Englishes has so far largely involved role plays, questionnaires and discourse completion tasks. Moreover, South Asian varieties of English is rather scarce. Therefore, the present study employs a multifactorial approach towards Indian Sri Lankan as compared to their historical input variety British by investigating spoken components Int...

With many learners failing to engage with didactic and outmoded instructional methods, and unwilling to use technology that simply replicates the one-way transfer of information from teacher to student, authentic learning designs have the potential to improve student engagement and educational outcomes. This paper argues that online technologies afford the design and creation of truly innovativ...

The conceptual and empirical links between authentic leadership and follower attitudes, behaviors, and performance outcomes have not been fully developed. Although we have a number of articles developing the theory of authentic leadership and testing propositions that will appear in a forthcoming special issue of The Leadership Quarterly (Vol. 16, Issue 3, 2005), the focus of this article is to...

Many cognitive and educational researchers agree that hypermedia and multimedia content, if designed correctly, can assist students in understanding the complex scientific systems which are part of our world. Contextualized, authentic learning activities and assessments, combined with computational practice, should enable students to develop a more complete understanding of the material and fac...

We have reconstituted in vitro the four snRNPs known to be involved in pre-mRNA splicing: U1, U2, U5, and U4/6. Reconstitution involves adding either authentic or in vitro-synthesized snRNAs to extracts enriched in snRNP structural polypeptides. The reconstituted snRNPs have the same buoyant density and are immunoprecipitated by the same antibodies as authentic snRNPs. Thus, the polypeptide com...