A semester-long internship was designed for undergraduate students at the University of Delhi, India. Teams comprising 30 from all over were trained to carry out field exploration activities on Yamuna River flowing in Delhi. The provided with portable kits measure physicochemical parameters a selected bank River. Students documented invertebrate fauna riparian zone banks. At same time, they not...

At the JALT2020 International Conference, Code of Conduct (CoC) and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) committees deliberated on issues equity for representation members within JALT. The topics discussion included (a) wider representation, (b) native-speakerism, (c) professional development opportunities, (d) diversity in teaching contexts, (e) effectiveness JALT’s current measures regarding in...

Social exclusion has a myriad of negative effects on students’ psychological and social well-being. One way to combat such is raise awareness about in schools. Here, we describe evaluate training program that was carried out across schools The Netherlands. relies basic experiential learning principles well-established paradigm make participants experience discuss exclusion. We had two goals the...

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Abstract The knowledge of medium-strength and field-specific collocations is a prerequisite for sounding native-like as such an essential skill to have future translators. While students are usually familiar with the use idioms fixed expressions, they may struggle recognizing also producing collocations, especially ones do not encounter enough frequency. They tend overuse certain common word co...

This study investigated the impact of individual differences like language proficiency, gender and age on the Iranian EFL learners interlanguage pragmatics in institutional discourse especially, their capacity to recognize and to rate pragmatic and grammatical infelicities in speech act situations of request and apology.  To this end, one hundred and eighty-seven EFL university students at thre...