Placement tests, along with the growing interest in their validation, have become increasingly important in English as a Second Language programs. To this end, the present paper illustrates procedures in designing a placement test and using it to evaluate students’ language ability by means of statistical analysis. 29 participants from three proficiency levels (beginning, intermediate, and adva...

The purpose of this study is to explore the levels digital literacy among Turkish teacher candidates as well their attitudes about writing, and investigate relationship between these variables. survey model used in using a quantitative research approach. sample consists 556 language studying at 18 different public universities Turkey fall 2021-2022 academic years. In study, personal information...

It is desirable that children engage in reading and writing beyond school. What known about various individual environmental variables may be related to children’s leisure writing? And how strong existing evidence? Our scoping review aims at mapping research on first- fourth-graders. Using content analysis, we extracted 135 findings, among them only 6 writing. In most were considered as consequ...

Many excellent corpus-based language learning resources (e.g., concordancers) have been freely available on the Internet for some time. Google assisted language learning (GALL) is also gaining increasing acceptance. These tools are a potential resource for English as an additional language (EAL) university students who want to independently improve their academic writing. However, many Australi...

The purpose of the study has been an investigation students’ attitudes towards teaching business correspondence in English with use imagination and humour, as expressed questionnaire reflected writing. It was assumed that imagination, creativity humour would motivate students to practise writing develop their skills. is based on both analysis actual well a regarding simulation practising corres...

When the previous Surgeon-General, Sir Cameron Moffat, invited me to give this lecture, I had just finished writing a book about the development of the armed • forces of the major military nations in the 20th century, and in doing so had become more aware of the great changes that have occurred during this century in attitudes to death, injury, disease and war. At the beginning of the century, ...

The aim of the current research was to examine pre—service, general and special education teachers attitudes to and knowledge of metalinguistics (awareness of language structure) in the process of learning to read. Effective teachers of reading, writing, and spelling need to understand the relationship between speech and print because these basic language processes are often deficient in cases ...

This study investigates a novel approach to automatically assessing essay quality that combines natural language processing approaches that assess text features with approaches that assess individual differences in writers such as demographic information, standardized test scores, and survey results. The results demonstrate that combining text features and individual differences increases the a...

Writing is an integral part of everyday school life and a relevant didactic tool in geography lessons. Nevertheless, there still little research on the topic writing The study aims to investigate attitudes towards practice teachers by analysing qualitative guided interviews. It will reflect extent which ascribe meanings significance this language action implement it their Teachers see particula...

Most of the literature on pharmacogenetics assumes that the main problems in implementing the technology will be institutional ones (due to funding or regulation) and that although it involves genetic testing, the ethical issues involved in pharmacogenetics are different from, even less than, 'traditional' genetic testing. Very little attention has been paid to how clinicians will accept this t...