In recent years testing responsibilities for high-consequence pathogens have been expanded from national reference laboratories into networks of local and regional laboratories in order to support enhanced disease surveillance and to test for surge capacity. This movement of testing of select agents and high-consequence pathogens beyond reference laboratories introduces a critical need for stan...

Delivering English oral presentations is deemed a prevalent activity of language learning in the university setting. Given that students’ attitudes have substantial impact on outcomes through delivering presentations, this study examined 153 third- and fourth-year students enrolled an major at Department Foreign Languages Southern Vietnam toward English. The has also focused investigating what ...

Abstract Many students struggle to acquire adequate reading comprehension and writing skills. Although word recognition spelling are needed fully actualize these skills, the oral language aspects of can be taught practiced without text. Oral storytelling is good for all students, but it may essential with code‐related disabilities limited proficiency in mainstream academic U.S. schools. The pur...

In this study the author tries to assess the effects of Theme-based Oral Approach (TOA) on the oral English proficiency of non-English majors as well as students’ leaning motives and interests resulted from the approach in EFL class of China. The study follows the quantitative and qualitative method in light of questionnaire, interview, class observation with the causal-comparative study betwee...

Virtual communication holds the promise of enabling low-cost professional development at scale, but benefits in-person interaction might be difficult to replicate. We report on an experiment in South Africa comparing on-site with virtual coaching public primary school teachers. After three years, improved students’ English oral language and reading proficiency (0.31 0.13 SD, respectively). had ...

Abstract This study builds upon previous research investigating the construct validity of phraseological complexity as an index L2 development and proficiency. Whereas studies have focused on cross-sectional comparisons written productions across proficiency levels, current compares longitudinal in oral elicited over a 21-month period from learners French. We also improve state art by including...