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Data Analysis Beyond Coding
Coding procedures and the categorization of data segments are widely used as procedures of making sense of data in qualitative research in different...
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The World Is a Prison: Political Community in the Work of Joseba Sarrionandia
This chapter is divided into five sections. After a biographical introduction, the second section deals with how Sarrionandia encapsulates the...
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A Brief Introduction to Form and Meaning of Chinese Characters & Dictionaries
A writing system, as a tool of recording, is attached to language with visual symbols as the medium. The sound (音) in pronunciation is different from...
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The Performed Culture Approach
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of the Performed Culture Approach (PCA). PCA is a paradigm-shifting...
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Concurrent and longitudinal predictors of beginning writing in Chinese: the unique role of copying skills
Pure copying skill (copying of unfamiliar scripts) and delayed copying (copying of unfamiliar Chinese characters presented previously) can both be...
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Develo** Advanced CFL Learners’ Academic Writing Skills: Theory and Practice
For truly advanced learners of the Chinese language, training in Chinese academic writing has numerous benefits: It brings depth to the teaching...
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Introduction
This book considers applied linguistics (AL) from the perspective of social theory, and provides a realist critique of successionism and...
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STEM English for Students: The Big Picture
In this chapter, the editors posit that STEM English for students needs more than the development of teaching materials. What is needed in the...
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Effectiveness of an SRSD writing intervention for low- and high-SES children
SRSD interventions on writing have shown to be effective across a myriad of contexts and populations. Less is known, however, about their...
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Weak English foreign language readers: the cross-linguistic impact of morphological awareness
Linguistic abilities as well as home environment explain successful English as a foreign language (EFL) reading acquisition. The aim of this study...
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Does a truly symmetrically transparent orthography exist? Spelling is more difficult than reading even in an orthography considered highly transparent for both reading and spelling
Although we know that spelling develops more slowly than reading in asymmetrically transparent orthographies, such as Italian, we do not know whether...
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Blunders
This chapter is devoted to etiquette blunders. Because etiquette is at the same time highly compulsory and complicated, it generates feelings of...
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Designing Qualitative Studies
The qualitative research question provides the conceptual base and the direction for actual research involvements. But the actual process of ‘doing’...
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The Quality of Qualitative Research
Qualitative research is not concerned with issues of objectivity. The epistemological bases of qualitative inquiry necessitate purposefully staying...
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Standard Translatable English: A Minimal English for Teaching and Learning Invisible Culture in Language Classrooms
Several decades of research has shown that NSM and minimal languages have applications in language teaching, but how can Minimal English be presented...
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An Overview
This introductory chapter first discusses some key terms in the book (e.g., remote, distance, and online) and then provides a brief history of remote...
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Carmen Elvira: An Adult ESL Student (and Teacher) Newly Arrived from Mexico
Through Carmen Elvira’s testimonio as an adult, we explore how one’s multiple literacies and languaging dynamically shift through life stages. Carmen...
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A Scholar’s Efforts to Increase Margin: Reflection on a Journey of Academic Enculturation
Deveci underscores the role of publications in scholars’ striving for success in academia. It is noted that becoming a published author can be...
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The relationship of handwriting ability and literacy in kindergarten: a systematic review
Evidence supports a link between handwriting and aspects of literacy, including both reading and writing. Most evidence, however, pertains to...
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Data Analysis Through Coding
When the data collection process reaches a stage where enough evidence is collected in terms of the quantity and scope as well as quality and...