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What do teachers know about dyslexia? It’s complicated!
In recent years, many states have passed laws requiring dyslexia training for teachers. Research suggests teachers hold both scientifically-based...
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Dyslexia in the twenty-first century: a commentary on the IDA definition of dyslexia
In offering a commentary upon the IDA definition, we address its main components in turn. While each is technically accurate, we argue that, when...
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L2 Writing Assessment An Evolutionary Perspective
This book tackles three choices that face developers of L2 writing assessments: defining L2 writing abilities; collecting evidence of those abilities...
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Disobedient ELT Research: Breaking the Rules, Finding Alternatives, Invoking Other Ontologies
This chapter serves a dual purpose. Firstly, it discusses the prevalence of ELT research rooted in whiteness, eurocentrism, and colonialism through...
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Ozone Layer Depletion in Children’s Books Available in Greece: examining accuracy in the representation of causes of ozone layer depletion in texts
This article discusses the content accuracy in the representation of causes of ozone layer depletion in children’s books. The current study analyzed...
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Iranian EFL Teachers’ Challenges and Solutions in Using Computer-Assisted Assessment: Exploring EFL Teachers’ Experiential Evidence
This chapter examined the Iranian EFL teachers’ challenges with computer-assisted assessment (CAA) and their solutions to such challenges. Through a...
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Using conceptual change theory to help preservice teachers understand dyslexia
Recently, many states passed laws requiring pre- and in-service teachers to receive professional development in dyslexia awareness. Even though...
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Pictorial free perception
Pictorial free perception reports are sequences in comics or film of one unit that depicts an agent who is looking, and a following unit that depicts...
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Collective Action in the Wild
Twentieth-century dispositions to model human cognition as logical systems have been undermined by evidence from the wild. Formal models of cognition...
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Lawyer Evaluation Under Contextual Constraints
Based on data from three civil cases and three criminal cases, this chapter investigates how contextual constraints of the courtroom are observed and...
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Networked Territories of Language and Nation
This chapter analyses networked territories of language and nation, noting the shift from academic focus on the histories and times of nations to a...
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Queering Timespace in Educational Literacy Practices in Socially Fascist Brazil: An Interventionist-Performative Approach
This chapter explores the relationship between talk about gender and sexuality in school literacy practices and the development of intersubjective...
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Empowering Green Girls: An Ecofeminist Reading of Baba Yaga and the Black Sunflower and The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus
To children, nature is not only the shelter, savior, and life-maintaining force, but also the impressive world that they are involuntarily attracted...
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Training ‘International Engineers’ in Japan: discourse, Discourse and Stereotypes
Training programmes and materials that aim to enable professionals to function effectively in international contexts often draw on Hofstedian...
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Machine translation in society: insights from UK users
Machine translation (MT) tools like Google Translate can overcome language barriers and increase access to information. These tools also carry risks,...
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Conclusion
This chapter highlights the main findings provided in this study, including the newly defined categories under lawyer evaluation and the particular...
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Anthropology: Reading and Writing from Pictographs to Ethnography
The New Literacy is characterized by an “anthropological turn,” sometimes termed ethnographic or cultural. Literacy studies followed trends in many...
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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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Situated Agency and Constitutive Moral Luck
Character ethics needs a way to account for the role of constitutive moral luck. The character ethics tradition holds agents responsible for...
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Blickführung
Der Begriff der „Blickführung“, den Peter Kohlhaas in seiner Übersetzung von Hayden Whites Metahistory verwendet, um zu beschreiben, was während der...