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Training Formal Schemata — Replication Results reader’s background knowledge of and experience with textual organization — to affect reading comprehension. This effect of text structure on reading comprehension has been shown to be operative for both narrative and expository texts. For example, the work of Thorndyke (1977), Mandler (1978, Mandl

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The Role of Literature in Teaching ESL: Still Viable in the 21st Centuryhere increasing importance is placed on communicative competence, the use of literature in ESL has not been outdated. If one argued that it has become outdated, one would have to say that the use of dialogs (which dates from Plato and Aristotle’s day) is also outdated. But the discriminating teacher

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The Pragmatic Demands of Placement Testings the students had produced. Specifically, it documents how patterns in students’ use of information assumed to be either old, inferrable, or new for readers affected the evaluation of the texts and suggests that these effects are, at least partly, a function of the fact that this was a test—a deman

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Applied Linguistics: Realities and Projections Re the Teaching Profession, retrospection in this regard has often taken the form of introspection. Some would contend that constant attention to what activities are and can or should be encompassed within a field labelled “applied linguistics” detracts from participation in and dissemination of information on the work to be

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Knowing vs Behaving vs Feeling: Studies on Japanese Bilingualse when we receive gifts (wazawazasumimasen, moushiwakearimasen). Apologizing, to the Japanese, is a form of etiquette which pervades throughout the fabric of Japanese social life. It is expressed by the various “polite” or honorific expressions which comprise an important part of the Japanese langua

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Understanding Interactive Competence in L1/L2 Contrastive Context: A Case of Back-Channel Behavior ie calls “parallel text”— is analyzed. Note that although so-called contrastive analysis has been under attack over the last two decades — primarily because of its failure to meet unrealizable expectation i.e., prediction of learners’ errors in its own right, widely held among applied linguists espec