IF 1 3区哲学

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00690-6

Heather Browning, Walter Veit

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Regional pragmatic variation in the use of conventional expressions at three Spanish-speaking sites 在三个讲西班牙语的地区，传统表达用法的地区语用差异

IF 1.3 3区文学

Lingua Pub Date : 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104021

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig , Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé , Sabrina Mossman , Enrique Rodríguez Sánchez

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A comparative study of text characteristics of CET-6, IELTS, and TOEFL reading passages based on computational tools 基于计算工具的大学英语六级、雅思和托福阅读文章文本特征比较研究

IF 3.4 1区文学

Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2025.101556

Lin Chen, Qingyun Luo

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IF 1.1 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.002

Leonardo Porcelloni

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Constructing cohesion through commemorative law: The function of synecdoche in the Vote Bison Campaign 通过纪念法则构建凝聚力：提喻在投票野牛运动中的作用

IF 2.5 2区文学

Communication Monographs Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2025.2537748

T. Jake Dionne

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Pre-admission EAP course completion as evidence of English language proficiency for university admission: A longitudinal evaluation study 大学入学前EAP课程的完成作为大学入学英语语言能力的证据：一项纵向评估研究

IF 3.4 1区文学

Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2025.101555

Khaled Barkaoui , Jason Holmes , Saskia Van Viegen

{"title":"Pre-admission EAP course completion as evidence of English language proficiency for university admission: A longitudinal evaluation study","authors":"Khaled Barkaoui , Jason Holmes , Saskia Van Viegen","doi":"10.1016/j.jeap.2025.101555","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeap.2025.101555","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To increase the number of international students, a growing number of English-medium universities offer multiple pathways for demonstrating English language proficiency (ELP) as part of the admission process. While the standard practice requires achieving a minimum score on a standardized ELP test, an alternative pathway entails completing one or more pre-admission English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses successfully. This practice assumes that these students possess ELP levels comparable to those meeting the minimum score on an ELP test and that both pathway groups can anticipate achieving similar levels of academic achievement at university. This longitudinal study examines these assumptions by comparing the academic achievement (i.e., Grade Point Average [GPA]) over ten semesters of undergraduate students admitted to a large Canadian English-medium university after successfully completing pre-admission EAP courses with domestic students and those admitted via IELTS scores. The findings indicated that students admitted through the EAP program initially achieved lower GPA in the first semester. This gap endured throughout the ten semesters, albeit gradually narrowing over time. The implications of these findings are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Academic Purposes","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101555"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144771286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Chat-IRB? How application-specific language models can enhance research ethics review. Chat-IRB吗?应用特定语言模型如何加强研究伦理审查。

IF 3.4 2区哲学

Journal of Medical Ethics Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1136/jme-2025-110845

Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Jiehao Joel Seah, Stephen Latham, Julian Savulescu, Mateo Aboy, Brian D Earp

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“There are no natural disasters”: Latent climate change tensions in non-sustainability organizations “没有自然灾害”：不可持续性组织中潜在的气候变化紧张关系

IF 2.5 2区文学

Communication Monographs Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2025.2539280

Rebecca M. Rice, Megan E. Cullinan

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Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines 灌溉周边：菲律宾的水文、殖民和反灌溉

IF 1.1 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003

Rhomir S. Yanquiling , Wolfram Dressler , Will Smith

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Language learning aptitude as a predictor of late-life L2 learning at beginner level 语言学习天资对晚年初级阶段第二语言学习的预测作用

IF 4.2 1区文学

Language Teaching Research Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1177/13621688251352260

Karen Roehr-Brackin, Renato Pavlekovic

{"title":"Language learning aptitude as a predictor of late-life L2 learning at beginner level","authors":"Karen Roehr-Brackin, Renato Pavlekovic","doi":"10.1177/13621688251352260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688251352260","url":null,"abstract":"Recent work in the field of second language (L2) learning and teaching has aimed for improved representativeness by including older adult participants. Findings to date suggest not only that it is perfectly possible to learn a new L2 late in life, but also that, compared with younger samples, third-age learners’ success may be less dependent on the nature of the instructional approach they are exposed to. Whereas the predictive power of language learning aptitude in young adults’ instructed L2 learning has been amply demonstrated, we know very little about language aptitude as a predictor of late-life learners’ L2 achievement. The present study addressed these issues by comparing the effectiveness of an explicit and an incidental instructional condition at the earliest stage of L2 learning. Volunteers ( n = 80) aged 60–83 completed the LLAMA aptitude battery and a serial reaction time task and participated in a suite of online language lessons targeting adjective-noun gender agreement in beginner-level Croatian. Our results show that the LLAMA tests significantly predicted L2 attainment. Aptitude components played a greater role in the incidental than in the explicit condition, indicating that the latter was cognitively less demanding. Nevertheless, participants were equally successful in the two conditions. The incidental group responded faster to posttest items throughout, and participants performed better on written than auditory items regardless of instructional condition. Taken together, these findings suggest that input modality may be more relevant for older adults than instructional approach. Participants’ occupational status (working vs. retired) and self-concepts, including their confidence in themselves and their knowledge, emerged as important factors, highlighting the link between (meta)cognitive and socioaffective variables in late-life learners.","PeriodicalId":47852,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching Research","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144778301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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