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Mirrors, Windows, and Mentors: Developing Critical Mentor Text Sets to Cultivate Students’ Writer Identities 镜子，窗户和导师:发展批判性导师文本集以培养学生的作家身份

Arab World English Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.58680/ej202332633

Elizabeth Thackeray Nelson, Margaret Osgood Opatz

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Columns: Teaching Multilingual Learners: “You Should Always Remember to Be Kind”: Learning from Resettled Youth in a Summer Writing Camp 专栏:教授多语言学习者;“你应该永远记住要善良”;在一个暑期写作营中向定居青年学习

Arab World English Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.58680/ej202332638

Melody Zoch

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Columns: Teaching and Composing Today: On Students and Their Beautiful Becoming: The Power of Writing Instruction in 2023 专栏:今天的教学和写作;关于学生和他们的美丽成长;2023年写作教学的力量

Arab World English Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.58680/ej202332637

Megan Beth Hedgecock, Grayson Hackney

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The Effect of Social Media on Arabic Vocabulary in the Saudi Society 社交媒体对沙特社会阿拉伯语词汇的影响

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Arab World English Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-19 DOI: 10.24093/awej/th.299

Atheer Mahmoud Alenazi

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The Impact of Using Podcast Episodic Series of Spoken-Word Digital Audio on Improving Imam University EFL Beginners Listening Skills 使用播客情景系列口语数字音频对提高伊玛目大学英语初学者听力的影响

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Arab World English Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-09 DOI: 10.24093/awej/th.298

Nourh Khaled Mohammed Al-Mohawes

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A Sociopragmatic Study of the Strategies of Ostensible Invitations in Saudi Arabic 沙特阿拉伯语表面邀请策略的社会语用研究

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Arab World English Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-05 DOI: 10.24093/awej/th.297

Shorouq Ashoor Dhaifallah Alzahrani

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The Analysis of Feasibility in EFL Textbook: A Contribution to Kurikulum Merdeka 外语教材的可行性分析——对梅的贡献

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Arab World English Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.24093/awej/call9.21

S. Senowarsito, S. Suwandi, Siti Musarokah, Sukma Nur Ardini

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Formation of the Operational Skills of Using Information and Communication Technologies in the Professional Activity of a Future Pedagogue 在未来教师的专业活动中使用信息和通信技术的操作技能的形成

Arab World English Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.24093/awej/call9.22

Oleksii Anatoliiovych Lystopad, Iryna Kostiantynivna Mardarova, Irina Anatoliivna Kniazheva, Olena Albertivna Kudriavtseva

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PowerAR: A Tool for Improving ESL Year Six Pupils’ Reading Comprehension PowerAR：提高ESL六年级学生阅读理解能力的工具

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Arab World English Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.24093/awej/call9.17

Nur Ainil Sulaiman, Nor Azwahanum Nor Shaid, Jane Anthony Pragasam

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Perceptions of ESL Undergraduates Regarding the Impact of Smartphones on Learning the English Language ESL大学生对智能手机对英语学习影响的认知

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Arab World English Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.24093/awej/call9.18

Yurong Hu

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