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Cognitive linguistics-inspired language instruction 认知语言学启发的语言教学

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000119

Jie Qin, Dilin Liu, Lei Lei

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Digital multimodal composing in L2 classrooms: A research agenda L2 课堂中的数字多模态合成：研究议程

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000107

Lianjiang (George) Jiang, Christoph Hafner

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Practitioners respond to Carol Griffiths ‘What about the teacher?’ (Language Teaching, 56(2), 210–222) 实践者回应卡罗尔-格里菲斯 "教师怎么办？"（《语言教学》，56（2），210-222）

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000132

Wayne Trotman

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How do language education researchers attend to quality in qualitative studies? 语言教育研究人员如何关注定性研究的质量？

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000053

Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini, William S. Pearson

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Language assessment literacy 语言评估扫盲

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-04-03 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000090

Karin Vogt, Henrik Bøhn, Dina Tsagari

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Measuring children's metalinguistic awareness 测量儿童的金属语言意识

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000016

Karen Roehr-Brackin

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Value your students' bilingualism? Nurture them through development of school-based registers! 重视学生的双语能力？通过开发校本注册课程来培养他们！

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444823000459

Mary J. Schleppegrell

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Enhanced Branched-Chain Amino Acid Metabolism Improves Age-Related Reproduction in C. elegans. 增强支链氨基酸代谢可改善秀丽隐杆线虫与年龄相关的生殖能力

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.09.527915

Chen Lesnik, Rachel Kaletsky, Jasmine M Ashraf, Salman Sohrabi, Vanessa Cota, Titas Sengupta, William Keyes, Shijing Luo, Coleen T Murphy

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Learning a specialized register: An English for Specific Purposes research agenda 学习专门语域：专门用途英语研究议程

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444823000472

Helen Basturkmen

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Written corrective feedback in second language writing: A synthesis of naturalistic classroom studies 第二语言写作中的书面纠正反馈：自然课堂研究综述

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-01-29 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444823000393

Zhicheng Mao, Icy Lee, Shaofeng Li

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