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Desenvolvimento e validação do instrumento de compreensão de expressões idiomáticas ; Idioms comprehension instrument : development and validation
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The teaching, learning and testing of te reo Māori in tertiary institutions in Aotearoa/New Zealand
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Science literacy in Saudi Arabia through language analysis of a secondary school physics textbook
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) ; Scientific language is an essential component of science education. Secondary schooling shapes student thinking and provides a gateway to future engagement; and it is there that student interest in science grows or diminishes. Reading science textbooks is an important tool by which students gain access to scientific knowledge. While there is an extensive body of research on language and learning with science textbooks written in English, there is less work in contexts where other languages provide the medium of instruction. Saudi Arabia is one such context. Modern standard Arabic is used in Saudi school textbooks, and Saudi science education has experienced enormous change over the past decade. This study particularly focused on the current mandatory Saudi Year 10 Physics textbook. A mixed method approach was used to: examine approaches to assessing text readability; gather expert opinions of relative text difficulty; identify specific student difficulties with the language of their Physics textbook; and, ascertain teacher and student response to recent changes in science curriculum and delivery. A review of the existing literature found gaps in the research that guided the formulation of the research questions, which were dealt with in four published articles and subsequent synthesis. This study revealed that expert readers of Arabic rated passages from science textbooks as harder to read than other text and that the physics passages appeared to be most difficult. Participating Year 10 Saudi students had greater difficulty in accessing their physics textbook than comparable English speakers accessing similar texts and those difficulties could be linked to specific language features. Year 10 Physics teachers agreed that applying the new teaching methods required by curriculum change was difficult but both they and their students held a variety of views about the textbook and other implementation issues. These findings suggest: that the written language style of the Physics textbook should be made more accessible; that specific language features associated with learner reading difficulty should be addressed more directly; and that, the components of recent changes in Saudi science education should be more closely aligned.
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cloze test; language; physics; Saudi secondary school; science; thesis by publication
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1394249
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Designing and assessing a digital, discipline-specific literacy assessment tool
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Contextualized bilingualism among adolescents from four different ethnic groups in Indonesia
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Test-takers’ contribution to the validation of uses of high-stakes language tests
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The Acquisition Path of [w]-final Plurals in Brazilian Portuguese
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In: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, Vol 17, Iss 1 (2018) (2018)
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A Comparative Analysis of the Apology Strategy between Turkish EFL Learners and English Native Speakers
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In: Applied Linguistics Research Journal, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 48-57 (2018) (2018)
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Washback of English national exams at ninth-grade level in Thailand and Indonesia
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In: Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 167-176 (2018) (2018)
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THE PROFILE OF EFL LEARNERS AS MEASURED BY AN ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST
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In: JEELS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies), Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 115-145 (2018) (2018)
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The Acquisition Path of [w]-final Plurals in Brazilian Portuguese
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In: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, Vol 17, Iss 1 (2018) (2018)
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A Cross-Sectional Study on Vocabulary Size Among Different Levels of the University Students
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In: ELT Worldwide: Journal of English Language Teaching, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 64-72 (2018) (2018)
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Language Assimilation and Performance in Achievement Tests among Immigrant Children: Evidence from a Field Experiment
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Teacher Beliefs And Practices For An English Language Achievement Test
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In: Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, Vol 23, Iss 1, Pp 25-44 (2018) (2018)
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Diagnostic study on teachers’ beliefs and practices in foreign language assessment
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In: Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, Vol 23, Iss 1 (2018) (2018)
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Desenvolvimento e validação do instrumento de compreensão de expressões idiomáticas
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In: Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, Vol 26, Iss 2, Pp 571-591 (2018) (2018)
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A common neural hub resolves syntactic and non-syntactic conflict through cooperation with task-specific networks.
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The C-Test: A Valid Measure to Test Second Language Proficiency?
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In: https://hal-hprints.archives-ouvertes.fr/hprints-01491274 ; 2017 (2017)
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Strategies to select examples for Active Learning with Conditional Random Fields
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In: CICLing 2017 - 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01621338 ; CICLing 2017 - 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Apr 2017, Budapest, Hungary. pp.1-14 (2017)
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