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On Similarity in Language

Similarity means the resemblance between two entities and it reflects the ways entities relate to each other. It is an important aspect and method of human cognition, so a wide and deep research on similarity has been carried out in the world of cog......


Foreign Language Pedagogy from the Post-method Perspectives:Parameters and Indicators

Based on the examination of the unhelpfulness of methods to language learning and teaching, this paper proposes the postmethod conception, focusing on its 3 pedagogical parameters and 3 indicators respectively. The postmethod parameters entail partic......


A Study of the Perception Comparison of Stops after Initial /s/by Speakers of English and Chinese

English stops after /s/, i.e. /sp, st, sk/ present a challenge in teaching these sounds to English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) students. This study attempted to gain insights into native English-speaking childre......


An Empirical Study on the Involvement Load Hypothesis

Laufer & Hulstijn (2001) propose that retention of unfamiliar words is generally conditional upon the degree of involvement in processing these words. On the basis of the Involvement Load Hypothesis (Laufer & Hulstijn, 2001), this empirical study inv......


An Analysis of Rater Behavior with the Rasch Measurement

This paper reports a study that explored rater behavior in terms of rater severity, rater self-consistency and rater bias by using the Rasch Measurement to analyze the scoring of a writing test for Year-one English majors. All the scores of 53 compos......

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