A study of the English postposition ago in the speech of adult native speakers in advanced EFL recordings by Tiziani, José María

“…Of the three aspects of intonation normally taught at EFL teacher/translator training colleges, namely the ‘chunking’ of speech into tone groups, the location of a main prominence or nucleus, and the behaviour of the pitch of the voice, or tone, it is the area of nucleus placement which has suffered from considerable neglect and insufficient training. …”
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Metacognitive writing strategies in academic writing : the path to enhance autonomy and to become expert writers by Díaz, Gisela

“…At post instruction, the participants of this study seemed to have acquired some of the aspects which Bereiter and Scardamalia (1987) consider to be characteristic of expert writers, namely devoting considerable time to planning, considering the goal of the text, and attending to several aspects such as content, form, audience, and organization. …”
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