Search Results - subject:"grammar"

Now Everyone can Measure Grammar Ability through the Use of Grammar Assessment System

Mohamed, Abdul Rashid - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

This paper describes an initiative to systematically gauge English as Second Language (ESL) learners' grammar … proficiency. Grammar Assessment System was developed with the goal to determine learners' grammar proficiency and placing learners … in their respective grammar proficiency levels. The novelty of the Grammar Assessment System is in the three notable …

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Selective Schooling Has Not Promoted Social Mobility in England

Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick - 2021

In this paper we use linked census data to assess whether an academically selective schooling system promotes social mobility, using England as a case study. Over a period of two decades, the share of pupils in academically selective schools in England declined sharply and differentially by...

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Readability (and beyond) of financial disclosures and earnings management

Paul, Samit - 2021

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Semantic networks for automatic coding (v2)

Willenborg, Leon - 2021

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Cutting through the biofuel confusion : a conceptual framework to check the feasibility, viability and desirability of biofuels

Ripa, M.; Cadillo-Benalcazar, J.J.; Giampietro, Mario - In: Energy strategy reviews 35 (2021), pp. 1-12

Biofuels represent a complex issue in the sustainability discourse as they require the simultaneous consideration of different dimensions and scales of analysis. This situation explains the co-existence of contrasting ‘scientific evidence’ about their performance. This paper presents a novel...

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A Lingua Franca for Kurdish populations

Bourgeois-Gironde, Sacha; Ginsburgh, Victor; Hassani, … - 2021

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Effects of noise on the grammar of languages

Bauch, Gerrit - 2021

We study a signaling game of common interest in which a stochastic noise is perturbing the communication between an informed sender and an uninformed receiver. Despite this inhibiting factor, efficient languages exist. In equilibrium, sender uses a tessellation consisting of convex cells while...

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Is Nestlé a lady? : the feminine brand name advantage

Pogacar, Ruth; Angle, Justin; Lowrey, Tina M.; Shrum, L. J. - In: Journal of marketing 85 (2021) 6, pp. 101-117

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Linguistic drivers of misinformation diffusion on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic

Di Domenico, Giandomenico; Tuan, Annamaria; Visentin, Marco - In: Italian journal of marketing : ITJM 2021 (2021) 4, pp. 351-369

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Selective schooling has not promoted social mobility in England

Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick - 2021

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