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Tsurutan, Chiharu – Journal of English as an International Language, 2018
This study investigates the relative impact of verbal expression and tone of voice when native speakers of English form an impression of non-native speech. Four expressions of inquiry uttered in two tones by non-native speakers were judged by native listeners and analyzed using an ordinal Probit model. Plain expressions received lower scores than…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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McMahon, Jenny; Barker-Ruchti, Natalie – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
This paper explores three female swimmers' relationships with their male coaches and the body practices they were exposed to within Australian swimming. Particular attention is given to how the relationships and practices might relate to gender. Additionally, the article examines how (if at all) the conduct contributed to the social construction…
Descriptors: Males, Maturity (Individuals), Athletic Coaches, Females
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Adrefiza; Jones, Jeremy F. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2013
Studies on apologies have proliferated in pragmatics research, but little research has been conducted on apology responses (ARs). The present inquiry contributes to filling the gap in the literature, and it does so by examining such responses in two languages, Australian English (AE) and Bahasa Indonesia (BI). The study ultimately focuses on two…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Asians
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Nyaradi, Anett; Foster, Jonathan K.; Hickling, Siobhan; Li, Jianghong; Ambrosini, Gina L.; Jacques, Angela; Oddy, Wendy H. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2014
Background: The aim of the study was to investigate prospective associations between dietary patterns and cognitive performance during adolescence. Methods: Participants were sourced from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study that includes 2868 children born between 1989 and 1992 in Perth, Western Australia. When the children were…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Questionnaires, Health Behavior, Family Income
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Walters, Peter; Whitehouse, Gillian – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
Unpaid household labor is still predominantly performed by women, despite dramatic increases in female labor force participation over the past 50 years. For this article, interviews with 76 highly skilled women who had returned to the workforce following the birth of children were analyzed to capture reflexive understandings of the balance of paid…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Employed Women, Labor, Housework
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Lowrie, Tom; Diezmann, Carmel M. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The capacity to solve tasks that contain high concentrations of visual-spatial information, including graphs, maps and diagrams, is becoming increasingly important in educational contexts as well as everyday life. This research examined gender differences in the performance of students solving graphics tasks from the Graphical Languages in…
Descriptors: Maps, Graphs, Spatial Ability, Gender Differences