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Baker, Amanda; Burri, Michael – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
In the modern English language classroom, teachers are often faced with the challenging task of supporting students to achieve comprehensible pronunciation, but many teachers limit or neglect giving students feedback on their pronunciation for a variety of reasons. This paper examines the case of five experienced English for Academic Purposes…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
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Evans, Theodore A.; Beran, Michael J. – Cognition, 2012
Prospective memory (PM) involves forming intentions, retaining those intentions, and later executing those intended responses at the appropriate time. Few studies have investigated this capacity in animals. Monkeys performed a computerized task that assessed their ability to remember to make a particular response if they observed a PM cue embedded…
Descriptors: Memory, Stimuli, Intention, Investigations
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Starns, Jeffrey J.; Rotello, Caren M.; Ratcliff, Roger – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Koen and Yonelinas (2010; K&Y) reported that mixing classes of targets that had short (weak) or long (strong) study times had no impact on zROC slope, contradicting the predictions of the encoding variability hypothesis. We show that they actually derived their predictions from a mixture unequal-variance signal detection (UVSD) model, which…
Descriptors: Evidence, Prediction, Study Habits, Models
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Foley, Mary Ann; Ratner, Hilary H.; Gentes, Emily – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
The role of focusing 4-year-olds' attention on "feeling" or "looking" was examined in three experiments by testing predictions about children's memory for their interactions with an adult partner as they engaged in a collaborative task. Children made collages with an adult partner, and they were later asked to remember who placed the pieces on the…
Descriptors: Memory, Art Products, Experiments, Interaction