Deception by topic choice: How discussion can mislead without falsehood

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Cross
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2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bomin Kim ◽  
Haedong Kim

<p>The aims of the present study were to explore the effects of two different types of task conditions (topic choice vs. no choice) on the quality of written production in a second language (lexical complexity, syntactic complexity, and cohesion) and to investigate the effects of these two different task conditions on task motivation. This research was conducted by means of a task motivation questionnaire and a collation of the writings of 31 Korean college students learning English as a foreign language. The data was analyzed using Coh-Metrix 3.0. The major findings were as follows: 1) The writings of participants in the topic choice condition were better than those in the no-choice condition in terms of lexical sophistication and temporal cohesion. However, participants’ written production in the no-choice condition was better than that in the topic choice condition in terms of syntactic complexity. 2) The participants’ task motivation levels were higher for the perceived choice domain in the topic choice condition than in the no-choice condition. These findings should help L2 writing instructors, materials developers, and researchers to design L2 writing instruction with a focus on written production specifically for Korean college-level learners.</p>



1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moira F. Juliebö ◽  
Joyce M. Edwards ◽  
Moira F. Juliebo


Author(s):  
Michèle P. Cheng ◽  
Sterett H. Mercer ◽  
Sonja Saqui
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1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANE M. GRADWOHL ◽  
GARY M. SCHUMACHER


2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah C. Williamson ◽  
Mariam A. Hanna ◽  
Justin A. Lavner ◽  
Thomas N. Bradbury ◽  
Benjamin R. Karney


2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 508-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torben Andersen

This article argues that Kurmuk, a little-described Western Nilotic language, is characterized by a syntacticized topic whose grammatical relation is variable. In this language, declarative clauses have as topic an obligatory preverbal NP which is either a subject, an object, or an adjunct. The grammatical relation of the topic is expressed by a voice-like inflection of the verb, called orientation here. While subject-orientation is morphologically unmarked, object-oriented and adjunct-oriented verbs are marked by a subject suffix or by a suffix indicating that the topic is not subject, and adjunct-orientation differs from object-orientation by a marked tone pattern. Topic choice largely reflects information structure by indicating topic continuity. The topic also plays a crucial role in relative clauses and in clauses with contrastive constituent focus, in that objects and adjuncts can only be relativized or contrastively focalized if they are coded as topics. Moreover, some types of adverbial clauses require adjunct-orientation.





2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
Chung Kim Thi Nguyen ◽  
Thuy Phuong Thi Huynh ◽  
Huong Xuan Dao ◽  
Lai Bich Thi Dinh ◽  
Hao Thi Mai ◽  
...  

One of the main features of STEM education is to be oriented towards practical activities and knowledge application to solve real-life problems. However, in the first step of deployment, teachers often use copied problem contexts from abroad. There are many difficulties in approaching, creating excitement and motivation for students when it is not close to their real life. The more relevant the topic to the real local context is, the more important it is to motivate students to participate and at the same time make it easy for teachers to find topics for the STEM educational model. In this study, when choosing a topic associated with a real local context, both teachers and students easily reach and achieve goals with the STEM educational model.



2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Panáčková

The article reflects dramatic work of Peter Karvaš in the context of existentialist philosophy. It points to the connection between the social situation and the author´s topic choice, emotional engagement and approach to characters. In the article the author defines the basic features of existentialist philosophy in the work of Peter Karvaš providing analysis of selected extracts. In particular the article deals with the issue of how male characters react to the same situation and their motives behind the reaction. The article also reveals subjective view of Karvaš on social events and their impact on people and Karvaš himself.



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