The Effect of Implicit vs. Explicit Metapragmatic Instruction on the Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Pragmatic Comprehension of Apology and Refusal

Within the broad domain of SLA, ‘pragmatic competence’ was brought to the fore following the assertation of communicative competence, but explicitly premiered in Bachman’s (1990) model of communicative competence, accentuating the significance of the relationship between “language users and the context of communication” (p.89).The vitalit

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Assault from all sides: hybridization and introgression threaten the already critically endangered Myuchelys georgesi (Chelonia: Chelidae)

Hybridization and introgression between species is remarkably common, even between distantly related taxa.This suggests that the frequency of hybridization between species has been greatly constrained, not by evolutionary divergence in isolation, but by lack of opportunity.This constraint is being relaxed by human-mediated dispersal.Here, we docume

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Unidades Semióticas Espaciais (USEs) e a manipulação artística sistemática do espaço extrínseco musical

Apresentamos neste trabalho o conceito de espaço extrínseco e, a partir de estudos bibliográficos relacionados ao desenvolvimento sintático e semântico do mesmo, assim como da prática de espacialização em tempo real e da composição de obras para sistemas multicanais, nos direcionamos para a estruturação do Cooking Appliances que denomin

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Testing the Hypothesis of Biofilm as a Source for Soft Tissue and Cell-Like Structures Preserved in Dinosaur Bone.

Recovery of still-soft tissue structures, including blood vessels and osteocytes, from dinosaur bone after demineralization was reported in 2005 and in subsequent publications.Despite multiple lines of evidence supporting an endogenous source, it was proposed Sorting that these structures arose from contamination from biofilm-forming organisms.To t

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