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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Critical Thinking and EFL Learners' Performance on Different Writing Modes
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Golpour, Farhad – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2014
The essential function of critical thinking in education is obvious by many studies done in this field. The main purpose of this article is to find the relationship between critical thinking levels of Iranian EFL learners and their performance on different modes of writing. The sample of the study selected among those who studying English at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
A Contrastive Study Doctoral Dissertation Acknowledgements by English Non-Native (Chinese) and Native Students in Applied Linguistics
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Golpour, Farhad – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2012
In recent years, genre studies have attracted the attention of many researchers. The aim of the present study was to observe the differences in generic structure of doctoral dissertation acknowledgements texts written by English native and non-native (Chinese) PhD students. To this end, thirty native English students' acknowledgement texts and the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning