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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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Shi, Ling – TESL Canada Journal, 2009
Many universities in Mainland China hire native-speaking teachers of English annually to teach English writing. Having been trained in Western Europe or North America, these native-speaking teachers of English are on the front line of global education contact zones as they introduce their writing instruction in an English as a foreign language…
Descriptors: Global Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language)
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Shi, Ling; Beckett, Gulbahar H. – TESL Canada Journal, 2002
Investigated the learning experiences of 23 Japanese students in a one-year academic exchange program in a Canadian university. Participants either wrote an opinion task or a summary task at the beginning of the program using preselected source texts. Analyses of interview data and comparisons of the original and revised texts indicate that…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
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Shi, Ling – TESL Canada Journal, 1998
A study investigated how teachers and learners negotiated meaning in three teacher-led whole-class and nine peer-group prewriting discussions in a pre-university English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program, analyzing interaction features such as comprehension/confirmation checks, clarification/feedback requests, self/other corrections, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Discussion Groups, English (Second Language)