Vocabulary as Knowledge or Ability?
A graduate student of mine recounted her aha experience when she was preparing for her IELTS test. Knowing that she needed to know a lot of English vocabulary words to…
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Top 12 Reasons for Journal Rejection
Willy A Renandya &Supakorn Phoocharoensil If you have been rejected, you are not alone. Rejection is very common in the academic publication game. We have all had our fair share…
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The Joy of Writing
THE JOY OF WRITING Readers have different preferences when it comes to reading an academic paper. Some like it long, others like it short. Writers too have different preferences.…
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The Power of Implicit Language Learning
"The ability to produce language relatively easily for communicative purposes draws heavily on implicit knowledge" (Loewen, 2015, p.25) In a recent discussion on the role of implicit and explicit knowledge…
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