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The Trouble With Beginning, Middle & End, Julie Patterson
The Trouble With Beginning, Middle & End, Julie Patterson
Articles
I recently helped judge a story writing contest, and one of the criteria on the assessment form I was provided was: Does the story have a beginning, middle and end? As I began reading the entries, I quickly discovered that this was not useful assessment criteria.
Just Ask Teachers: Building Expertise, Trusting Subjectivity, And Valuing Difference In Writing Assessment, Paul Walker
Just Ask Teachers: Building Expertise, Trusting Subjectivity, And Valuing Difference In Writing Assessment, Paul Walker
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
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Enforcement Cooperation In Combating Illegal And Unauthorized Fishing: An Assessment Of Contemporary Practice, Stuart Kaye
Enforcement Cooperation In Combating Illegal And Unauthorized Fishing: An Assessment Of Contemporary Practice, Stuart Kaye
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The emergence of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the 1970s placed potentially vast areas of the sea under national jurisdiction. Moving from relatively modest territorial seas close to the coast as the only basis of fisheries jurisdiction for States, the international community suddenly embraced a new form of jurisdiction over resources that extended fisheries up to 200 nautical miles from land. This extension brought over one third of the world's oceans, or, more importantly, approximately 90% of the world's wild fish catch, under national jurisdiction.
Does Measuring L2 Utterance Fluency Equal Measuring Overall L2 Proficiency? Evidence From Five Languages, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Dan P. Dewey, Jennifer Brown, Rob A. Martinsen
Does Measuring L2 Utterance Fluency Equal Measuring Overall L2 Proficiency? Evidence From Five Languages, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Dan P. Dewey, Jennifer Brown, Rob A. Martinsen
Faculty Publications
The current study examined the relationship between overall second language (L2) proficiency and utterance fluency measures for several L2s in order to determine whether utterance measures can be used to predict L2 proficiency. The study measured the speech rate, number of hesitations, number and length of pauses, number and length of runs, and number of false starts using excerpts from 126 ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) spoken by 86 participants. Forty of the participants provided pre‐ and post‐OPI speech samples, which also allowed examination of changes over time. All 86 participants were native English speakers who spoke L2 French, German, …