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A Randomized Controlled Trial Of Online Acceptance And Commitment Therapy To Improve Diet And Physical Activity Among Adults Who Are Overweight/Obese, Michael E. Levin, Julie M. Petersen, Carrie Durward, Brittany Bingeman, Elizabeth Davis, Cindy Nelson, Shannon Cromwell Jan 2020

A Randomized Controlled Trial Of Online Acceptance And Commitment Therapy To Improve Diet And Physical Activity Among Adults Who Are Overweight/Obese, Michael E. Levin, Julie M. Petersen, Carrie Durward, Brittany Bingeman, Elizabeth Davis, Cindy Nelson, Shannon Cromwell

Psychology Student Research

Background: Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has shown benefit for improving diet, physical activity, and weight among adults who are overweight and obese. However, research to date in this area has primarily evaluated ACT delivered through in-person interventions, which has more limited access relative to online formats. Purpose: The present study evaluated an online guided self-help program that integrated ACT with nutrition education to improve healthy eating and physical activity. Methods: A sample of 79 adults who were overweight/obese were randomized to receive the 8-week ACT on Health program plus weekly phone coaching or to a waitlist. Results: Participants completed …

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Introduction, Heather Neff, Jasmine Lee Jan 2020

Introduction, Heather Neff, Jasmine Lee

Faculty Scholarship 2020

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Flows Of Co-Closed G_{2}-Structures, Sergey Grigorian Jan 2020

Flows Of Co-Closed G_{2}-Structures, Sergey Grigorian

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

We survey recent progress in the study of G_{2}-structure Laplacian coflows, that is, heat flows of co-closed G_{2}-structures. We introduce the properties of the original Laplacian coflow of G_{2}-structures as well as the modified coflow, reviewing short-time existence and uniqueness results for the modified coflow and well as recent Shi-type estimates that apply to a more general class of G_{2}-structure flows.

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Votes For Women! The American Woman Suffrage Movement And The Nineteenth Amendment, Robert Tench Jan 2020

Votes For Women! The American Woman Suffrage Movement And The Nineteenth Amendment, Robert Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

A review of the book "Votes for Women! The American Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment: A Reference Guide," by Marion W. Roydhouse, part of the Guides to Historic Events in America series, is presented.

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Undergraduate Student Perspectives On Textbook Costs And Implications For Academic Success, Lucinda Rush Wittkower, Leo S. Lo Jan 2020

Undergraduate Student Perspectives On Textbook Costs And Implications For Academic Success, Lucinda Rush Wittkower, Leo S. Lo

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

To provide more affordable course content to our students and faculty, local data on how students perceive textbook expenses and how the costs impact student success would be necessary in order to advocate to faculty and other stakeholders. This survey, conducted at a mid-sized research public institution, aims to explore student perceptions of textbooks and how these perceptions influence academic success. The results reveal that students feel that the cost of required textbooks is unreasonable and that students are more likely to purchase required textbooks for in-major classes than for elective or general education courses. The most common means of …

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Global Crime: An Encyclopedia Of Cyber Theft, Weapons Sales, And Other Illegal Activities By Philip L. Reichel, Abc-Clio, 2019 (Book Review), Robert Tench Jan 2020

Global Crime: An Encyclopedia Of Cyber Theft, Weapons Sales, And Other Illegal Activities By Philip L. Reichel, Abc-Clio, 2019 (Book Review), Robert Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

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Building Empathy And Developing Instructional Design Experience And Skills: A Case Study Of Using Personas To Design Open Education Resources, John Baaki, Jennifer Maddrell Jan 2020

Building Empathy And Developing Instructional Design Experience And Skills: A Case Study Of Using Personas To Design Open Education Resources, John Baaki, Jennifer Maddrell

STEMPS Faculty Publications

This single case study involves the authors’ participation and observation of a massive open online course. To help instructional designers (IDs) develop open education resources for adults attempting to pass a United States high school equivalency exam, we constructed six personas that helped IDs put themselves in the users’ shoes. We begin by providing an overview of the scholarship that connects empathy, empathic design, persona construction, and meaning-making. After presenting our case study methodology and how we constructed six authentic personas, we present eight themes that demonstrate how IDs used the personas to build empathy for users and to develop …

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Reflective School Library Practitioners: Use Of Journaling To Strengthen Practice, Elizabeth A. Burns Jan 2020

Reflective School Library Practitioners: Use Of Journaling To Strengthen Practice, Elizabeth A. Burns

STEMPS Faculty Publications

Reflection is a skill educators of school librarians hope to foster in their students. Widely used in teacher preparation (Hodgins 2014), reflective journaling is a pedagogical strategy that aligns with the text-based nature of library and information studies coursework, especially as more library schools move online (Kymes and Ray 2012). This study explores use of structured dialogic journaling as a pedagogical approach to inform and shape the reflective practice of pre-service school librarians. Journals were introduced in an early school library methods course and structured using Schon’s Reflective Practitioner model (1987). Additional opportunities to engage with dialogic journals continued through …

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Covid-19 And It Education: Introduction To The Special Series, Christopher Cheong, Jo Coldwell-Neilson, Tian Luo, Kathryn Maccallum Jan 2020

Covid-19 And It Education: Introduction To The Special Series, Christopher Cheong, Jo Coldwell-Neilson, Tian Luo, Kathryn Maccallum

STEMPS Faculty Publications

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Ultrasonic-Based Condition Assessment Of Wooden Utility Poles, Yishi Lee Jan 2020

Ultrasonic-Based Condition Assessment Of Wooden Utility Poles, Yishi Lee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

More than 300 million utility poles shoulder the utility grid in the United States. However, the ineffectiveness of the current inspection process causes roughly a third of utility poles removed from the service deemed suitable for reuse. Due to the utterly essential role of the power infrastructure, budget shrinkage, and the structural degradation of the modern distribution grid, this Ph.D. dissertation addresses the challenges by proposing a physics-based signal analysis method with a jointly developed ultrasonic UB1000 system c to enhance the objectivity in ultrasonic-based nondestructive evaluation (NDE). The proposed methodology has been deployed commercially in the field and featured …

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From Open Access To Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality To Open Scientific Communication, Christian Heise, Joshua M. Pearce Jan 2020

From Open Access To Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality To Open Scientific Communication, Christian Heise, Joshua M. Pearce

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Although opening up of research is considered an appropriate and trend-setting model for future scientific communication, it can still be difficult to put open science into practice. How open and transparent can a scientific work be? This article investigates the potential to make all information and the whole work process of a qualification project such as a doctoral thesis comprehensively and freely accessible on the internet with an open free license both in the final form and completely traceable in development. The answer to the initial question, the self-experiment and the associated demand for openness, posed several challenges for a …

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Exploration Of Approaches To Arabic Named Entity Recognition, Husamelddin Balla, Sarah Jane Delany Jan 2020

Exploration Of Approaches To Arabic Named Entity Recognition, Husamelddin Balla, Sarah Jane Delany

Conference papers

Abstract. The Named Entity Recognition (NER) task has attracted significant attention in Natural Language Processing (NLP) as it can enhance the performance of many NLP applications. In this paper, we compare English NER with Arabic NER in an experimental way to investigate the impact of using different classifiers and sets of features including language-independent and language-specific features. We explore the features and classifiers on five different datasets. We compare deep neural network architectures for NER with more traditional machine learning approaches to NER. We discover that most of the techniques and features used for English NER perform well on Arabic …

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The Influence Of Santería In Leo Brouwer's Solo Guitar Works (1955–1993), Eoin Flood Jan 2020

The Influence Of Santería In Leo Brouwer's Solo Guitar Works (1955–1993), Eoin Flood

Doctoral

This study will assess the solo guitar works of Cuban composer Leo Brouwer (1939–present) in terms of influence from Santería, a ritual music derived from WestAfrican slaves and still practised in Cuba. This will be achieved by using both analytical and evaluative processes. For the former, a range of influential parameters have been identified, each falling under three strands: rhythmic and metric, structural, and melodic. These will be revealed in all of Brouwer’s solo guitar works written from 1955 to 1993. A parameter’s influence can be revealed in two ways: the multitude of its usage per piece, or the percentage …

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Latin American Cinema, Mirna Vohnsen Jan 2020

Latin American Cinema, Mirna Vohnsen

Articles

Although studies of Argentine, Mexican and Cuban cinema continue to dominate the Latin American film scholarship, in the past two years, there has been increasing interest in examining the minor cinemas of the region. The expanding local film industries, the new technical trends and the increase in cinematic productions across all Latin America have captured the attention of academics and critics who have devoted their research to explore the lesser-known films of, for example, Uruguay, Colombia and Central America

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“The Very Essence Of French Cinema”(?): Jacques Feyder’S Return To France, 1944–1948, Barry Nevin Jan 2020

“The Very Essence Of French Cinema”(?): Jacques Feyder’S Return To France, 1944–1948, Barry Nevin

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Framing “L’Âme Des Personnages”: Performance And Affect In Jacques Feyder’S Pension Mimosas (1935), Barry Nevin Jan 2020

Framing “L’Âme Des Personnages”: Performance And Affect In Jacques Feyder’S Pension Mimosas (1935), Barry Nevin

Articles

Although Jacques Feyder's authorial control over his productions and his direction of actors constituted two of the most widely appreciated aspects of his approach to filmmaking during his own lifetime, the impact of each on his mise en scene has received little critical attention. This article aims to remedy this oversight by linking both aspects in three stages: first, drawing on contemporary periodicals, recollections of Feyder's performers and his own writings, it illustrates Feyder's preoccupation with the creation of in-depth psychological portraits through his actors; second, focusing on Pension Mimosas (1935), it demonstrates that Feyder's technical style, although aligned closely …

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(Re)Visions Of The Outre-Mer: Looking At The Male Gaze In Jacques Feyder’S Le Grand Jeu (1934), Barry Nevin Jan 2020

(Re)Visions Of The Outre-Mer: Looking At The Male Gaze In Jacques Feyder’S Le Grand Jeu (1934), Barry Nevin

Articles

Cinéma colonial is regarded by certain scholars as a highly conventionalised and commercialised film practice that grants spectators a sense of control over the potentially threatening colonial Other, and Belgian director Jacques Feyder has been subject to particularly harsh criticism in this regard. This article argues that Feyder’s Le Grand Jeu (1934), which depicts a young legionnaire’s relationship with a cabaret singer who bears an uncanny resemblance to a previous lover who jilted him in Paris, challenges dominant tendencies in portrayals of gender and colonialism in French cinema of the 1930s. Drawing on the relationship between Laura Mulvey’s theorisation of …

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How Does The Progressive Accountability Classroom Intervention Effect Discipline Outcomes In Urban Middle School Students?, Shaneika Smith Jan 2020

How Does The Progressive Accountability Classroom Intervention Effect Discipline Outcomes In Urban Middle School Students?, Shaneika Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

School discipline has garnered national, state and local attention in regard to the excessive use of exclusionary practices and its lifelong impact on youth. The increase in exclusionary practices has been attempted to be addressed through discipline policy reform, the push for multi-tiered systems of support, and the adoption of restorative practices. The longevity of these initiatives, however, can be thwarted by the origins of most suspensions- the classroom. This study evaluated the Progressive Accountability Classroom Intervention for Middle School (PACI-MS) to explore its impact on discipline outcomes. The PACI-MS was created through the collaboration of network school counselors, the …

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In Vitro And In Vivo Evaluation And Mechanical Improvement Of The Electrospun Chitosan Membrane, Hengjie Su Jan 2020

In Vitro And In Vivo Evaluation And Mechanical Improvement Of The Electrospun Chitosan Membrane, Hengjie Su

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Guided bone regeneration (GBR) membranes are used for providing barrier function in guiding bone regeneration. Chitosan has been explored for making GBR membranes since it is biocompatible and biodegradable. Our group developed electrospun chitosan membranes (ESCM) using two novel post-spinning treatments; triethylamine (TEA)/di-tert-butyl dicarbonate (tBOC) treatment and the butyryl-anhydride (BA) treatment. These treatments prevented swelling and retained the nanofibrous structure of the membranes in aqueous environments, and exhibited physical properties, cell and tissue responses, and effective barrier function in vivo that are promising for GBR applications. The objectives of this research were to:1.Further evaluate impact of TEA/tBOC-stabilized nanofiber structure of …

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The Relationship Between The Impact Of Ulcerative Colitis And Crohns Disease On Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Moderated By Remission Status, Remission Expectations And Post Traumatic Growth, Alexandra Fuss Vanderwerff Jan 2020

The Relationship Between The Impact Of Ulcerative Colitis And Crohns Disease On Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Moderated By Remission Status, Remission Expectations And Post Traumatic Growth, Alexandra Fuss Vanderwerff

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Every year millions of people worldwide are affected by Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohns Disease (CD), two chronic diseases that are marked by acute phases. The Enduring Somatic Threat (EST) model was proposed to address the trauma that results from ongoing somatic concerns rather than discrete external events. Prior research has shown that people living with acute conditions experience symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); however, very little research has been conducted concerning the relationship between UC and CD and symptoms of PTSD and whether the EST model could be extended to the UC/CD population. Additionally, literature suggests that remission …

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Gamification Applied To Faculty Professional Development: A Case Study, Scott Wesley Vann Jan 2020

Gamification Applied To Faculty Professional Development: A Case Study, Scott Wesley Vann

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine online faculty perceptions of engagement within a gamified professional development course at a large urban research university. Over the last decade, gamification has been a trending topic in education because it allows learners an opportunity for contextualized and engaged learning by applying game-thinking to solve problems. Research has shown a direct link between increased levels of engagement when gamification elements such as badging, leaderboards, leveling, etc. are introduced into online learning environments. Currently, literature on the use of gamification is focused on learners in secondary and post-secondary learning institutions and …

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Addressing Educational Information And Communication Technology Integration Barriers In 1:1 Schools, Anecia J. Warren Jan 2020

Addressing Educational Information And Communication Technology Integration Barriers In 1:1 Schools, Anecia J. Warren

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Research has indicated that more schools have increased their efforts to transform traditional classrooms into innovative 21st century learning environments. Some schools have even gone as far as implementing one-to-one digital learning environments. However, technology integration in education has been a slow transformational process, and studies have demonstrated that there are numerous barriers educators encounter along the way. The purpose of this study was to examine the first- and second-order barriers to Educational and Communication Technologies (ECTs) teachers???? experience in a 1:1 middle school learning environment. The perspectives of middle school educators who participated in this research study were examined. …

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Female Athletes' Experiences Of Body Surveillance, Body Shame, Depression Symptoms, And Self-Compassion, Jennifer Yeoward Jan 2020

Female Athletes' Experiences Of Body Surveillance, Body Shame, Depression Symptoms, And Self-Compassion, Jennifer Yeoward

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Female athletes are often recipients of conflicting messages about their bodies and these messages impact their mental health. Utilizing the framework of objectification theory, this online cross-sectional study focused on the reported experiences of body surveillance, body shame, and depression symptoms of female athletes (Mage = 34.21, SDage = 9.45). The study tested a moderated-mediation relationship among body surveillance, body shame, depression symptoms, and self-compassion to determine if body shame mediated the relationship between body surveillance and depression symptoms, and if self-compassion moderated the indirect relationship, by weakening the relationship between body surveillance and body shame. Two hundred and fifty-one …

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Three Essays On Fairness, Liquidity, And Efficiency In Modern Financial Markets, Jiang Zhang Jan 2020

Three Essays On Fairness, Liquidity, And Efficiency In Modern Financial Markets, Jiang Zhang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation research comprises three essays. In the first essay, we study the impact of high-frequency trading on market fairness and efficiency. The implementation of the Arrowhead Renewal on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) in 2015 reduced latency from 1 millisecond to less than 0.5 milliseconds and led to an increase in high-frequency tradingas proxied by the cancel-to-trade ratioof 34%, We find that the number of incidents of marking-the-close declined by 17%, indicating that market fairness improves. We find that for high-tick-size and high-market-capitalization stocks market efficiency improves, but for low-tick-size and low-market-capitalization stocks, it does not. In the second …

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Transnational Family Language Policy And Religious Identity: An Autoethnographic Study, Muhammad Ahmad Alasmari Jan 2020

Transnational Family Language Policy And Religious Identity: An Autoethnographic Study, Muhammad Ahmad Alasmari

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

A growing trend in the field of family language policy (FLP) is to examine the interplay between language ideologies and practices and to explore the complex links between linguistic and non-linguistic forces in shaping language ideologies and meaning-making processes in multilingual families (Curdt-Christiansen, 2016; King & Lanza, 2017). The current study extends this discussion on the interplay between family external and internal factors, the processes parents experience, and their connection to dynamicity in the FLP to show how family members draw on their linguistic resources and experiences with multilingualism to define themselves within the family and wider community (King & …

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The Role Of First Language Literacy On Second Language Literacy: The Perceptions Of Graduate Saudi Students In Us Universities, Muhammad Alrayes Jan 2020

The Role Of First Language Literacy On Second Language Literacy: The Perceptions Of Graduate Saudi Students In Us Universities, Muhammad Alrayes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

AbstractAlrayes, Muhammad AbdulMohsin. PhD. The University of Memphis. May 2020. The Role of First Language Literacy on Second Language Literacy: The Perceptions of Graduate Saudi Students in US Universities. Major Professor: Dr. Emily Thrush.ArrayThis study attempted to gather the perceptions of graduate Saudi students in the United States about the role of their first/second languages'(L1/L2) literacy transfer during their graduate work. The ultimate goal of this study is to reach a level of understanding about what specific role a students L1 literacy and educational background could play in shaping their L2 literacyduring graduate studies in an ESL context. Building on …

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Application Of Single Board Computers And Sensors To Automate Analytical Methods And Miniaturize The Analytical Devices, Naga Prasanna Dhanunjay Boppana Jan 2020

Application Of Single Board Computers And Sensors To Automate Analytical Methods And Miniaturize The Analytical Devices, Naga Prasanna Dhanunjay Boppana

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In this dissertation, a low cost liquid delivery system and an automated titration system have been developed using a Raspberry Pi single board computer, 3D printing, and commercial-off-the-shelf components. In addition, an on-line single point internal calibration method has been developed for haloacetic acid rapid-response (HAA-RR) system, a commercial analyzer for analysis of nine haloacetic acids (HAA9) in drinking water.The low cost liquid delivery system, the EZ-AutoPipet, was developed to deliver microliter volumes accurately and reproducibly. The EZ-AutoPipet produced excellent results regardless of analyst experience and performed better than traditional and commercial dosing devices at lower volumes. Several validation studies …

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A Randomized Pilot Trial Of A Mobile-Delivered Brief Behavioral Economic Intervention To Reduce Emerging Adult Alcohol Misuse, Kathryn Soltis Gex Jan 2020

A Randomized Pilot Trial Of A Mobile-Delivered Brief Behavioral Economic Intervention To Reduce Emerging Adult Alcohol Misuse, Kathryn Soltis Gex

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Objective. Heavy episodic drinking is a significant social and public health problem that peaks during emerging adulthood. In-person brief motivational interventions have been shown to be efficacious in reducing heavy drinking and problems in college students, but require student effort and personnel resources that may limit dissemination. The current study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a counselor-administered, synchronous text-message delivered brief motivational intervention aimed to reduce college student alcohol misuse. Method. Participants were 66 college students (63.6% identified as cisgender women; 61.9% identified their race as White; Mage = 19.95, SD = 1.66) who at baseline reported …

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The Spatial Ecology And Genetics Of Copperhead Snakes (Agkistrodon Contortrix) In An Urban Forest, Malle F. Carrasco-Harris Jan 2020

The Spatial Ecology And Genetics Of Copperhead Snakes (Agkistrodon Contortrix) In An Urban Forest, Malle F. Carrasco-Harris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

As global population increases and metropolitan areas grow, natural habitats are progressively fragmented, isolated, and modified. Species residing in urban areas face novel challenges compared to conspecifics in undisturbed habitats. Animals in and around urban areas often modify behavior and space use to reduce anthropogenic disturbance. Further, populations may be isolated from other suitable habitats, potentially reducing opportunities to mate with non-related individuals. Although the consequences of urbanization have been extensively studied in birds and mammals, less is known about limited mobility animals, such as reptiles. Reptiles, specifically snakes are particularly vulnerable in urban areas because of their decreasing populations, …

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Saudi Efl Learners Knowledge And Use Of English Prepositional Verbs In Academic Writing, Hatim Abdulhadi Masoudi Jan 2020

Saudi Efl Learners Knowledge And Use Of English Prepositional Verbs In Academic Writing, Hatim Abdulhadi Masoudi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Prepositional verbs are essential for English as a foreign language (EFL) and English as a second language (ESL) learners in academic writing. However, most learners, regardless of their proficiency, encounter difficulties using these verbs, and there is a lack of research on these difficulties. This study sought to describe, analyze, and understand Saudi EFL learners knowledge and use of English prepositional verbs in academic writing. The study also assesses the relevant teaching contexts and reasons behind common errors.The study utilized a mixed-methods approach with data collected from a cloze test, multiple-choice test, and semi-structured interview. The two tests were administered …

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