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Autor:
James Dean Brown
Publikováno v:
Language Teaching. :1-13
James Dean Brown (“JD”) is Professor Emeritus of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He has spoken and taught in places ranging from Albuquerque to Zagreb and published hundreds of articles and 27 books on language t
Autor:
James M. Brown, Ralph G. Hale
Publikováno v:
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 83:3201-3215
The watercolor illusion (WCI) occurs when a physically non-colored region surrounded by contrasting contour and fringe appears filled in with a hue similar to the fringe. The present experiments explored how local and global stimulus factors influenc
Autor:
James Dean Brown, Theres Grüter
Publikováno v:
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. 60:599-624
Target language proficiency assessment has become an integral part of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research design, with cloze tests frequently serving this purpose for reasons of practicality. Assumptions underlying the interpretation of such c
Autor:
James M. Brown, Richard W Plummer
Publikováno v:
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 82:3618-3635
Perceptual fading of an artificial scotoma can be viewed as a failure of figure–ground segregation, providing a useful tool for investigating possible mechanisms and processes involved in figure–ground perception. Weisstein’s antagonistic magno
Publikováno v:
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 82:1613-1631
Numerous studies have shown that more visual features can be stored in visual short-term memory (VSTM) when they are encoded from fewer objects (Luck & Vogel, 1997, Nature, 390, 279-281; Olson & Jiang, 2002, Perception & Psychophysics, 64[7], 1055-10
Publikováno v:
CALICO Journal. 35:141-161
This study examines how technology is perceived by different stakeholder groups in The Language Flagship programs. We administered questionnaires to three stakeholder groups: 14 directors, 34 instructors, and 100 learners at a variety of institutions
Autor:
James Dean Brown
Publikováno v:
Language Teaching. 50:276-289
I started out as a budding English as a second language (ESL) teacher in 1976 at UCLA where I went through the M.A. TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and Applied Linguistics Ph.D. programs. Sadly, those two programs were ‘disestablished
Publikováno v:
Language Testing. 34:151-174
Cloze tests have been the subject of numerous studies regarding their function and use in both first language and second language contexts (e.g., Jonz & Oller, 1994; Watanabe & Koyama, 2008). From a validity standpoint, one area of investigation has
Publikováno v:
Language Learning. 65:37-75
In empirical applied linguistics research it is essential that the key variables are operationalized in a valid and reliable way, and that the scores are treated appropriately, allowing for a proper testing of the hypotheses under investigation. The
Autor:
James Dean Brown
Publikováno v:
Language Assessment Quarterly. 11:5-26
This article begins by defining world Englishes (WEs) and the related paradigm of inner-, outer-, and expanding-circle English(es). The discussion then turns to the central concerns of the WEs and language testing (LT) communities with regard to how