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Profiling Chinese EFL students’ technology-based self-regulated English learn...
This article reports the development and validation of an instrument, the Technology-Based Self-Regulated English Learning Strategies Scale (TSELSS), in terms of its... -
Ten simple rules for writing a career development award proposal
Career development awards support intensive training and provide valuable funding for promising postdoctoral and/or junior faculty–level scientists during the transition to... -
Sense classification of shallow discourse relations with focused RNNs
Understanding the sense of discourse relations between segments of text is essential to truly comprehend any natural language text. Several automated approaches have been... -
Bilingualism and working memory performance: Evidence from a large-scale onli...
The bilingual executive advantage (BEA) hypothesis has attracted considerable research interest, but the findings are inconclusive. We addressed this issue in the domain of... -
Disadvantages in preparing and publishing scientific papers caused by the dom...
The success of a scientist depends on their production of scientific papers and the impact factor of the journal in which they publish. Because most major scientific journals... -
The role of scientific communication in predicting science identity and resea...
The number of biomedical sciences PhDs persisting in academic faculty careers has been declining. As one potential influence on trainees’ intention to persist, we investigate... -
Characters matter: How narratives shape affective responses to risk communica...
Introduction Whereas scientists depend on the language of probability to relay information about hazards, risk communication may be more effective when embedding scientific... -
Citizen sociolinguistics: A new method to understand fat talk
FAT TALK AND CITIZEN SCIENCE: Fat talk is a spontaneous verbal interaction in which interlocutors make self-disparaging comments about the body, usually as a request for... -
Gender, Culture, and Sex-Typed Cognitive Abilities
Although gender differences in cognitive abilities are frequently reported, the magnitude of these differences and whether they hold practical significance in the educational... -
Automatic jargon identifier for scientists engaging with the public and scien...
Scientists are required to communicate science and research not only to other experts in the field, but also to scientists and experts from other fields, as well as to the... -
A measure of knowledge flow between specific fields: Implications of interdis...
Encouraging knowledge flow between mutually relevant disciplines is a worthy aim of research policy makers. Yet, it is less clear what types of research promote... -
Revisiting Mental Simulation in Language Comprehension: Six Replication Attempts
The notion of language comprehension as mental simulation has become popular in cognitive science. We revisit some of the original empirical evidence for this. Specifically, we... -
PepeSearch: Semantic Data for the Masses
This is the journal's PDF originally published in PLoS ONE (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151573) With the emergence of the Web of Data, there is a need of tools for searching and... -
"Before" and "after": Investigating the relationship between temporal connect...
: Sentence-initial temporal clauses headed by before, as in "Before the scientist submitted the paper, the journal changed its policy", have been shown to elicit sustained... -
Images of synthetic life: Mapping the use and function of metaphors in the pu...
Synthetic biology is currently one of the most frequently addressed emerging biotechnologies. Developments within this field receive a great deal of attention in media coverage,... -
The cost of learning new meanings for familiar words
Research has shown that adults are highly skilled at learning new words and meanings. Here, we examined whether learning new meanings for familiar words affects the processing... -
Cake or broccoli? Recency biases children’s verbal responses
One of the greatest challenges of developmental psychology is figuring out what children are thinking. This is particularly difficult in early childhood, for children who are... -
Why can some implicit Theory of Mind tasks be replicated and others cannot? A...
In the last 15 years, Theory of Mind research has been revolutionized by the development of new implicit tasks. Such tasks aim at tapping children's and adults' uninstructed,...