RSSVolume 65

The Influence of Near Peer Role Models (NPRMs) in Second Language Classrooms Intended to Improve Students’ Pronunciation When Teacher Intervention is Not Enough

The Influence of Near Peer Role Models (NPRMs) in Second Language Classrooms Intended to Improve Students’ Pronunciation When Teacher Intervention is Not Enough

| January 26, 2013

In the 2008-2009 academic year at the Niigata University of International and Information Studies (NUIS) a research project was initiated involving Near Peer Role Models (NPRMs).

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Using a Principled Approach to Developing a Personality Questionnaire

Using a Principled Approach to Developing a Personality Questionnaire

| January 26, 2013

Dörnyei (2010) suggests that careful and creative questionnaire construction informed by the principles of survey research can result in an instrument that cultivates reliable and valid data, which in turn can be processed in a scientifically sound manner.

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