Aspects of communicative classroom discourse that may affect the potential of recasts to be noticed as negative evidence by young second-language learners are examined in a database of transcripts of over 18 hours of interaction recorded during 27 lessons in…

An indepth look at the contextual development, raison d’etre and structural objectives of the McGill Program.

The research examines the development of women's prison writing through the journal of the Kingston Prison for Women, Tightwire. The journal enabled the prisoners to articulate their experience of prison for themselves as a specific subject-group, as women and as…

This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion & 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, & prompts on learner uptake & repair.…

This article presents a corpus analysis designed to determine the extent to which noun endings in French are reliable predictors of grammatical gender. A corpus of 9,961 nouns appearing in 'Le Robert Junior Illustre' was analysed according to noun endings,…

This thesis examines the claims of Jeffrey Timm and James Buchanan that the field of Comparative Philosophy is moving in a postmodern direction. I examine their conception of the postmodern and compare to both the most influential views of postmodernism…

In 1986 Thereza Imanishi-Kari, then an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was at the peak of her career. She had just coauthored a paper in the prestigious journal Cell with David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate. Their research…

Purpose – Leadership insight describes the importance of and approach to reflection for leaders, using traditional journal writing, leadership wisdom statements, and art work. Design/methodology/approach – The article introduces the multiple ways in which the Leadership Insight journal supports leaders’…

The existing literature on the effect of recycling on a virgin producer’s market power assumes that the entire output of the recyclable product produced in any period is available to the recycling firms as scrap in a subsequent period. The…

Sir William Osler bequeathed his library to McGill University in 1919 and the 8000 volumes arrived in Montreal a decade later. Then as now the collection consisted of both primary works (rare books) and secondary commentaries and current works on…