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Dear James, Thanks for your kind reply. It is a tough job for me to come up with a cloze test by myself. As the stimuli required, I have to write the description by myself since I cannot find any version of "Snowman" with text in it. :( As a non-native speaker, I tried my best to collect every possi...

Dear all, I got a question about a sentence from "Liberal Arts for the 21st Century": Liberal arts is changing faster than ever, but not fast enough to accomodate the increasing pace of history. We cannot make ideas run the gauntlet of centuries before admitting them to academia. What does the under...

Dear all, I got a question about a sentence from "Liberal Arts for the 21st Century": Liberal arts is changing faster than ever, but not fast enough to accomodate the increasing pace of history. We cannot make ideas run the gauntlet of centuries before admitting them to academia. What does the under...

Dear all, I'm conducting a case study of SLA in Taiwan. It's a controlled cloze test (based on the wordless book "The Snowman", and I am in great need of native speakers' responses and answers as baseline. Could anyone whose mother tongue is English kindly fill in the blanks in the passages? Thank y...

Dear all, I'm conducting a case study of SLA in Taiwan. It's a controlled cloze test (based on the wordless book "The Snowman", and I am in great need of native speakers' responses and answers as baseline. Could anyone whose mother tongue is English kindly fill in the blanks in the passages? Thank y...

Dear all, I'm conducting a case study of SLA in Taiwan. It's a controlled cloze test, and I am in great need of native speakers' responses and answers as baseline. Could anyone whose mother tongue is English kindly fill in the blanks in the passages? Thank you very much. :D Instruciton: Please suppl...

I'm not sure if the following book would be interesting (assuming you haven't seen it already). I only mention it 'cos I remember it discussing some elicitation tasks that used a cartoon (albeit an animated one) as a stimulus (maybe Sylvester the cat and Tweetypie?). :D http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/r...

eslweb wrote:I can't help you directly, but I do know that the Socieity for the blind make electronic books and they might be able to help you with this, their email is: [email protected]

Thank you very much. I will write an email to this organization and see if I can get any help.

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Dear all, I am a Ph.D. student in linguistics in Taiwan. I"m recently interested in second language acquisiton, specifically on aspect acquisition of EFL learners in Taiwan. I want to collect the data based on narratives; thus I decided to use illustrations for them in the writing task. I found "The...

Dear all, I am a Ph.D. student in linguistics in Taiwan. I"m recently interested in second language acquisiton, specifically on aspect acquisition of EFL learners in Taiwan. I want to collect the data based on narratives; thus I decided to use illustrations for them in the writing task. I found "The...

Dear all, I am a Ph.D. student in linguistics in Taiwan. I"m recently interested in second language acquisiton, specifically on aspect acquisition of EFL learners in Taiwan. I want to collect the data based on narratives; thus I decided to use illustrations in my study. I found "The Snowman" by Raym...

Hi, everyone, I'm Steve, an English teacher in Taiwan. I'm now conducting a little research on English patterns, so I first need to know native speakers' judgment on a few sentences. Hopefully, I can have some feedback here. The questionaire contains only 10 pairs of sentences. All you have to do is...

Hi, everyone, I'm Steve, an English teacher in Taiwan. I'm now conducting a little research on English patterns, so I first need to know native speakers' judgment on a few sentences. Hopefully, I can have some feedback here. The questionaire contains only 10 pairs of sentences. All you have to do is...