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I have ten citations under Google Scholar MY CITATIONS ARE SHOWN ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR AT: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-zWPSvYAAAAJ&hl=en Unfortunately, only four appear on RG, whom I...
03 March 2019 9,647 5 View
Novice authors wishing to publish in an international journal are often lost for choice when deciding where to send the first draft.
02 February 2019 7,871 4 View
Very often journals take too long to respond with feedback or a favourable decision, which for some is annoying; one way round this is perhaps to submit to multiple journals and hope for the best.
02 February 2019 9,179 8 View
It has been noted that some RG members recommend and perhaps also read unrelated research work. Obviously this is intended to boost scores for certain colleagues of theirs, but do you think this...
11 November 2018 640 8 View
When the academic semester begins, quality time to spend on RG is scarce and consequently scores may decline.What is your strategy to stabilse your score especially if further publication work is...
11 November 2018 1,658 2 View
Writing is one of the most difficult skills to assess. Many questions arise when assessing writing: grammar, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, organisation, ideas, coherence, cohesion, etc. What...
11 November 2018 5,771 2 View
In order to compete with native-speaker researchers, non-native writers of English, in particular, do need to master English syntax in a way that enables them to produce meaningful and accurate...
11 November 2018 4,427 6 View
I have 9 cited papers on Google Scholar, only 4 of which are on RG. Don't you think this is unfair? What would you do in such case?
10 October 2018 7,097 0 View
As a perfectionist non-native speaker of English, I often worry about whether my AW style is of an acceptable standard to a reputable refereed journal. In the past I have published in local Libyan...
10 October 2018 9,294 28 View
Work stress is something most professional academics suffer from at least from time to time. You cannot ignore work stress and carry on because eventually it grinds you to a halt. Advise others on...
10 October 2018 1,080 3 View
Sometimes it is difficult to decide to decide if a piece of writing is the student's own work. More often, you do not have immediate access or no access at all to plagiarism detection software?
10 October 2018 2,289 12 View
In some cultures, collaboration in simple projects is encouraged early on from school age; in some other cultures it is not considered too important to adapt it into the curriculum. The result is...
10 October 2018 6,461 11 View
A non-native speaker of English, it is argued, can acquire English to such a high standard which assimilates that of a native to the extent that he/she is able to write poetry in English. To what...
10 October 2018 7,557 30 View
What kind of correlation, if any, is there between speaking and writing? How true is it that some good speakers cannot write well, and vice versa?
10 October 2018 5,993 29 View
There must be certain stylistic features in writing that differentiate native from non-native standards. Perhaps non-native writers can improve upon their writing styles in order to enrich...
10 October 2018 8,088 28 View
People who are passionate about teaching will not hesitate to agree; those who are not, teaching for them is merely a means to earn a living and/or get prestige. Where do you stand?
10 October 2018 1,325 11 View
The h-score reflects citations but how does it effect the RG score?
10 October 2018 4,923 0 View
Some believe that teachers are born naturally as teachers; some think that teachers must be trained. Where do you stand?
09 September 2018 4,002 18 View
Some Oral Corrective Feedback Techniques work better than others. What works best for you in the class you teach. Please mention the skill or sub-skill.
09 September 2018 5,528 12 View
In EFL speaking classes, the teacher is faced with a dilemma; to correct or not to correct! Do you stop and correct a student explicitly, or do you let him/her err regardless?
09 September 2018 9,191 12 View
Cultural sensitivity is an issue in TEFL contexts and in syllabus design. Aspects of the English culture may clash with those of the Foreign language cultures and if teachers are unaware of them...
09 September 2018 832 3 View
Answers should differentiate using games form gamification.
09 September 2018 8,300 5 View
The trend of Questions on RG, as a platform for academic researchers, is supposed to be just that: academic. I noted recently a flux of social chit-chat questions that do not serve any academic...
09 September 2018 9,490 0 View
Most of us are aware of English cultural taboos and are able make students aware of them. However, some L2 culture norms can cause sensitivity issues in L1 cultures.
01 January 1970 7,711 0 View
Structural grammar, cognitive grammar, generative grammar, universal grammar, functional grammar, systemic grammar, lexico-grammar...the list goes on. Why can't we have just one standard English...
01 January 1970 3,613 9 View
