GROUP DYNAMICS AND RESILIENCE IN THE PROCESS OF L2 SOCIALIZATION: A LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY OF JAPANESE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS VISITING AN ENGLISH LOUNGE

This paper documents the socialization process of beginner-level Japanese university students into an on-campus English lounge over a year.Although initially feeling highly stressed, ten out of 37 students successfully continued their bi-weekly visits to the English lounge over a full academic year by going there as a small group of three to four s

A regional geoid model for the Argentine part of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, established in previous works on the basis of GPS levelling, suffers a lack of observation data in the remote south-western investigation area.In order to improve the data distribution in this region, the mean lake level of Lago Fagnano has been regarded as a Book

To expand the server capacity and reduce the bandwidth, P2P technologies are widely used in video streaming systems in recent years.Each client in the P2P streaming network should select a group of neighbors by evaluating the QoS of the other nodes.Unfortunately, the size of video streaming P2P network is usually very large, and evaluating the QoS

The presence of nanometric particles in the base fluids lead to form nanofluids.Nanofluids are prominent due NATURALLY LOVEABLE to their astonishing features in thermally conducting flows and in the development of electronic and mechanical devices.Based on these motivations, we have designed our article to investigate the thermal conduction feature