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 Environmental Legislation from an Indigenous Perspective (Sample Coursepack) |
This collection was developed using the search tools and subject-tagging features available on Canadian CourseReadings and compiled by one of our users. The content in this collection was drawn … | View | |||
 How We Go HomeVoices from Indigenous North America |
In myriad ways, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take … | Sara Sinclair | 344 | 2020 | View |
 Indigenous Studies & Social Work (Sample Coursepack) |
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 Language Testing Reconsidered |
Language Testing Reconsidered provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Anyone who is working in, studying or teaching … | Carolyn E. Turner; Doreen Bayliss; Janna Fox; Liying Cheng; Mari Wesche | 180 | 2007 | View |
 Women and Work (Sample Coursepack) |
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From  Introduction |
Introduction | Janna Fox | 6 | 2007 | $1.02 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: How We Go Home |
Sinclair states her intentions for the project How We Go Home to offer oral histories of living Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States and how her personal experiences have shaped her … | Sara Sinclair | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
 Petroleum and Geopolitics |
Discusses petroleum, the most valuable commodity in world trade, and its ties to politics and power. Introduces the links between governments and oil corporations, the history of petrodollars in … | Read more | |||
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From Gladys Radek, Terrace, Gitxsan / Wet’suwet’en First Nations“When Tamara went missing, it took the breath out of me.” From: How We Go Home |
Gladys Radek of Gitxsan/Wet’suwet’en First Nations shares about life journey with sexual abuse and violence around her during childhood, and how her experiences led to her involvement … | Sara Sinclair | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From On Second Thoughts |
An elderly student of language testing recalls some of the events in his career, attempting to relate them to current issues, and touching on such topics as overall language proficiency, the … | Bernard Spolsky | 10 | 2007 | $1.70 Add |
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From The Challenge of (Diagnostic) Testing: Do We Know What We Are Measuring? |
The language testing literature is confused about the nature of diagnostic tests. Diagnosis is a frequently used but under-problematized concept and a debate is needed that might lead to a … | J. Charles Alderson | 19 | 2007 | $3.23 Add |
Basic Income is Good for Your Health |
Discusses the impact of basic income on health and well being by allowing recipients to buy more nutritious food, pay for medicines, and reduce social stigma associated with poverty. | Read more | |||
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From What Is the Construct? The Dialectic of Abilities and Contexts in Defining Constructs in Language Assessment |
Understanding the roles of abilities and contexts, and the interactions between these as they affect performance on language assessment tasks, has remained a persistent problem in language … | Lyle F. Bachman | 31 | 2007 | $5.27 Add |
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From Assessing Academic English Language Proficiency: 40+ years of U.K. Language Tests |
The paper offers an explanatory account of the progress of academic language proficiency testing in the U.K. (and later Australia) from the British Council’s English Proficiency Test … | Alan Davies | 14 | 2007 | $2.38 Add |
Macdonald’s Centralism, 1878–1896 |
Describes the shifting balance of powers between Ottawa and the provinces from 1878-1896. | Read more | |||
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From The Coming of Age for Research on Test-Taking Strategies |
In this selective look at research on test-taking strategies over the last twenty-five years, brief mention is made of the beginnings of test-taker strategy research and then important … | Andrew D. Cohen | 23 | 2007 | $3.91 Add |
