Itamar Shatz

TL;DR: The article discusses current online recruitment sources and their limitations, provides an overview of Reddit, validates its use for research purposes, examines participation data from previous studies which recruited through Reddit, and suggests guidelines that can improve recruitment and retention rates for scientists looking to use Reddit for their research.

TL;DR: Current solutions and a partial solution are explored: include venture capital (VC) panels in medical conferences and incorporate VC panels into academic conferences to educate academics on how to “pitch” their ideas in the business world and what to consider when creating a company.

TL;DR: Examining capitalisation error patterns in a large-scale corpus of over 133,000 texts, composed by nearly 38,000 EFL learners, shows that speakers of all L1s made a large number of capitalisation errors, in terms of errors per word and error proportion, especially at lower L2 proficiency levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, three groups of participants performed a foreign vocabulary memorization task, with modified instructions for each group The instructions were either learning oriented, encouraging participants to improve their abilities; outcome oriented, prompting participants to achieve a positive evaluation of their performance; or neutral, with no goal orientation, for the control group Participants' performance in the task was measured along with several factors pertinent to the learning process

TL;DR: The development of a new corpus was created by refining and modifying the largest open-access L2 English learner database – the EFCAMDAT, which included procedures such as converting the database from XML to a tabular format, and removing problematic markup tags and non-English texts.