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Experimental Investigation of the Relation Between Intelligence Quotients, English Scores, Reading Scores, and English Marks at N.T.S.T.C.; and a Suggestion for the Use of These Instruments in Predicting Academic Success in English

Description: "The problem here is to determine the scholastic prediction in English at the college freshman level by means of the correlation coefficients of the following test scores and marks at North Texas State Teachers College..."--1.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Phillips, Annie Pearl
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ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English

Description: ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English was developed by Educational Testing Service and is comprised of 12,100 English essays written by speakers of 11 non-English native languages as part of an international test of academic English proficiency, TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). The test includes reading, writing, listening, and speaking sections and is delivered by computer in a secure test center. This release contains 1,100 essays for each of the 11 native languages sampled f… more
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Date: June 16, 2014
Creator: Blanchard, Daniel; Tetreault, Joel; Higgins, Derrick; Cahill, Aoife & Chodorow, Martin
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An English and Arabic Character Printer

Description: This paper is presented in satisfaction of the requirement for two problems in lieu of thesis which are required for the degree, Master of Science. The two problems are: (1) to provide an electric interface between the M6800 microprocessor and the printer; and (2) to design an Arabic character set and to provide the logic required for its implementation. As it would be artificial and impractical to document these problems separately, a single document here is provided.
Date: December 1976
Creator: Abdel-Razzack, Malek G.
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Languages in Contact: Polish and English

Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the Polish language of immigrants who came to the United States during or after World War II and to test two related hypotheses: 1. Speakers of Polish use a number of lexical intrusions. 2. Lexical intrusions differ in scope depending on whether those speakers had immigrated with minimal education or they received at least 12 years of schooling prior to their immigration. The study was conducted in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in January and February of 19… more
Date: August 1990
Creator: Beauchamp, Hanna O. (Hanna Olga)
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[News Clip: English Only]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 21, 1995, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[two English faculty members]

Description: Photograph of two English faculty members reading a book at a round table. They sit in the middle of a small office space beside a floor to ceiling bookshelf filled with textbooks. Other shelves hang in the background decorated with more books and artifacts. The two men are wearing suits.
Date: 197X
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[English conference with Donna Bell]

Description: Photograph of a conference between an English teacher and Donna Bell. The pair sit within an office at a table decorated with scattered papers and books. Bell is looking at a few note cards on the table while the teacher flips through a stack of papers. An open doorway is visible in the background.
Date: December 1960
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[English classroom during instruction]

Description: Photograph of an English class looking towards their instructor, who stands in the foreground, for instruction. They sit at tables filled with textbooks, notebooks, loose papers, and personal items. Curtains hang in the background, covering up the windows.
Date: 197X
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[English faculty reading at table]

Description: Photograph of two faculty members from the English department sitting at a round table to read the books scattered on top. A bookshelf filled with other books is visible in the background. Other hanging shelves are visible holding artifacts beside them.
Date: 197X
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[English faculty reading together]

Description: Photograph of three faculty members from the English literature department crowded around a table to read multiple books. Sunlight shines in the background from an open window. A stack of books is visible in the foreground.
Date: January 1962
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Nineteenth Century English Fresco

Description: The problem of this investigation is determining the artists, places, dates, subjects, and types of frescoes done in nineteenth century England. Through research in nineteenth and twentieth century materials, this information was disclosed. Included in this paper are discussions of the artists, chronology, the fresco projects, stylistic considerations, reasons fro using fresco, and fresco's relevance to the subjects of the paintings. The differences in the technical aspects of fresco and its ad… more
Date: August 1980
Creator: Jay, Christina Bergquist
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[English class held outside]

Description: Photograph of an English class meeting outside underneath a canopy of trees inside of a courtyard located between university buildings. They sit in the yard facing their professor. The photo is taken from behind three of the students.
Date: December 1960
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A Study of the History of English Furniture

Description: A study of the economic, social conditions and customs prevailing in England was necessary in order to ascertain the influence of certain woods, and cabinetmakers on the development of furniture built and used during their respective periods. A study of the individual differences found in each wood as to texture, color, weight and geographic location was also necessary for comparison.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Dawson, Julian Moore
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Processing Non-English Content

Description: This presentation was presented at the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Awardee Conference in Washington, D.C. The presentation describes the NDNP New Mexico project's experience encoding ALTO OCR file language codes to enable enhanced discovery of its Spanish language content on the Chronicling America website.
Date: September 27, 2012
Creator: Weidner, Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The French Element in the English Language

Description: The present study has been undertaken in order to create an informative presentation of the scope of French influence throughout the development of English. With this goal in mind a word list has been compiled and arranged by historical periods to show to what extent the language of each period has benefited from its borrowing.
Date: 1956
Creator: Brooks, Herbert Frank
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"Be" in Dallas Black English

Description: This dissertation purposes to answer the question of whether or not the verb system of Black English in Dallas has the same features as those that characterize Black English in other sections of the country. Specifically, it describes in detail the use of the verb "be" within the speech of blacks in the Dallas metropolitan area and accounts for these usages formally within the framework of a transformational-generative grammar of the type proposed by Noam Chomsky.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Jones, Nancy (Nancy N.)
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