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  2. Darger family - Wikipedia

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    The Darger family (Joe, Vicki, Valerie, and Alina Darger) is an independent fundamentalist Mormon polygamous family living in Utah, United States.They went public after years of being secretive about their polygamous lifestyle to promote the decriminalization of polygamy in the United States as well as to help reshape the perception of polygamy following the prosecution of Warren Jeffs. [1]

  3. Theories of second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Processability theory states that learners restructure their L2 knowledge systems in an order of which they are capable at their stage of development. [28] For instance, In order to acquire the correct morphological and syntactic forms for English questions, learners must transform declarative English sentences.

  4. Complex dynamic systems theory - Wikipedia

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    Internal resources are the motivational factors of the language learners, while the language teacher or the environment are examples of the external resources. The growth is described as an iterative process in second language development and it is often modelled by using coupled-equation models ( logistic equation ).

  5. Hypergamy - Wikipedia

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    They argue that as societies shift towards becoming more gender-equal, women's mate selection preferences shift as well. Some research supports that theory. [9] One study found that women are more selective in their choice of marriage partners than are men. [10] [11]

  6. Mormon Enigma - Wikipedia

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    Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Prophet's Wife, "Elect Lady," Polygamy's Foe is a biography of Emma Hale Smith, wife of Joseph Smith Jr., written by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery. Generally accepted as a groundbreaking biography, the book places Emma Smith into a context that has better explained the trials and sacrifices of the ...

  7. Identity and language learning - Wikipedia

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    Learning English at school: Identity, social relations, and classroom practice. Cleveland, UK: Multilingual Matters. Drawing on an exemplary ethnography of young English language learners, Toohey investigates the ways in which classroom practices are implicated in the range of identity options available to language learners.

  8. Larry Selinker - Wikipedia

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    The principle behind interlanguage theory is that the language of second-language learners is governed by systematic rules, and that these rules are different from those of the language being learned and from those of the learner's native language. Hence at every stage of learning, language learners do not merely copy what native speakers do ...

  9. Processability theory - Wikipedia

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    Processability Theory is now a mature theory of grammatical development of learners' interlanguage. It is cognitively founded (hence applicable to any language), formal and explicit (hence empirically testable), and extended, having not only formulated and tested hypotheses about morphology, syntax and discourse-pragmatics, but having also paved the way for further developments at the ...