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TOEFL Testing Practices in Uzbekistan: An English Speaking Nation Perspective
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Combating Plagiarism: Assessing Students’ Writings for Proper Use of Paraphrases Summaries and Quotations
Teachers will provide students with a prompt and questions. Students will have one minute of individual preparation to respond to the prompt and
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