Search results for "ATTITUDES"

Japanese attitudes towards their English pronunciation

2014

Vaikka englantia puhutaankin nykyään enimmäkseen vieraana kielenä, on äidinkielenä puhuttu englanti yhä standardi kielen opetuksessa. Monelle englannin oppijalle se on myös ainoa oikea tapa puhua englantia. Tämä on havaittavissa myös Japanissa, jossa englannin kielen äidinkielenkaltainen osaaminen on vaikeata saavuttaa, ja japanilaisten asenteet omaa englannin ääntämystään kohtaan ovat hyvin negatiivisia. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli jatkaa aiempien tutkimusten työtä uudenlaisella otannalla, ja mitata japanilaisten asenteita omaa englannin kielen ääntämistään kohtaan sekä tarkastella näihin asenteisiin vaikuttavia muuttujia. Tutkimus suoritettiin kyselyllä, jossa mitattiin vastaajien asent…

Different Conceptions of Burnout and Its Relationships with Job Strain and Emotional Intelligence

2021

Burnout is an emotional syndrome that involves a prolonged response to stress. Its study in the work environment is of interest, since it manifests itself through negative attitudes toward work and affects the emotional, attitudinal, and physical level of the person who suffers it. The most relevant instruments for measuring burnout are the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), most commonly used, and the Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure (SMBM). Likewise, taking into account the emotional nature of the Burnout, it is related to Emotional Intelligence (EI), playing a very important role in the adaptive capacity of individuals in stressful situations. The aim of the present study is (1) to analyze t…

Diferencias en habilidades y conducta entre grupos de preescolares de alto y bajo rendimiento escolar

2014

Resumen basado en el del autor Título, resumen y palabras clave en español e inglés Disponible la versión en inglés Se analiza la relación entre variables psicológicas y rendimiento escolar en niños preescolares. Se ha seleccionado un conjunto de variables cognitivas y conductuales, que según la bibliografía más actualizada se relacionan con el aprendizaje escolar, con el fin de identificar los factores que parecen influir en el rendimiento educativo en la etapa infantil. La meta final es intentar prevenir problemas de rendimiento futuros mediante la identificación temprana de estas variables en los niños que parecen presentar bajo rendimiento. La muestra se compone de 47 niños: 23 con alto…

Spaces of Liberation? Geo-Hermeneutical Reading of the New Women’s Novel in Jordan

2017

Contemporary feminist novelists in Jordan are raising issues of emancipation, patriarchal society, violence against women and social attitudes in unaccustomed ways unknown earlier in the country. This is embedded within the political and socio-economic developments taking place in the country since 1990. The main aim of this scenario is to explore and to re-think the space-gender nexus in the new women’s novel using geo-hermeneutical approaches.

Belief reports and pragmatic intrusion: the case of null appositives

2008

Pragmatic aspects of the translation of slang and four‐letter words

1994

Abstract The article discusses linguistic and societal attitudes to slang in Latvia and their relevance to its rendition in Latvian translations. For historical reasons, there is a wide gap between spoken and written colloquial layers in Latvian. Slang, and especially four‐letter words, function differently in Latvian compared to English, where they are used much more frequently and have lost their disturbing connotations. Accordingly, in Latvian translations they must be softened to achieve ‘similar effect’. Today, however, there is a clear‐cut tendency to liberalize the attitude towards slang and taboos, which can be explained by the recent radical changes in Latvian society. Direct trans…

Two languages in the air : a cross-cultural comparison of preschool teachers’ reflections on their flexible bilingual practices

2016

Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers’ agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic settings, in Finland (Finnish–Swedish and Russian–Finnish contexts) and Israel (an Arabic–Hebrew context) and interviewed the teachers about their use of languages in the classroom. We found that in each context the teachers reported modifications to an initial bilingual education model over time: from a strict separation of languages, to flexible b…

Design and validation of the literary competence battery (LBC)

2019

The objective of this work is to present the process of design and validation of the Literary Competence Battery (BCL). The Battery consists of three scales: Literary Concepts Scale (ECL), Literary Procedures Scale (EPL) and Attitudes towards Literature Scale (EAL). The acquisition of Literary Competence (CL) is the main objective of the so-called Literary Education. However, there are few methods to measure this competence and most of them present practical problems that limit their standardization. A total of 221 adolescents participated in the design and validation process. Studies were conducted on the properties of the tests including measures of reliability, difficulty of the items, a…

Chekhov's Poetic and Social Realism on the Italian Stage, 1924-1964.

2008

This article explores the introduction of Chekhov's plays to Italy through émigré circles in the first decades of the twentieth century, and traces how they were appropriated to suit the ideological exigencies of the time during the fascist period. It concludes with observations about Luchino Visconti's celebrated productions of the 1950s, which stressed the idea that Chekhov was first and foremost a political writer, and suggests how this particular view of the dramatist evolved in the early 1960s as the theatre once again reflected social attitudes and values. Anna Sica is a lecturer at the University of Palermo. She has published monographs in Italy on the commedia dell'arte (1997), Arth…

How Are Practice and Performance Related? Development of Reading From Age 5 to 15

2021

Does reading a lot lead to better reading skills, or does reading a lot follow from high initial reading skills? The authors present a longitudinal study of how much children choose to read and how well they decode and comprehend texts. This is the first study to examine the codevelopment of print exposure with both fluency and comprehension throughout childhood using autocorrelations. Print exposure was operationalized as children’s amount of independent reading for pleasure. Two hundred children were followed from age 5 to age 15. Print exposure was assessed at ages 5, 7, 8, 9, and 13. Prereading skills were tested at age 5 and reading skills at ages 7, 8, 9, 14, and 15 (the latter with t…