Search results for "Ambiguity tolerance"

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The Influence of Ambiguity Tolerance on Willingness to Communicate in L2

2018

The main purpose of this chapter is to find empirical evidence for the role of ambiguity tolerance (AT) in shaping one’s L2 willingness to communicate levels in the context of the English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classroom, in the Polish educational context. As the pyramid model of L2 WTC proposes (Maclntyre et al„ 1998), AT’s basis is constituted by the most distal and enduring influences of personality. For this reason, ambiguity tolerance, conceived of as a personality variable (Fumham and Marks, 2013), can have a significant impact on L2 WTC. The complexity of interrelated mechanisms embedded in the foreign language learning context induce ambivalent feelings of being simultaneously …

English as a foreign languagelanguage anxietyambiguity tolerancepersonalityself-perceived competencewillingness to communicate
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Ambiguity tolerance as an instrument of learner profiling : a Q methodological study of how upper secondary school students' perceptions of EFL readi…

2013

Ihmiset suhtautuvat havaitsemaansa monitulkintaisuuteen yksilöllisesti. Siinä missä toiset kiistävät jopa monimerkityksellisyyden teoreettisen mahdollisuuden, hakeutuvat toiset mielellään epävarmoihin olosuhteisiin ja monimutkaisten tehtävien pariin. Monitulkintaisuuden sietäminen on yksilöllinen, tilannesidonnainen piirre. Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitetään kuinka tämä piirre näyttäytyy englantia opiskelevien lukiolaisten tavoissa suhtautua englanninkieliseen lukemiseen - toimeen, jossa kohdataan runsaasti epävarmuutta ja toimitaan osin arvailujen varassa. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli koota oppijaprofiloinnin kautta kokonaisvaltainen kuva siitä, mitä monitulkintaisuuden sietäminen englanninkie…

ambiguity toleranceoppiminenQ MethodologyEFL readingATenglannin kielilukeminen
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Relationships between Domain-Specific Knowledge, Generic Attributes, and Instructional Skills

2020

We introduce a theoretical framework on teachers’ instructional skills to describe how they can be modeled across different domains. This framework conceptualizes teachers’ instructional skills as action-related skills (during instruction) and reflective skills (before and after instruction), which are considered crucial for coping with the practical demands of everyday teaching in a specific subject. The theoretical framework assumes that both skill facets are influenced by the teacher’s professional knowledge, generic attributes such as general cognitive abilities or ambiguity tolerance as well as affective and motivational factors. To investigate the relationships between teachers’ instr…

Professional knowledgeCoping (psychology)TransferabilityComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONMathematics educationCognitionSpecific knowledgeContent knowledgeAmbiguity tolerance
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