Search results for "EFL"

Teachers’ Understanding of Evidence of Students’ Social Emotional Learning and Self-Reported Gains of Monitored Implementation of SEL Toolkit

2020

Aim. The aim of this study was to highlight and analyse teachers’ responses to the evidence of their students’ social emotional growth and teachers’ own gains from the monitored implementation of social emotional learning in their classes.
 Methods. The research group was composed of 312 teachers from Latvia and Slovenia, who were involved in the implementation of indirect social emotional learning through classroom instruction and formative assessment. A thematic analysis of the teachers’ written responses was performed.
 Results. A thematic analysis of the teachers’ responses indicated that initially they had mentioned mostly (expressed) general statements and only some small pa…

The effects of short-term sojourn experiences on adolescents : five narratives of adolescent Finnish students in a comenius project: EU & I

2012

Tutkimuksessani tarkastelen lyhytaikaisen ulkomailla oleskelun vaikutuksia viiteen suomalaiseen alakouluikäiseen oppilaaseen. Oppilaiden kokemukset karttuivat Comenius projektissa EU ja minä. Kaikki viisi haastateltua lasta olivat oppilaina samassa Pohjois-Pohjanmaalla sijaitsevassa koulussa, ja osallistuivat samoille kolmeen eri EU-maahan suuntautuneille opintomatkoille. Kaikki oppilaat matkustivat oppilasparin kanssa, ja kokivat samantyyppisiä tapahtumia. Neljä viidestä tutkimukseen osallistuneesta oppilaasta isännöi perheessään ulkomaalaista oppilasta, ja tutkin myös heidän mahdollisia positiivisia kokemuksiaan isännöinnistä. Tutkimukseni lähdekirjallisuutena ja vertailuaineistona käytän…

Toward the Development of Load Transfer Efficiency Evaluation of Rigid Pavements by a Rolling Wheel Deflectometer

2020

The jointed rigid pavement is currently evaluated by the Falling weight deflectometer which is rather slow for the testing of the jointed pavements. Continuous nondestructive evaluation of rigid pavements with a rolling wheel deflectometer can be used to measure the load transfer and is investigated. Load transfer is an important indicator of the rigid pavement&rsquo

The importance of fracture-healing on the deformation of fluid-filled layered systems

2014

International audience; Understanding the fracturingehealingerefracturing cycle is a fundamental part of studying the deformation dynamics and the permeability evolution of rock systems. Previous studies, however, have not examined the influence of healing i.e. fracture-closure through vein formation and the mechanical properties of the " healed " fractures (veins) on the rock deformation. We present results from a two-dimensional coupled hydro-mechanical model which simulates large time and spatial scale dynamic fracturing and healing of a porous medium under the influence of gravity, tectonic stretching and elevated fluid pressures. Our results show that healing decreases the local porosi…

Reflecting on the PRET A Rapporter Framework Via a Field Study of Adolescents’ Perceptions of Technology and Exercise

2013

PRET A Rapporter (PRETAR) was developed to explicitly structure user-centered evaluation studies to ensure all necessary elements are individually and independently considered. Its creators see its benefit as twofold: for study design and in retrospective evaluations. We evaluate PRETAR’s potential by applying it retrospectively to one of our eHealth field studies in which we investigated the design requirements for mobile technologies that would support and motivate adolescents to exercise opportunistically. We also use PRETAR to evaluate the key literature for this eHealth study. This shows that typically the research methodology is under-reported. Then we document the study in terms of i…

"Tää oli kiva tunti!" : a social and emotional learning intervention in an EFL classroom

2018

Tunne- ja vuorovaikutustaidot vaikuttavat merkittävästi koulumenestykseen ja yleiseen hyvinvointiin. Myönteiset tunteet parantavat muun muassa motivaatiota, keskittymiskykyä, muistia, sujuvuutta ja oppimista. Tunne- ja vuorovaikutustaidot ovat keskeisiä kieltenoppimisessa ja –opettamisessa sillä nimenomaan kielen avulla kommunikoidaan ja ollaan vuorovaikutuksessa muiden ihmisten kanssa. Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli kehittää viidesluokkalaisten tunne- ja vuorovaikutustaitoja englanninopetuksen yhteydessä. Tutkija-opettaja järjesti opetuskokeilun keski-suomalaisessa alakoulussa, jossa tutkija toimi myös sijaisena. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli tutkia ja soveltaa tehtäviä joiden avulla void…

Pensiero e autocoscienza. Lo strano anello della cognizione umana.

L’argomento centrale della tesi è la natura della mente umana in relazione alla questione dell’intricato rapporto fra pensiero e autocoscienza. La congettura fondamentale consiste, in primo luogo, nel sostenere che particolari proprietà del pensiero umano, la flessibilità e la fluidità, rappresentino le caratteristiche salienti e specifiche della cognizione umana e, in secondo luogo, nel rilevare che il costituirsi di queste ultime sia strettamente connesso al fenomeno di autocoscienza. Il fuoco dell’analisi ruota attorno a tre importanti nuclei tematici: cosa si intende per flessibilità e fluidità della mente? Cosa si intende per autocoscienza – o meglio – quale tipo di autocoscienza esatt…

Socially phobic clients' self-descriptions, treatment progress and reflexivity in short-term cognitive-constructivist group psychotherapy

2017

The aim of the research was to get information about different kinds of clients with social phobia and their therapeutic progress in cognitive-constructivist group psychotherapy. The aim was also to offer relevant information to clinicians working with socially phobic clients on how they could help the progress of the successful therapeutic change process of socially phobic clients, especially in early phases of the therapy when clients are developing a reflexive stance toward their own problematic experiences. Study I supported the view that negative self-image is central to social phobia, but this ranged from total piteousness to relatively few negative feelings of insufficiency. Three su…

Dielectric properties of water/lecithin/cyclohexane gels

1993

Dielectric relaxation measurements in the frequency range 0.1–15 GHz have been carried out on water/lecithin/cyclohexane gels using a time domain reflectometry method (TDR). Dielectric dispersions describable in terms of a power law typical of percolated systems, but with exponents significantly different from those characterizing statically or dynamically percolated systems are observed. The dielectric dispersions, attributed to water and/or lecithin head group rotational motions, indicate that these motions are characterized by a wide spectrum of relaxation times.

Analysis of Caffeine, Sweeteners, and Other Additives in Beverages by Vibrational Spectroscopy

2001

This chapter presents a review of the scientific literature on the use of vibrational spectroscopy, near-infrared (NIR), mid-infrared (mid-IR), and Raman, for the analysis of caffeine, sweeteners, and other additives in beverages and related products. Direct analysis procedures of coffee and tea, for both classification according to precedence or variety and quantitative determination of caffeine, are available. For beverage analysis, caffeine has been determined by direct attenuated total reflection (ATR) measurement or by transmission spectroscopy in the mid-IR region after extraction with chloroform. Different strategies have been employed for the analysis of sweeteners in beverages and …