Search results for "IAT"

Teaching classic put to the test: Do tongue twisters work for L2 pronunciation?

2023

Tongue twisters are a controversial pronunciation teaching classic. Whereas some see tongue twisters difficult and frustrating for learners, others find them fun and motivating. This study was inspired by these opposing views and the fact that previous studies have failed to offer convincing proof of whether this technique works for L2 pronunciation learning. This study approaches the question with a teaching experiment. Participants were 28 learners of L2 Swedish. Half of them trained with tongue twisters and half with authentic sentences. Training focussed on two sounds typically difficult for the learners, who were tested before and after the training period. Further, the participants we…

Representing the Practice of Teachers' Pedagogical Knowing

2022

This study consists of five international articles and an introductory background review. Its focus is on the nature and structure of teachers' pedagogical knowing. Pedagogical knowing is characterized as an active process by which teachers perform their duties in situations involving intense social interactions. This study treats teachers' pedagogical knowing as a broad theoretical concept and as an extended practice. Patterns of teachers' narratives are analysed as reflecting the general nature of this type of knowing. The theoretical background consists of three concepts. The idea of phronesis argues that teaching can be understood as an embodied judgement linking knowledge and virtue. T…

Il laboratorio teatrale e la valutazione dello stato di benessere del paziente psichiatrico

2012

Introduzione: Il laboratorio di teatroterapia, attivo dal 2006 a Palermo e costituito da utenti psicotici ed operatori afferenti a U.O. operanti presso diverse Aziende Sanitarie (C.D. “La Zebra”, CTA 2a e 2b e Gruppo “Albatros” del Policlinico Universitario), si avvale di tecniche di drammaterapia, arteterapia e della partecipazione di un Coro Polifonico. Tali tecniche vengono utilizzate in assetto integrato con la finalità di migliorare le autonomie degli utenti in termini di socializzazione, integrazione, improvvisazione, stimolo dei processi creativi e della cognitività sociale. Scopo dello studio è valutare l’efficacia del laboratorio teatrale in parallelo alla valutazione dei percorsi …

Transmission delay in technology-mediated interaction at work

2015

This paper investigates transmission delay in technology-mediated interaction from a participant’s perspective. The approach chosen here contrasts with previous studies of delay: only what is seen, heard and done at one end (i.e., what is available on screen) is considered in the analysis. It is argued that participants themselves lack access to the other sides of their interactions as they unfold at remote locations, and they thus cannot observe and deal with delay from an outside perspective. Analyzing single cases of delay-ininteraction within the framework of conversation analysis, the focus is on dispersed conversation partners’ resources to detect a problem, and to make visible and re…

Are quality management practices enough to improve process innovation?

2015

The popularity of quality management as a system for continuous improvement has not been accompanied by deep theoretical understanding of its effects on process innovation. In this work, the resource-based view serves as the basis for the construction of a model designed to explain the effects of quality management practices (QMP) on process innovation performance and the mediating role of dynamic capabilities in this relationship. The empirical data were analysed using the structural equation modelling technique by examining 6 competing models that represent full, partial mediation and non-mediation relationships on a sample of 550 Spanish industrial companies. The findings indicate that t…

Le tecniche del mediatore

2011

Perceived threat and prejudice towards immigrants and Russian minorities living in Finland

2017

This study is an attempt to better understand the relationship between Finns and Russian minorities living in Finland. This study considers the role of perceived threats to the attitudes of Finnish adolescents towards Russian minorities. The theoretical framework for this study was the integrated threat theory (ITT). Even though ITT has been revised and threats have been reduced to two major threats (realistic and symbolic threats) (Stephan et al., 2015), this study utilized the original conceptualization of ITT which stipulates that prejudice and negative attitudes towards minorities can be explained by four types of threats that are: realistic threats, symbolic threats, negative stereotyp…

Teknillisten tieteiden akatemioiden liittyminen Tiedeakatemiain neuvottelukuntaan

2016

Tiedeakatemiain neuvottelukunnan muodostaa neljä suomalaista tiedeakatemiaa. Kokoonpanon vakiintuminen kesti noin 30 vuotta, ja tapahtumaketju oli osa valtakunnallista tiedepoliittista keskustelua. nonPeerReviewed

The father, the son and the refreshed spirit : strategic renewal after family business succession in the context of the textile, clothing, leather an…

2005

This study describes the strategic renewal of family business after succession in the textile, clothing, leather and footwear industry (T/C) in light of three examples. Family firms often have an individual approach to developing capabilities for new generations. A turbulent environment, internal resources and the capabilities of the management all have an impact on strategic decisions. The research is a multiple case study of three cases. In each of the companies the succession process, the different roles of the successor, the critical incidents and how they relate to the succession are described. In addition the capability for renewal, renewal process and its effects are introduced. All …

Mobile phones, identity and discursive intimacy

2005

This paper deals with the sociocultural effects of mobile phones in Philippine society. In particular it looks at how mobile phones have affected notions of identity and the rise of the sexual subject. It also deals with the political possibilities and implication of this new communicative technology in a society with previously poorly developed telephonic and other communicative technologies. Mobile phones allow absent subjects to exercise a daily presence in their communities of origin. This absent presence generates virtual subjects interacting primarily via the mobile phone.