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The behaviour of children during a first encounter
1976
.— The behaviour of unacquainted children in a two-child play situation was compared with the behaviour of well acquainted children. Observations were made through a one-way-screen, mainly in accord with categories adopted from ethological child studies. Tape-recorded speech was coded into 27 content categories. Choice of activity and content of play seemed to be determined mostly by the children's sex, whereas nonverbal acts and also some aspects of speech showed considerable differences between strangers and acquaintances. Looking at the other's face, gaze avoidance, immobility, and automanipulation were more frequent among unacquainted children, and walking was less frequent among them. …
Cross-lagged relations between task-avoidant behavior and literacy skills in Chinese
2013
Abstract We examined the cross-lagged relations between children's task-avoidant behavior and their performance in reading and spelling in Chinese. Eighty Grade 2 and 103 Grade 4 Mandarin-speaking Taiwanese children were assessed on measures of nonverbal IQ, task value, reading accuracy, fluency, and spelling. A year later, the children were reassessed on the literacy tasks. The teachers also assessed the children's task-avoidant behavior at both testing times. The results indicated that task-avoidant behavior was a significant predictor of spelling and to a lesser extent of reading accuracy, even after controlling for the effects of the previous level of literacy skill, nonverbal IQ, and t…
The assessment of susceptibility to emotional contagion: A contribution to the Italian adaptation of the “Emotional Contagion Scale”
2013
The Emotional Contagion Scale (ECS; Doherty, 1997) is a self-report instrument assessing susceptibility to emotional contagion. The study was aimed at examining its dimensionality, reliability, and validity in the Italian context. It was completed by 541 young adults (45% men) in Study 1 and 649 young adults (40% men) in Study 2. The results of a series of confirmatory factor analyses showed that a bi-factor model, with one general factor and four specific factors was supported. The general and specific factors resulted differently related to self-other differentiation, empathy, emotional fragility, masculinity, and femininity. Notwithstanding, the results posited some questions about the E…
Relationship between speech perception and production skills and morphosyntactic development in Spanish-speaking children with Speech Sound Disorders
2021
La investigación sobre el desarrollo gramatical y su posible relación con los déficits de procesamiento de habla en niños con Trastorno Fonológico (TF) es escasa, especialmente para la lengua española. El objetivo es analizar la influencia de las habilidades de percepción y producción de habla en el desarrollo morfosintáctico de los niños con TF sin Trastorno del Lenguaje (TL). Participaron 52 niños de habla española de 4 a 6 años: 26 con TF y 26 con desarrollo típico (DT) emparejados en edad cronológica, cociente de inteligencia no verbal y nivel de vocabulario receptivo. El desarrollo morfosintáctico se evaluó con el test de lenguaje CELF-Preschool-2-Spanish. Los niños realizaron una tare…
The process of nonverbal communication between choir and conductor
2015
El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido comprobar la influencia de los elementos de comunicación no verbal entre cantantes de coro y el director en los resultados de la interpretación musical. Se realizó un experimento con un coro no profesional (N=25; 15 mujeres y 10 hombres). El coro que realizó el experimento (Lulea Kammerkor) es considerado un excelente coro de extracción social media-alta con estrictas condiciones de admisión. Se dirigió una obra musical en dos formas: expresiva e inexpresiva. El experimento fue grabado con dos cámaras de vídeo con el fin de estudiar el papel del director y de observar al coro. Después de la interpretación, los cantantes cumplimentaron una encuesta de modo…
Conflict as it happens
2018
PurposeAlthough emotions are relevant for conflicted interactions, the role of emotions in organizational conflicts has remained understudied. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this by looking at the role of nonverbal affective elements in conversations.Design/methodology/approachBringing together organizational “becoming” and embodiment approaches, the study focused on a conflict which emerged during a multi-actor consulting conversation. The episode in question was analyzed via a detailed, micro-level discursive method which focused specifically on the participants’ use of prosodic and nonverbal behaviors.FindingsChanges in prosody were found to have an important role in how t…
Kontekst kulturowy a program edukacji językowo‑komunikacyjnej w L1. Głos w dyskusji
2020
The article’s theme concerns challenges encountered in the 21st century in the course of language communicative education within the scope of Polish as a native language. The author expresses conviction that socialisation process does not substitute for education, and therefore one of the paramount purposes/aims of language education within the scope of native language is to cater to the language-communicative needs of students stemming from cultural transformation taking place in the contemporary world. New tasks that a Polish language teacher needs to face are developing the so-called new communicative competency which facilitates communicative acts in media-dominated world of today, incl…
Métricas epistemológicas para modelos basados en fractales lingüísticos de PLN
2016
This work is part of a wider research named BIOTECH that intends to assure the quality of linguistic modeling activity for automatic systems, making it possible to automate the management of words and natural language. Words are considered part of the complex articulation of language expressions. BIOTECH aims to take it as a tool to evaluate and track linguistic and verbal communication distorsion in patients with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. The main contribution of this paper is to discuss the validity of fractals when used to model linguistic reasoning, and the relevance of considering not only statistics but also epistemology-related metrics. Furthermore, a set of metrics is introduced a…
Linguistic and communication education at Polish lessons during the period of cultural change. Musings on the curriculum
2020
The article discusses the challenges posed in the 21st century in terms of linguistic and communication education in terms of teaching Polish as the mother tongue. The author posited that socialisation cannot replace education, which is why one of the major goals of linguistic education in terms of the mother tongue is to satisfy the linguistic and communication needs of pupils resulting from the cultural transformations happening in the modern world. The new tasks which Polish teachers face include the development of the so-called new communicational competence, which enables communication in a world dominated by the media, including digital media, and to counter the process of lowering th…
Clarification requests as a method of pursuing understanding in CLIL physics lectures
2018
AbstractUsing multimodal conversation analysis, this article examines how students strive to resolve non-understandings through requests for clarification during teacher-fronted physics lectures ta...