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Fouille d’un quartier funéraire des Ier et IIe s. dans le suburbium de Soissons/Augusta Suessionum : aires de crémation et inhumations d’enfants

2012

In the beginning of 2008 a preventive excavation has been conducted on about 1200 m2 of a large antique cemetery situated upon the butte Saint-Jean at Soissons (Aisne). In this cemetery, almost unknown, located south-west of the Roman town Augusta Suessionum a consistent activity in the part being excavated took place between the Augustan era and mid 2nd c. The total number of inhumations uncovered is 186 (mainly of infants). Cremations were executed from the very beginning altogether with inhumations, in more or less close proximity to them according to periods, then became predominant to the detriment of burials which were just previously arranged. Different structures clearly connected t…

How Good Is This Page? Benefits and Limits of Prompting on Adolescents’ Evaluation of Web Information Quality

2019

International audience; The present study examined adolescents' detection of features that affect the quality of Web information. In Experiment 1, participants (12-16 years old) rated the goodness/usefulness of four Web-like documents for a simulated study assignment. Each document came with an issue that potentially undermined its quality. Two documents had source-related issues (i.e., non-competent author, outdated) and two had content-related issues (i.e., topic mismatch, poor readability). Most students failed to notice the issues, including topic mismatch. The participants also produced inconsistent evaluations of topic-match, readability, author competence and currency. In Experiment …

Cartographies génériques, spatiales et identitaires en Afrique du Sud : Margie Orford, Lauren Beukes, Henrietta Rose-Innes

2015

This article examines how three South African novelists, Margie Orford, Lauren Beukes and Henrietta Rose-Innes, use crime fiction to write their country. After a brief survey of the rapid development of crime fiction in South Africa and of the critical response it received, the article proposes a reading of Like Clockwork, Zoo City and Nineveh, whereby their respective contribution to crime fiction displays three major features : first, Orford’s novel chimes in with generic conventions ; second, Beukes’s novel combines features borrowed from both crime fiction and science fiction ; and last, Rose-Innes’s novel displaces the detective story narrative into a context where « murder » is invest…

Acquiring music information : An incidental learning approach.

2022

This thesis contains my empirical works resulting from three years of studying contingency learning, that is the human ability to learn regularities between two or more events, applied to music. Learning music requires time and effort. However, many skills can be automatized in less time-consuming and effortful ways. Indeed, some research suggests that many elements of music knowledge are mostly implicitly acquired. In Chapter 1, the potential benefit of using an incidental learning procedure to automatize musical sub-skills useful for sight-reading and for pitch identification is discussed. In Chapter 2, the first set of experiments investigate whether an incidental contingency learning ta…

L'influence de l'origine sociale sur les performances scolaires : par où passe-t-elle ?

2006

Using PISA 2000 data, this study presents an international comparison of the way social origin influences reading comprehension performances, looking at a variety of variables, some external to the school system, others internal. A variable's effect is strong in proportion to the strength of its association to father's occupation and degree to which it favors performance. The study uses the method of path analysis to distinguish between these two aspects. The French situation is presented, then compared to twelve other European Union countries. In all countries, social origin influences performance much more strongly through external variables than variables internal to the educational syst…

Redzes funkciju efektivitāte un lasīšanas prasmes

2017

Darbs uzrakstīts angļu valodā uz 35 lappusēm. Tas satur 19 attēlus, 8 tabulas un atsauces uz 23 literatūras avotiem.. Virsraksts: Redzes funkciju efektivitāte un lasīšanas prasmes. Darba mērķis bija novērtēt atsevišķu redzes funkcionālo traucējumu sastopamības biežumu skolas vecuma bērniem un analizēt to ietekmes būtiskumu uz lasīšanas prasmēm. Metode: tika veikts redzes funkciju skrīnings 73 bērniem vecumā no 8-11 gadiem un analizētas funkcijas divās izlases grupās: bērniem ar atbilstošām lasīšanas prasmēm un bērniem ar apgrūtinātām lasīšanas prasmēm. Rezultāti: parāda, ka lielai daļai dalībnieku, atsevišķas funkcijas ir apgrūtinātas un redzes asums tuvumā, akomodācijas vieglums un DEM tes…

From abugida to alphabet in Konso, Ethiopia

2019

Abstract This study examines the interplay between phonological awareness and orthography in Konso, a Cushitic language in Southwest Ethiopia. Thirty-two adults reading the Konso abugida but with minimal exposure to alphabetic literacy completed an orally administered phoneme deletion task. The responses were then examined using the minimal edit distance hypothesis (Wali, Sproat, Padakannaya & Bhuvaneshwari, 2009) as a framework for the analysis. The results suggest that the difficulty of a deletion was related to the way the phoneme was represented in the Konso abugida. Content-based error analysis of the incorrect responses gave indications of how Konso abugida readers’ processing of …

The development and role of task motivation and task values during different phases of the school career

2010

Jauniešu daiļliteratūra ekstensīvās lasīšanas veicināšanai angļu valodas stundās vidusskolas skolēniem

2022

Angļu valodas stundas nebūtu iedomājamas bez lasīšanas, jo noteikta daļa no angļu valodas grāmatās atrodamajiem uzdevumiem ir saistīti ar tekstu, kurā atrodamas atbildes uz uzdotajiem jautājumiem. Svarīgi izprast, vai skolēniem interesē šajos tekstos atklātais. Ir zināms, ka mūsdienu jaunieši dažādu iemeslu dēļ maz lasa, vai dažreiz pat brīvajā laikā nepavada ne minūti lasot. Te var uzdot dažādus jautājumus, tomēr, vērtīgāk būtu tam meklēt risinājumus un skolēnus iedvesmot brīvajā laikā, atpūtas brīžos sēdēt ar grāmatu klēpī. Šis diplomdarbs ir rezultāts pētījumam, kas tika veikts lai saprastu kā veicināt ekstensīvo lasīšanu izmantojot jauniešu daiļliteratūru 11. klases angļu valodas stundā…

Interpretation, Negotiation, Play

2022

Augmented reality (AR) picturebooks combine printed children's literature with augmented reality. This study examines the shared reading of the Finnish AR picturebook Mur, eli karhu (2016) by Kaisa Happonen and Anne Vasko. The main aim of the study is to explore the playful reading experience of three Finnish families with children between the ages of 4 and 6. Three main categories of engagement with the book are discussed in the article: interpretation, negotiation, and play. The findings of the study suggest that children are skilled users of mobile digital media but may not understand the content of AR without parental mediation. In addition, parents and educators are required to have su…