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Cross-lagged relationships between home learning environment and academic achievement in Chinese
2015
Abstract We examined (a) the cross-lagged relationships between the home learning environment and academic achievement in Chinese, and (b) whether parents’ socioeconomic status (SES) and child's gender moderate the relations. One hundred seventy-seven Chinese children were followed from Grade 1 to Grade 2 and were assessed on reading and mathematics. Their parents also responded to a questionnaire assessing the frequency of engaging in different home literacy and numeracy activities. Results showed that reading ability in Grade 1 negatively predicted informal home literacy activities in Grade 2. In turn, mathematics ability in Grade 1 negatively predicted formal home numeracy activities in …
Sustainability Perspectives in Organizational and Workplace Learning Studies
2022
The association between sustainability and learning in organizations and workplaces represents a current articulated grand challenge for human resource development (HRD) and learning studies and practice, which calls for integrated inquiries. However, studies of learning in organizations and workplaces deal with sustainability in scattered and diverse ways that promote calls for more integrated understandings of the different approaches and associations. This article outlines the results from a scoping thematic review mapping out leading perspectives within the research fields of HRD, organizational learning (OL) and workplace learning (WPL). This article thus explores the perspectives that…
Practical, Not Radical : Examining Innovative Learning Culture in a Public Service Media Organization
2022
Recent scholarship has argued for media organizations’ need to radically innovate to ensure their survival in the future. This study deploys the innovative learning culture (ILC) framework to qualitatively study innovation and learning in a legacy public service media organization. While innovation and learning are linked, the learning processes of professional journalists have received only little attention. Through an analysis of a development network operating in a public service media organization, we identify characteristics of ILC in the network and how those characteristics manifest in practice, as well as examine contextual factors that shape ILC. Our findings indicate that innovati…
Workplace Learning from the Organizational Point of View
2022
The focus of this chapter is on workplace learning from the organizational point of view. The chapter reviews multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research literature on learning organization starting from the seminal works by Argyris and Schön, and Senge, and continuing with the studies of the development of measuring characteristics of learning organization by Marsick and Watkins. The relationship between individual and organizational learning is discussed. Also concepts other than learning organization have been used in research studies in order to describe learning taking place in organizations. The concepts such as knowledge creation, expansive learning and innovative knowledge co…
Surrogate-assisted multicriteria optimization: Complexities, prospective solutions, and business case
2017
Complexity in solving real-world multicriteria optimization problems often stems from the fact that complex, expensive, and/or time-consuming simulation tools or physical experiments are used to evaluate solutions to a problem. In such settings, it is common to use efficient computational models, often known as surrogates or metamodels, to approximate the outcome (objective or constraint function value) of a simulation or physical experiment. The presence of multiple objective functions poses an additional layer of complexity for surrogate-assisted optimization. For example, complexities may relate to the appropriate selection of metamodels for the individual objective functions, extensive …
Pronunciation teaching in a Finnish secondary school : a case study
2016
Ääntäminen on kiinteä osa hyvää kielitaitoa, mutta sen opettaminen on jäänyt vähälle huomiolle. Koska koulujen tehtävä on kuitenkin antaa oppilaille mahdollisimman hyvä kielitaito, ääntämistä pitäisi opettaa enemmän. Opetuksen vähäisyys voi johtua sen arvostelun vaikeudesta ja siitä, ettei opettajankoulutuksessa kunnolla ohjata opiskelijoita sen opettamisessa. Lisäksi, vaikka kommunikatiivinen kielenopetus (CLT) sisältääkin paljon oppilaiden välisiä suullisia harjoituksia, se ei kuitenkaan keskity ääntämisen opettamiseen. Osittain ääntämisen opetuksen vähyys johtuu siitä, että sen tutkimus on jäänyt vähälle huomioille ja sen opettamisen on ajateltu olevan tarpeetonta ja tehotonta. Tässä tut…
Grappling with the Oral Skills: The learning processes of the low-educated adult second language and literacy learner
2013
This paper focuses on the learning processes in L2 literacy classes in the Netherlands, discussing specifically possible influences of the learning processes during the practice of the oral skills. To achieve a better understanding of the students’ spoken language development, classroom processes of six adult L2 literacy classes were observed during a period of eight months and students were pre- and post-assessed. In comparing the classes, notable differences in gain scores in morphosyntactic features as well as aspects of relevance and coherence in discourse surfaced. In order to explain these differences, certain factors were examined in relation to learner characteristics, classro…
A cookbook for hungry teachers : suggestopedy and cooperative learning in practising oral skills : a material package
2008
Teaching specialised vocabulary in a communicative way
2017
Työn tarkoituksena on tutkia ammatillisen erikoissanaston opettamisen kysymyksiä tavoitteena laatia sopivaa opetusmateriaalia intensiivikurssille, joka on tarkoitus pitää Ikean myyntihenkilökunnalle. Sanaston opettamisen lisäksi kurssin toisena ja yhtä tärkeänä tavoitteena on parantaa työntekijöiden englannin kielen puheen sujuvuutta ja sitä kautta itseluottamusta käyttää englantia työssä. Työ koostuu teoriaosasta, jossa haetaan sopivimpia lähestymistapoja ja opetusmenetelmiä ammattisanaston opettamiseksi ja suullisen kielitaidon parantamiseksi, sekä opetusmateriaalipaketista, johon on koottu valikoima sopivia harjoituksia ja tehtäviä, jotka perustuvat teoriaosassa valitulle teoreettiselle …
Classroom context's influence on students' willingness to communicate : a study of upper secondary school students' views
2015
Suullisen kielitaidon harjoittelua vieraissa kielissä sekä asenteita sitä kohtaan on tutkittu melko paljon niin Suomessa, kuin muualla maailmassakin (ks. esim. Mäkelä 2005 tai Yli-Renko ja Salo-Lee 1991). Sen sijaan oppilaiden ja opiskelijoiden halukkuudesta puhua vieraita kieliä, tässä tapauksessa erityisesti englantia, ei suomalaisessa kontekstissa ole tutkimustietoa. Kielen opettamisen kannalta olisi kuitenkin tärkeää ymmärtää, miten oppilaat ja opiskelijat kokevat oman halukkuuteensa puhua englantia, ja miten erilaiset tilanteet oppitunnilla siihen vaikuttavat. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena onkin selvittää suomalaisten lukiolaisten halukkuutta puhua englantia erityisesti oppitunnilla,…