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Mitigating Health Disparities Through Empathetic Policymaking During Times of Crisis

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic greatly exacerbated the existing disparities and inequities in health and healthcare among historically marginalized populations. Today, these impacts still echo. These persistent structured inequities erode the public's trust in government, lead to failure in public policies, and result in worse health consequences ...
Yali Pang, Brittany Keegan, Robyn D. McDougle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological Dimensions and Foreign Language Anxiety [PDF]

, 2017
Research has uncovered significant links between FLA/FLCA and a range of higher order personality traits (mainly Neuroticism-Emotional Stability, Introversion-Extraversion or Social Initiative, and - to a lesser extent - also Psychoticism, Conscientiousness, Openmindedness, Cultural Empathy).
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“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”: Managing Stigma and Threats in the Wake of False Criminal Accusations

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, the boundary between activism and extremism blurred, with election officials reporting violent threats and false accusations of election fraud. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, these attacks provide a unique lens for examining the consequences of being falsely labeled a criminal.
Steven Windisch
wiley   +1 more source

Pre‐task Vocabulary Support Enhances Lexical Learning but Dampens Positive Emotions: Interactive Task Implementation in English‐as‐a‐Foreign‐Language Classroom

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
wiley   +1 more source

The Relations between Student Foreign Language Anxiety and Social Variables

Central European Journal of Educational Research
Due to the labour market expectations, universities are responsible for preparing their students for competitive employment in Hungary or abroad. However, language anxiety is an insurmountable problem for many people, making it difficult to learn ...
János Farkas, Tímea Lázár, Eszter Valnerné Török, Mohammad Bin Amin, Zita Hajdu   +4 more
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Anxiety in Foreign Language Learning

Advances in Intelligent Systems Research, 2014
A nxiety is one of the emotions that affect language learning. Knowing the causes of anxiety can help the teacher understand and analyze the problems caused by anxiety among students so as to take effective strategies to help students complete their assignments successfully and improve their learning outcomes.
Na Wang, Ling Hu
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Subjectification and Chronotopes in Early‐Career TESOL Teachers' Professional Development in Japan

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study presents case studies of three early‐career secondary TESOL teachers in Japan, focusing on their professional development experiences. Their narratives were collected in two phases: (1) reflective reports submitted by the teachers during the fourth year of their teacher training, which included reflections on their previous L2 ...
Yoshiyuki Nakata, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Takahiro Miyazaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign language anxiety in middle school students: a case study

Anadolu Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi dergisi
The research aims to understand and analyse foreign language anxiety in secondary school students from both student and teacher perspectives across various dimensions.
Başak Köksoy, Levent Deniz
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Foreign language anxiety and self-perceived English pronunciation competence

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
In foreign language learning a negative correlation has been reported be-tween language anxiety and both oral performance (Liu, 2006; Stephenson Wilson, 2006; Woodrow 2006) and self-perceived levels of speaking ability (Kitano, 2001; MacIntyre, Noels ...
Magdalena Szyszka
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