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Beyond the Reports: Cultural Pressures, Unheard Voices and the Climate Accountability Gap in Oil and Gas Sector Governance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental governance in Nigeria's oil and gas sector remains central to global climate justice debates, yet persistent accountability failures continue to undermine meaningful environmental and social outcomes. Despite extensive regulatory frameworks, accountability in resource‐dependent contexts is frequently reduced to formal reporting ...
Hammed Afolabi, Ronita Ram, Adetola Abdulfattah Sogbesan   +2 more
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Effects of gamification on EFL learning: a quasi-experimental study of reading proficiency and language enjoyment among Chinese undergraduates

Frontiers in Psychology
BackgroundIn foreign language education, educators struggle with declining student engagement as traditional EFL teaching, relying on passive lectures and dull materials, hampers proficiency and dampens passion.
Jing Cheng, Chen Lu, Qiaoling Xiao
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Foreign Language Enjoyment among Children

Journal of Language Research
Current research mainly focuses on cognitive processes, negative emotions, and adult learners, while limited studies investigate FLE among children and its variation by age, gender, and grade in the Turkish EFL learning context. This study investigates foreign language enjoyment (FLE) levels among young learners of English as a foreign language (EFL ...
Selami Aydın, Damla Nur Akkaya
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Questionnaire for Foreign Language Enjoyment and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety

Questionnaire form "Foreign Language Enjoyment and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety" used in the research article "One Cohort or Two? Enjoyment, Anxiety, and Study Behaviours among Intermediate Language Learners in Tertiary Language Classes"
Louisa Willoughby (6430706), Satoshi Nambu (17966303), Barbara Pezzoti (17984209)   +2 more
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Food Waste Applications Beyond the West: Archetypes and Insights From China

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food waste is a major challenge for sustainable development, but digital solutions designed to reduce it remain unevenly distributed globally. Food waste mobile applications (FWMAs) have emerged as promising tools for reducing food surpluses through redistribution and improved household food management.
Jiequan Hong, Ralf Barkemeyer, Anicia Jaegler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are foreign language learners’ enjoyment and anxiety specific to the teacher? An investigation into the dynamics of learners’ classroom emotions

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Previous research has considered fluctuations in students’ foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) over months or years (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2014, 2016).
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Livia Dewaele
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Climate Action Response Plans in Firms: Exploring the Characteristics of Firms Planning for a More Sustainable Future

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firm‐level Climate Action Response Plans (CARPs) comprise firms' climate change mitigation and adaptation commitments. Encouraging firms to develop CARPs is thus vital for meeting ever‐pressing climate goals. Understanding the resources and capabilities facilitating firms to develop CARPs can inform evidence‐based approaches to accelerate ...
Helena Lenihan, Mauricio Perez‐Alaniz, Christian Rammer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social support and english academic achievement: the mediating role of foreign language emotions and the moderating effect of academic self-concept

BMC Psychology
Drawing on ecological systems theory, this study proposed a moderated mediation model to examine how social support influences English academic achievement.
Shengdong Chen, Han Xu, Chenghuan Jin, Keyi Yin, Xing Wang, Tao Wang   +5 more
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Carbon Footprint of Bank Loans: Opportunities and Risk Implications in the Banking Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether the carbon footprint of bank loan portfolios influences bank stability, profitability and cost efficiency and whether regulatory quality moderates these relationships. Using a balanced panel of 33 countries from 2005 to 2018, the analysis combines banking‐sector indicators from the World Bank Global Financial ...
Honglei Wang, Chen Lin, Kingsley Imandojemu, Omozele Lynda Showunmi, Romanus Osabohien, Felix Orole   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Language Anxiety and Enjoyment in an Imagined Community

Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
Learning a foreign language can be frustrating for some people and very enjoyable for some others. Emotions are one of the most important factors in the use of English as a foreign language located in the center of attention of many researchers. One of the emotion-inducing contexts for learning English as a foreign language can be the setting of an ...
SHİRVAN, Majid Elahi, TALEBZADEH, Nahid
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