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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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English-medium instruction learners’ enjoyment and anxiety: a quasi-experimental research
Cogent EducationWhile foreign language enjoyment and anxiety are attracting renewed attention in learner psychology research, little attention has been paid to contextualising the two emotions within the increasingly popular educational context of English-medium ...
Youzhi Sun, Qingyun Yang
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The motivational challenge facing beginner learners of Spanish at a distance [PDF]
, 2010 This paper presents some preliminary findings of an on-going longitudinal study of initial motivation and motivation maintenance in beginner distance adult learners of Spanish in the UK. Adapting a framework of executive motivational influences developed
Furnborough, Concha
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Korean language learning demotivation among EFL instructors in South Korea [PDF]
, 2019 Studies investigating the motivation of L1 speakers of English to learn the national language of the host society they currently reside in remain rare, despite the exponential growth of such individuals residing in these nations this century.
Gearing, Nigel
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Tree‐planting initiatives are a crucial part of international sustainability and climate action efforts. Yet, many of these initiatives fail to achieve their long‐term sustainability and climate goals. The role of community value is an often‐overlooked factor in promoting the success of new tree plantings.
Claire L. Narraway +8 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Active outdoor play has been positioned in the literature as an opportunity to address concerns over climate (in)action and the rising trend of disconnection from the outdoors and nature. The objective of this systematic review was to examine associations between active outdoor play and people's connection to nature and/or environmental ...
Louise de Lannoy +10 more
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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
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SAGE OpenThis study adopted both variable- and person-centered methods to investigate Chinese primary school students’ foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) as well as factors associated with these emotions, such as ...
Li Wang, Jie Huang, Wenqi Ye, Jun Lei
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From Theatre to Transformation: Learning, Action, and Diffusion for SDG2 in Cambodia
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The arts are envisioned as able to help address the longstanding ‘implementation gap’ between research and realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For SDG2 (Zero Hunger), Forum Theatre offers a participatory alternative to top‐down interventions, yet its impacts have not been evaluated using rigorous, mixed‐methods that are ...
Brian R. Cook +6 more
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Exploring ‘unknown worlds’: The lives and careers of non-native speaking teachers of English in Asia [PDF]
, 2007 It is a decade since Richards remarked that “How the teacher believes, thinks, acts and reacts is central to educational endeavour, but about the EFL (English as a foreign language) language teacher we know almost nothing” (1997:243), going on to suggest
Hayes, David
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