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Affect and strategy use in independent language learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Affect is about emotions and feelings, moods and attitudes, anxiety, tolerance of ambiguity and motivation. For some it is also connected with dispositions and preferences (Oatley & Jenkins, 1996).
Hurd, Stella
core  

Foreign language anxiety in English language learning

open access: yes, 2019
Bu çalışma, yabancı dil kaygısı sorununu hem yabancı dil öğrencilerinin hem de öğretmenlerinin bakış açısından inceleyerek literatüre katkı sağlar. Bu çalışma aynı zamanda hazırlık okulu öğrencilerinin İngilizce derslerindeki yabancı dil kaygılarının sebeplerini ortaya çıkarmayı ve hazırlık okulu öğrencilerinin yabancı dil kaygısını azaltmanın veya bu ...
openaire   +1 more source

Left Behind in Lockdown: A Scoping Review of COVID‐19's Impact on the Lives of Transition‐Age Foster Youth

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This scoping review asked: What is known about the scope and nature of research on the COVID‐19 pandemic and its effects on older youth with foster care experience in the United States, including the types of studies, samples and outcomes examined?
Johanna K. P. Greeson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pedagogical strategies for mitigating foreign language anxiety: a mixed-methods study of first-semester undergraduate students

open access: yesFrontiers in Education
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) is widely recognized as a significant affective factor influencing second language learning, particularly among non-native learners.
Md. Nurul Haque   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Learner internal psychological factors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Book synopsis: What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constraints and external factors shape acquisition?
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
core  

Foreign‐Trained Dentists' Experiences of the Swedish Proficiency Test for Recognition of Dental Qualifications

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Dentists educated outside the EU/EEA can undergo a national proficiency test to obtain a Swedish dental licence. These assessments aim to ensure competence and patient safety, but little is known about how foreign‐trained dentists experience the process.
Jesper Dalum   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating affect in a distance language learning context: approaches and methods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The investigation of affect has been moving (somewhat quietly) up the second language acquisition (SLA) research agenda for a number of years and is now beginning to make a wider impact as the place of emotions becomes more firmly embedded in theories of
Hurd, Stella
core  

Caring organizational cultures and the future of work

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract There is substantial evidence that workplaces of the future will be dominated by an increase in advanced technology. This trend might lead to the objectification and dehumanization of employees and other stakeholders who interact with organizations as impersonal operations and procedures become normative and employees are subordinated to ...
Alan M. Saks, Jamie A. Gruman
wiley   +1 more source

Manager‐initiated unlearning: A study of intellectual property departments in Japanese firms

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous studies have emphasized that individuals play important roles in facilitating organizational unlearning; however, little is known about how leadership promotes organizational unlearning. From the perspective of routine dynamics, this study explores the effects of managers' behaviors on unlearning at the department level.
Makoto Matsuo
wiley   +1 more source

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