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Soft Power in Trade: Quantifying the Impact of Confucius Institutes on China's Exports

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of Confucius Institutes (CIs) as a form of China's cultural diplomacy and their impact on international trade, particularly exports. Using a gravity model, we analyze data from 1990 to 2019 across countries, finding that the presence of CIs significantly boosts China's exports.
Renjing Chen, Wei Jin, Tangrui Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Speaking accuracy and fluency among EFL learners: The role of creative thinking, emotional intelligence, and academic enthusiasm

Heliyon
This study examines the associations between speaking accuracy and fluency among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and emotional intelligence (EI), creative thinking (CT), and academic enthusiasm (AE).
Wenli Wang, Yasaman Mohammad Rezaei, Siros Izadpanah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Standing Up or Standing By: The Interplay of Moral Identity, Perspective‐Taking Skills, and Teacher Responses in Adolescents' Responses to Ethnic Victimization

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Rising political polarization worldwide has created a social climate where adolescents with migrant backgrounds face increased risk of mistreatment based on their ethnic, cultural, or religious identities. Promoting prosocial bystander behavior in schools is one way to address this issue.
Sevgi Bayram Özdemir
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Intelligence in Adolescents: Initial Evidence From The Identity Project in Multiethnic Schools in Italy

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction In today's multiethnic schools, promoting youth connectedness and well‐being requires equipping students with the skills to navigate cultural diversity. Cultural intelligence (CQ), defined as the ability to interact effectively across diverse cultural contexts, is a key asset in this regard. This study explored whether the Italian
Xiwei Zhang, Chiara Ceccon, Ughetta Moscardino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integration of 21st Century Skills into Secondary School English Classes and the Challenges faced by Teachers

International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research
The aim of this study is to examine the utilization of 21st century skills by secondary school English language teachers and to investigate whether their background has a role in using these skills.
Yeliz Bolat, Selma Deneme Gençoğlu
doaj   +1 more source

Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
wiley   +1 more source

The Reality and Direction of Korean Dental Hygiene Education in the Super‐Aged Society

Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study aims to analyze the structural features and key issues of dental hygiene education and the national licensing examination in response to a super‐aged society. To this end, the current status and challenges of Korea's dental hygiene education system are reviewed, and comparative analyses of corresponding systems in the ...
Ji‐Won Choi, Jeewan Chun, Sang‐Hwan Oh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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An Analysis of Radiographers' False Preliminary Image Evaluation Comments in One New Zealand District

Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, EarlyView.
Preliminary image evaluation (PIE) comment errors were evaluated for common errors. These include missed avulsion fractures in the finger, hand, and wrist, while accessory bones in the feet and ankle were mistaken for abnormalities. Identifying these errors provides guidance for ongoing, regular, targeted training to help improve PIE accuracy rates ...
Kim Lewis, Sibusiso Mdletshe, Andrea Doubleday, Tracey Pieterse   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

When the textbook is not enough: How to shape an ELF classroom? [PDF]

, 2018
This chapter is devised for English language teaching (ELT) practitioners to reflect on how language and culture are portrayed in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, and explore how an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) approach can be further ...
Guerra, Luis
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