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Recreational reading as a leisure activity: Perspectives from Georgian and Finnish hearing and deaf students

Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, EarlyView.
Abstract The benefits of recreational reading for academic success are clear. However, the full potential of recreational reading for socialisation and well‐being remains untapped by young readers. Studies of young readers' recreational reading intentions and perceived barriers to translating intentions into reading are scarce. Deaf and hard‐of‐hearing
Zhuzhuna Gviniashvili
wiley   +1 more source

Differences of kindergarten children's linguistic picture of the world: focus on Hungary, Russia, and Laos

Heliyon, 2021
Three-to-five-year-old Laotian kindergarten children, native speakers of the Lao language were investigated in order to map the peculiarities of their picture of the world through their word associations. Results were contrasted to a previous comparative
Istvan Lenart, Irina Markovina
doaj  

A Structured Review of Research‐Informed Instructional Strategies to Support CPA Enabling Competencies in Future Accountants*

Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 189-249, March 2025.
ABSTRACT CPA enabling competencies underpin the human skills and professional values that all future accountants should possess. Nevertheless, to date, the discourse is limited within the scholarship of teaching and learning on how to best inculcate these competencies in future accountants.
Sanobar Siddiqui
wiley   +1 more source

Some Sources of Misunderstandings in Intercultural Business Communication [PDF]

, 2017
It is always a big challenge for all types of companies anywhere in the world to survive in the globalised and accelerated world. Their primary objective is to stay competitive, keep or even enlarge their market share while keeping their costs at a ...
Lázár, Tímea
core   +2 more sources

Enhancing nursing care through technology and standardized nursing language: The TEC‐MED multilingual platform

International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose This study describes the design, integration, and semantic interoperability process of a minimum data set using standardized nursing language in the caring module of the TEC‐MED care platform. Methods The caring module was developed in three phases (2020–2022): platform concept, functional design and construction, and testing and ...
Ana‐María Porcel Gálvez, Marta Lima‐Serrano, Regina Allande‐Cussó, Maria‐Giulia Costanzo‐Talarico, María‐Dolores Mateos García, Mercedes Bueno‐Ferrán, Elena Fernández‐García, Fabio D'Agostino, José‐Manuel Romero‐Sánchez   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpretation, translation and intercultural communication in refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France [PDF]

, 2014
This article explores the interplay between language and intercultural communication within refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France, using material taken from ethnographic research that involved a combination of participant ...
Anthony Good, Atkinson J. M., Berk-Seligson S., Cimade, Colin J., Commission des recours des réfugiés, Cornu G., Good A., Good A., Good A., Henderson M., House of Commons Justice Committee, Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides, Robert Gibb, Rycroft R., United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Venuti L., Wadensjö C.   +17 more
core   +2 more sources

Cultural Commonsense Knowledge for Intercultural Dialogues [PDF]

Despite recent progress, large language models (LLMs) still face the challenge of appropriately reacting to the intricacies of social and cultural conventions. This paper presents MANGO, a methodology for distilling high-accuracy, high-recall assertions of cultural knowledge.
arxiv   +1 more source

Pimps, Star Chambers, Ratbags, and Westphalians: The Rhetoric of Reaction and Racial Discrimination in Australia, 1975–1995

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Australian public debates about race have featured intense contests about free speech and identity, including about the federal Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). While these developments may be understood as reflecting the contemporary ascendency of “culture war” politics, they may in fact follow a familiar pattern of political contestation around ...
Tim Soutphommasane, Liyana Kayali, David T. Smith, Jane Chi Hyun Park, Gilbert Caluya   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neural Network-based exploration of construct validity for Russian version of the 10-item Big Five Inventory [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
This study aims to present a new method of exploring construct validity of questionnaires based on neural network. Using this test we further explore convergent validity for Russian adaptation of TIPI (Ten-Item Personality Inventory by Gosling, Rentfrow, and Swann). Due to small number of questions TIPI-RU can be used as an express-method for surveying
arxiv  

Dancing in the archive: Bodily encounters, memory, and more‐than‐representational participatory historical geographies

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper considers the potential of participatory methods to address the methodological difficulties surrounding the historical geographies of dance, and moving bodies, within archival research. Exploring the historical geographies of tap dance across the circum‐Atlantic, it advocates a dual approach which combines more‐than ...
Lucy Thompson
wiley   +1 more source