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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

Motivation and Aptitude: A Partial Validation of ECT-L2A

open access: yesStudies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2019
Energy Conservation Theory of Second Language Acquisition (ECT-L2A; Han, Bao & Wiita, 2017), an interdisciplinary theory juxtaposing a physics perspective and an applied linguistics perspective, conceptualizes individuals’ ultimate attainment as a ...
Peter Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies and the Language Learner

open access: yesEducazione Linguistica Language Education, 2012
The active role of the learner in the language learning process has been thoroughly acknowledged in the past fifty years. The discussion on the centrality of the learner in the acquisi- tion of a second (L2) or foreign language (FL) is essentially ...
CASAGRANDE, NAIR   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of high versus low talker variability and individual aptitude on phonetic training of Mandarin lexical tones [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2019
High variability (HV) training has been found to be more effective than low variability (LV) training when learning various non-native phonetic contrasts. However, little research has considered whether this applies to the learning of tone contrasts. The
Hanyu Dong   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Zur Bedeutung von Unterrichtsqualität für die naturwissenschaftliche Kompetenz von Grundschulkindern. Ein Fokus auf Kinder mit ungünstigen Lernvoraussetzungen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Research on classroom instruction has consistently identified characteristics that contribute to student learning. For instance, these include structural-organizational aspects (e.g., classroom management) and affective aspects (e.g., classroom social ...
Büttner, Gerhard   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

New Conceptualizations of Language Aptitude - The Potential of Working Memory in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

open access: yesTheory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2016
The chapter sheds light on new conceptualizations of foreign language aptitude by emphasizing the role of working memory (WM). It is organised into 3 sections.
Beata Grymska
doaj  

Implicit Theories and Self-efficacy in an Introductory Programming Course

open access: yes, 2017
Contribution: This study examined student effort and performance in an introductory programming course with respect to student-held implicit theories and self-efficacy.
Benli, Kristin S.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Creativity and perceived multiple intelligences as predictors of scholastic aptitude in primary education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Introducción.  La profundización en constructos como creatividad, inteligencia y aptitudes escolares, y comprender cómo se relacionan entre ellos, puede favorecer un mejor entendimiento de las variables implicadas en el rendimiento académico.
Areces, Débora   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

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