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Foreign language anxiety of Croatian university students of Spanish

, 2023
Foreign language anxiety (FLA), as a negative emotion accompanying second language learning and use, has gained much attention over the past decades. The paper presents a quantitative study on FLA of Croatian university students majoring in Spanish conducted with the aim of determining the level and sources of the participants’ Spanish language anxiety
openaire   +1 more source

Operating in perpetual motion? Coping with the dark side of global boundary spanning

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper explores how individuals experience and cope with the demands of global boundary spanning in multinational enterprises (MNEs). We foreground temporary colocation as a modality through which mobile global boundary spanners repeatedly traverse multiple boundaries, triggering intense demands with adverse consequences ...
Kieran M. Conroy, Anthony McDonnell, Stefan Jooss   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enseñanza del español y contexto social. La familia como recurso temático para la clase de conversación destinada a estudiantes surcoreanos / Spanish teaching and social environment. The family as a speaking topic for conversation classes in South Korea [PDF]

Tejuelo: Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, 2015
In great part, the success or failure of a thematic resource in a conversation class of a foreign language depends on the social environment and educational context of students.
Jorge Manuel Mendoza Puertas
doaj  

Medical Brain Drain: The Role of Job Attributes and Individual Traits

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Medical brain drain poses a major challenge for health systems, reducing physician supply and undermining public investment in medical training. Prior work examined migration flows and their macroeconomic determinants. This study uses a discrete choice experiment to assess how individual background and personality traits shape medical student ...
Marco Bertoni, Debdeep Chattopadhyay, Yuanyuan Gu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maximising the value of the insolvency estate in EU cross‐border cases: The interplay of insolvency practitioners in main and secondary insolvency proceedings

International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Modified universalism, as applied by the European Insolvency Regulation (EIR), allows not only for parallel main and secondary insolvency proceedings, but also for the creation of separate insolvency estates and the appointment of insolvency practitioners in each proceeding.
Remigijus Jokubauskas, J. M. G. J. (Gert‐Jan) Boon   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Glossing in Incidental and Intentional Learning of Foreign Language Vocabulary and Reading

, 1995
This study attempts to address how glossing affects learning vocabulary and reading comprehension in a foreign language. It compares a gloss condition with a no gloss condition, as well as a L1 gloss versus L2 gloss.
Ko, Myong Hui
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Brexit and Its Impact on EU Financial Markets

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of Brexit on volatility spillovers across the EU countries. We introduce a Brexit intensity measure that assigns an intensity score reflective of the financial markets' reaction to the events that occurred as Brexit negotiations began to unfold.
Marwan Izzeldin, Gulnur Muradoglu, Vasileios Pappas, Sheeja Sivaprasad   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Strength Mechanisms: Family Ethnic Socialization, Ethnic Identity, Familism Links to Rural US Latino/a Youth Prosocial Behaviors Across Time

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Cultural strength‐based models propose that family ethnic socialization promotes prosocial development in Latino/a youth through cultural values such as ethnic identity and familism. However, longitudinal research testing these serial pathways remains scarce, and prosocial behavior is understudied in rural, emerging immigrant ...
Alexia Carrizales, Gustavo Carlo, Yumary Ruiz, Zoe E. Taylor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
wiley   +1 more source

Fostering autonomy in intercultural language learning in the foreign language classroom: A case study of international students learning English at a higher education institution in Ireland [PDF]

, 2012
This study is concerned with the concept of autonomy in intercultural language learning, understood here as the capacity to take responsibility for one’s own language and intercultural development.
Sudhershan, Aleksandra
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