Does year 12 French improve proficiency?

1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-103
Author(s):  
Anne L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Baseline Data ◽  
Performance Data ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Language Of Instruction ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Perceived Outcomes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Students Satisfaction

Abstract Do students believe that Year 12 LOTE courses contribute to the development of oral and aural proficiency in the target language? Attitudinal and performance data collected from university French 1 students shed some light on students’ satisfaction with their Year 12 LOTE course and on the relationship among perceived outcomes, course components, language of instruction and language performance. The findings, while not definitive, provide some insights for secondary and tertiary LOTE teachers, together with some baseline data for further research into the success of school language programs.

Green Manufacturing Practices and Performance among SMEs

2013 ◽  
pp. 208-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Ramayah ◽  
Osman Mohamad ◽  
Azizah Omar ◽  
Malliga Marimuthu ◽  
Jasmine Yeap Ai Leen
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Performance Data ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
Environmental Initiatives ◽  
Manufacturing Performance ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship

Due to the rise in environmental awareness, green technologies and practices have become the conscientious imperative expected from all manufacturing industries. Consequently, environmental initiatives are becoming an essential part of the strategic planning in organizations, including the small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Thus, the objectives of this study were to determine the extent of implementation in green manufacturing practices among the SMEs as well as to examine the relationship between those practices and manufacturing performance. Data was collected via a survey from 544 SMEs across all types of industries located throughout Malaysia. Results of the analysis showed that there is an encouraging level of implementation in green practices among the SMEs, with the optimization of processes to reduce solid waste being the top practice. The results also revealed that green practices within the inbound and production phase of the manufacturing lifecycle significantly affected manufacturing performance but not practices within the outbound phase.

Green Manufacturing Practices and Performance among SMEs

2013 ◽  
pp. 1026-1043
Author(s):  
T. Ramayah ◽  
Osman Mohamad ◽  
Azizah Omar ◽  
Malliga Marimuthu ◽  
Jasmine Yeap Ai Leen
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Performance Data ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
Environmental Initiatives ◽  
Manufacturing Performance ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship

Due to the rise in environmental awareness, green technologies and practices have become the conscientious imperative expected from all manufacturing industries. Consequently, environmental initiatives are becoming an essential part of the strategic planning in organizations, including the small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Thus, the objectives of this study were to determine the extent of implementation in green manufacturing practices among the SMEs as well as to examine the relationship between those practices and manufacturing performance. Data was collected via a survey from 544 SMEs across all types of industries located throughout Malaysia. Results of the analysis showed that there is an encouraging level of implementation in green practices among the SMEs, with the optimization of processes to reduce solid waste being the top practice. The results also revealed that green practices within the inbound and production phase of the manufacturing lifecycle significantly affected manufacturing performance but not practices within the outbound phase.

Effects of Timbre on College Woodwind Players' Intonational Performance and Perception

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark C. Ely
Keyword(s):  
Ohio State University ◽  
Performance Data ◽  
State University ◽  
Performance Task ◽  
School Of Music ◽  
Low Correlation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Ohio State University ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of timbre on musicians' intonational acuities during a listening and a performance task. Nine saxophonists, nine clarinetists, and nine flutists from The Ohio State University School of Music participated in the listening and performance segments of this experiment. The performance data consisted of subjects' intonational deviations from recorded examples, and the listening data consisted of subjects' correct and incorrect responses to in-tune or out-of-tune tone pairs. The relationship between subjects' abilities to perform in tune and detect intonation problems, and the effects of timbre on subjects' abilities to perform in tune and detect intonation problems were assessed. Results revealed a low correlation between subjects abilities to play in tune and their abilities to detect intonation problems. Results also indicated that timbre had a significant effect on subjects' abilities to detect intonation problems, but not on their abilities to play in tune. Although there was no significant difference between instrument groups' abilities to detect intonation problems, a significant difference was found between these groups' abilities to play in tune across all timbres. Subjects played significantly more flat than sharp when matching other instrument timbres.

scholarly journals Nomino-Adjectival Collocation in Written Production of L2 French

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Vitalija Kazlauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Know How ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Lexical Competence ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Language Context ◽  
The Relationship

 The acquisition of lexical competence is complex, since it is not enough for learners to distinguish the form and the meaning of a lexical element in order to know how to correctly integrate it into the language context. Learners prefer some lexical combinations to others. Generally speaking, these combinations are determined by usage and by frequency of use in the target language. The question of frequency leads to characterizing the particular cases of co-occurrences as collocations (Anctil, Tremblay 2016). According to Tutin and Grossmann, “one often characterizes collocations by the fact that the meaning is transparent in reception (it is “guessed”), whereas, for a non-native speaker, it is difficult to produce the appropriate lexemes” (Tutin, Grossmann 2002). We will try to verify this statement and define the regularities of lexical combinations in L2 French interlanguage of Lithuanian learners. The aims of this presentation is to take stock of the frequencies and particularities of nomino-adjectival collocations in the written productions of non-native French learners, without claiming to be exhaustive. Thanks to the corpus at our disposal, we have extracted certain characteristics of nomino-adjectival collocations specific to interlanguage. Nomino-adjectival collocations are characterized by the structure (Adj) + N + (Adj) in the corpus. Collocations of the N + Adj type are more frequent than that of the Adj + N type. The corpus also reveals that the combination of words is not always characteristic of the general language. The process of interference and hybridization can be seen as an essential contamination of collocations, both lexically and syntactically. However, partially set phrases, in other words collocations, are an important way of expressing themselves for learner with B1 level. The results of this study demonstrate that the analysis of collocational constructions can reveal the relationship between competence and performance of speakers. This type of data could also form the basis of various scientific approaches relating to teaching and learning of foreign languages.

Assessment of EFL learners’ Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Competence and Performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvira KORAN
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Oral Proficiency ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Teaching Learning

Communicative competence has been a fundamental issue for foreign/second language teaching methodology and a cornerstone of language classrooms for about four decades. Its two essential components - sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences, though ubiquitously acknowledged as crucial for language teaching/learning, are not adequately, according to modern methodological requirements, taught and learned. The present article aimed to succinctly review the main aspects of the two competences as presented by linguists and educators, to draw a line between language performance and competence, to revisit the major forms of testing and assessing language learners’ sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences, corresponding performance and oral proficiency. It was intended to test sociolinguistic and pragmatic knowledge and performance of L2 learners; to assess the learners’ overall oral proficiency in the target language and to compare the results of the two above procedures. The aim of the undertaking was to define what relationship exists between the three tested and assessed phenomena, i.e., whether or not acquiring the competence in the target language entails performance and enhances learners’ fluency.  Implementing all the tasks scheduled enabled the researcher to elicit the necessary data and to draw conclusions concerning the interdependence  between language competence and performance/proficiency; to suggest recommendations for refinement of L2 learner evaluation practice, for improving language programs in terms of teaching/ learning communicative competence and its components and for better understanding of cognitive processes which take place in L2 learners when dealing with performance and competence in the target language.

Over de samenhang tussen herstructureringen, baanonzekerheid en prestaties van werknemers

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinska Van Gucht ◽  
Hans De Witte
Keyword(s):  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Performance Data ◽  
Technical Performance ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

On the association between restructuring, job insecurity and performance On the association between restructuring, job insecurity and performance This study analyses whether a plant restructuring affects the technical and social performance of employees, and their perception of quantitative and qualitative job insecurity. Quantitative job insecurity refers to the perceived continuity of the actual job, whereas qualitative job insecurity refers to the perceived continuity of valued job characteristics. Finally, the association of both forms of job insecurity with (technical and social) performance is studied, as well as the mediating role of job insecurity in the relationship between restructuring and performance. Data of 294 respondents are used to test the hypotheses. The results show that the confrontation with a restructuring is related with lower (technical and social) performance and with quantitative (but not qualitative) job insecurity. Both forms of insecurity are associated with reduced (technical and social) performance. We only find mediation regarding quantitative job insecurity and technical performance: a restructuring is associated with the fear that one might lose the job, which in turn lowers the technical performance of the employees involved.

scholarly journals Recruitment Research Revisited: Effective Recruiting Methods According To Employment Outcomes

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Wiley
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Employment Outcomes ◽  
Performance Data ◽  
Recruitment Methods ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Private Employment ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Search Firms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Employment Agencies

This study examines twelve recruiting methods to determine their relative popularity (frequency of use) and effectiveness (subsequent job performance. Data on 199 employee representing five occupational categories and from eight businesses in different industries are used to explain the relationship between recruitment methods and performance. The results reveal that employee referrals, newspaper/special advertisements, former employees or rehires, private employment agencies/search firms, and walk-ins are both popular and effective recruitment methods.

The Influence of Cognitive and Affective Reactions to Feedback on Subsequent Goals

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remus Ilies ◽  
Timothy A. Judge ◽  
David T. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Performance Feedback ◽  
Business School ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Dispositional Measure ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reactions To Feedback

This paper focuses on explaining how individuals set goals on multiple performance episodes, in the context of performance feedback comparing their performance on each episode with their respective goal. The proposed model was tested through a longitudinal study of 493 university students’ actual goals and performance on business school exams. Results of a structural equation model supported the proposed conceptual model in which self-efficacy and emotional reactions to feedback mediate the relationship between feedback and subsequent goals. In addition, as expected, participants’ standing on a dispositional measure of behavioral inhibition influenced the strength of their emotional reactions to negative feedback.

Cognitive Factors Mediate the Relation Between Age and Flight Path Maintenance in General Aviation

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Van Benthem ◽  
Chris M. Herdman
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Flight Path ◽  
General Aviation ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Pilot Performance ◽  
Pilot Error ◽  
Age Related ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Identifying pilot attributes associated with risk is important, especially in general aviation where pilot error is implicated in most accidents. This research examined the relationship of pilot age, expertise, and cognitive functioning to deviations from an ideal circuit trajectory. In all, 54 pilots, of varying age, flew a Cessna 172 simulator. Cognitive measures were obtained using the CogScreen-AE ( Kay, 1995 ). Older age and lower levels of expertise and cognitive functioning were associated with significantly greater flight path deviations. The relationship between age and performance was fully mediated by a cluster of cognitive factors: speed and working memory, visual attention, and cognitive flexibility. These findings add to the literature showing that age-related changes in cognition may impact pilot performance.

Work Engagement and Research Output Among Female and Male Scientists

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lonneke Dubbelt ◽  
Sonja Rispens ◽  
Evangelia Demerouti
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Time Control ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Women have a minority position within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and, consequently, are likely to face more adversities at work. This diary study takes a look at a facilitating factor for women’s research performance within academia: daily work engagement. We examined the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between two behaviors (i.e., daily networking and time control) and daily work engagement, as well as its effect on the relationship between daily work engagement and performance measures (i.e., number of publications). Results suggest that daily networking and time control cultivate men’s work engagement, but daily work engagement is beneficial for the number of publications of women. The findings highlight the importance of work engagement in facilitating the performance of women in minority positions.

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