Language Activation in the Thinking Processes of a Multilingual Language User

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danuta Gabryś-Barker
Keyword(s):  
Language User ◽  
Thinking Processes ◽  
Language Activation

Modulating Cross-Language Activation in Spoken Production: Evidence From Primed Picture Naming

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zofia Wodniecka ◽  
Susan Bobb ◽  
Judith F. Kroll ◽  
David W. Green
Keyword(s):  
Picture Naming ◽  
Language Activation ◽  
Cross Language

Determinants of English as language choice among Unaccompanied Migrant Children (UMC) in Makassar, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Andi Samsu Rijal ◽  
Andi Mega Januarti Putri
Keyword(s):  
Language Choice ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
The Public ◽  
International Language ◽  
Language User ◽  
Public Area ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Language Mastery

The essence of language is human activity. Communication with language is carried out through two basic human activities; speaking and listening during the interaction in a group of people. Immigrants in Makassar city communicate with immigrant communities and Makassar people. They used English and Indonesia to communicate with others. The aims of this article were to find out determinant factors of English as language choice among Unaccompanied Migrant Children (UMC) in Makassar and why they used English as their language choice to communicate with other people out of them. The data were taken from UMC in the shelter under the auspices of Makassar’s Social Office and in the public area of Makassar. This research was a qualitative approach; it was from a sociolinguistic perspective and focuses its analysis with the language choice among UMC. This research showed that most immigrants chose English as their language choice since they were in Makassar because they have acquired better than other international language and it has been mastered naturally by doing social interaction among themselves and people outside their community. UMC had more difficulties to socialize with Indonesian than the adult of Immigrants. Other than their lack of language mastery, they also have the anxiety to adapt to other immigrants and Makassar people. English was used by UMC to show their status as a foreigner who lived in a multicultural situation. Language becomes a power for a human being and it becomes a social identity for language user in one community. During the interaction of UMC in Makassar city, the role of English as an International language is shown.

Facilitating critical thinking in online courses

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Lunney, RN, PhD ◽  
Keville Frederickson, RN, PhD ◽  
Arlene Spark, EdD, RD, FADA, FACN ◽  
Georgia McDuffie, RN, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Thinking Processes

Development of critical thinking abilities is essential for students in clinical disciplines of the health sciences. Past research has shown that critical thinking is a learned skill that can be fostered through teaching strategies. Ten educational strategies that were developed and tested by the authors in online courses are presented to assist instructors to encourage students in the health sciences to improve critical thinking processes.

Factors That Influence Mental Illness Among Students in Public Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
College Life ◽  
Home Life ◽  
Thinking Processes ◽  
Universiti Utara Malaysia

This study is about the interrelations between three factors which are financial distress, health condition and social relation with mental illness among students in Universiti Utara Malaysia. Mental illness affects individuals feeling, mood as well as thinking processes. This condition eventually disturbs the ability and functions that relates towards others. People with same diagnosis face different experience. A mental illness is not based on one specific event, therefore may include a stressful job or home life, victim of a crime, entering the college life or workforce, marriage, children, divorce, job changes or a job loss. Statistical Package software for Social Science (SPSS) Version 25.0 was used to analyse the data. Results showed that financial distress, health condition and social relation have a positive relationship towards mental illness.

A case of personal productivity: Illustrating methodological developments in TOC

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-65
Author(s):  
James F. Cox ◽  
Victoria J. Mabin ◽  
John Davies
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solution ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Thinking Processes ◽  
Personal Productivity ◽  
Current Reality

This paper provides a constructive illustration of ongoing methodological developments in the use of TOC Thinking Processes and logic tools. In particular, the paper outlines a new approach to using the Evaporating Cloud, Current Reality Branch and Future Reality Branch, and demonstrates how that approach can be used to construct a comprehensive problem solution to a common problem, that of personal productivity.

scholarly journals Divergent Thinking in Four-Year-Old Children: An Analysis of Thinking Processes in Performing the Alternative Uses Task

2021 ◽  
pp. 100814
Author(s):  
Honghong Bai ◽  
Hanna Mulder ◽  
Mirjam Moerbeek ◽  
Evelyn H. Kroesbergen ◽  
Paul P.M. Leseman
Keyword(s):  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Thinking Processes
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