Young Children's Attitudes to Computers and Computing

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Yelland
Keyword(s):  
School Context ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Range Of Functions ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Children's Attitudes

Sixty children in their second year of school were interviewed with questions about computers and their use. The questionnaire contained items that were considered in three broad categories: the children's ideas and attitudes towards computers, their ownership and experience with computers, and their views regarding the sex-stereotyping of computers and computer activities. The results revealed that the children had positive attitudes towards the use of computers and were able to describe and discuss the range of functions that they could perform. The children's experience was limited in both the home and the school context and it was evident that the boys in the study were more likely to think that their own gender were better at using computers than girls.

scholarly journals The development of written expression in immigrant children from 6 to 9 years old

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-131
Author(s):  
Elisa de las Fuentes Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
School Context ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Written Expression ◽  
Lexical Retrieval ◽  
Syntactic Complexity ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Positive Feelings

AbstractThis article presents the results of a pilot study carried out based on texts from 15 immigrant children aged 6 to 9 years, who are learning Spanish in situations of immersion in the Communities of Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha. The aim is to understand how these students try to integrate into the school context and especially to determine whether the development of written expression during the early years of primary education allows them to carry out more complex linguistic actions aimed at communication, such as expressing positive attitudes towards the recipient. These actions may reveal the need to communicate and, therefore, the need to learn the language in order to integrate. The texts were taken from the ESCONES Corpus and were collected in a prior study on lexical retrieval and auditory perception in the development of communicative skills in children aged 6 to 9. The analysis carried out considered the vocabulary used, syntactic complexity and the use of linguistic actions in the different grades and found that the development of written expression may allow students to better express actions related to manifesting positive feelings and attitudes towards their interlocutor.

scholarly journals Examining the Role that Families Play in Shaping Children’s Attitudes toward Reading

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Tessaro
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Attitudes Toward Reading ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Children's Attitudes ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

This qualitative investigation presents findings from interviews and observations with 6 mothers and 7 children (ages 6 to 8) in Vaughan, Ontario. The purpose of this research study was to examine the rituals and routines in the home environment that impacted children’s attitudes toward reading. By incorporating the perspectives of children, the researcher sought to answer the question of “why” there continues to be a steady decline in positive attitudes amongst primary children. Using a grounded theory approach, the findings suggest that it was not exclusively the rituals and routines which children had that shaped their attitudes. Rather, participants identified distinct principles of motivation, engagement and the roles of peers, siblings and parents as being influential. The findings demonstrate the value of supporting children in locating their own purpose when reading and exploring literacy opportunities as a shared experience.

scholarly journals Promoting Values of Religious Tolerance through Moroccan ELT Textbooks

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Ait Bouzid
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Second Year

<p>This paper examines the religious content of three Moroccan second year Baccalaureate ELT textbooks. It studies the representation of religion as a cultural perspective in these textbooks to investigate whether they raise Moroccan learners’ awareness of other religions. It is built on the premise that the spread of religious intolerance is fueled by being insufficiently or inappropriately informed about local and foreign religions. It therefore draws the attention of ELT practitioners to recognizing the role ELT textbooks could play in reducing illiteracy about religions and fostering positive attitudes towards other religions. The study evolved within the theoretical framework of the Standards-Based Approach. It adopted a concurrent triangulation design and used mixed content analysis to analyze the data. The findings revealed that the examined textbooks do not sensitize learners about respect for diversity, tolerance and peaceful coexistence among different religions. Ultimately, some ways in which religious antagonism could be minimized are suggested.</p>

scholarly journals Children’s Positive Attitudes in the New Testament Epistles

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-51
Author(s):  
Stanisław Wronka
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Positive Statements ◽  
Mother's Milk ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mother’S Milk ◽  
Children's Attitudes

The subject of the article is the attitudes and characteristics of children, which the authors of the New Testament epistles evaluate directly or indirectly as positive and recommend to their addressees in their relation to God, Christ, the Gospel, other people and values. Such attitudes include: service (Phil 2:22), obedience (Eph 6:1–3; Col 3:20; 1 Pet 1:14–16), modesty and innocence (1 Thess 2:7), receiving discipline (Heb 12:4–11), the desire for healthy mother’s milk (1 Pet 2:1–3). Besides, Semitic expressions such as ‘children of Abraham’ or ‘children of obedience’ emphasize the child’s origin and dependence on parents and participation in their goods. While in familiar phrases such as ‘my children’ or ‘my babies’ the cordiality, trust and devotion characteristic for children come to the fore. By recommending children’s attitudes to adult Christians, the authors of the letters do not want to lead them to infantilism, but to preserve the child’s soul. Although they do not refer to the positive statements of the Lord Jesus about children, their view of children is similar. They only pay more often attention to the negative attitudes of small persons.

scholarly journals The Influnce of KWL Strategy Use in Teaching Reading for EFL Learners in Class Room

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Endang Haryanto
Keyword(s):  
School Context ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Class Room ◽  
And Control

Reading is a process to to get both the information and knowledge from written sources or text. To make it easiers there are some applicable strategies. Based  on some related literatures, KWL can be implemented in teaching reading for EFL learners in class room with varied   reading skill levels. Hence this strategy assumed is appropriate use in Indonesian school context. This reasearch is intended to investigate how effective the strategy in helping leraners to enhanch their ability in reading. The samples of this study were the second year students of SMAN 07 South Bengkulu in 2019. The research design use is experimental study with expemental and control class. From the result of the study the data showed that the students taught with KWL achieved better reading comprehension than those were not taught with the strategy.

scholarly journals Preliminary Study on the Pharmacology Practical Teaching Reform in Pharmacy in Higher Vocational Colleges

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Jiao Xu ◽  
Tao Gong
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Course Assessment ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Training Mode ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Second Year ◽  
New Situation

<p>Pharmacology training course is an important part of pharmacology teaching and an important means to let students understand and master the basic knowledge of pharmacology. In order to meet the requirements of high-quality technical talents under the new situation, this paper, by making corresponding reforms of current training in pharmacology teaching contents, methods, means and examination method, and tracking questionnaire survey on course effect, explores a training mode of pharmacology to adapt the new trend of vocational education. A total of 188 second-year pharmacy students participated in the study. Course assessment and questionnaire survey were used to evaluate the reformed course. Students in this course performed well. The number of students who failed to pass the exam is 0. The data from the questionnaires indicated that students generally held positive attitudes toward the innovative teaching contents and model. </p>

Children's Attitudes Toward Physical Activity: A Longitudinal Analysis

1980 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank L. Smoll ◽  
Robert W. Schutz
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Cross Sectional Studies ◽  
Children's Attitudes ◽  
The Aesthetic

Attitudes toward six subdomains of physical activity were assessed across Grades 4 to 6 for a multiple longitudinal sample consisting of 58 boys and 56 girls. The children's attitudes toward physical activity (CATPA) were generally positive for both sexes; and consistent with previous research, the girls showed more favorable attitudes toward the aesthetic subdomain than the boys. However, the boys evidenced significantly more positive attitudes toward physical activity as the pursuit of vertigo and as catharsis. Neither the among-grade comparisons nor sex-by-grade comparisons attained statistical significance, indicating stability in group attitude scores. However, correlational analyses revealed the lack of stability of CATPA within individuals across the grades studied. Factor analysis provided further evidence negating the assumption of CATPA as an enduring behavioral disposition. The findings are discussed in relation to previous cross-sectional studies, and implications are derived for future research.

scholarly journals Teachers’ way of contextualising the science content in lesson introductions

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
Eva Davidsson ◽  
◽  
Pernilla Granklint Enochson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Intervention Studies ◽  
School Context ◽  
School Science ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Science Content ◽  
Scientific Content ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The Moment

Abstract: Previous studies have pointed to the benefits of involving students’ everyday life experiences in lessons and in contextualising the science content to enhance learning and positive attitudes towards school science. However, most of these investigations have been conducted as intervention studies. By contrast, the present study explored how teachers, in authentic situations and without interventions, related the school science context to other contexts. We analysed a total of 490 minutes of lesson introductions in Swedish Grade 9 classes. The results revealed that teachers employed contextualisation at the intersection of science content and the everyday life context, the school context, and the language context. Furthermore, it appeared that contextualisation was created in the moment, as a way of explicating the scientific content. Compared to intervention studies, the present study shows that occasions of contextualisation are rare. It is possible to conclude that the use of contextualisation in science learning situations could be viewed as a teacher competence and must be explicit in teacher education and professional development in order to achieve the benefits of enhanced student interest and learning shown in the mentioned intervention studies.

scholarly journals Student preferences: using Grammarly to help EFL writers with paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-189
Author(s):  
Dragana Lazic ◽  
Andrew Thompson ◽  
Tim Pritchard ◽  
Saori Tsuji
Keyword(s):  
Public University ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Instructional Tool ◽  
Student Preferences ◽  
Writing Evaluation ◽  
Automated Writing Evaluation ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Writing From Sources ◽  
Second Year

This study explores students’ perceptions about using Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE), Grammarly (a paid version), as a complementary instructional tool to teach and support writing from sources. Participants were second-year students (n=37) at a public university in Japan. After in-class tasks aimed at teaching paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing, students completed a survey that measured their perceptions. Students had positive attitudes about Grammarly in general but had somewhat polarized opinions on how useful the tool is in teaching writing from sources and helping with plagiarism.

scholarly journals Children’s Attitudes and Behaviors about Oral Health and Dental Practices

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 416
Author(s):  
Sara Costa Fernandes ◽  
Ana Louceiro ◽  
Luísa Bandeira Lopes ◽  
Francisco Esteves ◽  
Patrícia Arriaga
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Positive Behaviors ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Dental Practices ◽  
Children's Attitudes ◽  
And Behaviors

The present study sought to contribute to a better understanding of children’s attitudes and behaviors regarding oral health and dental practices. The sample was composed of 101 children (8–10 years), collected from several schools in the Lisbon metropolitan area. Our main goals were to collect a survey of information about the beliefs, attitudes, habits and knowledge of children about oral and dental issues in order to not only have an overview of them but also to serve as a basis and a starting point for the development of intervention programs to increase positive attitudes and behaviors related to oral health and promote greater knowledge about these subjects. In general, children reported positive behaviors regarding dental habits and oral hygiene practices. Children’s opinions and beliefs about dentists were also globally positive; however, the results suggested that younger children reported more positive attitudes, emotions and previous experiences. Regarding children’s knowledge about these dental issues, the results were quite negative and worrying, ruled by ignorance and incorrect beliefs and behaviors. In sum, all the results and conclusions of this study may contribute to the development of educational programs within the scope of the promotion of oral health and hygiene practices—“An Adventure about Oral Health.”

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