scholarly journals The best educational systems in the world on example of European and Asian countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-115
Author(s):  
Karolina Wilk
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Good Education ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Exchange Programme

Abstract The article describes 5 countries from the world: South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Finland that have the best and unusual educational systems. Thanks to the new approach to the teaching, students become very well-educated when graduate. The text emphasises the importance of foreign language knowledge. It is very interesting how much different is the approach to students in Asian countries and in Finland but both systems eventually provide very good education level to their students. The another part of the article bases for characteristic of two other EU countries – Romania and Poland. In these countries, the internal educational systems are quite similar to each other and guarantee their students very good education level. Thanks to the attendance in Erasmus exchange programme, Romanian and Polish students can broaden their mind abroad.

Using Lean Method in English Language Classes

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Araigul Kozhakhmetova ◽  
Lyazzat Beisenbayeva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Management System ◽  
English Language ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students

New approaches, methods, and tools are necessary for the implementation of the modern management system in educational organizations. The main purpose of this chapter is to determine using the lean method in foreign language teaching. The lean method is new in educational systems, but it is used in different spheres of industries all over the world. This chapter shows the history, its implementation, experiments, and how it can be used and developed further. Lean in education will create a clear understanding of its importance on lean process and increase the motivations of administrations, teachers, and students.

scholarly journals Regional Challenges and Competition in the Application of Public Diplomacy in East Asian Countries Year 2008

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Callula Salsabillah
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
National Interests ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Interesting Discussion

In today's world of international politics, the value for world countries in follow-up with other countries using a ceasefire or military use in a state of persistence has long been abandoned. A new approach in the form of Diplomacy that belongs to the concept of soft power is a more effective and efficient approach if used by various countries, especially to achieve national interests and foreign policy objectives. Various types of Diplomacy are often used but the approach of Public Diplomacy is the priority of various countries, especially in East Asia to exert influence globally and gain the interests of their countries. But in its application, especially in regions that use Public Diplomacy massively, this method can encounter failures or challenges in order to achieve its main objectives. Competition in the use of Public Diplomacy between countries in East Asia becomes an interesting discussion because in the 21st century, 3 pillar countries of East Asia are promoting diplomacy to the world.

scholarly journals EFL Matriculation Exams for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: Polish and Israeli Experiences

10.33496/009 ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 83-94
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Educational Expectations ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Specific Support

In recent decades the significance of English as a lingua franca has been systematically growing: it is no longer simply the native language of some nations but is rather the language of science, business, education, and leisure around the world. Not surprisingly, there is a great demand to learn and know this language, which is mirrored by the importance placed on English teaching in national curricula and its presence as a mandatory exam subject in secondary education. While most students can follow such education programs smoothly, the group of D/deaf and hard of hearing learners (D/HoH) meet serious challenges when learning a foreign language without auditory input and require specific support and accommodations to meet the curricula requirements. This paper presents the issue of teaching English as a foreign language to D/HoH students in the context of their matriculation exams in two countries whose educational systems share some historical roots: Poland and Israel. The method used was document analysis in the framework of the cultural contexts of two educational systems. The results show similarities for educational expectations but also differences concerning the type and scope of accommodations for D/HoH students. The analysis leads to pedagogical recommendations for improving the quality of D/HoH students’ education in these two countries.

The multilingual lexicon

2007 ◽  
pp. 250-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ton Dijkstra
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Processing System ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Visual Modality ◽  
Auditory Modality ◽  
The World ◽  
Listening And Speaking

Although precise numbers are lacking, in the world at large there may be more multilinguals than monolinguals when we define “multilingualism” as the regular use of two or more languages. This prominence of multilingualism in the world has its consequences, of course, for educational systems (for example, with respect to foreign language teaching), but also for psycholinguistic research, because the language processing system might be differently organised in monolinguals and bilinguals. This article discusses structural, process, and context/control issues with respect to the multilingual lexicon, addressing the following questions: How are words stored in the mental lexicon of multilinguals? How does a multilingual retrieve words in reading, listening, and speaking? What is the effect of context and cognitive control on multilingual processing? What models have been proposed to account for the available data? What can cognitive neuroscience contribute to bilingualism? The article also looks at the process of multilingual word recognition, focusing on visual modality, auditory modality, models of bilingual word processing, multilingual word production, and contributions of cognitive neuroscience.

Crime and Socio-Economic Change in Hong Kong

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-127
Author(s):  
Harold Traver
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Changes Over Time

AbstractExpanded crime has been linked with increasing affluence in the United States and Europe, the dislocation of tribal peoples in Africa, and a widening disparity between rich and poor in Latin America. In short, it appears that virtually any part of the world that has been touched by urbanization, industrialization, and economic development must expect increases in crime and delinquency (Cf. Wolf, 1971, Christiansen, 1960). However, crime in Asia has received somewhat less than its fair share of attention. The assumption appears to be that in contrast to other parts of the world a unique combination of cultural values has enabled many Asian countries to maintain low rates of crime in the face of extensive social and economic change (Cf. Schmitt, 1963; Canter and Canter, 1971, and Behrman, 1976). While there can be little doubt that the level of crime in Asian countries is generally below that found in advanced western industrial societies, this is not to say that significant increases in crime have not been observed. Hong Kong is a case in point. More than most societies Hong Kong has managed to successfully compress a great deal of social and economic change into a relatively brief period of time, and during this same period Hong Kong has also experienced pronounced increases in many types of crime. This article reports on an effort to measure trends in crime in Hong Kong and determine what social and economic forces might lie back of these trends. Concentrating on the relation between crime trends and social and economic change shifts attention away from the offender to the offense. Individual motivations obviously has a role to play in crime, but this alone cannot adequately explain why the volume of crime changes over time or why it should apparently be higher in one country than in another. Viewed in this way crime begins to take on a wider significance than if it were merely an expression of personal characteristics or an abberation existing in what would otherwise be a healthy society. Among other things, the magnitude to crime in society and the direction it is moving in may serve as an important means for better understanding how society itself works and what is happening to it.

The relevance of spoken features in English as a foreign language (EFL)

English Today ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Manfred Markus
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
World Language ◽  
Local Variety ◽  
The World

ABSTRACTAn analysis of the need for attention to the spoken word and phonetics in the teaching of English world-wide. It is a truism that English is increasingly becoming a world language. Even in China a ‘craze for English’ has been, in view of the fact that over 200 million children (about 20% of all children in the world) now1 learn English in Chinese schools. McArthur has estimated that c.250 million Indians use English every day. All these speakers of English use it their own way. This localisation of English has been variously detected, for example in Hong Kong. It is also well known from versions of African English and, in fact, from most English varieties that have been attributed to the ‘Outer’ or ‘Extended. However, as early as 1983 Kachru voiced a caveat: ‘A large majority of the non-native speakers of institutionalised varieties of English use a local variety of English, but when told so, they are hesitant to accept the fact’.

scholarly journals Race and native speakers in ELT: parents' perspectives in Hong Kong

English Today ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chit Cheung Matthew Sung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Native Speakers Of English

English is used as an important means of international and intercultural communication around the world more than ever. Because of its widespread use in the global context, non-native speakers of English around the world outnumber native speakers by far (Crystal, 1997). According to Kachru and Nelson (1996: 79), ‘accepting even cautious estimates, there must be at least three nonnative users of English for every old-country native user’. A similar phenomenon is also observable in the English Language Teaching (ELT) profession, with the vast majority of teachers of English as a second and foreign language in the world being non-native speakers.

Culturological approaches to organization of a foreign language educational process for students of IT specialties

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Daria K. Voronina ◽  
Alexandr N. Schamow
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Educational Potential

We consider some culturological approaches in relation to the profile-oriented foreign language training of non-linguist students at the higher school. The planned result of foreign languages teaching is currently described through the concept of foreign language communicative competence, which considers the personality of a student as a set of specific subject skills, knowledge and internal abilities including those, which are related to cultural transformation of the world. The goal of teaching languages consists of four components: practical, developing, upbringing and educational aspects. The practical goal corresponds to specific language knowledge and skills. Development through the process of studying languages is realized by the means of particular methods and techniques. The educational and formative potential is achieved by straightening of the culture-orienting function of the foreign languages educational process. These concrete scientific approaches combine the consideration of the mechanisms of transformation of culture into the world of personality and, accordingly, the influence of a developing personality on changes in cultural forms. We describe general characteristics of the approaches under consideration (socio-cultural, intercultural, multicultural and cultural-axiological) according to possibilities of methodological implementation of their fundamental principles in foreign language classes on the example of students of technical specialties. We consider the described approaches from the position of strengthening the educational potential of the process of foreign languages teaching to students in higher education, associated approaches with the idea of laying the foundations of a humanistically oriented, culturally diverse society, comfortable for personal and professional self-realization. Using the described approaches is advisable to strengthen the educational and upbringing function of foreign language training of students of IT specialties.

BIOBOARD

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (02) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Neurodegenerative Diseases ◽  
Large Intestine ◽  
Brain Cancer ◽  
Bowel Cancer ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Sepsis Therapy ◽  
Camphor Tree

Asia-Pacific — New bid to stamp out bowel cancer. Asia-Pacific — New way to breach blood-brain barrier when treating brain cancer. Asia-Pacific — New antibiotic to fight deadly superbug in large intestine. Asia-Pacific — Revealing the secrets of rogue clones which cause Lupus disease. Asia-Pacific — Stout camphor tree genome sequence completed. Rest of the World — Newly established Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Hong Kong. Rest of the World — New approach to sepsis therapy.

Sex Differences in Mass Media Preferences Across Four Asian Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malini Ratnasingam ◽  
Lee Ellis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evolutionary Explanation ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Preferences

Background. Nearly all of the research on sex differences in mass media utilization has been based on samples from the United States and a few other Western countries. Aim. The present study examines sex differences in mass media utilization in four Asian countries (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore). Methods. College students self-reported the frequency with which they accessed the following five mass media outlets: television dramas, televised news and documentaries, music, newspapers and magazines, and the Internet. Results. Two significant sex differences were found when participants from the four countries were considered as a whole: Women watched television dramas more than did men; and in Japan, female students listened to music more than did their male counterparts. Limitations. A wider array of mass media outlets could have been explored. Conclusions. Findings were largely consistent with results from studies conducted elsewhere in the world, particularly regarding sex differences in television drama viewing. A neurohormonal evolutionary explanation is offered for the basic findings.

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