An Analysis of the Characteristics of Chinese Female College Students’ English Conversation

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 395
Author(s):  
Daowei Liu ◽  
Yu Yin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Female College ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Face

This article analyzed the characteristics of Chinese female college students’ English conversation from the perspective of second language acquisition by using some theories of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. After analysis, it was found that female students used hedges and intensifiers extensively in second language conversations. Additionally, the participants consciously maintained the face of their peers and made the conversation take place in an atmosphere of equality and solidarity. Through the use of deixis, the conversation was well organized and carried out smoothly. The participants changed their roles, gave and took the floors, and offered new information to prolong the conversation. Although female language had many characteristics, it cannot be fully reflected in this sample conducted in a second language.

From the editor

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Rahimi
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Second Language Teaching

 Message from Editor Dear Readers,It is a great honor for us to publish August 2016 Vol 6 No 4 of Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (GJFLT).Please follow the link below:http://www.gjflt.eu/Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching welcomes original empirical investigations and comprehensive literature review articles focusing on foreign language teaching and topics related to linguistics. GJFLT is an international journal published quarterly and it is a platform for presenting and discussing the emerging developments in foreign language teaching in an international arena.The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to; the following major topics: Cultural studies, Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design, Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), General Linguistics, Globalization Studies and world English’s, Independent/Autonomous Learning, Information and Computer Technology in TEFL, Innovation in language, Teaching and learning, Intercultural Education, Language acquisition and learning, Language curriculum development, Language education, Language program evaluation, Language Testing and Assessment, Literacy and language learning, Literature, Mobile Language Learning, Pragmatics, Second Language, Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition Theory, Digital Literacy Skills, Second Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Second language Pedagogy, Second Language Proficiency, Second Language Speech, Second Language Teaching, Second Language Training, Second Language Tutor, Second language Vocabulary Learning, Teaching English as a Foreign/ Second Language, Teaching Language Skills, Translation Studies, Applied linguistics, Cognitive linguistics.Teachers’ Beliefs and Students’ Experiences, Indonesian University Students’ Vocabulary Mastery, Multiple Language Learning, Idiom Transformation and Modification, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Writing Achievement, Complex Sentence Structures in Patients with Schizophrenia, and The Effect of Second Life on Speaking Achievement have been included in this issue. The topics of the next issue will be different. We are trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge through which different kinds of topics will be discussed in 2017 issues.We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.Best regards,Associate Professor Dr. Ali Rahimi,Editor – in Chief, Bangkok University

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF SPEAKING SELF-EFFICACY AND GENDER IN SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Sundari ◽  
Dasmo Dasmo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Female Students ◽  
T Test ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female College ◽  
And Gender

The present study tries to find out the effect of speaking self-efficacy and gender in speaking activities particularly in English as second/foreign language situation, using questionnaire from Bandura’s Guide for constructing self-efficacy scales. The Samples of this study were 23 male and 27 female college-students from speaking classes.  ANOVA and T-test helped by SPSS 15.0 for windows were employed to investigate speaking self-efficacy, gender and speaking activities. The result showed that the level of speaking self-efficacy both male and female students is moderate. They can moderately perform speaking activities but they think them quite though and difficult. Besides, Sig. for gender scores lower than .05 (.013 < .05), gender gave significant effect towards speaking activities. Yet, not only speaking self-efficacy partially (Sig .162 > .05) but also its simultaneous interaction with gender (Sig .0677 > .05) did not affect significantly towards speaking activities.

Awareness of female college students about the values ​​of citizenship in Islamic educational thought and the role of colleges of education in strengthening them: وعي بعض طالبات الجامعات السعودية بقيم المواطنة في الفكر التربوي الإسلامي ودور كليات التربية في تعزيزها

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (48) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manal Ammar Mezuo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Female Students ◽  
University Education ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Colleges Of Education ◽  
Educational Thought ◽  
Female College ◽  
The University

The study aims at identifying the awareness of female college students about the values ​​of citizenship in Islamic educational thought and the role of colleges of education in strengthening them, The study used the descriptive approach, and the study sample included a random size of (500) female students by 100 students from each university, and the study tool included four axes, the first axis dealt with the awareness of the value of Arab-Islamic culture, and the second axis dealt with the awareness of the importance of the Arabic language, and the third axis dealt with Awareness of the importance of religious events. The fourth axis dealt with the role of colleges of education, as well as relying on arithmetic averages in addition to analyzing multiple variances. All statistical treatments were done using the SPSS (v12) statistical program. The results of the field study showed that the students are very aware of the values ​​of citizenship as well as the role of the colleges of education, as all the averages approached the great end for each dimension, and the results also showed there are no statistically significant differences in the level of students’ awareness of the values ​​of citizenship and the role of colleges of education depending on the variables of the university and the division and interaction between them. In light of the results, the study made some recommendations, including that student activities must be characterized by diversity, with the participation of the largest possible number of students, the curricula should include in their content the values ​​of citizenship, such as collective spirit and commitment to the standards and regulations of society, the students’ curricula should develop the principle of freedom of expression and the culture of dialogue, the university professor’s behavior must match his ideas in educational situations and the necessity of conducting similar studies on other samples such as graduate students and female students in pre-university education stages.

ESL Teachers as Theory Makers: A Discourse Analysis of Student Assignments in a Second Language Acquisition Course

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Paul Markham ◽  
Mary Rice ◽  
Behnaz Darban
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Inservice Teachers ◽  
Esl Teachers ◽  
Educational Theories ◽  
Willingness To Change ◽  
The Future

Second Language Acquisition (SLA) knowledge is necessary in order to increase the likelihood that teachers will engage in sound practices. The purpose of this study was to discursively examine the evolving SLA knowledge as part of living educational theories in course assignments of 29 teachers in an SLA theory class. This study offers several valuable additional insights about teachers living educational theories of SLA. Specifically, preservice teachers exhibited more willingness to change their practice in the future than inservice teachers, yet preservice teachers still expressed both a confirmation of original beliefs and personal validation for extant beliefs.

Attributions of Female College Students to Male Photographs as a Function of Attractiveness and Pupil Size

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1265-1266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hicks ◽  
Robert J. Pellegrini ◽  
Nancy Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Pupil Size ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female College ◽  
Female Model ◽  
Relative Attractiveness ◽  
Male Model

To check on the possibility that relative attractiveness rather than sex of model may have been the determinant of inverse and inverted-U curves observed between ratings of variations of pupil size shown in a male and female model, 170 female students were asked to rate photographs of an attractive and an average looking male model, each of which had been altered to create a continuum of pupil sizes. The results indicated that pattern of mean ratings changed as predicted, as a function of relative attractiveness. This finding identifies a variable which may have partially confounded the results of earlier studies.

On Different Relationships between Dogmatism and Machiavellianism among Male and Female College Students

1976 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 779-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Steininger ◽  
Ellen Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Difference ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female College ◽  
Response Set

A brief dogmatism scale and the Kiddie Machiavellianism Scale were answered by 112 male and 83 female students. The men's Mach scores were higher than the women's. The correlation between dogmatism and Mach— was not significant in either sex; in contrast, the correlation between dogmatism and Mach+ was significant for both sexes, r being significantly greater for the women than for the men. Agreement response set therefore seemed to be involved in the correlations between these scales for both sexes, though more for the women than the men. Factor by factor correlations indicated that for the men, the main other overlap between these two scales was an unflattering view of people, as hypothesized by Christie and Geis; for the women, however, the overlap between the scales was more extensive. The interpretation of this sex difference suggested the possibility that women may be more Machiavellian than their scores suggest and may even be more Machiavellian than men. though their scores typically suggest the opposite.

Dépistage des troubles des conduites alimentaires chez une population d'étudiantes de niveau collégial: corrélation avec deux caractéristiques psychosociales*

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 892-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Ratté ◽  
Guy Pomerleau ◽  
Et Claude Lapointe
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Positive Predictive Value ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Female College ◽  
Eat 26

The aims of this study were to measure the extent of severe eating disorders among female college students, to verify if there is a correlation with two indicators of “pressure to perform” while evaluating a screening instrument. Of 1144 female students, 16.3% scored 20 or above on the EAT-26 scale. Interviews allowed to determine that the positive predictive value of the EAT-26 when coupled with a low self-reported weight is considerably heightened. It was possible to estimate that over the last three years one girl out of 12 has presented severe eating disorders and one in 65 has suffered from anorexia nervosa. The EAT score was significantly correlated with the mother's level of schooling but not with the student's academic discipline.

Plant-Based Dietary Indices and Stress in Female College Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Ghadeer S. Aljuraiban
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Psychological Stress ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Healthy Plant ◽  
Food Groups ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Female College

Abstract Objective: Only a few studies have investigated the association between psychological stress and the healthfulness of plant-based diets while accounting for variances in age groups and regions. In light of this, this study aimed to identify the food groups that contribute the most to the relationship between the healthfulness of plant-based diets and psychological stress in female students in Saudi Arabia. Methods: This cross-sectional study, which included 401 female college students aged 19–35, collected data on blood, anthropometric indices, the perceived stress scale (PSS-10), and the Saudi food frequency questionnaire. An overall plant-based diet index (PDI), healthy PDI (hPDI), and unhealthy PDI (uPDI) were defined. Multiple linear regression analyses were applied to examine the associations between the PSS-10 and the PDI, hPDI, and uPDI. Results: No associations between the PSS-10 score and the overall PDI or uPDI scores were found; however, a 6-point higher hPDI score was found to be associated with a 0.16-point lower PSS-10 score (95% confidence interval, −0.24 to −0.08) after controlling for lifestyle factors. Moreover, adjustments for healthy food groups, including vegetables and fruits, attenuated the association between the hPDI and PSS-10. Conclusions: Healthy plant-based diets are associated with lower psychological stress in young Saudi women. This finding highlights the importance, especially for female students, of following diets that are not only plant-based but are also healthy and rich in fruits and vegetables.

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