scholarly journals Attitudes of Afghan Civil Servants Towards Learning English: A Case Study of Afghanistan

Author(s):  
Sayeed Asif Akramy ◽  
Rohina Rahimzai Javed

Abstract The present study attempts to investigate the attitudes of Afghan civil servants towards learning English in their work environment. It also studies the effects of English for the quality of their work and the tasks they do in their offices. Moreover, the study aims to determine the respondents’ attitudes towards learning English by their gender, age, level of education, and the experience of using English at their work places. The data were collected from 508 Afghan civil servants who were working in different ministries through a questionnaire containing 20 items. For the data analysis, Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 was used. Descriptive statistics, sample T-test, and a one-way ANOVA test were conducted to answer the questions. The findings of the study yielded that Afghan civil servants have positive attitudes towards learning English. The study also revealed that the attitudes of Afghan civil servants towards learning English are positive by their gender, age, level of education, and their experience of using English at their work places. Furthermore, the study reports that there is no any statistically significant difference in the attitudes of Afghan civil servants by their gender, age, level of education, and experience of using English at their work places.

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 398
Author(s):  
Aytaç Karakaş ◽  
Hasan Genç

Environmental education in national parks is equivalent to an open and permanent education process in which individuals and communities become aware of their natural environment and gain a critical and sensitive attitude towards it and the use of its resources. The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes of teachers towards national parks who work in schools near different national parks in terms of different variables. As a work of descriptive research, it was conducted with a total of 167 teachers who worked in schools around Kovada Lake National Park, Kızıldağ National Park, and Honaz Mountain National Park. In the study, an attitude scale with a Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient of 0.83 and consisting of 32 items was used for the national parks. The SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences Program) was used to evaluate the data obtained. A T-test and a one-way ANOVA test were used to analyze the data. According to the results obtained, teachers’ attitudes towards the national park did not show a significant difference in terms of their gender, their tenure, the branches they serve, their purpose of visiting the national park, their opinions on the importance attached to the national park, the different schools near the national park, the national park near the schools they worked in, their purpose in visiting the national park previously while they differed significantly according to whether the teachers had visited the national park before.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 3696
Author(s):  
Ümit Çelen ◽  
İlker Kösterelioğlu ◽  
Meltem Akın Kösterelioğlu

Teachers participate in-service trainings in order to contribute their vocational development after completing graduate education and appointed as a teacher. The positive attitudes of teachers about participating in-service trainings increase the expectations about the teaching activities in their classrooms. In addition, The participation levels of teachers and the quality of in-service training activities may have a significant role on boosting teacher’s attitudes on attendance to in-service trainings. Based on this principle aim, in this research, the answers to these questions of teachers’ working in pre-primary, primary, secondary and high schools in Amasya, Tokat, Samsun and Çorum cities were sought in this study:  what are the attitudes of the teachers in participating the in-service trainings? Do the attitudes of the teachers differ significantly based on the factors of gender, professional experience, the city where they work, or their branch?  And is there any interconnection between the attitude scores of the teachers participating in the in-service trainings and their ages and years of seniority? 4) What are the expectations of the teachers about improving the effectiveness of the in-service trainings? Since this research tries to define the existing situation, the descriptive survey model was used in this research. N=37.028 teachers are the population of this research. In the research, which used a stratified cluster sampling method, n=961 teachers’ data were collected. The data of the research were collected by using the “Attitude Scale on In-Service Training (ASIST)”, which was in likert-form, and developed by Çelen, Kösterelioğlu and Akın Kösterelioğlu (2016). According to the findings, a statistically significant difference could not be found among the attitude scores of the teachers who work in four different provinces regarding participation in in-service training activities in terms of the gender, marital status and the number of the children they have. In the attitude scores of teachers, a significant difference was seen only in branch variable in favour of pre-primary teachers. Furthermore, whether the subject of the training to be given meets the needs of the education and trainings in the school, whether the in-service trainings address the teachers’ vocational and social interests; and the time they are organised and by whom they are given can be defined factors which can affect the participation levels of teachers and indirectly the attitudes regarding them.   ÖzetÖğretmenler eğitim fakültelerinde hizmet öncesi öğrenimini tamamladıktan ve öğretmen olarak atandıktan sonra mesleki gelişimlerine katkı sağlamak için hizmet içi eğitim programlarına katılırlar. Öğretmenlerin hizmet içi eğitimlere katılmak konusunda olumlu bir tutuma sahip olmaları onların sınıflarındaki öğretim faaliyetlerinden beklenen etkiyi arttırır.  Bunun yanı sıra düzenlenen hizmet içi eğitim etkinliklerinin niteliği ve öğretmenlerin katılım düzeyi, zamanla hizmet içi eğitimlere katılma konusunda tutumlarının gelişmesinde etkili olabilmektedir. Bu nedenle bu araştırmada Amasya, Tokat, Samsun ve Çorum illerinde, okul öncesi, ilkokul, ortaokul ve liselerde görev yapan öğretmenlerin; hizmet içi eğitime katılmaya ilişkin tutumları nasıldır? Hizmet içi eğitime ilişkin tutum puanları, cinsiyet, öğretmenlik hizmet yılı, öğretmenlik yaptığı şehir, branş gibi değişkenler açısından manidar farklılık göstermekte midir? ve hizmet içi eğitimlerin etkililiğinin artmasına ilişkin beklentileri nelerdir? sorularına yanıt aranmıştır. Var olan durumu saptamak amaçlandığından araştırma, tarama modelinde nicel bir araştırmadır. Araştırmanın evreninde N=37.028 öğretmen yer almaktadır. Tabakalı küme örnekleme yöntemiyle seçilen örneklem üzerinde yürütülen araştırmada n=961 öğretmenden veri toplanmıştır. Araştırmada veriler, Çelen, Kösterelioğlu ve Akın Kösterelioğlu (2016) tarafından geliştirilen ölçek ile toplanmıştır. Verilerin analizinden elde edilen sonuçlara göre; öğretmenlerin hizmet içi eğitim programlarına katılma konusunda; Tokat, Çorum, Amasya ve Samsun illerinde görev yapma, cinsiyet, mesleki kıdem, medeni durum ve çocuk sahibi olma değişkenleri açısından anlamlı fark elde edilmemiştir. Öğretmenlerin tutum puanlarında sadece okul öncesi öğretmenler lehine olmak üzere branş değişkeninde manidar fark saptanmıştır. Ayrıca hizmet içi eğitime katılma konusunda eğitimlerin öğretmenlerin ihtiyaçlarına uygun olması, eğitimin ilgilerini çekmesi, eğitimin yapılacağı zamanın uygunluğu ve kim tarafından verilecek olması öğretmenlerin katılım düzeylerini arttıracak ve dolaylı olarak olumlu tutum geliştirmelerine etki edebilecek unsurlar olarak sıralanmaktadır.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naeem Bhojani ◽  
Ghizlane Moussaoui ◽  
David-Dan Nguyen ◽  
Mei Juan Trudel ◽  
Garo-Shant Topouzian ◽  
...  

Introduction: The Wisconsin Stone Quality of Life (WISQOL) questionnaire has been recently developed to objectively assess QOL in patients with urolithiasis. However, French version of the questionnaire was lacking. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to develop and validate the French version of this tool. Methods: The French version of the WISQOL (F-WISQOL) was developed in a multi-step process involving primary translation, back-translation and pilot testing amongst a group of patients (n=12). Urolithiasis patients from two tertiary care institutions were recruited into this study and completed 3 questionnaires: Perceived Stress Scale-10, medical history form and either the WISQOL or F-WISQOL. Internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach’s α and inter-domain associations were evaluated using Spearman’s rank correlation (r). One-way ANOVA was used to compare scores from the two groups (WISQOL and F-WISQOL). Results: A total of 210 patients were enrolled in this study; 68 in the WISQOL group and 148 in the F-WISQOL group. Internal consistency was high for all domains in both groups (F-WISQOL: 0.924-0.970; WISQOL: 0.888-0.965). No statistically significant difference was found between the two groups’ scores. Inter-domain association, measured by Spearman correlation, was moderate to very strong between all of the domains in the F-WISQOL. Values ranged from r=0.676-0.915, with acceptable correlation between D1, D2 and D3, but weaker correlation between D4 (vitality) and the 3 other domains r=0.676-0.729. Conclusions: In the present study, the French version of the WISQOL questionnaire (F-WISQOL) was validated at two academic institutions.


2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 532-543
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahsan ◽  
Zahoor Hussain ◽  
Noshaba Younus

The focus of the present research was to find out the Role of Siraiki Language in Teaching/Learning English Language at graduation Level. By this study the researcher attempted to expose the intentions for which the students and instructors make use of Siraiki in their English language classroom inside and outside activities and in the same way, to show the actions and the situations in which they select for not using their L1. To explore a clear comprehension of the current subject matter, the research targeted on the 577 students and the 156 teachers. Data was collected through questionnaires. The data was examined through SPSS (statistical package for social sciences) 23 version. Data were inspected using descriptive analysis, Analysis of variance (ANOVA), T-Test and Cronbach's alpha. The findings of the present study showed that the students and the teachers indicated highly positive perceptions concerning the use of Siraiki language in EFL classroom.


Author(s):  
Phuong Dzung Pho ◽  
Phuong Thi Minh Tran

Publishing scientific research is very important in contributing to the knowledge of a discipline and in sharing experience among scientists. However, there are few studies to find solutions to improve the quantity and quality of research publications, especially those in the fields of social sciences and humanities. This case study aims at finding the difficulties that lecturers from different faculties and departments of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City have encountered in publishing their research. Based on the survey data, the study suggests practical solutions to enhance Vietnamese researchers’ national and international publications in order to meet integration challenges.


Author(s):  
Dan Alexandru Szabo ◽  
Agnes Piroska Antal ◽  
Margit Zékely Varga ◽  
Nicolae Neagu

"ABSTRACT. Introduction: Calcium tendinopathy of the shoulder is a familiar, unpleasant situation distinguished by calcium buildups in rotating tendons. Current assumptions suggest that these calcifications might originate from a cellular-involved procedure in whom, following a calcium sedimentation phase, calcifications are suddenly re-orbited. Objectives: This paper aims to establish non-surgical therapeutic conduct of maximum efficiency in the case of calcified Tendinitis in the shoulder by combining methods of physiokinetotherapy. Methods: The research methods used by us were: bibliographic method, experimental method, case study method, observation method, test method, statistical-mathematical methods of data processing, graphic method of presentation of results, Shapiro-Wilk test, t-Student test, parametric test for unpaired data, respectively Mann-Whitney test, non-parametric test for unpaired data. Results: As a result, statistically, using the t-Student test, p<0.05, we found a statistically significant difference between the averages of the abstraction values in weeks 8 and 12 in the two lots. Conclusions: Kinetic treatment ensures improvement of the algal component and functional parameters, thus ensuring the patient's quality of life by combating muscle contractions and increasing joint mobility."


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 4906
Author(s):  
Summani Ekici ◽  
Tugay Kırcan

This research aims to examine social integration of the individuals according to some variables who participated in youth camps of Ministry of youth and sports. Universe of this study consists of the individuals who participated youth camps of Ministry of youth and sports while sample of study consists of 151 females and 251 males, total 402 participants who participated in Antalya Duacı and BoluAladağlar camps. Sports and Social Integrations Scale (SSIS) which had been developed by Yılmaz and friends (2006) composed of seven point likert type was used for  research group. In order to analyze the data SPSS 18 (Statistical Package for Social Science) package software was used, frequency and percent age analysis to determine the socio demographic characteristics of the students, one-way ANOVA to determine the differences between the sexes and in view of the benefits of participating in outdoor activities to determine whether they present differences in gender  t-test wasused. Tukey HSD multiple comparison test was applied with the purpose of determining which groups lead to statistical difference that comes out after one-way variance analysis (ANOVA). T-Test was applied in order to determine whether the sex of the participants creates difference in their opinions about the benefits of outdoor sports. The significance level of p<0,05 was taken into account in statistical analysis and interpretations of data. According to statistical analysis result, it was determined that 62.4% male and 37.6% female subjects. According to gender, found significant difference between the levels of social integration (p<0,05). Significant differences were observed in “emotional development subscale” among the male and female participants. The views of participants on the socialization aspects, compared to age [F(4-397)= 3,440; p< ,05]; the view of moral development dimension compared to age [F(4-397)= 2,569; p< ,05] and the view of regarding physical benefits when compared to ages have significant differences. According to this result, extreme sports affect young people’s personnel development and the quality of life in a positive way. ÖzetBu araştırma, Gençlik ve Spor Bakanlığı Gençlik Kamplarına Katılan Bireylerin Sosyal Uyumlarının Bazı Değişkenlere Göre Araştırılması” amacıyla yapılmıştır. Çalışmanın evereni; Gençlik ve Spor Bakanlığı Gençlik Kamplarına Katılan Bireyler oluştururken örneklemi; Antalya Duacı ve Bolu Aladağlar kamplarına katılan 151 kadın, 251 erkek toplam 402 bireyler oluşturmaktadır.   Araştırma grubuna Yılmaz ve ark. (2006) tarafından geliştirilen, yedi alt boyutlu ve Likert tipindeki “Sporda Sosyal Bütünleşme Ölçeği” (SSBÖ)  anketi uygulanmıştır.   Elde edilen verilerin değerlendirilmesinde SPSS 18 istatistik programı kullanılmış olup, öğrencilerin sosyo-demografik özelliklerini belirlemek için frekans ve yüzde analizi, cinsiyetler arasında Farklılığı tespit etmek için tek yönlü varyans analizi (ANOVA)  ve katılımcıların doğa sporlarının faydalarına ilişkin görüşlerinde cinsiyetlerinin farklılık oluşturup oluşturmadığını belirlemek için t-Testi uygulanmıştır. Tek yönlü varyans analizi (ANOVA) sonucunda ortaya çıkan istatistiksel farkın hangi gruplardan kaynakladığını belirlemek amacıyla Tukey HSD çoklu karşılaştırma testi uygulanmıştır. Verilerin istatistiksel analizinde ve yorumlarda, p< 0,05 anlamlılık düzeyi dikkate alınmıştır. Yapılan istatistiksel analiz sonucuna göre, deneklerin % 62,4 ünün erkek ve % 37,6 sının bayan olduğu belirlenmiştir. Cinsiyetlere göre sosyal uyum düzeyleri arasında (p<0,05) düzeyinde anlamlı farklılık bulunmuştur. Erkek ve Kadın” katılımcılar arasında “Duygusal gelişim” alt boyutunda anlamlı düzeyde bir farklılık görülmüştür. Katılımcıların doğa sporlarının sosyalleşme boyutuna ilişkin görüşleri yaşlarına göre [F(4-397)= 3,440; p< ,05];ahlaki gelişim boyutuna ilişkin görüşleri yaşlarına göre [F(4-397)= 2,569; p< ,05] ve fiziksel fayda boyutuna ilişkin görüşleri yaşlarına göre anlamlı bir farklılık göstermektedir.  Bu sonuçlara göre doğa sporları gençlerin kişisel gelişim ve hayat kalitelerini olumlu yönde etkilemektedir.


2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Jim Morey ◽  
Ken Wallis ◽  
Hoseoup Lee ◽  
Gary Scherzer ◽  
Robert Orilio

Eight New York nursing homes, 4 open and 4 closed, were chosen at random for analysis. They were examined to determine if a relationship between age of assets, fiscal viability and quality of care existed. Three years of data for each nursing home was selected Several financial variables were used to construct a fiscal viability index; and a patient care index was created from selected measures that are used to measure specific aspects of institutional care. The premise was that the constructed indices will demonstrate a significant difference between closed nursing homes and homes remaining open. The analysis found that fiscal viability index could be a significant factor to differentiate the two groups of nursing homes, but the quality index showed no significant difference between the two groups.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Normala Ismail ◽  
Mohamad Kamil Ariff Khalid

The main purpose of this study is to identify the students’ understanding of e-learning and their readiness for self-directed learning. A total of 306 Diploma level students of a various program from three faculties at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Pahang Raub Campus have been surveyed. The data were obtained through questionnaires distributed and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23. The findings show that the respondents’ level of understanding of the concept and their responsibility on e-learning is high while their readiness for self-directed learning is low. The correlation test results show that there is a significant positive relationship between the respondents’ level of understanding to e-learning and their willingness for self-directed learning but the correlation is weak. The findings also showed that the respondents’ level of education and study grade have a significant difference in their readiness for self-directed learning.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (32) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Mohammad-reza Takrousta ◽  
Parviz Behrouzi ◽  
Sholeh Kolahi

An English language textbook for banking purposes had been designed based on the language needs of EDBI staffs. Consequently, an English course for banking purposes was held at EDBI using the designed book. To ensure about the validity and quality of the textbook, it was evaluated by 2 language experts through an interview before the course and 30 bank’s staffs as the learners through a set of questionnaire after the course. Based on the quantitative and qualitative findings of the study, both language experts and EDBI’s staffs had positive attitudes toward the materials, topics, activities and tasks, language skills and physical appearance of the text book and recognized it relevant to their language needs. However, they asked for some modifications such as edition of misspelling and ungrammatical use of some sentences and additions of new materials such as a glossary and business and banking correspondences to the existing ones. The results of the study became a basis to further improvement and correction until the draft would be finalized as a ready use material. Therefore, some modifications and alternations were conducted based on their evaluations to make the product more valid and more practical. The findings of the present research bear significant implications for materials developers and teachers especially in applying appropriate materials in ESP courses and evaluating the textbooks in the related studies.


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