Exploring the Participation Stages and Experiences of Elderly Citizen College Learners

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 163-185
Author(s):  
Do-Woon Kim
Keyword(s):  
College Learners ◽  
Elderly Citizen

WTC in EMI: Correlational Factors and College Learners’ Perceptions

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeran Lee ◽  
◽  
Kiwan Sung
Keyword(s):  
College Learners

Research on Applied Equipment in Sport Teaching Based on Fiber-Reinforced Composites

2014 ◽  
Vol 1078 ◽  
pp. 74-77
Author(s):  
Li Gao
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Composites ◽  
Reinforced Composites ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
College Learners ◽  
Traditional Mode ◽  
Technology College

Fiber-reinforced composites have many advantages for many different fields. As for sport teaching, it is also closely connected with fiber-reinforced composites. The paper studies the advantages of fiber-reinforced composites as well as applied equipments to be used in sport teaching. Traditional mode of sports education emphasizes that PE teachers train learners to learn a skill and guide them how to win the game. Rarely do they involve how to guide them to make full use of different tools of different materials to achieve their goals. However, with the advance of information technology, college learners have more freedom to make their choices, which makes sports education in universities and colleges more challenging. This essay is to study the function and effects of applied equipment in sport teaching based on fiber-reinforced composites.

scholarly journals Municipal Representatives’ Accounts of Decision-Making Practices during Geriatric Case Conferences

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (45) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Søren Beck Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Senior Citizens ◽  
General Characteristic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Residential Home ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Case Conferences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Elderly Citizen

This article addresses questions of elucidation in talk-in-interaction. How do social actors give accounts of what they are doing? To what degree do actors sustain a taken-for-granted level of reasoning? The analysis is based upon naturally occurring data consisting of a corpus of audio recorded case conferences at various geriatric wards in Danish hospitals. The article elaborates one of the important insights of Harold Garfinkel regarding the relationship between discourse and social interaction: as a general characteristic, people tend to treat their fellow interlocutors’ conversational contributions as adequate for-all-practical-purposes. Specifically, the article investigates how Danish municipal representatives account for their decisions about whether or not senior citizens are to be referred to residential homes. This practice, I demonstrate, is characterized by non-explicitness with regards to rules and regulations. Instead, municipal representatives make use of developmental discourse: a worsened condition is used to justify a referral to a residential home. On the other hand, an improved condition is used to justify that an elderly citizen is not referred to a residential home.

scholarly journals Perfectionism and Writing Performance of Chinese EFL College Learners

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Lijing Lin
Keyword(s):  
Negative Relationship ◽  
L2 Writing ◽  
Parental Criticism ◽  
Linguistic Complexity ◽  
Personal Standards ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
College Learners ◽  
L2 Learning ◽  
The Relationship

In the second language acquisition domain, researchers have devoted tremendous efforts to studying the relationship between L2 learning and some socio-affective factors, such as anxiety, motivation, etc. However, little research has been done to examine whether and how perfectionism, a psychological trait, affects L2 learning and L2 performance. The present study aims to fill this gap and investigate the relationship between the level of perfectionism and L2 performance among Chinese EFL college learners. Two specific questions are raised: (1) What is the relationship between perfectionism and L2 writing performance in terms of linguistic complexity, accuracy, and fluency? (2) What is the relationship between the six dimensions of perfectionism (Concern over Mistakes, Personal Standards, Parental Expectations, Parental Criticism, Doubts about Actions, Organization) and L2 writing performance in terms of linguistic complexity, accuracy, and fluency? To answer these questions, forty second-year students from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies majoring in English participated in the present study. The participants were required to compose a piece of English argumentative writing on the online system and then complete a 35-item Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale online immediately. The collected data were then processed and analyzed through SPSS (v. 17). The results of the analysis revealed that: (1) one of the measures of syntactic complexity has a significant negative relationship with perfectionism; (2) Personal Standards, one of the six dimensions of perfectionism, has a significant negative relationship with the participants’ L2 writing performance; (3) both Parental Expectations and Parental Criticism are found negatively correlated with the fluency aspect of the writing performance and the relationships have a significant effect. The implications of the findings are suggested for pedagogy and L2 learning.

Facebook Discussion to Enhance English Learners' Metacognitive Strategies

2017 ◽  
pp. 132-152
Author(s):  
Pei-Ling Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Metacognitive Strategies ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
College Learners

The present study aims to investigate the effect of Facebook discussion on EFL learners' metacognitive strategy application. Various language learning strategies suggested in many studies have a positive and significant influence on learners' academic accomplishment. However, there is little research on how to promote the learners' learning strategy applications through the assistance of social networking. Social networking has been drawing huge attention in different research fields. Especially in higher education, it has been applied to promote learning, interaction, and engagement. Thus, in this study, 83 EFL college learners are recruited to participate in the Facebook discussion for the purpose of examining whether learning contexts would have an influence on learners' strategy applications, especially the metacognitive strategies. After a semester's study, the participants in the Facebook discussion group reported to apply more metacognitive strategies and most of them have positive attitudes towards the Facebook-assisted discussion.

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