scholarly journals The Effect of Text Authenticity on the Performance of Iranian EFL Students in a C-Test

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Karen Kow Yip Cheng ◽  
Amir BiglarBaygi ◽  
Mesod Solaymani
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Testing Instrument ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Authentic Text ◽  
Efl Students

As part of growing efforts to understand factors affecting c-test this study aims to investigate the effect of text authenticity on the performance of Iranian EFL students in a C-Test. The C-Test is an integrative testing instrument that measures overall language competence, very much like the cloze test. In this study the rule of two has been applied: “the second half of every second word has been deleted, beginning with the second word of the second sentence; the first and last sentences are left intact” (Katona and Dornyei 1993: 35). The research involves 60 college students in their third year, majoring in English Literature at Ershad-Damavand College. This group were randomly selected applying multi-stage sampling. Since the present study intended to investigate the role of two different formats, i.e. authentic and inauthentic texts (text translated from Persian into English), two different tailored C-Tests were made to measure and compare the performances of the participants. Two C-Tests, one with Authentic Text and the other, with Inauthentic Text were administered to this homogenized group comprising 30 subjects. The findings of this study suggest that authenticity has an effect on the performance of learners in c-tests and we should control this variable while devising a c-test.

scholarly journals Re-thinking the Practice of Teaching Literature to Enhance EFL Students’ Civic Skills: An Algerian Perspective

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed KHELADI
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Negotiation Of Meaning ◽  
Teaching Literature ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Civic Skills ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Civic Virtues ◽  
Constructive Criticism

Besides the undisputable role of literature in teaching civic virtues through exposing students to characters and themes that accurately exemplify and truly represent civility, teaching literature can serve a means to inculcate in students various civic skills, such as conflict resolution, leadership, negotiation of meaning and constructive criticism. Yet, to attain such skills, teachers need to reshape their teaching practices to be in conformity with the principles of modern education that champion active learning methodologies. The present paper argues for the necessity of rethinking the traditional teacher-centered methods in teaching English literature in the Algerian context as they tend to reduce students’ active participatory roles in learning. In response to this, a number of suggestions have accordingly been put forward to enable students reach more independency in dealing with literature. This orientation of thought stems from the belief that active learning is conducive to active citizenship.

scholarly journals Effects of Activating Background Knowledge in Listening Skill and How to Improve IELTS Listening

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 13-25
Author(s):  
Nguyen Nu Nhu Linh
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
The World ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
First Time ◽  
International English

Among the well-known international English tests, IELTS has been seen as one of the most well-trusted and popular to EFL learners throughout the world. In Vietnam, most of the universities require their EFL students to have an IELTS score of 6.5 or 7.0 to fulfil their bachelor degree program, which is not quite an easy job. The paper emphasizes the role of background knowledge in improving IELTS Listening scores for EFL students at Saigon University. The research was done by observing two groups of students learning Listening Module 3 at the institution. They were required to do the same test; however, while a group was constructed with pre-listening activities, the other simply listened and completed the task without preparation. The result showed little difference between the two groups in terms of efficiency, but most of the students in the first group were able to complete their test in the first time listening while some members of the latter group needed a second time. They were then required to complete a survey, including learning styles and attitudes. The results also tell us that EFL students pay much attention to pre-listening activities, and they believe such tasks can help them do their listening test better.

Synchronous Motor Pull-in Process Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (06) ◽  
pp. 1550088
Author(s):  
Zvi Vainer ◽  
Boris Epshtein ◽  
Saad Tapuchi ◽  
Yoram Horen ◽  
Pavel Strajnikov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Method ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Simple Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Synchronous Motors ◽  
Impulse Balance ◽  
Excitation Winding ◽  
Single Oscillation

In this paper, simple approach to analyzing the starting procedure of synchronous motors (SMs) is presented with an emphasis on the pull-in process. Instead of the classical, mostly intuitive pulling-repelling torque approach, an analytical method based on the motor mechanical part swing equation is employed. Factors affecting starting and pull-in processes are clearly indicated and torque impulse balance leading to a pull into step is revealed. It is shown that if the motor fails to pull into step within a single oscillation, it can still be synchronized during one of the succeeding acceleration periods. The crucial role of the excitation winding energizing instant is demonstrated as well. Moreover, the revealed similarity between the SM and phase locked loop (PLL) operations, leads to the conclusion that the algorithms use for analyzing the operation of one may be employed for investigating the other. Experimental results are given to demonstrate the different scenarios, mentioned in the manuscript.

SEX ROLE COMPLEMENTARITY IN JOB STEREOTYPY

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther J. Koenig
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Job Applicants ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sex Type ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Male Sex

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of gender and sex role on the perceived suitability of hypothetical job applicants for sex-typed jobs. Six descriptions of applicants were presented to 605 college students, who were asked to rank order them on suitability for different jobs. The questionnaire each student received had five applicants with masculine first names and one with a feminine first name. Results showed no main effect due to either job sex-type, sex role of applicants, or gender of either applicant or student-rater. Interactional analyses, however, showed that for specific applicant job pairings where male applicants were ranked differently than female applicants, a complementarity of gender and sex role was evident. Specifically, the applicant with stereotypically masculine traits was ranked high when presented as a woman, while the applicant with stereotypically feminine traits was ranked high when presented as a man. It is suggested that this interaction effect is best explained by positing that gender-related stereotypes are implicity generated and that they complement sex role characteristics of the other sex. Thus, a woman with male sex role characteristics, or a man with female sex role characteristics, is seen as more adaptable or well-rounded than applicants whose sex roles are consonant with their gender.

scholarly journals Spirituality and Motivation of College Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Kailash C. Barmola
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Statistical Measure ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Low Motivation

The present study is one kind of exploratory study where it is intended to find the role of spirituality in motivation among college students. It is explored in the current study by statistical measure Pearson rho. Positive and highly significant correlation is found between spirituality and motivation of college students. Therefore it may be concluded that students who are spiritual may be more motivated than non spiritual. And on the other hand students who are motivated could be more spiritual than students with low motivation.

scholarly journals On the Education Countermeasures of Marxist Concept of Happiness for College Students in the New Era--Based on the Perspective of Family Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Ying Zhang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
New Era ◽  
Life Pattern ◽  
The Times ◽  
Marxist Concept ◽  
Change Of Life

Family is the basic cell of society, and the first school in life. No matter how great the times change, no matter how big the change of life pattern is, we should all attach importance to family building. Parents’ educational ideas, educational methods and family environment are the important factors affecting college students’ happiness. Therefore, we should attach importance to the basic role of family education and give full play to the auxiliary role of family in the education of College Students’ happiness concept, so as to effectively improve the actual efficiency of the education of College Students’ happiness concept.

scholarly journals Acquiring English in EFL Classroom: Role of Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Md. Momin Uddin
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
English Speak

This paper deals with how English literature can help EFL learners acquire English like ESL speakers. EFL learners usually learn English by learning its vocabulary and grammatical rules from books. ESL speakers, on the other hand, pick up the grammatical rules and vocabulary of English by directly getting into the environment where English is the medium of communication and acquire the language like the native. ESL speakers can speak English with native-like fluency and express their ideas in English like the native, but EFL learners, despite being capable of writing and speaking grammatically correct English, most often fail to speak with native-like fluency. Words seem to get stuck in their throats, and they often fumble and falter when speaking because their vocabulary remains poor in content. Nor can they express the true spirit of their ideas in their cultivated, grammatical English because they learn it in isolation without seeing how a native uses it. This paper argues that by studying English literature, EFL learners can grow awareness of the culture of the English and see how the English speak, feel, dream, and express their heart in English, and thus they can learn English like ESL speakers.

scholarly journals What Are the Effective Health Literacy Skills in Adopting Walking Behavior to Prevent Osteoporosis?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahman Panahi ◽  
Mohiadin Amjadian ◽  
Fatemeh Samiei siboni ◽  
Mahya Shafaei ◽  
Seyedeh somayeh kazemi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Walking Behavior ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Prevention Of Osteoporosis ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background:Considering the effect of exercise and health literacy in preventing osteoporosis, the effect of health literacy in adopting preventive behaviors, and the role of health volunteers in transferring the health messages to the community, this study aimed to determine the relationship between health literacy skills and adopting walking behavior to prevent osteoporosis in health volunteers. Methods:In a descriptive cross-sectional study, 290 health volunteers referring to Qazvin health centers in 1399 were selected through Multi-stage random sampling. Data were collected using a health literacy questionnaire (HELIA) and a questionnaire for the adoption of walking behaviors for the prevention of osteoporosis, and they were analyzed using descriptive statistics and logistic regression in SPSS software version 23. Results: The mean and standard deviation of the adoption of walking behaviors were 10.57 ± 1.43which was moderate. Age (P = 0.025, 1/098), decision-making skills and application of health information (P <0.001), perception (P = 0.037, 054/1 = OR) and evaluation (P = 0.029, 049 = OR) were factors affecting the adoption of this behavior, so that by increasing one score to these variables, the chance of adopting the behavior increased 135/1, 1.054 and 049/1 respectively. Also, the level of education was another effective factor in adopting this behavior, so that having a favorable level of adoption of this behavior in health volunteers with diploma degree (P = 0.017, OR = 0.736) and below diploma (011/0 = P, 960 = OR), were 0.736 and 0.960 times of those with university degrees respectively.Conclusion:To improve the adoption of walking behaviors to prevent osteoporosis, we should pay special attention to effective health literacy skills in the health volunteers.

Intellectual Differences in Relation to Personal and Family Handedness

1976 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary G. Briggs ◽  
Robert D. Nebes ◽  
Marcel Kinsbourne
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Family History ◽  
Hemispheric Specialization ◽  
Positive Family History ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Tests ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
History Of

Right, mixed and left-handed college students were given the complete WAIS, and a series of cognitive factor tests. Results showed left- and mixed-handed individuals to have a significantly lower full scale I.Q. than right-handers. There was no difference between the mixed and left-handers. In all three handedness groups, subjects with a positive family history of sinistrality had a lower full scale I.Q. than did subjects without left-handed relatives. Neither handedness nor family history differentially affected the Verbal or Performance subscales, nor did they have a significant effect on scores in the other cognitive tests. These results are discussed with respect to Levy's theory of hemispheric specialization, and to the role of inheritance and brain damage in the causation of left- and mixed-handedness.

scholarly journals The Outcome of Cholangitis After Percutaneous Biliary Drainage in Neoplastic Jaundice

HPB Surgery ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riccardo A. Audisio ◽  
Carlo Morosi ◽  
Federico Bozzetti ◽  
Guido Cozzi ◽  
Massimo Bellomi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disease Patient ◽  
Positive Outcome ◽  
The Other ◽  
Patient Treatment ◽  
Female Ratio ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Biliary Sepsis ◽  
Male Female Ratio

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate factors affecting the outcome of cholangitis after PTBD in jaundiced cancer patients. Twenty nine patients with neoplastic jaundice (male/female ratio 13/16, median age 55 years) with full clinical data, were treated by PTBD and developed cholangitis at a median of 9 days later. Four patients (14%) died of biliary sepsis a median of one month after PTBD while the other 25 survived a median of 6 months, with one week median duration of cholangitis. The probability of the cholangitis resolving was analyzed by time to resolution and it was found that 50% and 100% of the recoveries occurred 5 and 9 months respectively from the onset of the complication.The series was analyzed to determine the role of several variables (disease/patient/treatment related) in the resolution of cholangitis. Only a low stricture site, a large initial drainage catheter (10F) and a temperature increase exceeding 39° C were correlated with a positive outcome. We conclude that PTBD-related cholangitis has, in our experience, a good chance of cure, low mortality rate and satisfactory 6 months median survival.

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