scholarly journals Strengthening L3 French Motivation: The Differential Impact of Vision-Enhancing Activities

Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Céline Rocher Hahlin ◽  
Jonas Granfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Positive Effect

Even though the European Union has long promoted multilingualism, it has proven difficult to achieve widespread multilingual language competence beyond English through formal education in Europe. In Sweden, high dropout rates have been recorded in second foreign language (SFL) classes, and French is currently the most vulnerable language among the major SFLs with respect to the number of pupils and availability across the country. Therefore, an important question is how to increase the motivation for studying foreign languages other than English (LOTE), especially French. This paper reports on a semester-long quasi-experimental intervention study, with three activities designed to enhance pupils’ ideal L3 self (IL3S) and increase their intended effort (IE) to learn French. Data were collected in two grade 9 intervention classes (n = 45) and in a control class (n = 14) in Sweden using questionnaires and focus group interviews. We measured the effect of the intervention through pre- and post-tests in both groups and additionally after each activity in the intervention classes. The results showed no overall significant effect of the intervention, but a positive effect on IE among the students with the highest level of IL3S prior to the intervention. Moreover, gender differences were found for the initial activity on both IL3S and on IE. The results are discussed in relation to the ease of accessing the self-image and characteristics of IL3S that enhance activities and gender effects. Methodological challenges involved in intervention studies with intact classes are also highlighted.

scholarly journals Using Simulation Training to Promote Nurses’ Effective Handling of Workplace Violence: A Quasi-Experimental Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Lain Ming ◽  
Hui-Mei Huang ◽  
Shiao-Pei Hung ◽  
Ching-I Chang ◽  
Yueh-Shuang Hsu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Violence ◽  
Simulation Training ◽  
Risk Group ◽  
High Risk Group ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Simulation Education ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Baseline Characteristics ◽  
Group Interviews

Background: Workplace violence in the health care sector has become a growing global problem. Research has shown that although caregivers comprise a high-risk group exposed to workplace violence, most of them lacked the skills and countermeasures against workplace violence. Therefore, through a quasi-experimental design, this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of situational simulation training on the nursing staffs’ concept and self-confidence in coping with workplace violence. Methods: Workplace violence simulation trainings were applied based on the systematic literature review and the conclusions from focus group interviews with nursing staff. Data were obtained from structured questionnaires including: (1) baseline characteristics; (2) perception of aggression scale (POAS); and (3) confidence in coping with patient aggression. Results: The results revealed that training course intervention significantly improved the nursing staffs’ self-perception and confidence against workplace violence (p < 0.001). Conclusions: The “simulation education on workplace violence training” as the intervention significantly improved the workplace violence perception and confidence among nursing staffs in coping with aggression events.

scholarly journals Cultivating reflexivity in social work students

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-74
Author(s):  
Grace S.M. Leung ◽  
Debbie O.B. Lam ◽  
Amy Y.M. Chow ◽  
Daniel F.K. Wong ◽  
Catherine L.P. Chung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Over Time

Social work educators are concerned about how best to equip social work students with the ability to self-reflect, because this is a core professional competence. The present study employed both quantitative and qualitative means to evaluate a course which set out to foster reflexivity among social work undergraduates. A quasi-experimental design was employed to examine the effectiveness of the course. Data were collected at pre-course, post-course, and 6 months after completion. We found that, over time, students in the experimental group gained more insight. The students disclosed in focus group interviews that the course had enhanced their understanding toward self, family, and society. The implications for social work education are discussed.

Interrelationship between Self-efficacy, Gender and the Entrepreneurial Career Choice

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hem Chandra Kothari ◽  
Sidheswar Patra
Keyword(s):  
Career Choice ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Item Analysis ◽  
Item Pool ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
And Gender

This research paper examines the interpersonal relationship between gender, self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial career choice. The present study has been conducted in Uttarakhand, a province of India. An item pool was developed on the basis of focus group interviews and literature survey. A scale was developed on the basis of item pool after an item analysis for checking its consistency and reliability and was included in the questionnaire. The questionnaire was administered on 880 graduation final year students studying in different colleges. An interpersonal relationship between gender, self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial career choice was examined using Pearsons chi-square test and Students t-test. Results show significant relationship between gender and self-efficacy, self-efficacy and entrepreneurial career choice, and gender and entrepreneurial career choice. Male respondents were found to have higher level of self-efficacy than female respondents. This paper also explores that male respondents are more likely to opt for an entrepreneurial career than females.

scholarly journals Contribution of Social Support, Social Cultural, and Social Interference Factors in Sports Participation of Female Athletes - A Qualitative Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Abida Naseer ◽  
Saeed Javed ◽  
Husna Batool
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

The primary purpose of the study was to investigate the social and cultural factors which provide support to female athletes as well as to explore the interferences in their sports participation. Total 43 female student-athletes of secondary schools participated in six focus group interviews. Interviews of these focus groups were recorded and prepared notes from them. The findings revealed that parents support and appreciate their girls in sports at their achievements at a low level. It was revealed from the findings that female athletes have fewer facilities and rewards/incentives. It was found that female athletes were also criticized on their sports dresses in rural areas of Pakistan. On the other hand, few opportunities, sports dress, and gender inequalities were found as big hurdles in sports participation of female athletes due to male dominance. Parents, peers, siblings, and sports teachers should support their females in their sports participation.

scholarly journals Motivational Factors in the Acquisition of Welsh in Poland

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Rosiak ◽  
Michael Hornsby
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Welsh Language ◽  
Group Interviews

Abstract For some years now, Welsh has been taught as a foreign language outside Wales, most especially in other Celtic countries, central Europe – and Poland. The first courses were established in the Catholic University of Lublin in the 1980s, and this provision has expanded over the years to include a Celtic language specialisation within the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Relying at first on teachers from Wales to provide instruction in Welsh, the Centre for Celtic Studies is increasingly producing new, competent speakers/users of Welsh among the Poles. An obvious question to be asked concerns motivational issues – why, on the eastern edges of the European Union, are there people willing to put the effort into learning a language from the far west of Europe, when they have, in some cases, little contact with regular users of Welsh? Through the use of focus group interviews, the present study attempts to discover what motivates Polish students to study Welsh in a context of limited direct contact with the speakers of the language and limited, indirect access to Welsh language and culture.

What About the Mother and Family when an Infant Doesn't Sleep?

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Colleen Rolls ◽  
Barbara Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Infant Crying ◽  
Early Parenting ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Role Confusion ◽  
Professional Intervention ◽  
Care Support

Becoming a new parent is a time of enormous change in the lifestyle of women, particularly as women are expected to take on prime responsibly for caring for the child. Motherhood can be exhausting and lonely as women cope with the demands of a new baby. These demands are exacerbated when infants do not sleep. This causes many parents to seek professional intervention with persistent infant sleep problems. Through focus group interviews, this study sought to understand the experiences of 28 women and families in how they coped with and managed an infant with sleep problems. Results indicated that women experienced major role confusion as they internalised the image that ?a good mother does it all?. Persistent infant crying and their own sleep deprivation exacerbated their loss of identity and shattered their self-image, and caused anger and confusion in some partners. Each woman sought primary health care support through a five-day residential stay in an Early Parenting Centre in Victoria. The women found that this professional support facilitated confidence building and feelings of normality. Most important, staff encouraged the women to feel good about themselves and their ability to manage future sleep problems.

Distance Education Students' Opinions on Distance Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-152
Author(s):  
Bayram Gökbulut
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The University

This research aimed to determine the opinions of undergraduate and graduate level distance education students about the education they received. Phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in this study. Semi-structured interview form was used as data collection method. In this research, focus group interviews were conducted in three sessions with a total of 27 distance education students (14 master and 13 undergraduate). Distance education students prefer distance education because they work in a job; they consider distance education as a great opportunity for those who cannot receive formal education. The students stated that the distance education infrastructure of the university is technically very good; they have almost no technical problems, but they have problems when connected via mobile applications. They stated that the course contents related to informatics are old because they have received education especially in the field of informatics and emphasized the importance of renewal.

scholarly journals ACHIEVEMENT AND GENDER EFFECTS ON 5TH GRADER'S ACQUISITION OF SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS IN A SOCIOECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED NEIGHBORHOOD

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-619
Author(s):  
Yakup Saban ◽  
Bülent Aydoğdu ◽  
Rıdvan Elmas
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Science Achievement ◽  
School Science ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
Average Level ◽  
Process Skills ◽  
Science Process Skills ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighborhood ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
And Gender

Science process skills (SPSs) play a significant role in science education. This research aimed to determine the acquisition level of 5th-grade students in SPSs with classroom activities. The research was a case study, and the data were collected by focus group interviews, document analysis, and observations. The sample of the research was six students from the fifth grade selected based on maximum variation sampling. Science process skills focused worksheets, focus group interview schedule, and observation forms were used as data collection tools. As a result, it was found out that the students were at the average or above the average level in observing, predicting, measuring, comparing and classifying skills; and they were at below the average level in inferring, organizing data, identifying and using experimental materials, processing data and formulating models, controlling variables, experimenting, interpreting and inferring. Also, it was determined that students with high academic achievement have more acquisition in SPSs. Besides, it was found out that the development of SPSs is gender neutral, it depends on the number of activities that are made in the classroom and what is the role of the students in these activities. Keywords: gender in science process skills, lower secondary school, science achievement, science activities, science process skills.

The underlying motivations of Chinese wine consumer behaviour

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Somogyi ◽  
Elton Li ◽  
Trent Johnson ◽  
Johan Bruwer ◽  
Susan Bastian
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Product Category ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wine Consumption ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Chinese Wine ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
And Gender

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discover the underlying motivations of Chinese wine consumption.Design/methodology/approachQualitative focus group interviews were performed on 36 Chinese wine consumers and four focus groups were performed, with participants segmented into groups based on age and gender.FindingsThe main findings were that Chinese wine consumers are influenced by face and status. These issues may be affecting their wine consumption behaviours, particularly related to anomalous behaviours such as mixing red wine with lemonade and the rationale for the preference of cork‐closed wine bottles. Furthermore, the notion of wine consumption for health‐related purposes was uncovered and a linkage found with traditional Chinese medicine.Originality/valueWhile research has been conducted on Chinese wine consumers, this paper attempts to uncover the underlying motivations for consumption and finds a linkage between wine consumption and traditional Chinese medicine. Furthermore, this paper links the traditions and beliefs of traditional Chinese medicine with a product category other than food or medicine.

scholarly journals Feminist Collective Activism in Telangana, South India: Exemplary by the Andhra Pradesh Mahila Samatha Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Julia Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Standpoint Epistemology ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Collective Activism ◽  
Positive Effect

This research aims at contributing to the ongoing debate of feminist standpoint epistemology by introducing a study on feminist collective activism in Sangareddy and Yellareddy, two districts of the newly established 29th state of India, Telangana. The purpose here is to document the work of two sanghams (collectives) by the Andhra Pradesh Mahila Samatha Society (APMSS). The focus lies on songs created by Dalit and indigenous women, which are used as a form of, protest against societal and gender inequality. Those songs contribute in making a positive difference on a local level. Analysis of two group interviews strengthens this argument. The sanghams have shown that despite all societal differences, solidarity among women for a common cause can make a difference in combating social issues on a local level. Taking the APMSS as an example, this research shows that the use of a holistic approach to education to support women in their responses to social issues has an overall positive effect on women. Furthermore, and most importantly, women are strengthened in believing that their life-experiences matter. My research shows that literacy is not necessarily needed to be a successful advocate for women´s rights. What is needed, however, is an understanding of local contexts, social issues and ultimately the ability to link them to life-experiences.

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