scholarly journals Using Personalized Adaptive Learning to Promote Industry-Specific Language Skills in Support of Spanish Internship Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Redmon ◽  
Shelly Wyatt ◽  
Corrinne Stull
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Learning ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
Personalized Feedback ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
Language For Specific Purposes ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
Student Interns

This essay offers a response to the challenge of preparing student interns to successfully utilize Spanish professional terminology in legal and medical settings. The authors developed a personal adaptive learning (PAL) course to address vocabulary language deficits experienced by Spanish internship students. PAL technologies provide students of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) the opportunity to engage in vocabulary learning through personalized feedback and alternative learning content. Implementing Cavanagh et al.’s (2020) Framework for Adapting Learning Design, the authors designed Spanish language modules for legal and medical terminology using Realizeit, a PAL platform that allows instructors to create their own content and assessment items. PAL modules for both legal and medical terminology were added to the Canvas learning management system of the Spanish Internship course and students could select the Realizeit module that fit their internship placement (legal or medical). PAL holds enormous potential to help LSP learners build mastery of industry-specific terminology that will be attractive to potential employers.

Learning Nuggets for Cobot Education: A Conceptual Framework, Implementation, and Evaluation of Adaptive Learning Content

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Mayrhofer ◽  
Steffen Nixdorf ◽  
Clara Fischer ◽  
Tanja Zigart ◽  
Christina Schmidbauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Adaptive Learning ◽  
Learning Content

scholarly journals Immigrants’ educational credentials leading to employment outcomes: The role played by language skills

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-191
Author(s):  
María Miyar-Busto ◽  
Fco. Javier Mato Díaz ◽  
Rodolfo Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Employment Outcomes ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Labour Market Situation ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Educational Credentials

Transferability of human capital is a key issue in the analysis of immigrants’ integration in the destination country, according to both empirical and theoretical literature. In addition to the problem of recognition of immigrants’ educational credentials and their lack of social networks, language is highlighted in the literature as a crucial factor regarding human capital transfer. This paper considers the role played by Spanish language skills in the integration of migrants into the labour market in Spain. It takes advantage of the fact that about half of the immigrant population have Spanish as their native language, and of the diversity levels of fluency in Spanish among the remaining immigrants. Using the Labour Force Survey special module on the labour market situation of immigrants (INE 2015), the research has two purposes: first, to measure the direct effect of language skills on employment outcomes; and second, to analyze the complementary vs. substitution hypotheses regarding the interaction between Spanish language skills and educational credentials as determining factors for employment. The results confirm that skill levels in Spanish have a significant role regarding access to employment. Regarding the complementary vs. substitution hypotheses, interesting gender differences appear that confirm the striking contrasts in the Spanish labour market for female and male immigrants. For men, their level of Spanish acts as a complement to their educational qualifications in helping them to obtain employment, but this is not the case for women. However, female immigrant workers seem to obtain higher employment returns on their educational qualifications than men when it comes to avoiding very low-skilled jobs.

scholarly journals Ontologies to integrate learning design and learning content

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (1) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Knight ◽  
Dragan Gašević ◽  
Griff Richards
Keyword(s):  
Learning Design ◽  
Learning Content

scholarly journals ANALISIS KOMPONEN LANGUAGE KERANGKA KERJA ELPSA TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN MENGAJUKAN MASALAH MATEMATIKA SISWA SMP DITINJAU DARI GAYA BERPIKIR KOGNITIF

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Kanti Warih Ade Indriani ◽  
Fauzi Galih Lutfianto
Keyword(s):  
Language Skills ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Mathematics Problems ◽  
Design Learning ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
Figure Test

From the experience and observation of the author, during this learning of Mathematics generally only solve the problem alone, without familiarize the students to compile their own questions. So that students are less able to use their own language in solving the given problem. Language factor is less calculated as a possible one of the causal factors. ELPSA is a design/learning framework consisting of 5 component sequences, one of which is language. In learning ELPSA students are accustomed to asking productive and effective questions. This study aims to analyze the students' language skills in ELPSA learning design on the ability to issue Mathematical problems in terms of the cognitive thinking style. This study is a descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this research was conducted in class VIII SMP 1 Maluk. Its divided into two groups. With one group is given conventional learning and one group get learning using ELPSA design. The instrument used is Matching Familiar Figure Test (MFFT) to find out the type of cognitive style of each student and the Matter of Matter Problem Matter. Based on research that has been done, obtained results group of students reflective dominant than Impulsive students. In the student's ability to pose mathematical problems, Reflective student groups are better than Impulsive. While on the average score on the ability to solve Mathematics problems, Learning using ELPSA design is higher than learning without using ELPSA. That is, ELPSA learning design can help students develop language skills especially in raising math problems.

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