scholarly journals Korean University Students' Usage, Awareness and Attitudes Toward ELF

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 185-197
Author(s):  
Hyojung Shin
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Basic Medium ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
The Real ◽  
Critical Issues

Based on a survey conducted among 77 Korean university students, this article examined their usage and awareness of ELF (English as a Lingua Franca), and observed if problems which previous researches have claimed appeared among them. By analyzing data gathered via 2 simple questions and 4 descriptive questions, this study found that the respondents appreciated English as a basic medium for global communication. The respondents also reported various domestic and foreign situations in which they used English to communicate with different interlocutors who spoke different native languages. However, critical issues, such as ownership of English, idealized attitudes toward Standard English, and bias against the varieties of English spoken, all of which have been reported in several empirical researches, were also detected. As globalization extends throughout all areas of our life, and as L2 speakers excel L1 speakers in number as a result, this article calls for more effort to discuss ELF issues in general English education for university students. It also calls for the development of new pedagogical practices. The findings of this study could provide for a meaningful start in that it looked into the real life situations of the students.

Rethinking China’s global ‘propaganda’ blitz

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Falk Hartig
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
The Real ◽  
Times Square ◽  
Life Circumstances ◽  
China Daily

China’s global communication activities are mainly perceived as sinister propaganda to mislead international audiences, and related discussions exemplify Western unease about China’s global communication efforts. While not trivializing these efforts, this article objects to some of the assessments and argues in favour of a critical but open-minded engagement with China’s global communication activities. Such an approach should pay attention to potential audiences and should closely scrutinize the real-life circumstances of China’s communicative practices and put them into perspective for its audiences. The article highlights these aspects by analysing the screening of a video in New York City’s Times Square in Summer 2016 and one version of the China Daily supplement, China Watch.

scholarly journals University students' views on listening skillsLisans öğrencilerinin dinleme becerisi üzerine görüşleri

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 4959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filiz Mete ◽  
Bilge Bağcı Ayrancı
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
University Students ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
The Real ◽  
Focus Group Method

The problem of listening to the course for students are experienced at every stage of education. Even though there are many studies about the importance and necessity of listening, it is rarely encountered the studies about focusing on the reasons behind the students listening and offering suggestions. Books are discussed the factors which preventing listening in sections. The aim of this study is to determine the reasons for not listening as the focus on listeners. The study was conducted using focus group method. The participants of the study is composed of university students that observed have listening problems in courses. Thus 5 groups formed from 27 university students considering to their grades and prepared semi-structured interview was used in negotiations. 6 main themes of the meeting participants; students, teachers, content, environment, speed, time of questions were asked. The answers obtained during the interview was recorded. It took 45-60 minutes of talk time for each group. The students were the most opinions reported about student and content topics for the reason of not listening. As aresult listening barriers due to the students rate is 22.22% for need to fun. 25.92% of the participants reported the reasons of not listening that content is boring and couldn’t relate the real life. 18.51% of the participants reported about the teachers that teachers couldn’t attract the attention so they wouldn’t listen to the course. And 18.51% of the participants reported that The most important issues affecting the process of listening to lectures negative is being crowded classrooms. no view is specified by the participants under the themes of speed and time. ÖzetEğitimin her aşamasında öğrencilerin anlatılanı dinlememe sorunu yaşanmaktadır. Dinlemenin önemi ve gerekliliğini araştıran pek çok çalışma mevcut olsa da öğrencilerin neden dinlemediği konusuna eğilen ve çözüm önerisi sunan araştırmaya nadir olarak rastlanmaktadır. Dinlemeyi engelleyen faktörler konusu, kitaplarda bölüm olarak ele alınmaktadır. Dinleyen odaklı olarak dinlememe nedenlerinin belirlenmesi, bu çalışmanın amacını oluşturmaktadır. Çalışma odak grup görüşmesi yöntemi kullanılarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışmanın katılımcıları, ders sürecinde dinleme sorunları yaşadığı gözlemlenen lisans öğrencilerinden oluşmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, belirlenen 27 katılımcıyla sınıf düzeyi dikkate alınarak 5 grup oluşturulmuş ve görüşmede kullanılmak üzere hazırlanan yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formları kullanılmıştır. Görüşmede katılımcılara 6 ana tema; öğrenci, öğretmen, içerik, ortam, hız, süre kapsamında sorular sorulmuştur. Görüşme süresince elde edilen cevaplar kayıt altına alınmıştır. Görüşme süresi her grup için 45-60 dakika sürmüştür. Dinleyememe nedeni olarak öğrenciler en fazla öğrenci ve içerik temaları kapsamında görüşler bildirmişlerdir. Dinleyiciye bağlı dinleme engellerini belirleyebilmek için hazırlanan görüşme sorularından ortaya çıkan sonuca göre en yüksek oran %  22.22 ile canı sıkıldığı için dinleyemediği olmuştur. % 25.92 oranında katılımcı da anlatılan içeriği sıkıcı bulduğu ve gerçek hayatla bağdaştıramadığı için dinlemediğini bildirmiştir. Öğretmenle ilgili ise % 18.51 oranında katılımcı, öğretmenin sınıfta dikkatleri konuya çekemediğini ve bu yüzden dinlemediklerini bildirmiştir. Öğrencilerin % 18.51’i ise sınıfın kalabalık olmasının ders dinleme sürecini olumsuz etkileyen en önemli sorun olduğunu belirtmiştir. Katılımcılar tarafından dersi dinlememe konusunda sorun olabilecek hız ve süre temaları kapsamında hiçbir görüş belirtilmemiştir.

scholarly journals Intercultural Interaction in English: Taiwanese University Students’ Investment and Resistance in Culturally Mixed Groups

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402094186
Author(s):  
Shu-Wen Lan
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Reflective Journals ◽  
Intercultural Interaction ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Local Students ◽  
Mixed Groups ◽  
Repeated Contact

Despite increased diversity on campuses worldwide, research has documented a lack of intercultural interaction among university students. Culturally mixed groups have been found to be a promising means of promoting the rich, repeated contact necessary for intercultural interaction, but hardly any studies of local students’ perceptions of such groups have been conducted in the newly internationalized universities in Asia. Through the lens of an expanded model of investment, this study analyzes reflective journals and interviews with Taiwanese college students to examine their perceptions and experiences of culturally mixed groups. Findings indicate that the majority resisted non-native to non-native speaker intercultural interaction in these groups. This resistance was driven by their pro-standard English ideologies, traceable to the earliest stages of their English education, which promoted native-speaker models and unrealistic imagined communities of native-like speakers.

Exploring Citizenship: Unit 4 My Heritage

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (5) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
John Rutledge ◽  
Joy C. Jordan ◽  
Dale W. Pracht
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Development Program ◽  
The Real ◽  
Volunteer Leaders ◽  
Youth Development Program ◽  
Major Revision ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Needs

 The 4-H Citizenship Project offers the opportunity to help 4-H members relate all of their 4-H projects and experiences to the world around them. The 4-H Citizenship manuals will serve as a guide for 4-H Citizenship experiences. To be truly meaningful to the real-life needs and interests of your group, the contribution of volunteer leaders is essential. Each person, neighborhood, and community has individual needs that you can help your group identify. This 14-page major revision of Unit IV covers the heritage project. Written by John Rutledge, Joy C. Jordan, and Dale Pracht and published by the UF/IFAS Extension 4-H Youth Development program. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/4h019

L'esperienza clinica con Levometadone nel trattamento del disturbo da uso di oppiacei

MISSION ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
Marco Riglietta ◽  
Paolo Donadoni ◽  
Grazia Carbone ◽  
Caterina Pisoni ◽  
Franca Colombi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Events ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Opioid Use Disorder ◽  
Racemic Mixture ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
The Real ◽  
New Formulation

In Italy, at the end of the 1970s, methadone hydrochloride was introduced for the treatment of opioid use disorder, in the form of a racemic mixture consisting of levomethadone and dextromethadone.In 2015 Levometadone was introduced, a new formulation marketed in Italy for the treatment of opioid use disorder in 2015.The article aims to bring the experience of an Italian Addiction Centre back to the use of this new formulation in the "real life" analyzing the efficacy, the trend of adverse events and pharmacological iterations in a context in which the treated population often uses besides the opiates, cocaine and alcohol, are burdened by a relevant physical and psychic comorbidity and frequently have a prescribed polypharmacy.

Contamination Lab of Turin (CLabTo)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonora FIORE ◽  
Giuliano SANSONE ◽  
Chiara Lorenza REMONDINO ◽  
Paolo Marco TAMBORRINI
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Assessment Data ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Positive Effect

Interest in offering Entrepreneurship Education (EE) to all kinds of university students is increasing. Therefore, universities are increasing the number of entrepreneurship courses intended for students from different fields of study and with different education levels. Through a single case study of the Contamination Lab of Turin (CLabTo), we suggest how EE may be taught to all kinds of university students. We have combined design methods with EE to create a practical-oriented entrepreneurship course which allows students to work in transdisciplinary teams through a learning-by-doing approach on real-life projects. Professors from different departments have been included to create a multidisciplinary environment. We have drawn on programme assessment data, including pre- and post-surveys. Overall, we have found a positive effect of the programme on the students’ entrepreneurial skills. However, when the data was broken down according to the students’ fields of study and education levels, mixed results emerged.

Efficacy and safety of long-acting pasireotide in acromegalic patients in the real life: The reappraisal of the first-dose follow-up visit

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Urbani ◽  
Francesca Dassie ◽  
Benedetta Zampetti ◽  
Di Certo Agostino Maria ◽  
Renato Cozzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Efficacy And Safety ◽  
The Real ◽  
Long Acting

Experiential Learning in Graduate Archival Education at the University of Botswana

Mousaion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olefhile Mosweu
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Archival Theory ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
The Real ◽  
The University

Most curriculum components of archival graduate programmes consist of contextual knowledge, archival knowledge, complementary knowledge, practicum, and scholarly research. The practicum, now commonly known as experiential learning in the global hub, is now widely accepted in library and information studies (LIS) education as necessary and important. It is through experiential learning that, over and above the theoretical aspects of a profession, students are provided with the opportunity to learn by doing in a workplace environment. The University of Botswana’s Master’s in Archives and Records Management (MARM) programme has a six weeks experiential learning programme whose purpose is to expose prospective archivists and/or records managers to the real archival world in terms of practice as informed by archival theory. The main objective of the study was to determine the extent to which the University of Botswana’s experiential learning component exposes students to real-life archival work to put into practice theoretical aspects learnt in the classroom as intended by the university guidelines. This study adopted a qualitative research design and collected data through interviews from participants selected through purposive and snowball sampling strategies. Documentary review supplemented the interviews. The data collected were analysed thematically in line with research objectives. The study determined that experiential learning does indeed expose students to the real world of work. It thus helps to bridge the gap between archival theory and practice for students without archives and records management work experience. For those with prior archival experience, experiential learning does not add value. This study recommends that students with prior archives and records management experience should rather, as an alternative to experiential learning, undertake supervised research, and write a research essay in a chosen thematic area in archives and records management.

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