ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Interculturalism in Content and Language Integrated Learning Classes: Research Perspectives from European Policy to Greek Reality
Author: Sakellariou, Georgios
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Content and Language Integrated Learning,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Foreign Countries,Teaching Methods,Cultural Awareness,Intercultural Communication,Multilingualism,Language Planning,Educational Improvement,Language Proficiency,Educational Policy,International Organizations

?he CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) approach has been proposed as an effective approach for students' education in the 21st century. Although it was initially proposed for students of higher education, CLIL has become especially attractive for students even in pre-school education. This paper focuses on the importance of CLIL implementation in fostering intercultural competencies among students who are engaged in CLIL programs. More specifically, this paper covers a theoretical review on CLIL and its development, while special emphasis is placed on the position of CLIL in the priorities of the European Council within the context of promoting multilingualism in Europe. CLIL aligns itself with the European Language Policy of improving language learning in its member states and with the EU Commission's objective of EU citizens' competence in European languages other than learners' mother tongue. The paper ends with references to organizations that promote the implementation of CLIL across Europe, while special emphasis is placed upon CLIL in Greek education.
Economic Value of the Doctorates: Findings from a Systematic Literature Review
Author: Hawkes, Denise
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Outcomes of Education,Doctoral Programs,Graduate Students,Economic Factors,Human Capital,Education Work Relationship,Labor Market,Expectation,Transfer of Training,Debt (Financial),Wages,Job Satisfaction,Writing for Publication

Following human capital theory, the investment in education should result in wage gains over time and increased productivity. Thuswise, some governments became more active in stimulating citizens into pursuing advanced degrees by introducing loans and other support schemes. British policy makers went further by first launching graduate loans for students pursuing Master degrees followed by announcing the loan scheme for PhD students to start in 2018. Will keeping more young professionals away from joining the labour force and increasing their educational debt pay off in economic terms for those students? This systematic literature review is motivated by the possible contradiction in governmental objective to increase the number of doctoral students, while their ability to find the jobs which fit their qualifications and payment expectations might be questioned. This review shows that systematic data on doctoral graduates and the labour market is quite limited, with employers outside academia mostly being unsatisfied with lack of 'commercial awareness', flexibility and adaptivity to new environments in young PhD degree holders. At the same time the role of the degree and expectations coming with it are changing and doctorate students are expected not only to produce a thesis, but to teach, publish papers and develop transferable skills.
Terminological Field «Tourism» in English Tourism Discourse
Author: Prima, Viktoriia
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Tourism,English for Special Purposes,Guides,Web Sites,Language Styles,Advertising,Vocabulary,Housing,Transportation,Food,Leisure Time,Illustrations,Maps,Foreign Countries

The article outlines main aspects of study of the English tourism terminology, in particular, functional. General specific features of the English guides and peculiarities of tourism terms functioning in them have been viewed in the article. The aim of our work is to consider the functioning of the English tourism terminology in guidebooks to Ukraine. The research is based on the materials of these English-speaking guides on line: World Travel Guide and Travel to Ukraine (the Official Travel Website and Guide to Ukraine). In linguistics a guidebook is considered a kind of tourist discourse genre. Characteristic features of tourist guides are a high degree of generalization, precision, information and impersonality. The main functions of guides are informative (presenting factual information) and advertising (creating a positive image of a specific tourist site that aims to interest potential tourist on his visit). These features influence the choice of vocabulary of travel guides. Several micro fields are presented in the English tourism terminology. They are organization of tourism, accommodation, transport, food, leisure time. Implementing promotional and informational functions also contributes to polycodenature of the guide -- the presence of illustrations, on the one hand, renders factual information (various maps) on the other -- helps to create a high positive image of a particular object (photo).
Applying Gustav Heckmann&apos;s Version of the Socratic Method and the Hawaiian Talk Therapy to Students with Developmental Disabilities: An Intercultural Case Study
Author: Colombos, Alexandros
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Developmental Disabilities,Intervention,Teaching Methods,Questioning Techniques,Greek,Second Language Instruction,Reading Instruction,Writing Instruction,Social Behavior,Social Development,Skill Development,Group Therapy,Culturally Relevant Education,Mild Intellectual Disability,Language Impairments,Expressive Language,Story Telling,Interpersonal Communication

This is a case study of a Greek-American young adult and a New York City non-profit Day Habilitation consumer who was diagnosed with various developmental disabilities. The methods used for therapeutic and educational interventions included Gustav Heckman's version of Socratic Method called Socratic Enquiry used in individual sessions (one-on-one) for teaching Greek as a Second Language and English Reading and Writing along with social/behavioral skills group therapy sessions of five consumers where Hawaiian Talk Story was used. An intercultural approach was provided, as both methods were very appropriate for studying the intercultural dynamics of groups as well as individuals of diverse backgrounds in multicultural settings and the intercultural meaning of the results of those therapeutic and educational interventions.
Questioning the Policy of Teaching &apos;Moral Education&apos; through English as a Foreign Language in a Private School in Dubai
Author: Tantawy, Nesrin
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Policy,Ethical Instruction,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Private Schools,Foreign Countries,Teacher Attitudes,School Role,Language of Instruction,Knowledge Level,Group Dynamics,Administrator Attitudes

Moral Education (ME) is meant to turn all young individuals into morally autonomous adults by providing them with the required competence to judge for themselves what is morally right. To align with such holistic concepts, the UAE Government has launched ME as a school subject to promote tolerance and introduce universal values that are in accordance with the UAE vision. Many schools where students' population consists mainly of Arabs have decided to adopt English as the medium of instruction (EMI) in teaching ME even though adopting Arabic as the language of instruction was an option at their disposal. Hence, this study is meant to question employing the EMI policy in teaching ME to Arab students in a private school in Dubai. Since teachers are one of the main stakeholders in the teaching-learning process, their perceptions of the target policy and its impact on students' understanding of the ME syllabus were investigated through ten semi-structured interviews. A second set of qualitative interviews was administered with three of the senior management personnel at the same school to examine the issue through different binoculars. Results show that most teachers disapprove of the adopted policy; moreover, teachers' voice was never taken into consideration by the school administration.
A UTAUT Evaluation of WhatsApp as a Tool for Lecture Delivery during the COVID-19 Lockdown at a Zimbabwean University
Author: Maphosa, Vusumuzi
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: COVID-19,Pandemics,Computer Software,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries,Rural Areas,Distance Education,Online Courses,Social Networks,College Students,Lecture Method,Costs,Instructional Effectiveness,Student Attitudes,Usability,Positive Attitudes,Independent Study,Cooperative Learning,Student Centered Learning

Focusing through the lens of the (COVID-19) lockdown which was enforced on the 30th of March 2020, it became apparent that students from rural resource-constrained educational institutions had to adapt to sustainable online learning platforms from traditional content delivery. WhatsApp a social networking app, but due to its low data consumption, it became a de-facto teaching and learning tool for Lupane State University (LSU) students in Zimbabwe. Prior studies have focused on the use of WhatsApp as an alternative lecture delivery platform but very few have evaluated its role as the sole platform for lecture delivery. With no government or institutional support for data acquisition, students failed to utilise other e-learning platforms that were in place due to exorbitant data costs. This study seeks to evaluate the success of WhatsApp mediated teaching and learning at LSU during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a randomized evaluation of weekly lecture delivery through WhatsApp to LSU students. A questionnaire based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology's main constructs was delivered to 200 students that were randomly selected. The results revealed that student's attitudes, behavioral intention of using WhatsApp for learning as well as the platform's usefulness were rated highly, implying high adoption. The positive perceptions suggest that it would be easy for the institution to formally integrate the platform to augment traditional lecture delivery or for use during an event that disrupts traditional face-to-face lecture delivery. Results revealed that WhatsApp can support 21st century learning through autonomous, collaborative and learner centred education.
Developing Optimal Distinctive Open Innovation in Private Universities: Antecedents and Consequences on Innovative Work Behavior and Employee Performance
Author: Luhgiatno, Luhgiatno
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Private Colleges,College Faculty,Innovation,Work Environment,Success,School Culture,Creativity,Interaction,Teacher Competencies,Performance,Teacher Behavior,Teacher Characteristics

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of the concept of optimal distinctive open innovation as mediating variable in relationship between Person-Job Fit and Person-Organization Fit and work innovation behavior and lecturer performance. The method used in this study are through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis with the object of the study conducted on 193 lecturers determined by purposive random sampling technique at private universities in Central Java. The findings showed significant effects of person-organization fit on the optimal distinctive open innovation and on innovative work behavior. Moreover, person-job fit is of significant on optimal distinctive open innovation, and on innovative work behavior. In testing the effect of mediating variables, optimal distinctive open innovation is of significant on innovative work behavior which in turn affecting the significant influence of innovative work behavior on lecturer performance. The findings emphasize that the success-oriented way of thinking requires the expertise of employees to always create creative, superior and unique ideas. Private universities must always pay attention to the principles of industrial management and professionalism in human resource management, in order to survive and develop. Superior skills will produce superior performance, and superior skills are distinctive competence that supports the company to achieve positional advantage.
Does the Curriculum of a Bachelor Program in International Business Meet the Competency Requirements of Internationalizing SMEs? A Study toward the Integration of International Relation Competency in an International Business Curriculum
Author: van Weerden, Louise B.
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: International Relations,Business Administration Education,Curriculum Development,Bachelors Degrees,Undergraduate Study,Foreign Countries,Skill Development,College Faculty,Teacher Attitudes,Alumni,Attitudes

This paper contributes to the research on discrepancy between employers' needs and graduates' competencies acquired at bachelor education. Given the fact that internationalizing SMEs have considered international relation competency (IRC) to be the key competency for starting export professionals, this qualitative study examines whether this key competency with its selected knowledge, skills and attitudes has been integrated into the curriculum of a bachelor program in International Business at a Dutch University of Applied Sciences. Based on a document analysis of this bachelor program and interviews with lecturers and alumni of this program, we found that the training of international relationship competency is almost absent in the curriculum. Both lecturers and alumni envision skills and attitude development to be incorporated into the curriculum of this internationally oriented bachelor program. The findings offer some suggestions for further research concerning developing cooperation between business and education and the assessment of international relation competency within the context of IB education.
Examining the Formation of Integrative Readiness of Pre-Service Teachers to Work in Inclusive Classrooms in Ukraine
Author: Yashchuk, Olena M.
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Preservice Teachers,Teacher Competencies,Inclusion,Regular and Special Education Relationship,Preservice Teacher Education,Readiness,Teacher Characteristics,Personality Traits,Knowledge Base for Teaching,Teaching Skills,Students with Disabilities,Self Efficacy,Communication Skills,Emotional Response,Anxiety

The article addresses potential issues surrounding the development of the integrative readiness of pre-service teachers to work in inclusive classrooms in Ukraine. Integrative readiness is an open, dynamic, synergistic system functioning of cognitive, motivational, affective, and selective processes which is developed through the purposeful training of future teachers for work in inclusive, which is included in the educational social environment as a tool for acquiring productive knowledge, forming integrative skills. The structure of integrative readiness includes personality orientation; ability to perform their duties, professional competences; productive knowledge that the student receives from environmental information based on personal prior knowledge, skills, personal and professional qualities, and integrative skills that demonstrate the ability of an individual to make independent decisions and appropriate actions in unpredictable new situations. The levels of integrative readiness were investigated, covering the following interrelated stages: theoretical analysis, synthesis, comparison; modelling and technological design; generalization; observational; pedagogical experiment. A study was conducted. The research involved 285 pre-service teachers from the Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, enrolled in the Speciality 016: Special Education unit. A structural model of the formation of integrative readiness of future teachers for professional activity was developed which consisting of the following blocks: target, content and procedural, and resultant. The research finding reported that the effectiveness of corrective, developmental, and educational work in the educational inclusive space largely depended upon the quality of training of the pre-service teacher, and the use of active and interactive training.
Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Constraints: Do the Constraints Predict University Agriculture Graduates&apos; Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship?
Author: Baliyan, Som Pal
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Gender Differences,Entrepreneurship,Student Attitudes,Predictor Variables,College Graduates,Agricultural Education,Foreign Countries,Barriers

This quantitative study analyzed and predicted gender differences of agriculture graduates' attitudes towards and challenges in entrepreneurship in Botswana. The study adopted a descriptive and correlational survey research design. A valid and reliable questionnaire was used for data collection through a survey of randomly sampled 149 final year agriculture graduate students (n=149). Inferential statistical tools of Independent t-test and Regression analysis were used for data analysis. The findings of the study determined three important attitudinal factors as: entrepreneurship results in economic growth of a country, employability and income generation and, entrepreneurship improves individual and social growth. Three important constraints in entrepreneurship were lack of land, lack of proper infrastructure and, lack of capital. These top attitudinal factors as well as constraints were the same for the male and female graduates despite of their ranking and importance. A gender difference in students' attitudes towards entrepreneurship was established while no gender difference in the challenges in entrepreneurship was found. Out of fifteen constraints in entrepreneurship under study, only three constraints namely, lack of land, high competition in market and lack of capital, were determined as significant predictors of the graduates' attitudes towards entrepreneurship. It is recommended that these three factors be made priorities while making policies for entrepreneurship development in the country. Further study is recommended to explore the perceptions of graduates on the possible ways to improve on these three predicting constraints and explore latent constraints predicting graduates' attitude towards entrepreneurship. Those findings may provide better ideas in planning policies for entrepreneurial development among agriculture graduates in Botswana.
Application of the SERVQUAL Model for the Evaluation of the Service Quality in Moroccan Higher Education: Public Engineering School as a Case Study
Author: Goumairi, Ouissal
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Educational Quality,Higher Education,Engineering Education,Quality Assurance,College Students,Student Satisfaction,Models

The quality of higher education systems currently represents a major challenge for the development of societies. In Morocco, engineering education is at the heart of this development, it is a major and necessary lever which, due to an increasingly demanding job market, faces several challenges. According to Moroccan Directorate for Strategies and Information Systems (2018) these challenges are classified into two categories: quantitative (low rate of Moroccan engineers compared to global figures; 1.57 graduates in engineering per 10,000 inhabitants in 2016) and qualitative (adaptation of the academic curriculum to the needs of the job market). However, little work has been done on the introduction of service assessment tools in higher education in Morocco (Akrim, Figari, Mottier-Lopez, &amp; Talbi, 2010). In our article, we are interested in the SERVQUAL method (SERVice QUALity-Quality of Service). This approach, initially designed to measure customer satisfaction in a company, allows, when applied to higher education, to measure student satisfaction at the university. Based on a bibliographic research, we have identified the five dimensions of the model that impact the quality of service. Through the application of this model to a sample of students from a public engineering school, we have been able to determine that tangible elements and physical installations have the biggest impact on service quality with a negative quality gap (-2.0275). As a result, more efforts are needed in these dimensions to improve service quality. In conclusion, the SERVQUAL model, applied to the educational system and more precisely higher education, allows to quantify the non-quality by measuring the gap between the perception of the students and their expectations for a good service. It has the advantage of helping decision-makers take corrective actions needed to improve the service quality provided by universities as a part of a process of continuous improvement to achieve higher degree of excellence.
Partnership among Librarians: Reflection on Observations, Interviews and Research Reports from Three Universities in Nigeria and Zimbabwe
Author: Enakrire, Rexwhite T.
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Librarians,Intercollegiate Cooperation,Academic Libraries,Foreign Countries,Library Research,Professional Development,Barriers

Partnership is not a new phenomenon in the university environment. It embraces strategies used by people with common interest to harvest knowledge in terms of sharing or collaboration. However, the case differs with collaborations in Library and Information Science (LIS) research in Africa, especially LIS scholars in African universities in Nigeria and Zimbabwe. Paucity of empirical literature is available on research collaboration among LIS scholars in Nigerian and Zimbabwean universities. The purpose of the study was to examine partnership among librarians, with reflection on observation and interview research reports in three universities in Nigeria and Zimbabwe. The study adopted a qualitative approach using interview to gather data from librarians drawn from three Nigerian and Zimbabwean universities. The qualitative research approach grounded on content analysis of documents/literature, observation and interview method was use for the study. The observation focus on the authors' exposition in the sampled universities environment, while the interview were key informants from each of the three countries universities sampled. The study consider the collaborative theory through grounded method. The findings of the study revealed lack of trust in the individual or groups collaborator; team members have the feeling that the project they are collaborating on is of little benefit, due to poor relationship. Team members see themselves as contender or challenger; which has affected leadership issue and involvement of long meetings and inability to address the truth. In terms of the influence of collaboration on professional growth of librarians, result demonstrated enhancement of teaching aspect of librarianship, learning and research quality; promote cooperation, coordination, which in turn increased level of intensity, tenacity and interaction among members. Linkage among LIS professional ranges from networking, cooperation, alliances, coordination and partnership, coalition and eventually collaboration. Challenges reported include catastrophic consequent on negative effect of work, culture and stylistic parameters including concept, attitude and professional hindrances. dominance impact of policies and procedures of collaboration, exploitation of the weak members, lack of clarity and rationale behind the collaboration, unwillingness to change by members in collaboration, lack of socialisation, largeness of the group, wrong membership and jettisoning of members ideas which eventually make some members take the decision of quitting the team. The study recommends inter-disciplinary, intra-institutional and inter-institutional collaboration among various stakeholders in LIS education and training.