ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Organizational Commitment of Employees of TV Production Center (Educational Television ETV) for Open Education Faculty, Anadolu University
Author: Gürses, Nedim
Date: 2009-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Distance Education,Open Education,Educational Television,Production Techniques,Surveys,Interviews,Statistical Analysis,Organizational Culture,Gender Differences,Age Differences,Labor Turnover,Persistence,Marital Status,Family Work Relationship,Children,Educational Attainment

In like manner as conventional education and teaching approaches distance education tends to model the same procedures. Indeed, formerly enriched on printed material served as a primary source. However, thanks to the developments in technology and evolution in education, computerised information has made inroads in distance education programmes. Moreover the radio and television also are fullfil the need of this particular program. At Anadolu University's Open Education Faculty's TV Production Centers (Educational TV-ETV) programs are produced consistent with the faculties adapted Open Education System. Since 1982, more than 5000 educational programs have been produced at the center. In this study, the views of employees at Anadolu University's Open Education Faculty's TV Production Center's organizational commitment level are analysed according to affective, continuance, normative commitment perspectives within the framework of Meyer and Allen model. In this study, an account of the TV Production Center is provided. Employee's commitment levels are also taken into consideration. Needless to say that to maintain higher success in practices, commitment to organization is very important. Hence, to assess the level of commitment to the organization, surveys were distributed to employees. The organizational commitment scale provided by Meyer and Allen was also implemented to monitor the results. In the study, organizational commitment within affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment is analyzed. The survey was applied to 134 employees of TV Production Center and also face-to-face interviews were conducted. In the second stage, SPSS program was used for necessary analyses according to the demographics of employees (gender, age, and marital status, number of children, working duration, working unit, title and education) frequency test, t-test and ANOVA test were applied.
The Correlates of Turkish Preschool Preservice Teachers' Social Competence, Empathy and Communication Skills
Author: Ahmetoglu, Emine
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Preschool Teachers,Preservice Teachers,Teacher Characteristics,Interpersonal Competence,Empathy,Communication Skills,Early Childhood Education,Surveys,Statistical Analysis,Hypothesis Testing,Gender Differences,Friendship,Clubs,Questionnaires,Likert Scales

The purpose of the current study was to examine the associations between Turkish preschool pre-service teacher's personal and educational characteristics, and their social competence, empathy, and communication skills. A total of 385 state university Turkish pre-service teachers (age range 18 to 32 years) from the early childhood education field completed a Demographic Information Form on personal and educational characteristics, the Social Skills Inventory (SSI) Scale measuring their social competence, The Scales of Empathic Tendency for measuring empathy skills, and a Communication Skills Evaluation Scale measuring communication skills. Bivariate Pearson-correlations, independent t tests, and one-way ANOVAs were used to test study hypotheses. Results indicated that women scored higher on empathy and communication skills, and having more friends was related to higher social competence and empathy. Pre-service teachers who were members of a social club scored higher on communication skills than their peers. Additional associations among variables, limitations, and future directions are discussed.
The Correlation among EFL Learners' Test Anxiety, Foreign Language Anxiety and Language Achievement
Author: Cakici, Dilek
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Test Anxiety,Second Language Learning,Language Proficiency,Correlation,Foreign Countries,Anxiety,Likert Scales,Communication (Thought Transfer),Measures (Individuals),Gender Differences,Statistical Analysis,College Students

The main aim of this study was to investigate the correlation among test anxiety (TA), foreign language anxiety (FLA) and language achievement of university preparatory students learning English as a foreign language. The sample of the research consisted of 301 (211 females, 90 males) attending a one-year EFL preparatory school at Ondokuz Mayis University, School of Foreign Languages. The TAI (Test Anxiety Inventory) developed by Spielberger (1980), FLCAS (Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale) developed by Horwitz (1986) and the students' language achievement scores were used to collect data. In addition, this study aimed to determine the effect of gender on both TA and FLA. The findings of the study revealed that there was no relation between students' TA and their language achievement. It was also found a significant positive correlation between students' TA and FLA. Besides, the result demonstrated that there was a significant reverse correlation between students' FLA and their language achievement. Following t-test results, it was found out that females exhibited higher mean scores than males in both TAI and FLCAS. Finally, certain suggestions were set for EFL teachers to reduce text anxiety and language learning anxiety in foreign language classroom settings.
Teaching Translation and Interpreting in Slovakia: Is There Anything Other than Levý and Popovic?
Author: Biloveský, Vladimír
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Translation,Interpretive Skills,Traditionalism,Employment Potential,Labor Market,Educational Practices,Educational Methods,Educational Change,Change Strategies,Models,College Programs

Institutional translation and interpreting training has a long lasting tradition in Slovakia mainly thanks to such significant translation scholars as Anton Popovic, František Miko, Ján Vilikovský and many others. However the situation has changed after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and the education needed to start adapting to the new market situation and face new economic conditions. The paper presents the tradition, its main point of departure, describes market conditions and suggests some methods how to improve the training of future translators not neglecting the tradition. It is a very delicate and sensitive issue. But finding the right balance seems to be the effort worth taking. The paper also introduces a project of University Translation Centre which has been designed to tackle this challenge and provide students with variety of practical experience during their studies.
Modern Media Criticism and Media Literacy Education: The Opinions of Russian University Students
Author: Fedorov, Alexander
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Students,Mass Media,Criticism,Media Literacy,Student Surveys,Competence,Correlation,Classification,Literary Genres,Learning Motivation

The authors analyze the results of two universities students' survey aimed at finding out the respondents' media competence levels. The findings confirm a general tendency, that commonly, less than a quarter of the young audience reveals a high level development of the media competence's motivational index. A considerably larger part of respondents, about a half, demonstrates a low level of the motivational index. The analysis of the received data proves that a high degree of the media contact frequency and a high level of media competence's motivational index are not directly linked with an ability level to analyze a media text comprehensively. Nevertheless, the levels of interpretational/evaluation parameters of the audience's media competence to a large extent reflect the levels of their informational and motivational descriptors. Moreover, it turns out that the high level of informational index does not necessarily correlate to the level of media competence's evaluation index. On the whole, the survey shows that media competence of modern students needs to be developed. Therefore, university students (not less than school students) do need media literacy courses.
The Problems of Applying Student Centered Syllabus of English in Vocational High Schools in Kendal Regency
Author: Faridi, Abdurrachman
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Vocational High Schools,Student Centered Curriculum,English Curriculum,Qualitative Research,Questionnaires,Interviews,Teaching Methods,Instructional Effectiveness,Learning Processes,Curriculum Design,Barriers,Curriculum Implementation,English Instruction,English (Second Language),English Teachers,Foreign Countries,Observation

This study was descriptive qualitative study aimed to investigate the problems of applying student centered syllabus in vocational high schools in Kendal regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The subjects of the study were twenty English teacher in vocational high schools in Kendal. The data were collected through observations, questionnaires, and interviews. The collected data further were analyzed using inductive analysis in which the researchers looked for the pattern of the data and the meaning of the data. Based on the data, there are three points concluded. The first was the English teaching and learning process in vocational high schools in Kendal had applied the student-centered syllabus. The second, in designing the students-centered syllabus the teachers found difficulties in having a model of the student-centered syllabus as a guideline in adapting and designing their own syllabus, describing the learning indicators, and formulating learning activities alligned with the student-centered learning. The third, the teachers faced difficulties in terms of encouraging their students to participate actively during the teaching and learning, and requiring a lot of time in implementing the student-centered syllabus. Thus, even though the teachers had already applied the student-centered syllabus in their teaching, they still found difficulties in implementing it. In conclusion, they need a model of student-centered syllabus for being a guideline in designing their syllabus and workshops to train them the ways to implement the student-centered syllabus successfully in their teaching.
Female Teachers Training in Educational Grades of Women's Gymnasia in Kazan in the Last Third of the XIX--Early XX Centuries
Author: Kornilova, Irina V.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Females,Teacher Education,Educational History,Ethnic Diversity,Social Influences,Cultural Influences,Teaching Methods,Womens Education,Educational Policy,Gender Issues,Politics of Education,Secondary Education

The purpose of the article is to study the way the female teacher education was formed in late imperial Russia. The subject of the study is the specific element of this process in Kazan province, being a multi-ethnic region. The article analyses a number of issues, the ones related to the activities of the two Kazan gymnasia--Maryinskaya and Ksenyinskaya, generalizes both functioning conditions of these institutions and problems and achievements in quality preparation of teaching staff for schools of the Volga region. The study reveals the socio-cultural and pedagogical factors that determined the way the subsystem of female teachers training was formed. The dynamics of the education classes development demonstrated a certain degree of improvement of the educational process, extension of the academic term from one year to two years, increasing demand applied to students. The enhanced focus on practice-oriented training greatly affected development of professionally significant qualities of the future female teachers. As this educational activity was insufficiently regulated, that allowed for its planning and organization on a local level while taking into account particular regional conditions and needs. Such local &quot;testing&quot; of the way education classes function helped to build a well-coordinated subsystem of female teacher training in the country as well as obtain the required number of teachers within a short period. The results of the study can be applied while modernizing the practices of modern teacher training.
Prospects for the Development and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia
Author: Krechetnikov, Konstantin
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Global Approach,Higher Education,Trend Analysis,Educational Practices,Educational Change,Educational Strategies,Competition,Systems Analysis,Student Mobility,Student Recruitment,Enrollment Management,Comparative Analysis

This study investigates the current process of internationalization of higher education in the countries of the Asia Pacific region (APR) through the example of China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and Russia. The article aims to familiarize the reader with the experience of internationalizing higher education in APR states against a backdrop of global trends. The authors examine the major strategies for the internationalization of education, such as taking a coordinated approach, attracting qualified manpower, focusing on deriving profit, and expanding the potential. The paper analyzes the traditions, strengths and weaknesses, and general traits and characteristics of the above states' national systems of education, as well as the major forms of international partnership and key dimensions of education internationalization in APR states. The authors show that over the last few years APR states have been increasingly active in entering into agreements in the area of education internationalization, which has facilitated the division of spheres of influence and zones of responsibility within the educational area, as well as the steering of educational approaches along a common course. The paper employs traditional methods of research, such as classification, comparative analysis, generalization, juxtaposition, and forecasting. The study suggests three possible scenarios for the future development of the process of higher education internationalization: sustainably diverse internationalization, convergence in the direction of the liberal model, and the triumph of developing economies. The paper also describes current trends in this area in APR states. The authors come to the conclusion that we are in for considerable changes in the international market of educational services, such as the reconsideration of spheres of influence and redistribution of key players in the market, dynamicity and heterochrony in development being among the key traits inherent to today's market of educational services.
Anglicisms and Calques in Upper Social Class in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba (1930-1959): A Sociolinguistic Analysis
Author: Sanchez Fajardo, Jose Antonio
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Class,Sociolinguistics,Spanish,Language Variation,Newspapers,Linguistic Borrowing,Advertising,Computational Linguistics,Language Attitudes,English,Foreign Countries,Diachronic Linguistics

The geographical proximity and socioeconomic dependence on the United States brought about a deep-rooted anglicization of the Cuban Spanish lexis and social strata, especially throughout the Neocolonial period (1902-1959). This study is based on the revision of a renowned newspaper of that time, &quot;Diario de la Marina,&quot; and the corresponding elaboration of a corpus of English-induced loanwords. &quot;Diario de la Marina&quot; particularly targeted upper social class, and only &quot;crónicas sociales&quot; (society pages' columns) and print advertising were revised because of their fully descriptive texts, which encoded the ruling class ideology and consumerism. The findings show that there existed a high number of lexical and cultural anglicisms in the sociolect in question, and that the sociolinguistic anglicization was openly embraced by the upper socioeconomic stratum, entailing a differentiating sign of sophistication and social stratification. Likewise, a number of the anglicisms collected, particularly those related with social events, are unused in contemporary Cuban Spanish, which suggests a major semantic shifting in this sociolect after 1959.
Computer Model of the Empirical Knowledge of Physics Formation: Coordination with Testing Results
Author: Mayer, Robert V.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Physics,Computer Simulation,Inquiry,Cluster Grouping,Mathematical Models,Imitation,Teaching Methods,Educational Practices,Testing

The use of method of imitational modeling to study forming the empirical knowledge in pupil's consciousness is discussed. The offered model is based on division of the physical facts into three categories: 1) the facts established in everyday life; 2) the facts, which the pupil can experimentally establish at a physics lesson; 3) the facts which are studied only on the theoretical level (speculative or ideally). The determination of the forgetting coefficients of the facts of the first, second and third categories and coordination of imitating model with distribution of empirical information in the school physics course and testing results is carried out. The graphs of dependence of empirical knowledge for various physics sections and facts categories on time are given.
Interrelation of Evaluation and Self-Evaluation in the Diagnostic Procedures to Assess Teachers' Readiness for Innovation
Author: Tyunnikov, Yurii S.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Self Evaluation (Individuals),Diagnostic Tests,Readiness,Teacher Competency Testing,Instructional Innovation,Teacher Evaluation,Alternative Assessment,Evaluation Methods,Evaluation Criteria,Measurement Techniques,Measurement Objectives,Design Preferences

The paper solves the problem of the relationship of external diagnosis and self-diagnosis of readiness of teachers to innovative activity. It highlights major disadvantages of measurement tools that are used to this process. The author demonstrates an alternative approach to harmonizing the diagnosis, based on a modular diagnostic model, general diagnostic tools, to synchronize the management tasks of the process of readiness for innovation and self-innovation. The proposed approach, in the author's opinion, creates the necessary conditions for improving the quality of innovative activity of both teachers and ongoing modernization of education.
Contrastive Analysis of Turkish and English in Turkish EFL Learners' Spoken Discourse
Author: Yildiz, Mustafa
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Contrastive Linguistics,Turkish,English (Second Language),English Language Learners,Interference (Language),Communicative Competence (Languages),Language Proficiency,Video Technology,Transcripts (Written Records),Error Analysis (Language),Incidence,Grammar,Lexicology,High School Students

The present study aimed at finding whether L1 Turkish caused interference errors on Turkish EFL learners' spoken English discourse. Whether English proficiency level had any effect on the number of errors learners made was further investigated. The participants were given the chance to choose one of the two alternative topics to speak about. The entire videotaped speaking session was further transcribed to analyze the spoken errors. The results indicated that prepositional, lexical, and grammatical errors were the most frequently encountered errors, in descending order. Also, independent samples t-test was applied to the data to determine whether English proficiency level had any effect on the number of errors made by two different English proficiency groups. It was found that there was no significant difference between two different English proficiency groups with regard to the number of errors they made.
&quot;Poems Look Like a Mathematical Equation&quot;: Assessment in Poetry Education
Author: Xerri, Daniel
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Poetry,Foreign Countries,Student Evaluation,Teaching Methods,Learning Strategies,English (Second Language),Anxiety,Second Language Instruction,Writing Assignments,Mixed Methods Research,Observation,Semi Structured Interviews,Attitude Measures,College Bound Students

This article considers the influence that assessment exerts on poetry education. By means of research conducted in a post-16 educational context in Malta, it shows that teachers' and students' practices in the poetry lesson are determined by the kind of examinations that candidates sit for. When the mode of assessment is constituted solely by the traditional essay test that excludes students' personal response, their engagement with poetry might be impaired and teachers' role becomes highly pronounced. The article demonstrates how assessment plays a key role in governing teachers' and students' practices in the classroom. However, it is also argued that other factors are equally responsible for their approach to poetry.
When the Border Educates: Malín Alegria's &quot;Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico&quot; (2007)
Author: Ibarraran-Bigalondo, Amaia
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Authors,Mexican Americans,Mexicans,Adolescent Literature,Novels,Moral Values

The border between the United States and Mexico, since it was first conceived in 1848, has marked the lives of those who live on both of its sides, as well as of those who want to cross it. It has also become the source of a vast array of theoretical and artistic work. Chicano writers have written about it, and so have theorists dealt with its meaning and conceptual implications. The aim of this essay is to observe the way Malín Alegria's &quot;Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico&quot; (2007), a novel for young adults, serves as a way for young adults to &quot;evolve a moral conscience&quot; (Scharf, 1980: 101), through a process of &quot;critical witnessing&quot; (López, 2009: 205) of what it means to be on one or the other side of &quot;la frontera.&quot;
Age and Type of Instruction (CLIC vs. Traditional EFL) in Lexical Development
Author: Augustín-Llach, María Pilar
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Age Differences,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Word Frequency,Native Language,Course Content,Letters (Correspondence),Vocabulary Development,Task Analysis,Teaching Methods,Language Proficiency,Longitudinal Studies,Case Studies,Second Language Instruction,Elementary School Students,Error Analysis (Language),Foreign Countries,Nonparametric Statistics,Statistical Analysis

The present paper compares the vocabulary development of a group of CLIL and of traditional EFL learners along three years. The observation that a CLIL approach might provide with larger benefits in the long-run vocabulary is the starting point of this study. We had learners in the two groups complete a letter-writing task. These writings were then scrutinized for L1 influence in the form of borrowings and lexical creations. The frequency of the words in the letters was also an object of analysis. Results revealed that CLIL learners perform slightly better but non-significantly better than traditional EFL along the three years. Furthermore, the evolution of L1 influence and word use also followed an expected improvement pattern as learners went up grade. However, our results do not provide evidence of a growing CLIL advantage with increasing experience. The young age and low proficiency of learners in the present study might be blocking this possible advantage found elsewhere.