Foreign language pronunciation skills and musical aptitude: A study of Finnish adults with higher education     

Riia Milovanov  Päivi Pietilä  Mari Tervaniemi  Paulo A.A. Esquef 《Learning and individual differences》2010,20(1):56-60

The main aim of this study was to examine second language production and discrimination skills in the light of musical aptitude. Our study was conducted in university settings in south-western Finland. English was used as a model for the second language due to its popularity among young adults. There were three types of tests used in this study: a pronunciation test, a phonemic listening discrimination task, and the Seashore test as an index of the musical aptitude. All the participants performed equally well in the phonemic listening discrimination task. However, the participants with higher musical aptitude were able to pronounce English better than the participants with less musical aptitude. The results, therefore, imply that musical and linguistic skills are interconnected.  相似文献   

Studying reading during writing: new perspectives in research     

?sa Wengelin  Mari?lle Leijten  Luuk Van Waes 《Reading and writing》2010,23(7):735-742

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International library to library cooperation (illc)     

Poland UH 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1971,59(2):352-353

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Behind the former iron curtain: Introducing performance improvement to a transitional economic culture     

Steven J. Kelly  M. Mari Novak  Anna Cermakova 《Performance Improvement》2005,44(6):20-25

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Transnational Education in the Slovak Republic: Threat or Challenge?     

Mariá Hrabinská 《Higher Education in Europe》2000,25(3):387-394

This article discusses the pros and cons of transnational higher education offerings from the vantage point of a small Central European country, the Slovak Republic, and with special reference to franchising. Transnational higher education offerings are definitely needed, not only in the Slovak Republic, but in the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well, existing national higher education systems and institutions not being sufficiently developed to cope with increasing enrolment pressures. But there need to be adequate safeguards against fraudulent offerings, debased standards, and other such problems. The implantation of two franchised campuses of City University, Bellevue, Washington (USA) is cited as a very positive example of a foreign higher education institution that has been able to successfully integrate itself into the fabric of Slovak higher education by faithfully complying with all Slovak higher education regulations and offering high-quality course programmes.  相似文献   

Reliability of unipodal and bipodal counter movement jump landings in a recreational male population     

Cédric Schwartz  Bénédicte Forthomme  Julien Paulus  Jean-François Kaux  Olivier Brüls  Vincent Denoël 《European Journal of Sport Science》2017,17(9):1143-1152

Movement patterns during landing have been suggested to be related to injury risk. The purpose of this study was to determine the inter-session reliability of kinematic variables and ground reaction forces during landing in a population of male recreational athletes after a counter movement jump. Both unipodal and bipodal landings were evaluated. Furthermore, the possibility to improve landing reliability with a verbal instruction was also studied. Twenty-four male volunteers with no history of lower extremity trauma were randomly assigned to two groups (with and without verbal landing instruction). An optoelectronic 3D system and force plates were used to measure the lower limb joint angles and the ground reaction forces during landing. Intraclass correlation values show moderate to excellent inter-session reliability for the bipodal task (ICC average: 0.80, range: 0.46–0.97) and poor to excellent reliability for the unipodal task (ICC average: >0.75, range: 0.20–0.95). However, large standard errors of measurement values at the ankle joint at impact (27.6?±?11.5°) and for the vertical ground reaction forces (394?±?1091 N) show that some variables may not be usable in practice. The verbal instruction had a negative effect on the reliability of unipodal landing but improved the reliability of bipodal landing. These findings show that the reliability of a landing task is influenced by its motor complexity as well as the instruction given to the subject.  相似文献   

Inter-disciplinarity in sport sciences: The neuroscience example*     

Patrick Fargier  Christian Collet  Aidan Moran  Raphaël Massarelli 《European Journal of Sport Science》2017,17(1):42-50

Abstract

Sport science is a relatively recent domain of research born from the interactions of different disciplines related to sport. According to the European College of sport science (http://sport-science.org): “scientific excellence in sport science is based on disciplinary competence embedded in the understanding that its essence lies in its multi- and interdisciplinary character”. In this respect, the scientific domain of neuroscience has been developed within such a framework. Influenced by the apparent homogeneity of this scientific domain, the present paper reviews three important research topics in sport from a neuroscientific perspective. These topics concern the relationship between mind and motor action, the effects of cognition on motor performance, and the study of certain mental states (such as the “flow” effect, see below) and motor control issues to understand, for example, the neural substrates of the vertical squat jump. Based on the few extensive examples shown in this review, we argue that by adopting an interdisciplinary paradigm, sport science can emulate neuroscience in becoming a mono-discipline.  相似文献   

The Effect of Differential Motivation on IRT Linking          下载免费PDF全文

Marie‐Anne Mittelhaëuser  Anton A. Béguin  Klaas Sijtsma 《Journal of Educational Measurement》2015,52(3):339-358

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether simulated differential motivation between the stakes for operational tests and anchor items produces an invalid linking result if the Rasch model is used to link the operational tests. This was done for an external anchor design and a variation of a pretest design. The study also investigated whether a constrained mixture Rasch model could identify latent classes in such a way that one latent class represented high‐stakes responding while the other represented low‐stakes responding. The results indicated that for an external anchor design, the Rasch linking result was only biased when the motivation level differed between the subpopulations to which the anchor items were administered. However, the mixture Rasch model did not identify the classes representing low‐stakes and high‐stakes responding. When a pretest design was used to link the operational tests by means of a Rasch model, the linking result was found to be biased in each condition. Bias increased as percentage of students showing low‐stakes responding to the anchor items increased. The mixture Rasch model only identified the classes representing low‐stakes and high‐stakes responding under a limited number of conditions.  相似文献   

Supporting the professional development of teacher educators in a productive way     

Fer Boei  Jurriën Dengerink  Janneke Geursen  Quinta Kools  Bob Koster  Mieke Lunenberg 《师资教育杂志》2015,41(4):351-368

This study reports on what 13 teacher educators going through a procedure to become registered as a teacher educator in 2011–2012 learned, what goals they formulated for their further professional development and what activities they planned to achieve these goals. The methods used in this study are mainly the same as were used at the time the first cohort went through the registration procedure in 2002. The 2012 cohort participated in a supportive programme, whereas the 2002 cohort did not. This enables a comparison of the results of both studies and thus some insight into the possible benefits of integrating a registration procedure with a supportive programme for the professional development of teacher educators.  相似文献   

Neural Correlates of Self and Its Interaction With Memory in Healthy Adolescents          下载免费PDF全文

Fanny Dégeilh  Bérengère Guillery‐Girard  Jacques Dayan  Malo Gaubert  Gaël Chételat  Pierre‐Jean Egler  Jean‐Marc Baleyte  Francis Eustache  Armelle Viard 《Child development》2015,86(6):1966-1983

Adolescence is marked by the development of personal identity and is associated with structural and functional changes in brain regions associated with Self processing. Yet, little is known about the neural correlates of self‐reference processing and self‐reference effect in adolescents. This functional magnetic resonance imaging study consists of a self‐reference paradigm followed by a recognition test proposed to 30 healthy adolescents aged 13–18 years old. Results showed that the rostral anterior cingulate cortex is specifically involved in self‐reference processing and that this specialization develops gradually from 13 to 18 years old. The self‐reference effect is associated with increased brain activation changes during encoding, suggesting that the beneficial effect of Self on memory may occur at encoding of self‐referential information, rather than at retrieval.  相似文献