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Personality Characteristics and Emotional Intelligence Levels of Millenials: A Study in Turkish Context
Get PDFThe purpose of the study is twofold. The first purpose of the study is to investigate the relations between personality characteristics and emotional intelligence of the Millennials. Costa and McCrea’s Big Five Personality Inventory (IPIP-NEO) is used to measure the personality characteristics of the millenials. Emotional intelligence dimensions are measured by Wong and Law emotional intelligence scale (WLEIS). Secondary purpose of the study is to find self-evaluations of the Millenials related with their characteristics. Roger’s Q-Sort Scale is used to find out Millenials self perceptions. An advantage of the Q-Sort Scale is that it offers straightforward assumptions about the underlying structure of a concept within demographical segments. Results reveal that use of emotion is positively correlated with conscientiousness whereas regulation of emotion is negatively correlated with Neuroticism. Furthermore, personality characteristics have effects on emotional intelligence dimensions. The effects are much more significant for regulation and use of emotions dimensions. These dimensions are assumed to be important determinants of performance within organizations so it is important to analyze the personality constructs associated with them. Depending on their self-perceptions, millienials evaluate themselves relatively high on positive traits (e.g. honest, out-going, etc.) and low on negative traits (e.g. unhelpful, dishonest, etc.). Regarding personality characteristics, they evaluated themselves highest in openness and lowest in neuroticism. Millenials will be the dominating workforce for the upcoming years, so if they are willing to establish high performance relations, managers should better understand Millenial characteristics and perspective.
Keywords: Millenials, Personality Characteristics, Emotional Intelligence
On conceptual nature of antonymy: Evidence from corpus-based investigations
Get PDFThis paper provides an overview of corpus investigations in studying antonymy with an aim to argue in favour of the conceptual approach to antonymy. Antonymy is considered to play an important role in organizing languages’ vocabularies. However, there is no consensus in the literature on the issue of whether antonyms form a set of stored lexical associations (as the structuralists and the Princeton WordNet model propose), or whether the category of antonymy is a context-sensitive, conceptually grounded category (as conceptual models of meaning propose). On the basis of author’s recent investigations of antonymy in Serbian written discourse, this paper argues in favour of the conceptual approach to antonymy. This approach predicts a category with a continuum structure, with prototypical antonym partners as core members, and category members for which a partner is not available in a context-free environment. The theoretical implication of the investigations presented is that antonymy is primarily a conceptual relation, based on general cognitive processes.
Keywords: antonymy, cognitive approach, conceptual relation
Slovene as the second/foreign language in Slovene pre-school institutions
Get PDFSlovenia has long been a place for immigration; with the accession into the European Union it has become even more interesting for different groups of immigrants from European and non-European countries. According to the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, 106.486 foreigners (5.16% of overall population in Slovenia) were living in Slovenia at the end of 2015. It is expected that this migration trend in the light of world events continues or even increases. One of the key factors for the successful integration of young generations of migrants in society is education. The survey Index of the policy of integration of migrants (MIPEX, 2015), implemented by the British Council and Migration Policy Group, shows that few education systems in Europe are adapting to the realities of immigration. Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Canada, Portugal are the most engaged countries, whereas Slovenia is among the least committed (it ranks 28 among 38 selected countries). Language has a major role in supporting children’s process of identity formation and in helping them understand where they fit in the new environment they are entering. Language is, of course, not the only factor that promotes integration and enables successful education, but the fact remains that immigrant pupils are better achievers in those countries that pay greater attention to second/foreign language learning starting in preschool institutions. In the present paper we discuss the Slovene pre-school teachers’ and pre-school teacher assistants' attitudes towards learning Slovene as the second/foreign language in Slovene pre-school institutions. The research was conducted on a sample of 143 pre-school teachers and pre-school teacher assistants. The results imply that Slovene pre-school teachers and pre-school teacher assistants hold positive attitudes towards learning Slovene as a second/foreign language, they see their role as the promoters of learning Slovene as a second/foreign language to non-Slovene children, but they strongly express the lack of training in language learning strategies of Slovene as a second/foreign language.
Keywords: Slovene, second/foreign language, preschool institutions, pre-school teacher and pre-school teacher assistan
Protection of Guarantor in Law on Guarantor’s Protection in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Get PDFSummary: Parliament of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted Law on guarantor’s protection in 2013. It is a lex specialis which regulates legal protection of guarantor as a special category of persons in loan agreement. However, the law provides a numerous solutions which derogating general rules in obligation law, particularly rules in Law on obligations regarding loan agreement and warranty. In this paper, authors consider both certain rules regarding guarantor’s protection and their compliance with general rules in law of obligations. Definition of loan agreement and special regulation of relationship between creditor and guarantor are not in compliance with rules of warranty – general rules, structure and species. Moreover, there are some limits of freedom of contracting for those who has intention to guarantee for debtor’s liability in loan agreement. Authors in this paper consider validity and acceptability of special rules in order to find answer whether those rules match other relevant rules in positive legislation and do they serve to legal certainty
Harmonisation of Legal Framework in the Field of Consumer Protection through the Prism of Consumer Financial Protection Law of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Get PDFSummary: In November 2014, the Consumer Financial Protection Law entered into force in Federation BIH. The basic intention of the legislator was to achieve complete compliance with primary and secondary sources of EU law governing the issue of consumer protection, respectively users of financial services, and in particular with Directive of the European Union 93/13 / EEC from 5th April 1993, with Directive 2005/29 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council from 11th of May 2005 and Directive 2006/114 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council from 12th of December 2006. In the respective Act, special attention was paid to prohibiting unfair terms in consumer contracts, misleading commercial practices and the obligation of consistent implementation of good faith principle.
The author analyses the actual level of compliance in regard to the relevant regulations of the European Union, and on the basis of empirical experience in the implementation of this law through the entire banking business, analyses the existing regulations and makes proposals for future legislation that will improve the protection of both, consumers and providers of financial services. Special attention in the work is drawn to provisions that have a direct impact on the protection of contracting unfair contract terms
Information overload effect in housing loans to consumers
Get PDFThis paper analyses one of the basic consumer's rights in the Union – the right to be informed, and in the context of the new regulation on housing loans – Directive 2014/17. With its content, Directive 2014/17 regulates key issues of housing (mortgage) lending, and in particular: the consumer's right to be informed, credit risk management, foreign currency lending and uniform rules of calculating the effective interest rate. As a light motive of the Directive, the consumer's right to be informed is pointed out in different stages of the credit relations. At the same time, critics of the Directive are in particular focused on the so-called information overload effect. To that extent, this paper seeks to examine the consequences of the „too-informed“ consumers, and risk in decision-making in credit relations based on the quantity of information provided. Using normative method, the author tries to show the consumer the right to be informed in a broader sense: analyzing the contribution to the consumers protection - as users of housing loans, as well as the possibility of negative impact of extremely broad spectrum of information that is presented to the consumers in terms of Directive 2014/17. The final part of the work shows the possible parallels with the regulations on the protection of consumers of financial services in the B&H entities
SECURITY SYSTEMS AT THE AIRPORT WITH ACCENT ON DATA LAYER SECURITY
Get PDFAbstract: Great number of population use air terminals consistently. This presents
potential attraction for terrorism and different types of wrongdoing. Correspondingly,
the high convergence of individuals on huge carriers, the potential high passing rate
with assaults on flying machine, and the capacity to utilize a seized plane as a deadly
weapon might give a charming focus to terrorism.
In this paper we will investigate air terminal security. It alludes to the systems and
strategies which are utilized as a part of ensuring travelers, staff and flying machine
which utilize the air terminals. Airplane terminal security incorporates assurance from
inadvertent/vindictive damage, wrongdoing and other dangers. Airplane terminal
security endeavors to keep any dangers or conceivably perilous circumstances from
emerging or entering the nation. All things considered, airplane terminal security fills a
few needs: To shield the air terminal and nation from any undermining occasions, to
console the voyaging open that they are sheltered and to ensure the people using
them.
It is necessary to comprehend the significance of security in each part of airplane
terminal operations. It is entwined into the design fabric of airplane terminal operations
- securing travelers, workers, data and base.
Convenient and precise database and programming upgrades are vital to guarantee
operational proficiency
Aroma Marketing Concept and the Level of Awareness Among Bosnia and Herzegovina population
Get PDFAbstract: Smell certainly arouses emotions and memory. In marketing, however, scent
is proven to be very effective in helping contrast one brand from another. It triggers a
desire that strongly influences our buying behavior and purchase decision. The right
aroma can help to recall some pleasant association, people or events, whether it is
great memory from childhood, or an enjoyable time spent in friend’s home. This is the
reason why so many companies use scents as marketing tool to attract customers
and distinguish themselves from competition. After theoretical part of the study, the
interviews showed that level of awareness of scent or aroma marketing concept
among Bosnia and Herzegovina population is high and they perceive scents to have
substantial influence on consumer behavior and purchase decisions
CONTEMPORARY VS. MODERN EDUCATION
No full textThe main objective of this paper is to analyze major differences between traditional and modern
education which encapsulates the following topics; the nature of learning, learning structure, classroom
climate, the hierarchy of educational needs, major learning outcomes, teacher’s roles, interactive learning,
MI theory, learning styles etc. So far we have faced two antagonistic visions of education; one which is
labeled as traditional (or conservative) and the other treated as modern (or progressive). It seems that most
of followers of either traditional or modern education overemphasize positive features of their preference
and consequently they neglect to notice benefits “on the other side”. The lack of objectivity leads inevitably
to many misunderstandings and unnecessary frictions among English teachers. This paper is based on the
“third-value approach” which seeks the solutions out of narrow prefabricated attitudes and rigid concepts.
Instead of one-sided blindness we should vote for “the principled eclecticism” which takes into
consideration the need to combine the two (seemingly utterly antagonistic positions) in order to define
more effective approaches regardless of their theoretical assumptions and often unrealistic claims.
Keywords: traditional education, modern education, educational needs, learning outcomes, interactive
learning, principled eclecticism, teacher’s roles, classroom climat
BANA HİKAYENİ ANLAT
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Modern psikoloji ve pedagoji verilerine göre hazırlanan yeni dönem dil öğretim sistemleri, çocukların dil öğrenme ilke ve yöntemlerine göre hazırlanmaktadır LEGO, son yirmi yıldır yaptığı çalışmalar sonucunda farklı bir dil öğrenim sistemini piyasaya sürdü. LEGO-StoryStarter (Bana Hikayeni Anlat) ismini verdiği ve LESS diye kısaltılan sistemde dilin farklı alanları için belirlenmiş kazanımlar, etkinlik materyallerinin başlangıç noktasını oluşturur. LESS, ilkokul 2-5 sınıf öğrencileri için konuşma, dinleme, okuma, yazma, teknoloji ve sayısal öğrenim alanlarındaki becerilerini geliştirmek için tasarlanmıştır. Öğrencilerin doğalarına uygun yöntemlerle hikaye oluşturma ve anlatma deneyimi kazandıran özgün bir öğrenim aracıdır.
Dil için belirlenmiş kazanım modeli bütün etkinlik materyalinin başlangıç noktasını oluşturur. Öğrenciler etkin olarak keşfederken, oluştururken, inşa ederken, hikaye anlatırken, sorgularken ve iletişim kurarken bir çok alanda beceriler geliştirirler. StoryStarter, öğrencilerin aşağıdaki kazanım modelinde de gösterildiği gibi konuşma ve dinleme, okuma ve yazma alanlarında beceri, bilgi, ve anlayışlarını geliştirmelerine yardımcı olur.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Dil Öğretimi, Etkinlik, Materya