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Exploring the motivational antecedents of Nepalese learners of L2 English
No full textThis paper is the first to examine the motivational disposition of Nepalese learners of L2 English. Based on an adapted version of the questionnaire in (Kormos, Judit & Kata Csizér. 2008. Age-related differences in motivation of learning English as a foreign language: Attitudes, selves, and motivated behavior. Language Learning 58. 327–355. Doi:10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00443.x.), we test the robustness and culture-specific applicability of well-known motivational antecedents to this learner population, and we investigate how the effects of these antecedents are mediated by the learners’ gender, age and regional aspects of the educational setting. In doing so, we offer novel ways of analyzing the data: Firstly, we employ random forests and conditional inference trees for assessing the relative importance of motivational antecedents. Secondly, we complement the traditional ‘scale-based approach’, which focuses on holistic constructs like the ‘Ideal L2 Self’, with an ‘item-based approach’ that highlights more specific components of such scales. The results are interpreted with reference to the L2 Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, Zoltán. 2005. The psychology of the language learner: Individual differences in second language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum) and to previous studies on other Asian populations of L2 learners
Any-Cubes
No full textHere we present Any-Cubes, a prototype toy with which children can intuitively and playfully explore and understand machine learning as well as Internet of Things technology. Our prototype is a combination of deep learning-based image classification [12] and machine-to-machine (m2m) communication via MQTT. The system consists of two physical and tangible wooden cubes. Cube 1 ("sensor cube") is inspired by Google's teachable machine [14,15]. The sensor cube can be trained on any object or scenery. The machine learning functionality is directly implemented on the microcontroller (Raspberry Pi) by a Google Edge TPU Stick. Via MQTT protocol, the microcontroller sends its current status to Cube 2, the actuator cube. The actuator cube provides three switches (relays controlled by an Arduino board) to which peripheral devices can be connected. This allows simple if-then functions to be executed in real time, regardless of location. We envision our system as an intuitive didactic tool for schools and maker spaces
Models in Social Psychology and Agent-Based Social Simulation
No full textUnderstanding how individual or group behaviour are influenced by the presence of others is something both social psychology and agent-based social simulation are concerned with. However, there is only limited overlap between these two research communities, which becomes clear when terms such as “variable”, “prediction”, or “model” come into play, and we build on their different meanings. This situation challenges us when working together, since it complicates the uptake of relevant work from each community and thus hampers the potential impact that we could have when joining forces
Optimiertes Peer Reviewing in den Digital Humanities
No full textPeer reviewing gilt auch in den Digital Humanities als die wissenschaftliche Qualitätssicherungsmaßnahme für Publikations- und Veranstaltungsformate. In Absprache mit dem DHd-Vorstand sowie dem aktuellen Programmkomitee entwickelte die Task Force eine Handreichung für das peer reviewing der DHd 2022 mit weiterführenden Erklärungen der Kriterien und Empfehlungen zur Begutachtung in der DHd-Community, die bereits für den Reviewprozess der DHd-Jahrestagung 2022 an die Reviewer:innen verteilt wird. Ein globales Ziel der Handreichung ist es, eine größere Einheitlichkeit in der Anwendung der Begutachtungskriterien für Beiträge in der Jahrestagung DHd- Community zu schaffen. Diese neuen Entwicklungen und die damit verbundenen Diskussionen und Beschlüsse sind nicht immer leicht nachzuvollziehen, daher soll der Workshop ein Format anbieten, um sich über die Begutachtungspraxis der DHd und über weitere Begutachtungsformate zu informieren, einen Ort für Austausch zwischen mehr und weniger erfahrenen Reviewer:innen zu schaffen, aber auch konkret das Schreiben von Gutachten zu erproben
Jedes Verhalten hat seinen Sinn
No full textHerausforderndes Verhalten von Kindern kann ganz unterschiedliche Facetten haben, ob Aggression, Ausgrenzung, Provokation, Sensibilität u.v.m. Namhafte Autoren wie Jörg Maywald oder Dorothee Gutknecht beleuchten in diesem nifbe-Band, warum sich Kinder in bestimmten Situationen so oder anders verhalten. Es wird gezeigt wie sich Zugänge zum Kind finden lassen, z.B. durch ressourcenorientierte Entwicklungsbegleitung oder Resilienz. Darüber hinaus werden praktische Impulse gelingender Grenzsetzung und Selbstfürsorge für pädagogische Fachkräfte im Kita-Alltag dargestellt
Resilienz und Transformation
No full textWas sollte bei der Planung und Realisierung eines neuen Stadtquartiers berücksichtigt werden, damit es sich resilient und somit auch langfristig anpassungsfähig an klimatische, demographische und infrastrukturelle Veränderungen erweist
Teleology and mentalizing in the explanation of action
No full textIn empirically informed research on action explanation, philosophers and developmental psychologists have recently proposed a teleological account of the way in which we make sense of people’s intentional behavior. It holds that we typically don’t explain an agent’s action by appealing to her mental states but by referring to the objective, publically accessible facts of the world that count in favor of performing the action so as to achieve a certain goal. Advocates of the teleological account claim that this strategy is our main way of understanding people’s actions. I argue that common motivations mentioned to support the teleological account are insufficient to sustain its generalization from children to adults. Moreover, social psychological studies, combined with theoretical considerations, suggest that we do not explain actions mainly by invoking publically accessible, reason-giving facts alone but by ascribing mental states to the agent
Young survivors of sexual abuse as 'children out of place'
No full textThis chapter looks at children ‘out of place’ as a category, focusing on the example of the sexually abused and thus sexually exposed child as experiencing an ‘out of place’ childhood. It focuses on the child who has been sexually abused and exploited, in contexts involving no compensation – monetary or otherwise. A code for childhood sexuality also developed in the West, with the focus on the innocence and malleability of young people. The projection onto children by adults, in terms of what they should be, can thus eventually be damaging. Children are presented as incapable of being responsible subjects with their own agency in the context of sexuality. Children’s agency in the context of their sexuality is highly restricted through laws dictating minimum ages of sexual activity and consent, as well as social expectations of a child as a non-sexual and innocent being
Unpacking the Habitus
No full textThe concept of habitus refers to socially stratified patterns of perception, classification, and thinking that are supposed to bring about specific lifestyles. Until now, research on the links between stratification and lifestyles has accounted for the habitus mainly in conceptual and theoretical terms, and studies directly measuring habitus and its association with stratification and lifestyles are rare. The present study conceptualizes the habitus as an individual-level pattern of meaning making and suggests an operationalization that is commonly used in identity research. Using survey data of 3,438 respondents, the study investigates associations between different lifestyles and patterns of meaning making. Results show, first, that self-related meanings vary systematically across lifestyle categories and mirror respondents' stratification position. Second, the meanings of various social concepts also vary significantly across lifestyle categories and partly reflect descriptive lifestyle characteristics. In sum, the study presents a plausible operationalization of (parts of) the habitus and advances our understanding of its mediating position between stratification and lifestyles
Report on the 4th Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation (CaRR 2014)
No full textContext-aware information is widely available in various ways and is becoming more and more important for enhancing retrieval performance and recommendation results. The current main issue to cope with is not only recommending or retrieving the most relevant items and content, but defining them ad hoc. Other relevant issues include personalizing and adapting the information and the way it is displayed to the user's current situation and interests.
The workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation is a forum for research on context-awareness in information retrieval, recommender systems and human computer interaction. The fourth iteration of the workshop was organized in conjunction to the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval in Amsterdam, The Netherlands