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The Impact of Non-Labeled Response Categories of Rating Scales: An Example with Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Two Self-Regulation Scales for Exercise
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Marcela Alves Sanseverino; Ana Carolina Raabe Abitante; Monique Cristielle Silva da Silva; Liza S. Rovniak; Wagner de Lara Machado – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2025
As part of a validation study of the Exercise Planning and Scheduling (EPS), and Goal-Setting (EGS) Scales, which were translated from English to Brazilian Portuguese, we aim to: present evidence of reliability and validity for the translated scale; and, explore the effects of non-labeled response categories of rating scales. The sample comprised…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Self Management, Exercise, Test Validity
The Role of Cognates and Language Distance in Simultaneous Bilingual Children's Productive Vocabulary Acquisition
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Elly Koutamanis; Gerrit Jan Kootstra; Ton Dijkstra; Sharon Unsworth – Language Learning, 2025
This study examined the influence of cognate status and language distance on simultaneous bilingual children's vocabulary acquisition. It aimed to tease apart effects of word-level similarities and language-level similarities, while also exploring the role of individual-level variation in age, exposure, and nontarget language proficiency. Children…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
"Calming My Heartbeat to Enjoy the Show": The Social-Indexical Meanings of In-Yer-Face Theater Recontextualized in China
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Xiaoyan Liang; Lydia Catedral – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
This article investigates the "performability" of in-yer-face theater that is "recontextualized" from the British to the Chinese context. We propose an interdisciplinary approach that uses sociolinguistic tools to empirically examine relevant issues for theater translation studies. By analyzing audience reactions from both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theater Arts, Drama, Translation
The Psychometric Properties and Typology of the Chinese Version of the Emotional Style Scale for Gifted Students in Middle School
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Min-Ying Tsai – SAGE Open, 2025
The study aimed to verify the psychometric properties of the emotional-style scale and explore different clusters of emotional styles. An emotional style scale was completed in three districts of western Taiwan using stratified random sampling. The study confirmed the reliability and convergent validity of each subscale in a sample of 712…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Classification, Psychological Patterns