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Marcusson-Clavertz, David; Cardeña, Etzel; Terhune, Devin Blair – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Mind wandering--mentation unrelated to one's current activity and surroundings--is a ubiquitous phenomenon, but seemingly competing ideas have been proposed regarding its relation to executive cognitive processes. The control-failure hypothesis postulates that executive processes prevent mind wandering, whereas the global availability hypothesis…
Descriptors: Imagination, Fantasy, Cognitive Style, Short Term Memory
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Wang, Airong – JALT CALL Journal, 2014
This paper aims to explore teacher strategies for managing student participation in a complex Multi-user Virtual Environment. Data include transcribed recordings from a task-based EFL course in Second Life. Conversational Analysis is adopted to analyze the teacher's verbal language output in the transcript, and a student questionnaire is used to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lantz, Annika – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: Employees' work in innovation processes generates ideas, but more often it serves to create conditions so that new products or services can be effectively produced or delivered. Self-organizational activities involve proactively handling new possibilities, unexpected situations, problems or tasks. The aim of this paper is to provide…
Descriptors: Evidence, Innovation, Group Dynamics, Job Analysis
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Lantz, Annika; Brav, Agneta – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose--What is required of job design and production planning, if they are to result in a work group taking a self-starting approach and going beyond what is formally required of it? This paper aims to contribute to group research by testing a theoretical model of relations between job design on the one hand (captured as completeness, demand on…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Task Analysis, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries