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Gray, Emily M.; Ullman, Jacqueline; Blaise, Mindy; Pollitt, Joanna – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This paper reports on a project conducted between July 2020 and March 2021 that was developed within the context of COVID-19 and explored the ways in which Australian universities responded to the pandemic and the gendered effects of these responses. This paper demonstrates that sexist and gender discriminatory practices were amplified by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education
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Alrabah, Sulaiman; Wu, Shu-hua; Alotaibi, Abdullah M.; Aldaihani, Hussein A. – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated English teachers' use of learners' L1 (Arabic) in college classrooms in Kuwait. The purpose of the study was three-fold: (1) to describe the functions for which L1 was employed by the teachers, (2) to explore the affective, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic factors that may have led teachers to use L1 in L2 teaching,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Usage, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Jose, Paul E.; Wong-McCarthy, William J. – 1983
In mixed-sex discussion groups males tend to dominant conversation, focusing the discussion on task-oriented topics. In order to investigate the effect of the sex-role orientation of the speaker on verbal participation in group discussions, 54 college students (28 male, 26 female) participated in three 15-minute, four person group discussions.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Androgyny, College Students, Group Dynamics
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Ely, Christopher M. – Foreign Language Annals, 1988
Investigation of how college students' (N=125) personality characteristics influenced their attitudes toward various second-language learning activities partially confirmed hypotheses suggesting that risk taking and sociability factors positively influenced attitudes toward free language use and negatively affected attitudes toward highly…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, College Students, Higher Education, Language Attitudes
Meiss, Guy T.; Bates, Gary W. – 1984
A study assessed the effect of the use of reasoning message strategies on (1) a generally accepted goal of instruction (critical thinking) and (2) the affective behavior of students (attitudes toward the instruction). Subjects, 68 college students enrolled in journalism/mass communication classes, participated in one of three treatment groups that…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Critical Thinking
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Shimanoff, Susan B. – Journal of Communication, 1985
Studied one aspect of communication competency: how people express emotions through verbal behavior. Found, among other conclusions, that references to unpleasant emotions outnumber references to pleasant emotions almost two to one. (PD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Communication Research
Ganser, Tom – 1994
This paper posits that metaphor, in addition to embellishing language, promotes a comprehensive understanding of complex concepts and phenomena and provides teachers with a powerful way to talk about their work. The main body of this document, which includes an extensive review of the literature, considers the use of metaphors for mentoring in the…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Ohta, Amy Snyder – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994
Presents a longitudinal study of teacher talk that examines the use of affective particles in the language of the university-level elementary Japanese as a foreign language classroom. Results reveal that affective particles are used far less frequently in the classroom language analyzed than in ordinary conversation and that significant…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Environment, College Students, Epistemology