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Assessing Accent Anxiety: A measure of Non-native English Speakers’ concerns about their Accents
DownloadSpring 2024
Non-native speakers (NNS) often experience anxiety due to challenges posed by their accented speech. Building on these insights, this paper introduces an instrument, the Accent Anxiety Scale (AAS), specifically designed to assess three sources of NNSs’ accent anxiety, including: (1) NNS’s...
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Cultural Empathy in Intercultural Interactions: The Development and Validation of the Intercultural Empathy Index
Download2022-03-20
Zhang, Ying Shan Doris, Noels, Kimberly A.
Based on discussions of cultural empathy in intercultural communication and counseling and multicultural psychology, this paper presents a model and a measure of cultural empathy suited for a broad range intercultural interactions - the Intercultural Empathy Index (IEI). We examined the IEI’s...
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Measuring Students’ Socio-Emotional Well-being to Optimize Learning: Looking beyond Academic Performance and Grades
Download2020-12-01
Bulut, Okan, Seitz, Paolina, Deforge, Kevin, Chu, Man-Wai, Hachem, Maryam, Gorgun, Guher
Socio-emotional variables, like engagement, motivation, and collaboration, are profoundly involved in the learning process. Targeting those variables in designing instructional activities may increase the potential of students’ academic success (e.g., stronger school performance and more...
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Fall 2018
My thesis is about the nature of natural laws. My view of scientific laws, as you have seen, is very different from the traditional theories of laws. My methods in this paper are very similar in style to Russell’s discussions of laws and science since we both pay attention to actual scientific...