Investigating Dynamic Relationships Among Individual Difference Variables in Learning English as a Foreign Language in a Virtual World

Investigating Dynamic Relationships Among Individual Difference Variables in Learning English as a Foreign Language in a Virtual World
Author: Mariusz Kruk
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030652696

This book focuses on the dynamic relationships among individual difference (ID) variables (i.e., willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety and boredom) in learning English as a foreign language in the virtual world Second Life. The theoretical part provides an overview of selected issues related to the four ID factors in question (e.g., definitions, models, sources, types, empirical investigations). The empirical part reports the findings of a research project which aimed to examine the changing nature of WTC, motivation, boredom and language anxiety experienced by six English majors during their visits to the said virtual world, the main contributors to the changes in the levels of the constructs under investigation, as well as their relationships. The book closes with the discussion of directions for further research as well as pedagogical implications.

Rethinking Class and Social Difference

Rethinking Class and Social Difference
Author: Barry Eidlin
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839820209

This volume draws together scholars rethinking social scientific and theoretical approaches to a wide range of forms of social difference and inequality. These include race, nationalism, sexuality, professional classes, domestic employment, digital communication, and uneven economic development

Transactions

Transactions
Author: American Institute of Homeopathy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1000
Release: 1906
Genre: Homeopathy
ISBN:

List of members in each vol.; members from its organization, in v.41, 46.

The Dynamic Progress Method

The Dynamic Progress Method
Author: J. Chris White
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466504382

Recent computer-based tools for project planning and management focus on user-friendliness and interconnectivity. However, these programs function on the Critical Path Method, or CPM, which was created in the 1950s. These programs, which involve simplistic models and methods, ignore the fact that the underlying computations on which they function h

The Dynamic Perspective in Personality and Social Psychology

The Dynamic Perspective in Personality and Social Psychology
Author: Robin R. Vallacher
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135589704

Recent years have witnessed the ascendance of a new way to conceptualize and investigate the nature of dynamism at different levels of psychological reality. Areas of inquiry as diverse as cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, organizational behavior, and political sociology are being reframed in terms that allow rigorous and precise insight into basic dynamic processes. There are signs that this new approach to dynamics is emerging as a potentially integrative paradigm for personality and social psychology as well. This special issue highlights this new paradigm and illustrates its relevance to a broad spectrum of topics in personality and social psychology.

Dynamic Modeling

Dynamic Modeling
Author: Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1978
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780803909465

Outlines the theory behind, and techniques for, using dynamic modeling, taking the reader through a series of increasingly complex models. At each step, examples are used to claify applications of different equation models.