Harmonizing the Educational Globe. World Polity, Cultural Features, and the Challenges to Educational Research

Challenges Facing Educational Research

the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality

this thesis is about the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality.

the relationship between using language learning strategies, learners’ optimism, educational status, duration of learning and demotivation

with the growth of more humanistic approaches towards teaching foreign languages, more emphasis has been put on learners’ feelings, emotions and individual differences. one of the issues in teaching and learning english as a foreign language is demotivation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the components of language learning strategies, optimism, duration o...

The challenges of educational change: cultural and psychological inertia

In this issue of the CMEJ we showcase several studies of successful innovations, a commentary calling for more and better research into curriculum delivery models to eventually improve the choices available to curriculum planners, and a suggestion that a recent change in resident work hours was ill advised. Applied research, which is much of what currently happens in medical education, by its v...

a frame semantic approach to the study of translating cultural scripts in salingers franny and zooey

the frame semantic theory is a nascent approach in the area of translation studies which goes beyond the linguistic barriers and helps us to incorporate cognitive and cultural factors to the study of translation. based on rojos analytical model (2002b), which centered in the frames or knowledge structures activated in the text, the present research explores the various translation problems that...