Metacultural (ethnolinguistic) competence and translation: classroom experience

Globalisation and developing metacultural competence in learning English as an International Language

In its journey across the globe, English has become increasingly localised by many communities of speakers around the world, adopting it to encode and express their cultural conceptualisations, a process which may be called glocalisation of the language. The glocalisation of English and the dynamics of increased contact between people from different cultural backgrounds, or transcultural mobili...

Cultural competence in the college biology classroom.

As a general phrase, “cultural competence” can often conjure for the unfamiliar reader a vision of a person who is fair, just, and open, a person who is nice, someone who is a good person at heart. Cultural competence, however, goes far beyond the everyday meanings that its component words invoke, and it is an active area of scholarship and professional development, especially in the training o...

Classroom Experience with Jeroo*

Jeroo is a tool that has been developed to help students in beginning programming courses learn the semantics of fundamental control structures, learn the basic notions of using objects to solve problems, and learn to write methods that define the behavior of objects. Jeroo is similar to Karel the Robot and its descendants, but has a narrower scope and has a syntax that provides a smoother tran...

Translation and Psychometrics of “Job Experience Questionnaire” in Sports Organizations

Introduction: Job experiences are one of the characteristics and various capabilities of human resources of organizations that have a great impact on the overall performance of the organization and the achievement of organizational goals. The purpose of this study is to translate and psychometrics the "Job Experience Questionnaire" in sports organizations. Methods: The method of the present st...

The Prosocial Classroom: Teacher Social and Emotional Competence in Relation to Student and Classroom Outcomes