Authentic assessments are closely aligned with activities that take place in real work settings, as distinct from the often artificial constructs of university courses. As the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA) has recognised that delivery of the vocational stage of training should utilise authentic assessment techniques to improve students’ ‘Day One’ outcomes, the authors assert that authe...

This article describes the development of speaking fluency through authentic oral production in a six-week action research study public high school Guayaquil, Ecuador. The methodology included pre-test and post-test that measured quantitative aspects student’s spoken (speed, pauses, repetitions, corrections), survey with closed-ended questions collected learners’ perspectives towards their own ...

The theoretical aspects of the use authentic materials in study foreign languages are mainly focused on problem forming language and speech competence methodological provision separate components intercultural students' education. However, context communication actualises question functional filling educational for implementation linguocultural socio-cultural a language. purpose article is to e...

The aim of this study was to show how authentic leadership is related to social support and exposure to workplace bullying and how these variables are related to mental health. For our sample of 820 office workers employed in different Polish organizations and sectors, social support from supervisors moderated the relationship between authentic leadership and workplace bullying. Social support ...

The automatic summarization of multimedia sources is an important task that facilitates the understanding individual by condensing source while maintaining relevant information. In this paper we focus on audio based features and probability distribution divergence. Our method, extractive approach, aims to select most segments until a time threshold reached. It takes into account segment’s lengt...

The present study investigated the efficacy of segmental/suprasegmental vs. holistic pronunciation instruction in development listening comprehension skills by EFL learners, using a pre-test post-test design. Six groups 20 intermediate learners at university Iran took part study, all receiving same amount (10 hours over 5 weeks). control group listened to/viewed authentic audio recordings and m...