At the end of middle school, many low-achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high-school programs, which may be a source of disengagement and eventually lead them to drop out of high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial, this paper shows that low-achievers can be helped to formulate educational objectives that fit better with their academic aptitudes, throug...

grew up in an Eastern European ethnic neighborhood in Chicago. I decided to become a physician because, while hospitalized at Cook County Hospital in Chicago for viral pneumonia at age 4 1⁄2 , I was fascinated by what I saw doctors and nurses do. My parents had never gone to school and I didn’t know any doctors, so I waited until I was in first grade to ask my teacher, “Miss French, how do you ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to assess inter-subject variability in the cortical representation of language comprehension processes. Moderately fluent French-English bilinguals were scanned while they listened to stories in their first language (L1 = French) or in a second language (L2 = English) acquired at school after the age of seven. In all subjects, listening to L1 alway...

Each summer in Paris, an enormous military parade commemorates Bastille Day, July 14 1789, when commoners stormed the royal fortress and wrested power from the King, formally initiating what later became known as the French Revolution. The parade is led each year by 2 year students from the École Polytechnique, the top engineering school in France. At the key moment on the key day when the enti...

concerning the penetration and development of french language in iran, present article is trying to scrutinize a part of unknown cultural history of qajar era. by the rise of the period, especially in the reign of mohammad shah (1250-1264 a.h.), not only the socio-political causes, but also the different institutions, nobles and personalities took an important role to penetrate and develop of f...

—The Need For Humor (NFH) scale measures the tendency to produce and seek out humor. This personality trait affects the processing and recall of humorous material. This study is a transcultural adaptation and validation of the NFH scale with French participants, including 100 university students (Study 1a) and 160 school-aged children (Study 1b). Results from iterative exploratory analyses and ...

BACKGROUND There is a need to increase the recruitment to psychiatry in France. Our aim in this study was to compare factors influencing career choice between French medical students considering and not considering psychiatry as a specialty. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Quantitative cross-sectional online survey on 145 French students in their last year of medical school. RESULTS 22.7% of our sampl...

In this study, we investigated the psychometric properties of the French version of the Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ30; Rieffe et al., 2008). The EAQ30 was administered to 707 French-speaking children aged 8 to 16 years old. The original 6-factor structure was replicated in our data. The internal consistency coefficients of the EAQ30 subscales were satisfactory. We found small significa...

This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion and 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, and prompts on learner uptake and repair. The results clearly show a predominant provision of recasts over prompts and explicit correction, ...

Abstract. „German Theory“ is a theory that has not yet been written, but could have been. „Theory“ here understood as “territory of thought” transcends the boundaries its origins, and travels to other sites. „French Theory“, for example, label travel French poststructuralism Anglophone humanities. In this sense, does exist (yet), paper will argue, it exists potentiality (yet) actualized. To sho...