Abstract Perseverance of effort is essential for success in learning a second language (L2). While past research has examined how motivational beliefs (e.g., growth mindset) influence L2 learners’ perseverance, their generalizability and underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This study investigated the relationship between mindsets perseverance efforts learning, as well whether this can be explained by ideal self ought‐to self. A cohort 740 EFL students from four universities China completed...

ABSTRACT Although several studies have examined the speech act of complaint on mainstream social media platforms, few investigated complaints university students’ online discussion forums. Therefore, this study examines linguistic (in)directness in made by Chinese students an forum based Depraetere et al.’s (2021) taxonomy. It focuses formal realization four constitutive components (component A = complainable, component B dissatisfaction, C complainee, and D wish for remedy) combinations...

Aim To understand, comprehensively, care experiences of caregivers for children with developmental dislocation the hip in Tibet, China. Background Postoperative rehabilitation (DDH) may last several months to years. Even after discharge, recovery is often partial. It important note that despite optimal surgical treatment, lifelong residual issues persist, such as limping, chronic pain, or early-onset osteoarthritis. Home critical postoperative recovery. Family basic unit home-based patients,...

This paper examined language anxiety (LA) in Chinese dialects and Putonghua among college students mainland China explored the links between their LA first a range of sociobiographical variables (i.e. gender geographical background) as well linguistic mother tongue, age onset acquisition, context learning, self-perceived oral proficiency, frequency use). Participants were 778 Beijing university who speak Putonghua. Statistical analyses revealed that participants reported significantly higher...

As a result of the one-child policy 1979, today there are numerous families with adolescents in Mainland China. Little is known about experiences parents such diagnosed cancer.This study explored whose adolescent child was cancer China.A qualitative methodology based on hermeneutic phenomenology employed. The participants were patients families. Data collected using in-depth semi-structured interviews and analysed van Manen's phenomenological approach. COREQ checklist used for this...

Abstract Background COVID-19 vaccines play a vital role in combating the pandemic. Social media provides rich data source to study public perception of vaccines. Objective In this study, we aimed examine and discussion on Twitter US, as well geographic demographic characteristics users who discussed about Methods Through streaming Application Programming Interface (API), COVID-19-related tweets were collected from March 5 th , 2020 January 25 2021 using relevant keywords (such “corona”,...

Intercultural willingness to communicate (IWTC) is essential an individual's success in intercultural communication. However, few studies investigated the factors that influence IWTC. This study examined predictive effects of multilingualism, multicultural personality traits (i.e. social initiative, open-mindedness, cultural empathy, flexibility, and emotional stability), foreign language anxiety (FLA) on IWTC Chinese international students studying abroad. The participants were 545...

The purpose of this study is to clarify the psychological influence thermal environment on elderly people in their welfares facilities. Two facilities where actually used were regarded as objects conduct thermo-humidity measurement and hearing survey.As for actual living during investigation time, range measured temperature was wider than criteria value indoor winter summer. While PMV standard comfortable (-0.5∼0.5) summer, announced that it neutral them. Humidity-reaction also duller,...

While task-based peer interaction in dyads has been commonly practiced English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms, how to pair learners dyadic tasks always concern of teachers and researchers. This study examined learner proficiency pairing, task type L1 use by Chinese EFL two speaking tasks. Thirty-six participants were paired according their oral levels into: same-level pairs (high-high; medium-medium; low-low), mixed-level (high-low). All completed types tasks—information-gap...

Abstract This paper examines the self-perceptions of sixteen 11-year-old UK children who took part in intercultural ‘Villages’ organised by an international children's charity. The analysis data shows that only a short-term increase Intercultural Communicative Competence was reported immediately after Village. neither statistically significant, nor evident nine months However, self-report most were positive about experience. Establishing, expanding and maintaining friendship constituted...

The aim of this paper is to investigate how children negotiate their language and social roles using English as a lingua franca in an international summer camp. Through detailed analysis interactions group activity, it found that the employ range linguistic interactional resources, particular, alternation, clarification repair, shadowing, manage participation, despite disparities abilities. also shows participants deal with tensions dynamics, which arise partly out discrepancies between...

The synergized dynamic contradiction separation based automated deduction theory has provided a novel logic reasoning framework, which ex­tends the static binary resolution inference rule to multiple mechanism. This auto­mated mechanism is characterized as dynamic, multi-clauses involving, synergized, goal-oriented and robust framework. In order further improve efficiency feasibility of this mechanism, paper proposes some strategies for clause or literal selection during process, consider...

This paper analyzes the factors driving housing market cycle in China from 1986 to 2009 by extending traditional stock-flow model. The conclusions are as follows. (1) Land supply, stock, population and income affect price significantly. (2) Housing greatly affects construction with an elasticity of 1.28. (3) Expectation rather than user cost is main determining factor price. If current increases 1%, ceteris paribus, expected increase 0.48% next period. (4) Finally, we also identified...

Aims Since the dynamic distribution of aquatic plants can reflect variation water ecological environment, it is great significance to fully understand spatial and temporal characteristics for better lake management monitoring.Methods On basis Landsat image data, this study calculated three vegetation indices, including normalized difference index (NDWI), green veg (Green), macroalgae (MAI), constructed an plant extraction Donghu Lake Wuhan using decision tree classification method.With...