Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

McKeon, Michael; Williams, Raymond

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“…Accordingly, it influences their English language learning experiences in a direct way and contributes to achieve their instrumental needs (P1, 5). The obtained interview data can be supported by the findings of some research studies presented in the second chapter of this study where they also determine the role of culture as one of the significant factors to promote successful language learning (Williams, 1983;Wong, 2007).…”

Section: Social and Cultural Intensity Towards Learning English Languagesupporting

confidence: 72%

“…Rather, it can be accelerated and developed by the cultural and educational context where the language learning takes place (Strauss & Quinn's, 1997) The findings of this study are also in line with a number of additional research studies reviewed in Chapter 2 where they have mainly established that the role of culture need to be emphasized in language learning process. Therefore, culture has been considered as important to maintain successful language learning (Byram & Morgan, 1994;Williams, 1983;Wong, 2007;Wright, 1999). Based on that, the learners need to get familiar with culture of the language they intend to learn in order to find harmony and identification while involving in communication contexts.…”

Section: Social and Cultural Intensities Towards English And Impact O...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Influence of Attitudes, Selves and Culture in Motivating Kurdish Learners to Learn English

Sana¹

2020

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This study presents an investigation of motivation of Kurdish learners to learn English language. The aim is to examine the influence of selves, attitudes, and culture on learners' instrumental and integrative motivation towards learning English. It also intends to study the way that the selected variables, namely Attitudes towards English language, , Ideal L2 self, Ought to l2 self, Interest in the L2 culture, Interest in the L2 community, Instrumental motivation and Integrative motivation, influence English language learning among the learners in the foreign context of Kurdistan. The study can be considered novel in ways that no previous studies have been attempted to investigate the motivation of Kurdish students so far in relation to the effects of the considered variables on their English language learning. Data for the study was obtained from three language service centres in a large city in Kurdistan Region, and both quantitative and qualitative approaches were employed with a total number of 180 survey participants and a total of 12 interview participants. The questionnaire was designed to explore learners' self-orientations and attitudes towards English and how they are inspiring learners to learn the language. The learners' interest

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Section: Social and Cultural Intensity Towards Learning English Languagesupporting

confidence: 72%

Section: Social and Cultural Intensities Towards English And Impact O...mentioning

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The Influence of Attitudes, Selves and Culture in Motivating Kurdish Learners to Learn English

Sana¹

2020

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“…Generations are cohort based on the birth of individuals in a certain period, also known as "social generations, " are commonly referenced and utilized in pop-cultural settings and have been the core for analysis, especially when viewed with the lens of sociology [24]. The study of generations as a cohort began in the nineteenth century because of youth re-belling against the established social structure order and growing awareness of the possibility of everlasting social change [25]. Few analysts believe that generation is more important than other factors such as class, gender, race, and education.…”

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Employer attractiveness: generation z employment expectations in India

Kunal¹,

Coelho²,

Pooja³

2022

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Identifying the dimensions of the employer brand attractiveness of Indian ‘Generation Z’ students who are prospective employees on an overall basis and for certain segments of students, the study is conducted. Generation Z belongs to the age cohort, which has just started entering the workplace during this study. The study identifies the organizational attributes most significant in attracting Indian Generation Z B-School students to seek and aspire for employment. Segmentation was done based on the student’s gender, specialization, and previous work experience to differentiate the perception factors. Finally, the comparison of Millennials and Gen Z preferred attributes showed a degree of similarity of employer preference attributes for Millennials and Gen Z, as both generations preferred instrumental factors. Still, Gen Z preferred more growth and learning opportunities than Millennials, who favoured compensation and organizational attributes. A sample of 160 Gen-Z B-School students from India is 15 B-Schools were surveyed to acquire the data to meet the requirements.

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“…Yet that same image contributes to an assumption that also appears in psychology, that creativity counters conformity: the useful contribution of the creative person, whether economic or political, will derive in large part from their readiness to defy conventions. From a critical discursive perspective, this multiplicity indicates how discourses or discursive resources accumulate and shift in a more complex and dynamic process than would be implied by a linear account of the development of meanings (such as Raymond Williams' (1976) exploration of creativity as a ‘keyword’). The multiplicity contributes to the potency of the concept of creativity, exemplified in the way the very positive status of creativity, seemingly derived from the implied connections with the arts and ‘great names’, can elevate the status of possibly prosaic applications.…”

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Creativity: Celebrations and tensions

Taylor

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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In 1950, the President of the American Psychological Association emphasised the economic and political importance of creativity for US society. His account of creativity exhibits a number of tensions that can be identified in other psychologists' theories and conceptualisations of creativity. This paper considers the tensions from the perspective of critical discursive psychology. In the terms of that approach, the tensions derive from multiple non‐academic discourses around creativity, including popular discourses of creativity and art. The paper argues that conceptualisations of creativity from academic psychology have in turn entered wider discourses, invoked, for example, in recent celebrations of the global sector of the creative and cultural industries (CCI). The tensions within psychology's conceptualisations are significant, however, because they raise questions about the extent to which the psychology of creativity has a common reference and coheres around the study of a single phenomenon.

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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

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The Influence of Attitudes, Selves and Culture in Motivating Kurdish Learners to Learn English

The Influence of Attitudes, Selves and Culture in Motivating Kurdish Learners to Learn English

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