scholarly journals Cognitive-behavioral aspects in the effectiveness of foreign language training of students of a non-linguistic university

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (35) ◽  
pp. 148-159
Author(s):  
Larisa E. Deryagina ◽  
Sergey N. Tikhomirov ◽  
Igor B. Lebedev ◽  
Darya V. Rusetskaya ◽  
Yury V. Chumanov

The article analyzes the impact of the cognitive-behavioral characteristics of students from a non-linguistic university on the level of success in learning a foreign language. The purpose of this article is to identify the patterns of the cognitive-behavioral parameters of decision-making in the conditions of choosing between various alternative reactions and their relationship with the effectiveness of foreign language training of students from a non-linguistic university. To study behavior patterns, the method of parameterizing was used such as an important component of any activity, as decision-making by modeling situations under conditions of free, probabilistic and conditional choice. The study involved freshmen and sophomores from a medical university, who were studying foreign languages. The simulation of the follow-up of the stimulus presented revealed a low level of voluntary attention in the students with low performance, especially in a situation of imposed rhythm. Naturally, there is the hypothesis that in this group, their own cognitive style is dependent on environmental conditions, so this must be taken into account in the learning process. The results obtained indicate that the presence of universal differentiated cognitive-behavioral strategies are important in the case of successful / unsuccessful command of a foreign language.

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1958-1958
Author(s):  
Z. Aalayi ◽  
T. Ahmadi Gatab

IntroductionThe present study has focused on the impact of training cognitive-behavioral strategies in reducing test anxiety among second-grade high school male math students.ObjectivesThis study has attempted to test the hypothesis that training cognitive-behavioral strategies can help a reduction on test anxiety among anxious students.MethodsThe subjects were 72 second-grade high school students who had obtained high scores on the test anxiety scale(sarason,1978) participants were selected by a multi-stage cluster sampling method from three high schools at Tehran after administering the self-report test anxiety scale as pre-test, the subjects were then divided into two groups of control and experimental with 36 students in each groupdid not receive any treatment then, both groups were asked to complete the test anxiety scale as post-test.ResultsAnalysis of variance (anova) with repeated measures was performed to analyze the data. the results revealed that there was a significant difference between the two groups and this difference was two the advantage of experimental group showing a significant reduction in test anxiety.ConclusionsThe results showed that training cognitive-behavioral strategies can reduce test anxiety.


2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Costa ◽  
Marc–Lluís Vives ◽  
Joanna D. Corey

Recent research has revealed that people’s preferences, choices, and judgments are affected by whether information is presented in a foreign or a native language. Here, we review this evidence, focusing on various decision-making domains and advancing a variety of potential explanations for this foreign-language effect on decision making. We interpret the findings in the context of dual-system theories of decision making, entertaining the possibility that foreign-language processing reduces the impact of intuition and/or increases the impact of deliberation on people’s choices. In closing, we suggest future research directions for progressing our understanding of how language and decision-making processes interact when guiding people’s decisions.


Author(s):  
Ivaylo Dagnev

The use of new technological tools in the classroom enables many new ways of teaching in foreign languages. Unlike the old methods that rely on unidirectionality, new technologies also require new ways of teaching, managing work, and therefore a new ethos. The introduction of new technologies also leads to a change in the status of the teacher, which also requires a change in the training strategy. This article reflects a pedagogical experiment aimed at testing the readiness of both the teacher and the students to acquire new knowledge and skills in a modern, interactive way. For this purpose, during the whole course of foreign language training over two semesters at the Medical College at the Medical University - Plovdiv, two groups of students in the specialties "Medical Cosmetics" and “Instructor in Food Safety” are taught in two different ways - one studying English in the traditional way with a textbook, while the other using only "interactive" methods without using textbooks or similar tools. At exit, a survey is conducted among one of the groups of students to evaluate their attitude towards the new approaches in learning a foreign language.


Author(s):  
Bryan D. Carter ◽  
William G. Kronenberger ◽  
Eric L. Scott

Building on the stress and stress management information from the last session, Session 2 introduces two specific forms of coping with stress: “Solving the Problem,” which involves you engaging in actions that instrumentally reduce the stressors to which you are exposed (active problem-solving), and “Managing the Impact” coping, i.e., those skills that reduce the effects of stressors on you physically and emotionally (relaxation and cognitive-behavioral strategies). This session describes these two forms of coping and the “when” and “how” of applying each. In this session problem-solving skills are introduced as a strategy that can reduce stress by addressing and altering the situation, and specific steps in the problem-solving process are described and illustrated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-199
Author(s):  
AM Zahidul Haque ◽  
Naima Nigar ◽  
Arifa Rahman ◽  
Fariea Bakul ◽  
Syfin Rubyat

Decision making is one of the crucial aspects of our daily life. In terms of making any decision language plays a vital role either directly or indirectly. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of Bangla language (native) and foreign language (English) on decision making. It was hypothesized that foreign language would show fewer decision biases. Total 80 participants (40 males, 40 females) took part in this experiment. Results from Chi-square test revealed that while making decisions in Bangla language under loss-frame 68.7% participants preferred to choose risk option over sure option. On the contrary in gain-frame only 29.9% participants preferred the risk option (χ2(1, N = 80) = 24.059, p < 0.001). This decision biasness was significantly minimized in English language. In loss-frame 56.1% participants preferred the risk option over sure option and in gain-frame 43.6% participants preferred the risk option, χ2(1, N = 80) = 2.502, p > 0.05. Dhaka Univ. J. Biol. Sci. 29(2): 191-199, 2020 (July)


2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klea Faniko ◽  
Till Burckhardt ◽  
Oriane Sarrasin ◽  
Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi ◽  
Siri Øyslebø Sørensen ◽  
...  

Abstract. Two studies carried out among Albanian public-sector employees examined the impact of different types of affirmative action policies (AAPs) on (counter)stereotypical perceptions of women in decision-making positions. Study 1 (N = 178) revealed that participants – especially women – perceived women in decision-making positions as more masculine (i.e., agentic) than feminine (i.e., communal). Study 2 (N = 239) showed that different types of AA had different effects on the attribution of gender stereotypes to AAP beneficiaries: Women benefiting from a quota policy were perceived as being more communal than agentic, while those benefiting from weak preferential treatment were perceived as being more agentic than communal. Furthermore, we examined how the belief that AAPs threaten men’s access to decision-making positions influenced the attribution of these traits to AAP beneficiaries. The results showed that men who reported high levels of perceived threat, as compared to men who reported low levels of perceived threat, attributed more communal than agentic traits to the beneficiaries of quotas. These findings suggest that AAPs may have created a backlash against its beneficiaries by emphasizing gender-stereotypical or counterstereotypical traits. Thus, the framing of AAPs, for instance, as a matter of enhancing organizational performance, in the process of policy making and implementation, may be a crucial tool to countering potential backlash.


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