Hebben we oren naar anderstaligen in het Vlaamse hoger onderwijs?

In order to enroll in Flemish higher education, aspiring students whose native language is not Dutch require a B2 CEFR level for language proficiency for most courses that are taught in Dutch. The question we aim to answer in this study is how future interlocutors of these students perceive that B2 entrance level. Do fellow students, lecturers and other members of staff feel that this level of language proficiency is sufficient to successfully navigate higher education? We specifically focus on the perception of pronunciation proficiency. We conducted a speaker evaluation experiment in which 191 students and staff members evaluated six sound clips with non-native Dutch speech representing pronunciation levels B1, B2 and C1. Results show that overall attitudes towards the speakers in the experiment are rather positive. In addition, there is a clear association between pronunciation proficiency and perceived functioning in higher education that reflects the Flemish higher education entrance policy. Our study also shows that various groups within the higher education community react differently towards non-native Dutch speakers and that there is a link between perception of non-native pronunciation and the amount of contact a listener has with non-native speakers. Overall, this study underlines the importance of pronunciation training in foreign language teaching for academic purposes.

Het lespakket Homo in de Klas: goede voornemens? : Een effectstudie op gedragsintenties in een gereformeerd (klas)klimaat.

Lessons Queer in the classroom: good intentions?This study investigates the effect of Homo in de Klas (Queer in the classroom) on the willingness of orthodox Christian pupils from four Reformed schools to change their attitudes regarding homosexuality. The study has a quantitative and qualitative part. A survey was carried out among 636 pupils (37 classes) from the third grade havo / vwo (ninth-grade students: college entrance level). The study had a quasi-experimental design. The results show a positive effect of the intervention on the intention for more social interaction, but not on the intention to reduce the abusive word ‘gay’. No support was found for the idea that the classroom climate plays a role in this.To gain more insight an additional qualitative study was done. Interviews afterwards with eight teachers and 35 pupils showed a positive classroom climate with a lot of interaction during the intervention. The meeting with the guest speaker impresses the pupils in particular. According to the teachers and pupils, these elements encourage a change in the behavior, towards more social interaction and less use of ‘gay’ as a swearword.

A Comprehensive Survey on Novel Fault Current Limiters in Wind Energy Conversion System

The interest for power is expanding at a very high rate, and the generation of power is running in front of supply. The presentation of distributed vitality assets is the greatest change happening to the dispersion arrangement. There is an expanded reconciliation of distributed vitality assets with the circulation arrange utilizing power hardware converters to meet the consistently expanding request of power. In the future, normally, the entrance level of appropriated vitality assets will further increment. The association of circulated vitality assets with the circulation system brings about increment in the estimation of issue current, which can cause unusual conditions in the whole control framework to arrange. The equipment introduced at the producing station and the substation is over the top expensive. In this way, it is important to shield this equipment from the fault current. A fault current limiter (FCL) is a progressive power framework device that beats the issues because of expanded deficiency current levels. It is a device that lessens the imminent issue flows to a lower sensible level. In this paper principals of activity and structures of the different current limiter is examined. It surrenders short and to-date writing audit of regular shortcoming current constraining gadgets just as deficiency momentum constraining gadgets which are still in an examination or improvement arrange.

Cloud Computing Environment with Security Issues

Security is a significant subject of a few software systems. Cloud computing continue to be assertion as a most important innovation in IT management. The objective of this paper is to make available the recent advancement and a wide impression of the obtainable literature cover an assortment of dimensions of the Cloud security. In addition to the efforts of the paper industry, it also concludes the directions created at various levels for future research in cloud security base on related work. This possibly will be extremely useful, predominantly for the entrance level researchers, who desire to behavior the research in these connected areas.

ZERO2HERO – Az alternatív felzárkóztatás

A Műegyetemre felvételt nyert hallgatók matematikai képességei, előismeretei igen eltérőek, sokan közülük komoly hiányosságokkal küzdenek. A bekerüléshez szükséges pontok megszerzéséért folytatott küzdelemben a megfelelő matematikai ismeretek elsajátítására már nem marad elegendő idő, energia. A diák a felvételi pontban kedvezőbb utakat járja be, ami a bekerülést követően fejti ki hatását. A középiskolában megszerezett tudást tekintve vegyes összetételű csoportok, ezen belül is a hiányzó alapok, jelentősen megnehezítik az egyetemi matematikaoktatást, számos problémát felvetve mind hallgatói, mind oktatói oldalról. Ily módon a hátrányokkal induló elsőéves esetét tekintve egy effajta lemaradás többet jelenthet az adott tantárgy nehezebb teljesítésénél, amin azt értjük, hogy adott ismeretanyag elsajátításához arányaiban több idő szükséges, mint a tantárgy ajánlott bemeneti szintjét jelentő tudással rendelkező évfolyamtársának. A helyzetet súlyosbítja, hogy a felsőoktatás jelenlegi keretei között kevésbé van mód differenciált oktatásra. Ezek a problémák a BME valamennyi karát érintik, így a Gazdaság- és Társadalomtudományi Karon folytatott képzésekre is kihatnak. 2016 augusztusában egy kéthetes szintrehozó tanfolyam keretén belül arra tettünk kísérletet, hogy a középiskolai anyag rendszerezésével, a tanultak átismétlésével segítsük az új hallgatók egyetemi tanulmányainak megkezdését. ***The mathematical capacities and previous knowledge of the students accepted at the Budapest University of Technology (BME) are very diverse; many of them face serious deficiencies. The fight for the points they are to collect in order to be accepted does not allow them to pay enough time and energy to acquire the adequate mathematical knowledge. The students choose the way more favourable for them in terms of the admission points, the effects of which will appear after they have been accepted. The groups that are mixed concerning the knowledge gained at secondary school as well as the missing grounds considerably make teaching mathematics more difficult at the universities, and raise several problems on both the students’ and the teachers’ side. Thus, in case a first-grade student faces this type of disadvantage, lagging behind means more than just a more difficult acquisition of the certain material; he/she will need proportionally more time to learn the certain subject than his/her peers being in possession of the knowledge equal to the suggested entrance level of the subject. This situation is further rendered by the fact that within the frames of today’s higher education there are very limited possibilities of differentiated instruction. Each of the departments of the BME is concerned by this problem, likewise the courses conducted at the Department for Economic and Social Sciences. In August 2016, within the frames of a two-week bridging-the-gap course we made a try to help the new students start their university studies by repeating the adequate topics.

Sharangadhara’s Nadi Pareeksha and its implications in Ayurveda

Ever since man has started colonising the knowledge for survival and dependence over each other made him social animal. But aggregated knowledge and added wisdom transformed such colonisation in to civilizations. Ayurveda is said to be Upanga of Atharvanaveda. The mythological connection yielded the Ayurveda in Triskanda Ayurveda but the amassing the doctrines of Indian philosophy made it to today’s Living sciences the Ayurveda. By 2nd BC the classical works of Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita is believed to have been written. The trend of writing such voluminous work even extended upto 6th AD believed to be the period of Astanga Hrudaya Samhita. The upsurge of Rasa Shastra and the geopolitical changes happening in India had almost pull stopped the progress of Ayurvedic Literature for further 6 centuries. But it was post Shoddala period that is 12th century AD onwards, we find with the specific intent and with a particular domain literature emerged which we call period of Laghutrayee. The same post Shoddala period we find some serious, literary mammoth works in Ayurveda came in the form of commentaries. Dalhana, Chakrapaniduta, Arunaduta and Hemadri commentaries even today believed to more authentic came in this period for the Brihatrayee. This exploration of Sharangadhara in to the Nadi Pareeksha is one such add on with a specific reason addressing the entrance level teaching so that the system become more simpler and approachable. In the article an attempt is made to exhibit need specific moulding of Nadi Pareeksha which was imported from neighbours is specifically blended; not only to the basics of Ayurveda but was practised as a tool of a) diagnosis, b) prognosis c) treatment and d) even death was determined by it.

Are there gender differences in instrumental music practice?

This research aimed to consider whether there were gender differences in the amount of practice undertaken by boys and girls, the practice strategies adopted and motivation to practise. A sample of 2027 girls and 1225 boys aged 6–19 years, ranging in level of expertise from beginner through to conservatory entrance level, playing instruments representative of the classical and popular instruments played in the UK completed a self-report Likert scale questionnaire. There were no statistically significant gender differences in weekly practice time or motivation to practise. Factor analysis of statements relating to practice revealed seven factors. There were statistically significant gender differences in relation to the adoption of systematic practice strategies (girls were more systematic), concentration (boys perceived they had higher levels of concentration) and immediate correction of errors (girls reported more immediate correction). There were no statistically significant gender differences in relation to the organisation of practice, the use of recordings and a metronome, the use of analytic strategies, and the adoption of ineffective practice strategies although for this factor there was a statistically significant interaction between gender and level of expertise.