Browsing by Subject "Cohesion"

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    Cohesion in the Narrative Writing of Young EFL Learners: Correct and Incorrect Use of Local Cohesive Ties
    (The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2021-06-28) Férez Mora, Pedro Antonio; Coyle, Yvette; Solís Becerra, Juan Antonio; Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura
    This study examines the correct and incorrect use of local cohesive ties and local cohesion errors in the written narratives of eleven- to twelve-year-old Spanish learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at different proficiency levels. The study was carried out with pairs who collaboratively wrote a narrative text in response to a picture prompt. The young learners’ written texts were examined to identify their correct and incorrect use of four categories: lexical, referential, conjunctive and temporal cohesion. The results show that higher and lower proficiency learners are significantly different in their use of the causal conjunction because, personal pronouns and noun phrases containing possessive, definite, indefinite and zero determiners. The two groups also differ in their incorrect use of pronouns, simple verb forms and noun phrases containing definite, indefinite and zero determiners. Attention is drawn to the need to explore the diversity in young learners’ use of cohesion and some pedagogical implications are drawn.
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    La dimensión afectiva familiar: variables relevantes para el bienestar psicológico de estudiantes adolescentes
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2005-07-01) Sánchez López, María Cristina; Parra Martínez, Joaquín; Prieto Sánchez, María Dolores
    The objective of the work is to analyze how the Affective Dimension of the family context it allows to advance the Psychological Well-being in adolescents of a school of the Region of Murcia. The participants are adolescent between 12 and 20 years. The Psychological Well-being was evaluated with the Inventory of adapted Psychological Well-being and proposed by Alsinet, Houses and Rosich (2000) and the affective dimension of the family context with (Inventory Quality Relationships, QRI) of Sarason (1999) and Social The Climate Scales: Family (FES) of Moos, Moos and Trickett (1984, 1995, 2000). The results show us that through the perception that they have of the level of cohesion and family conflict we can predict their Psychological Well-being.
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    Individual and group antecedents of job satisfaction: a one-lab multilevel study
    (Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de Murcia, 2016) Martínez, Isabel M.; Cifre, Eva
    This study examines the simultaneous effect of individual (self-efficacy) and group variables (cohesion and gender diversity) on satisfaction. A laboratory study was conducted involving 373 college students randomly distributed across 79 small groups, who performed a laboratory task in about five hours. Two-level Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) method was used. Results show the main effect from individual self-efficacy to satisfaction (both level 1), the cross-level effect from group co-hesion (level 2) to individual satisfaction (level 1), and the interaction effect between self-efficacy and gender diversity to satisfaction. These results suggest that in a work group, satisfaction has a background in individual and group variables. Group cohesion and gender diversity have important effects on satisfaction. The article concludes with practical strategies and with limitations and suggestions for future research.
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    Veinte maneras de motivar a un equipo
    (2001) García-Mas, Alexandre; Rivas Garza, Claudia Alicia
    Este trabajo presenta las distintas formas que posee un entrenador (o el psicólogo que trabaja conjuntamente con él) para mejorar la motivación de sus jugadores y/o de su equipo. Se discuten conceptos tales como: trabajo con la derrota; concentración; el aprendizaje del entrenador; confianza y necesidad; las necesidades psicológicas de los deportistas de alto rendimiento; cohesión y cooperación; y otros relacionados con la motivación deportiva.