Evaluation Interkultureller Kompetenz bei Angehenden Deutschlehrerinnen und -Lehrern in Polen

Książka ukazuje możliwości i ograniczenia ewaluacji kompetencji interkulturowej przyszłych nauczycieli języka niemieckiego w Polsce. Ewaluacja rozumiana jest tu nie tylko jako sumujący pomiar dydaktyczny lecz przede wszystkim jako zbieranie i ocena informacji o warunkach i przebiegu działań dydaktycznych zmierzających do rozwoju kompetencji interkulturowej.The book examines the possibilities of assessing intercultural competence of German language pre-service teachers in Poland. The assessment comprises not only quantitative testing but also the qualitative evaluation of intercultural language training. It also gives an insight into the limits of such kind of assessment

Kommunikative Anstrengung. Hin zur lebensnahen interkulturellen (Fremdsprachen-)Lehrerausbildung

Intercultural (foreign language) teacher training tends to concentrate on selective case studies developed to show communicative problems, caused by their very special intercultural and multilingual characteristics. It also tends to make a big promise of a rapid improvement in intercultural communication in a multicultural and multilingual society by transferring the solutions for intercultural communicative problems to the students’ own experience. Such an approach fails to take into account the fact that encounters with inadequate communicative acts (behaviours/speech acts) determined by cultural and/or language differences are a daily experience of everybody and require a lot of communicative effort in order to prevent intercultural problems before they happen. The following article discusses what is meant by communicative effort, how past studies on the intercultural competence of (foreign language) teachers account on communicative effort, and how to prepare students to undertake communicative effort in their daily communicative activities in a multicultural and multilingual societ

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Messung interkultureller Kompetenz

There is no doubt that a cultural dimension is a part of the foreign language teaching. Still, the necessity of assessing learners' intercultural competence seems to be overlooked. The following article examines possibilities of assessing intercultural competence implying not only quantification and judgment but also reflecting the effectiveness of intercultural foreign language teaching. The paper gives also an insight into the limits of such kind of assessment.There is no doubt that a cultural dimension is a part of the foreign language teaching. Still, the necessity of assessing learners' intercultural competence seems to be overlooked. The following article examines possibilities of assessing intercultural competence implying not only quantification and judgment but also reflecting the effectiveness of intercultural foreign language teaching. The paper gives also an insight into the limits of such kind of assessment

Assessment of the quality of life of patients with breast and cervical cancer

The location of the tumor and the type of selected treatment are factors that determine the quality of life of patients. The incidence of neoplasms increases every year, with more and more patients successfully undergoing treatment processes but also struggling with the immediate and delayed effects of the disease and the treatment applied. A diagnosis of cancer is a critical situation in everyone’s life, which may disturb their sense of agency, stability, and safety. Cancer significantly affects the lives of both patients and their families, and a diagnosis confirming cancer may disturb the sense of control over one’s own health. According to numerous studies on the quality of life, depending on the location of the neoplasm, the reaction of patients to the course of treatment may have various psychological effects that will have an impact on the process of adaptation to the disease and psychosocial functioning. Neoplastic disease, depending on its location, may affect the assessment of one’s own body and function in the sexual sphere. The location of the tumor not only causes changes in patients’ bodies and health options related to their physicality but also affects their coping strategies, self-perception, sense of influence on one’s own health, and the quality of social relations. The objective of this article is to assess the differences in the health-related quality of life among women suffering from breast and cervical cancers

Who is a tired student? Fatigue and its predictors from a gender perspective.

The level of fatigue among medical students is increasing. Exhaustion is an essential symptom of burnout, which may occur even while a student. Our exploratory study sought to identify the characteristics of tired students and to describe factors determining fatigue among medical students. The studied group consisted of second-year medical students (N=193) from a Polish medical university. Statistically significant differences in fatigue appeared between male and female students. We obtained positive correlations between intensity of fatigue and sleepiness, pain intensity, stress, anxiety, depression and negative health conditions, life satisfaction, emotional stability, conscientiousness, and self-efficacy. Predictors relevant for female fatigue were sleepiness, health condition, depression, and conscientiousness (the whole model explains 46% of variance in fatigue). Predictors relevant for male fatigue were sleepiness, health condition, anxiety, and agreeableness (the whole model explains 55% of variance in fatigue). We did not observe differences in fatigue between sleepless, overloaded, or stressed people. Explaining the differences between male and female predictors and levels of fatigue in terms of personality traits through the prism of defined stereotypical social roles is worth considering