An Examination of Personal Humor Style and Humor Appreciation in Others

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between individuals’ humor styles and their appreciation of various humor styles as presented by others. Eighty-five undergraduate John Carroll University students completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire and rated the funniness of six stand-up comedy routines, representing either aggressive, self-defeating, or affiliative humor styles with one male and one female comedian for each humor style. A mixed model Analysis of Variance revealed no relationship between humor style and humor appreciation. However, an examination of the effect of gender showed that men were more likely than women to endorse and appreciate aggressive and self-defeating humor styles

Teachers' contributions to the culture of language classrooms : the case of Spanish as a foreign language

This investigation explores the ways in which teachers contribute to the development ofthe language classroom culture, defined as "a dynamic system of patterns created, changed and maintained by the participants in accordance with their pedagogic and social status, expectations and responsibilities". It draws its data from classrooms of Spanish as a foreign language, and seeks to analyse:• Characteristics ofthe social and institutional context ofthe teachers and their classrooms. • Teachers' views on language teaching and learning, their classrooms and their own teaching. • Verbal and nonverbal means employed by the teachers in their instruction, and more specifically during the transitions between the instructional stages that make up their lessons. • Relationships between the views ofthe teachers and linguistic and nonlinguistic features of their behavior in the classroom.The courses involved in the study were conducted by five different teachers during 1997-1998 in four high schools -three public and one private - and a private liberal arts college, all located in Central Pennsylvania, USA. The methods/instruments for the collection of data were• Background description of the social and institutional context of the teachers and their classrooms. • Three rounds of semi-structured interviews with each teacher. The last interview included stimulated recall. • On-site observation of(a) the physical organization of the classroom, (b) the non-verbal features of the interaction between teachers and students, and (c) the non-pedagogic events taking place during the instruction. • Retrospective analysis (tape and real-time records) of the verbal interaction between teachers and students. • Teacher journals.The results indicate that the teachers' role in the construction of L2 classroom culture is most strongly influenced by their personal theories of teaching and learning, more than by (a) other theoretical and methodological factors, and (b) their interaction with the students. In the tendency to develop their practical knowledge through the instructional sequence, the teachers' pedagogic routines showed a number of striking differences with regard to (a) their combination of pedagogic and disciplinarian control over the instruction and the students, (b) the interaction with the class or specific individuals during the transitions between instructional stages, (c) the use of English and Spanish, and (d) the potential purposes of the performance features

Introductory Speech to the XI 'LAC Meets the Market' Conference

Organizado por: The World Bank - Banco de Españ

Remarks to the Institute of Internacional Bankers Breakfast Dialogue with Government Officials

Organizado por: Institute of International Banker

The Practical Implementation of Basel II: Current Challenges and the Way Forward

Evento: Basel II & Banking Regulation Forum. Organizado por: Global Association of Risk Professional

Basel II: the road ahead

Evento: Basel Committee on Banking Supervisio

Keynote speech at the Market Discipline Conference

Evento: Market Discipline: the discipline across countries ad industires. Organizado por: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and BI

Overview of Basel II and its Reflections on Financial Stability

Evento: International Conference on Financial Stability and Implications of Basel II. Organizado por: Central Bank of the Republic of Turke

Asset Price Bubbles: Implications for Monetary, Regulatory and International Policies

Organizado por: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago/ World Ban