Pre-service teachers’ beliefs regarding native and non-native english teachers’ pronunciation at a private University

En éste estudio se investigan las creencias de los pestudiantes de séptimo semestre con respecto a la pronunciación de los profesores de inglés nativos y no nativos en una universidad privada. Con este fin, se seleccionaron al azar 19 estudiantes de séptimo semestre asignados aleatoriamente a 3 grupos: grupos focales, entrevistas y cuestionarios en los que los estudiantes podrían compartir esas creencias específicas que describen a los maestros nativos y no nativos en términos de pronunciación. Este estudio exploratorio se enmarca dentro de un diseño cualitativo y una metodología de sistematización de experiencias. Además, los resultados del estudio revelan que los estudiantes tienden a etiquetar a los maestros en diferentes categorías: pronunciación, fluidez, acento, didáctica y lenguaje, donde describen sus creencias sobre el habla del maestro, la forma en que producen sonidos, las ventajas y desventajas que los docentes nativos y los profesores no nativos tienen sobre la pronunciación y la variación de acento que tienen según su lugar de origen.This study investigated the pre-service teachers’ beliefs regarding native and non-native English teachers’ pronunciation at a private university. To this end, 19 pre-service teachers from seventh semester were selected randomly assigned to 3 groups: Focus groups, Interviews and Questionnaires in which students could share those specifics beliefs that describe native and non-native teachers in terms of pronunciation. This exploratory study is framed within a qualitative design, and systematization of experiences methodology. Additionally, the results of the study reveals that students tended to label teachers in different categories: Pronunciation, Fluency, Accent, Didactics and Language, where they describe their beliefs about teacher´s speech, the way they produce sounds, the advantages and disadvantages native and non-native teachers have about pronunciation, and the accent variation they have according to their place of origin

Pre-service teachers’ beliefs regarding native and non-native english teachers’ pronunciation at a private University

En éste estudio se investigan las creencias de los pestudiantes de séptimo semestre con respecto a la pronunciación de los profesores de inglés nativos y no nativos en una universidad privada. Con este fin, se seleccionaron al azar 19 estudiantes de séptimo semestre asignados aleatoriamente a 3 grupos: grupos focales, entrevistas y cuestionarios en los que los estudiantes podrían compartir esas creencias específicas que describen a los maestros nativos y no nativos en términos de pronunciación. Este estudio exploratorio se enmarca dentro de un diseño cualitativo y una metodología de sistematización de experiencias. Además, los resultados del estudio revelan que los estudiantes tienden a etiquetar a los maestros en diferentes categorías: pronunciación, fluidez, acento, didáctica y lenguaje, donde describen sus creencias sobre el habla del maestro, la forma en que producen sonidos, las ventajas y desventajas que los docentes nativos y los profesores no nativos tienen sobre la pronunciación y la variación de acento que tienen según su lugar de origen.This study investigated the pre-service teachers’ beliefs regarding native and non-native English teachers’ pronunciation at a private university. To this end, 19 pre-service teachers from seventh semester were selected randomly assigned to 3 groups: Focus groups, Interviews and Questionnaires in which students could share those specifics beliefs that describe native and non-native teachers in terms of pronunciation. This exploratory study is framed within a qualitative design, and systematization of experiences methodology. Additionally, the results of the study reveals that students tended to label teachers in different categories: Pronunciation, Fluency, Accent, Didactics and Language, where they describe their beliefs about teacher´s speech, the way they produce sounds, the advantages and disadvantages native and non-native teachers have about pronunciation, and the accent variation they have according to their place of origin

Directorio de rutas para la atención integral de las situaciones críticas que afectan las instituciones educativas distritales : Guía para las instituciones educativas distritales de Bogotá

El objetivo de este directorio es ofrecer información actualizada sobre los mecanismos de respuesta integral para la atención de situaciones críticas que afectan el clima escolar y el ejercicio de los derechos de niños, niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes. Con ello se espera dar a conocer los mecanismos que la Secretaría de Educación, en articulación con otras entidades públicas, brinda en materia de atención para los fenómenos que afectan los espacios escolares que desbordan su capacidad de respuesta

Abdominal obesity and low physical activity are associated with insulin resistance in overweight adolescents: a cross-sectional study

ABSTRACT: Background: Previous studies have assessed the metabolic changes and lifestyles associated with overweight adolescents. However, these associations are unclear amongst overweight adolescents who have already developed insulin resistance. This study assessed the associations between insulin resistance and anthropometric, metabolic, inflammatory, food consumption, and physical activity variables amongst overweight adolescents. Methods: This cross-sectional study divided adolescents (n = 120) between 10 and 18 years old into 3 groups: an overweight group with insulin resistance (O + IR), an overweight group without insulin resistance (O-IR), and a normal-weight control group (NW). Adolescents were matched across groups based on age, sex, pubertal maturation, and socioeconomic strata. Anthropometric, biochemical, physical activity, and food consumption variables were assessed. Insulin resistance was assessed using homeostatic model assessment (HOMA Calculator Version 2.2.2 from ©Diabetes Trials Unit, University of Oxford), and overweight status was assessed using body mass index according to World Health Organization (2007) references. A chi-square test was used to compare categorical variables. ANOVAs or Kruskal-Wallis tests were used for continuous variables. Multiple linear regression models were used to calculate the probability of the occurrence of insulin resistance based on the independent variables. Results: The risk of insulin resistance amongst overweight adolescents increases significantly when they reach a waist circumference > p95 (OR = 1.9, CIs = 1.3-2.7, p = 0.013) and watch 3 or more hours/day of television (OR = 1.7, CIs = 0.98-2.8, p = 0.033). Overweight status and insulin resistance were associated with higher levels of inflammation (hsCRP ≥1 mg/L) and cardiovascular risk according to arterial indices. With each cm increase in waist circumference, the HOMA index increased by 0.082; with each metabolic equivalent (MET) unit increase in physical activity, the HOMA index decreased by 0.026. Conclusions: Sedentary behaviour and a waist circumference > p90 amongst overweight adolescents were associated with insulin resistance, lipid profile alterations, and higher inflammatory states. A screening that includes body mass index, in waist circumference, and physical activity evaluations of adolescents might enable the early detection of these alterations

Competitive Risaralda, generating research alliance for development

El presente libro lleva como título “Risaralda competitiva, generando alianzas en investigación para el desarrollo”, resultado del V encuentro de investigadores del departamento de Risaralda realizado en el mes de noviembre del año 2020. Evento en el cual se presentaron las últimas investigaciones realizadas en las diferentes instituciones educativas del departamento; quienes hacen parte de la Mesa de Investigaciones de Risaralda; ejercicio de gran interés que arroja resultados de investigaciones en diferentes áreas como son las Ciencias Agrícolas, Ciencias sociales, Ciencias de la salud, Ciencias de la tecnología y la información

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI