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Wetzel, Eunike; Hell, Benedikt; Passler, Katja – Journal of Career Assessment, 2012
Three test construction strategies are described and illustrated in the development of the Verb Interest Test (VIT), an inventory that assesses vocational interests using verbs. Verbs might be a promising alternative to the descriptions of occupational activities used in most vocational interest inventories because they are context-independent,…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Culture Fair Tests, Vocational Interests, Interest Inventories
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Daller, Michael H.; Treffers-Daller, Jeanine; Furman, Reyhan – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
In the present article we provide evidence for the occurrence of transfer of conceptualization patterns in narratives of two German-Turkish bilingual groups. All bilingual participants grew up in Germany, but only one group is still resident in Germany (n = 49). The other, the returnees, moved back to Turkey after having lived in Germany for…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Form Classes (Languages), Motion, Foreign Countries
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Hudabiunigg, Ingrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper analyses an extensive corpus of texts from the German media and existing studies of German perspectives on Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia in order to demonstrate that there are two idealised culture cognitive models (ICCMs) that function as overarching categories for Europe: the ICCM west (the members of the European…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, German, Schemata (Cognition)