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Su, Feng; Wood, Margaret; Alerby, Eva; Da Re, Lorenza; Felisatti, Ettore – European Journal of Higher Education, 2022
The intensification of the working life of academics in the corporate world of higher education shaped by new public management, is the backdrop for an exploration of the appropriation of opportunities for silence and quietude through the operation of internalised disciplines of self-imposed control. The paper includes a review of selected…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Administrative Organization, Work Environment, Cross Cultural Studies
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Asker-Arnason, Lena; Ibertsson, Tina; Wass, Malin; Wengelin, Asa; Sahlen, Birgitta – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2010
The purpose of the study was to explore the narrative writing of 18 children, ages 11 to 19, with severe and profound hearing impairment who had cochlear implants (CI), compared with the performance of hearing children. Nine of the 18 children had prelingual deafness and 9 children had postlingual deafness. The hearing impairment was progressive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Preadolescents, Deafness, Assistive Technology
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Karlsson, Anna-Malin – Written Communication, 2009
In the research project Literacy Practices in Working Life, the role played by reading and writing in common nonacademic occupations in Sweden was investigated. The results highlight not only some typical ways of using writing to frame units of work but also differences reflecting the main focus of work ("people" or "things")…
Descriptors: Occupations, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Research Projects
Lofqvist, Gert – 1990
This book describes and discusses the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) study of writing in Sweden. The chapters are as follows: (1) Introduction; (2) Content and Planning of the Study; (3) Schools, Teachers and Pupils in Sweden 1985; (4) The Teaching of Writing; (5) Compositions and Scoring; (6)…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1996
The consciousness of dizygotic twins in their communication of actions and events as seen in the visual cliff pictures published by E. J. Gibson and R. D. Walk (1960) was studied in Sweden. In the process of communication, many different state spaces are generated. The methodology demonstrates that ecological and biophysical properties of language…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biological Influences, Communication (Thought Transfer), Foreign Countries
Lofqvist, Gert; Lindell, Ebbe – 1989
In Sweden the International Association Evaluation of Educational Achievement in written composition study involved 4,500 students from grades 6 and 9, as well as students from the terminal grades of the upper secondary school. Students wrote essays of various kinds and replied to questionnaires. Essays were evaluated according to content,…
Descriptors: Essays, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
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Lindgren, Eva; Sullivan, Kirk P. H. – Language Awareness, 2003
Appropriately timed Focus on Form can help in raising the learners' language awareness. In this paper we argue that the learner's own text composition progression can indicate when a learner is ready to notice a particular language form. Stimulated recall induced discussion was used to provoke explicit writer comments relating to noticing and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Metalinguistics, Recall (Psychology), Second Language Learning