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Dvorak, M. (2023). The Varying Relationship between Perceived Oral and Written Mother Tongue Proficiency and Academic Performance in Native Multilingual Students at their Secondary School and University. In: 13th International Conference The Future of Education: . Paper presented at The Future of Education, 13th edition, 2023, Bologna, Italy (pp. 24-27). Bologna: Pixel International Conferences
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Varying Relationship between Perceived Oral and Written Mother Tongue Proficiency and Academic Performance in Native Multilingual Students at their Secondary School and University
2023 (English)In: 13th International Conference The Future of Education, Bologna: Pixel International Conferences , 2023, p. 24-27Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The paper describes a study involving 53 Swedish native multilingual students the objective of which was to investigate the relationship between their mother tongue oral and written proficiency as they themselves perceive it and their academic performance at two educational levels, i.e. secondary and tertiary. The study compares the students’ grade averages with the data obtained through questionnaires targeting their language proficiency and mother tongue use. The results show that while there is a positive correlation between the students’ degree of perceived proficiency (both written and oral) in the language originally spoken with their mother and their academic performance at their secondary school, this correlation seems to disappear once they enroll in their university studies. The paper discusses two of the possible reasons for this phenomenon on the background of threshold hypothesis and transitional perspective. According to these, native multilinguals benefit from their multilingual condition academically only when they reach a certain level of proficiency in the language(s) they use and only until their parents complete their linguistic assimilation in the country they have immigrated into.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Bologna: Pixel International Conferences, 2023
Keywords
native multilingualism, academic performance, oral/written proficiency, secondary/tertiary education, threshold hypothesis, transitional perspective
National Category
Learning General Language Studies and Linguistics
Research subject
Studies in the Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-52186 (URN)10.26352/H629_2384-9509 (DOI)979-12-80225-59-7 (ISBN)
Conference
The Future of Education, 13th edition, 2023, Bologna, Italy
Available from: 2023-08-25 Created: 2023-08-25 Last updated: 2023-08-29Bibliographically approved
Dvorak, M. (2020). Native Multilingualism and Stroop Effect: a Pilot Study Examining the Relationships Between the Two Variables. In: L. Gómez Chova, A. López Martínez, I. Candel Torres (Ed.), INTED2020 Proceedings: . Paper presented at 14th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, March 2-4, 2020. (pp. 8533-8541). Valencia: The International Academy of Technology, Education and Development
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Native Multilingualism and Stroop Effect: a Pilot Study Examining the Relationships Between the Two Variables
2020 (English)In: INTED2020 Proceedings / [ed] L. Gómez Chova, A. López Martínez, I. Candel Torres, Valencia: The International Academy of Technology, Education and Development, 2020, p. 8533-8541Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Multiple studies point out a positive relationship between bilingualism (multilingualism), cognitive development of children and their academic performance at the early age. The Stroop Test is often used as one of the methods of assessing subjects’ executive function of inhibition (the ability to suppress dominant responses), which appears to be enhanced in bilingual/multilingual individuals compared to their monolingual counterparts. The better executive control in bilinguals/multilinguals that the function of inhibition represents only a part of (besides shifting, i.e. the ability to switch over between tasks, and monitoring, i.e. the ability to update information in the working memory) is believed to stem from these individuals switching over between their languages as well as their need to suppress the other language-related information irrelevant in the given language context.This paper describes a pilot experiment preceding a study of a larger scale whose main objective is to obtain data to be used to assess a possible relationship between the number of mother tongues Swedish university students have a command of and their performance at the Stroop Test.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Valencia: The International Academy of Technology, Education and Development, 2020
Keywords
native multilingualism, stroop test, executive control, cognition, academic performance, pilot study
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Research subject
Studies in the Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-40357 (URN)10.21125/inted.2020.2326 (DOI)978-84-09-17939-8 (ISBN)
Conference
14th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, March 2-4, 2020.
Available from: 2020-03-10 Created: 2020-03-10 Last updated: 2020-03-30Bibliographically approved
Dvorak, M. (2016). I Have Read the Chapters, But I Do Not Remember: Factors Affecting Intake, Retention and Recall of New Information Among Swedish University Students. In: L. Gómez Chova, A. López Martínez, I. Candel Torres (Ed.), INTED2016 Proceedings: . Paper presented at INTED2016, 10th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, March 7-9, 2016. (pp. 504-509). Valencia, Spain: International Association for Technology, Education and Development
Open this publication in new window or tab >>I Have Read the Chapters, But I Do Not Remember: Factors Affecting Intake, Retention and Recall of New Information Among Swedish University Students
2016 (English)In: INTED2016 Proceedings / [ed] L. Gómez Chova, A. López Martínez, I. Candel Torres, Valencia, Spain: International Association for Technology, Education and Development, 2016, p. 504-509Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The affluence of information sources we currently experience due to economic prosperity of western cultures and modern information technologies seems to have, apart from its positive effects associated with the ready availability of information, some negative ones as well. These seem to be related to the counterproductive way students utilize these sources, which, in some cases, may hinder their progress, reduce the efficiency of the overall educational process, and render teachers frustrated due to their students not coming prepared to their seminars.

Besides looking into factors affecting intake, retention and recall of new information among Swedish university students, which appear to be directly associated with the scarcity principle and perceived value of the information sources the students use, the paper also discusses their inability to deploy relevant cognitive and metacognitive strategies in the process of learning, the impact of exposure to a certain assessment, learning and grading culture, as well as possible solutions to the issue.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Valencia, Spain: International Association for Technology, Education and Development, 2016
Series
INTED Proceedings, ISSN 2340-1079
Keywords
Intake, retention, recall, efficiency of education, scarcity principle, electronic information sources, assessment culture
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics Didactics Learning Pedagogy
Research subject
Other research area
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30024 (URN)10.21125/inted.2016.1124 (DOI)000402738400075 ()978-84-608-5617-7 (ISBN)
Conference
INTED2016, 10th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, March 7-9, 2016.
Available from: 2016-05-22 Created: 2016-05-22 Last updated: 2021-02-11Bibliographically approved
Dvorak, M. (2014). Magnetic Book as a Recyclable Tool Used for Teaching a Foreing Language and Incorporating Principles of Language Acquisition Theories. In: International conference The Future of Education, Florence, Italy, 12-13 June, 2014, 4th ed.: . Paper presented at The Future of Education (pp. 324-328). Padova, Italy: Libreria Universitaria
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Magnetic Book as a Recyclable Tool Used for Teaching a Foreing Language and Incorporating Principles of Language Acquisition Theories
2014 (English)In: International conference The Future of Education, Florence, Italy, 12-13 June, 2014, 4th ed., Padova, Italy: Libreria Universitaria, 2014, p. 324-328Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Teaching English to children at an early age does not only prepare a breeding ground for early bilingualism/multilingualism but also facilitates language learning at later stages. The early introduction of English in the curricula of primary schools, which has recently become topical throughout Europe, also calls for the introduction of language-teaching methodology suitable for very young learners. Although there is currently a wide range of material parents and teachers have at their disposal that can assist them in improving their children’s and pupils’ linguistic potential, its amount may sometimes seem quite overwhelming. This can make the choice of the right activity rather complicated and thus the need for language-teaching aids that can be recycled several times arises.

The paper focuses on practical examples of how a magnetic book can be used repeatedly to develop a young child’s language skills in their mother tongue or a second language and what methodology can be deployed in this respect that incorporates some of the principles of language acquisition theories. Special attention is being paid to behaviorism, Chomsky’s ideas, Vygotsky’s and Piaget’s interactionist approaches (fostering Zone of Proximal Development and Scaffolding), and connectionism as well as how these can be put into operation when one is working with the book.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Padova, Italy: Libreria Universitaria, 2014
Keywords
early bilingualism, language acquisition, teaching English, language-teaching tools, magnetic book
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-25821 (URN)978-88-6292-499-3 (ISBN)
Conference
The Future of Education
Available from: 2015-01-13 Created: 2015-01-13 Last updated: 2020-06-25Bibliographically approved
Dvorak, M. (2013). Intimidation, Versatile Wide-Coverage Taints, Semantic Polarity and Semantic Association as Elements Facilitating Religious Persuasion. Language and Communication Quarterly, 2(1), 22-35
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Intimidation, Versatile Wide-Coverage Taints, Semantic Polarity and Semantic Association as Elements Facilitating Religious Persuasion
2013 (English)In: Language and Communication Quarterly, ISSN 2168-7633, Vol. 2, no 1, p. 22-35Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Fear occupies an undeniable portion of our lives and in most cases represents an incentive and driving force underlying our acts. The paper looks into discursive practices of generating fear through direct intimidation and by overemphasizing and/or fabricating versatile wide-coverage taints (reader’s/listener’s imperfections and flaws) deployed for the purpose of inducing feelings of guilt and insufficiency. It also tackles the issue of semantic polarity (juxtaposing two stylistically more or less identical but semantically opposing blocks of text) discussing its impact on the message recipient and the concepts it endeavors to establish in them in order to influence their future choices and conduct. Attention is also paid to semantic association, which proves to be another intimidating technique frequently utilized in religious discourse to supercharge selected lexical items with the meanings the writer/speaker purposefully attaches to these, thereby exploiting excessive signification (in the Saussurean sense) to achieve their intended persuasive effect.

The paper, which is based on the author’s research and analysis of a corpus of religious texts, illustrates the individual phenomena by presenting examples selected from sources used by several denominations and religious movements (Christians, Latter-Day Saints, Jehova’s Witnesses, Satanists, Scientologists, etc.). Besides, it statistically maps the distribution of direct intimidation and versatile wide-coverage taints segments across these sources and points out the recent trends in persuasive mechanisms deployed to induce a change of individual’s opinion and/or behavior.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Niagara Falls, New York, USA: Untested Ideas Research Center, 2013
Keywords
persuasion, religious discourse, fear induction, semantic polarity, semantic association
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-20336 (URN)
Available from: 2012-12-05 Created: 2013-12-03 Last updated: 2020-06-25Bibliographically approved
Dvorak, M. (2013). Means of Increasing Credibility in Religious Discourse – Credibility Boosters. Language and Communication Quarterly, 2(4), 230-241
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Means of Increasing Credibility in Religious Discourse – Credibility Boosters
2013 (English)In: Language and Communication Quarterly, ISSN 2168-7633, Vol. 2, no 4, p. 230-241Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The paper looks into discursive practices of increasing credibility of a message and its source deployed in religious discourse for the purpose of boosting its persuasive potential. It is based on author’s research and analysis of a corpus of religious texts and illustrates the use of credibility boosters by presenting examples selected from sources of several denominations and religious movements (Christians, Latter-Day Saints, Jehova’s Witnesses, United Christian Action, etc.). Besides, it statistically maps the distribution of credibility boosters across four samples used by Judaism and Christianity, Church of Latter-Day Saints, Heaven’s Gate, and Church of Scientology. It also points out recent trends in some of the persuasive mechanisms deployed to induce a change of individual’s opinion and/or behavior.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Niagara Falls: , 2013
Keywords
persuasion, religious discourse, credibility, credibility boosters, corpus linguistics
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-25820 (URN)
Available from: 2015-01-13 Created: 2015-01-13 Last updated: 2020-06-25Bibliographically approved
Dvorak, M. (2012). Fear Induction, Versatile Wide-Coverage Taints, Semantic Polarity and Semantic Association as Means of Persuasion in Religious Discourse. In: International Symposium on Language and Communication: Research trends and challenges: Proceedings book. Paper presented at International Symposium on Language and Communication: Research trends and challenges (ISLC), Izmir, Turkey, 10th-13th June 2012 (pp. 497-509). Izmir, Turkey: Institute of Language and Communication Studies
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Fear Induction, Versatile Wide-Coverage Taints, Semantic Polarity and Semantic Association as Means of Persuasion in Religious Discourse
2012 (English)In: International Symposium on Language and Communication: Research trends and challenges: Proceedings book, Izmir, Turkey: Institute of Language and Communication Studies , 2012, p. 497-509Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Fear occupies an undeniable portion of our lives and in most cases represents an incentive and driving force underlying our acts. The paper looks into discursive practices of generating fear through direct intimidation and by overemphasizing and/or fabricating versatile wide-coverage taints (reader’s/listener’s imperfections and flaws) deployed for the purpose of inducing feelings of guilt and insufficiency. It also tackles the issue of semantic polarity (juxtaposing two stylistically more or less identical but semantically opposing blocks of text) discussing its impact on the message recipient and the concepts it endeavors to establish in them in order to influence their future choices and conduct. Attention is also paid to semantic association, which proves to be another intimidating technique frequently utilized in religious discourse to supercharge selected lexical items with the meanings the writer/speaker purposefully attaches to these, thereby exploiting excessive signification (in the Saussurean sense) to achieve their intended persuasive effect.The paper, which is based on the author’s research and analysis of a corpus of religious texts, illustrates the individual phenomena by presenting examples selected from sources used by several denominations and religious movements (Christians, Latter-Day Saints, Jehova’s Witnesses, Satanists, Scientologists, etc.). Besides, it statistically maps the distribution of direct intimidation and versatile wide-coverage taints segments across these sources and points out the recent trends in persuasive mechanisms deployed to induce a change of individual’s opinion and/or behavior.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Izmir, Turkey: Institute of Language and Communication Studies, 2012
Keywords
persuasion, religious discourse, fear induction, semantic polarity, semantic association
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-20337 (URN)978-605-86867-0-0 (ISBN)
Conference
International Symposium on Language and Communication: Research trends and challenges (ISLC), Izmir, Turkey, 10th-13th June 2012
Available from: 2012-12-05 Created: 2013-12-03 Last updated: 2020-06-25Bibliographically approved
Dvorák, M. & Smrzova, J. (2010). www.nefrologie.eu: Building an Electronic Source of Information on the Principles of Andragogy. In: Alternativni metody vyuky 2010: . Paper presented at Alternativni metody vyuky 2010, Prague, April 30, 2010. Prague
Open this publication in new window or tab >>www.nefrologie.eu: Building an Electronic Source of Information on the Principles of Andragogy
2010 (English)In: Alternativni metody vyuky 2010, Prague, 2010Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The cooperation between a patient and their physician represents a pre-requisite for successful treatment. Provided the patient is well-informed and willing to cooperate, their illness turns out to progress more slowly and, as a result, they usually live longer than the one who is not as they are more likely to take precautions against medical complications associated with it. Moreover, the quality of such a person’s life is higher and treatment less expensive.The nefrologie.eu portal aims to educate patients, their relatives and other people interested in the area of kidney diseases. Apart from the provision of information on how to prevent and alleviate kidney-related disorders, the portal conducts a perpetual needs analysis thereby ensuring it is the areas that interest patients most that are widely covered by it. In this respect, it also serves as a needs analysis tool for doctors to monitor the fields patients most frequently lack information about allowing them to pinpoint and focus on these during their sessions with their own patients.As the counseling section comprises answers to the questions (800 up to now) the visitors (more than 200 a day) have posted via the site and thus contains concrete information relevant to the individual visitors’ past, present and future lives, its educational impact is facilitated through the personalization factor. What also contributes to the efficiency of the educational process is the fact the information is presented through multiple presentation channels and thus ensures sufficient repetitions and variations on themes.The paper also discusses other principles of andragogy that appear crucial in building a publicly available electronic information source targeting medical education of adults.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Prague: , 2010
Keywords
andragogy, medical adult learning, portal, kidney diseases, Web design
National Category
Didactics Learning Pedagogy Urology and Nephrology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-20327 (URN)978-80-7435-043-6 (ISBN)
Conference
Alternativni metody vyuky 2010, Prague, April 30, 2010
Available from: 2012-03-13 Created: 2013-12-03 Last updated: 2020-06-25Bibliographically approved
Dvorák, M. (2009). Language Acquisition in an Infant: Role of Context. In: Janua linguarum reserata: linvisticke, lingvodidakticke a literarni reflexe pro nove milenium. Paper presented at Profilingua 2009, Pilsen, June 25-26, 2009 (pp. 14-20). Pilsen
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Language Acquisition in an Infant: Role of Context
2009 (English)In: Janua linguarum reserata: linvisticke, lingvodidakticke a literarni reflexe pro nove milenium, Pilsen, 2009, p. 14-20Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The paper focuses on the role different kinds of context (situational, physical, social, and linguistic) play in the development of infant's language during its individual stages (cooing, babbling, word and sentence formation) and attempts to delineate those contextual factors that the author considers most fruitful in the language acquisition process. Some attention is also paid to the peculiarities of bilingual upbringing such as language games the child himself/herself invents in the context of two languages (Czech vs. English) and calque creation. The paper lists numerous examples and its presentation is accompanied by audio and video material collected during research.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Pilsen: , 2009
Keywords
language acquisition, language acquisition stages, bilingual children, bilingual upbringing, context (situational, physical, social, linguistic)
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics Didactics Pedagogy Learning
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-20328 (URN)978-80-7043-886-2 (ISBN)
Conference
Profilingua 2009, Pilsen, June 25-26, 2009
Available from: 2012-03-13 Created: 2013-12-03 Last updated: 2020-06-25Bibliographically approved
Dvorák, M. (2008). Language Acquisition in a Toddler and Factors Affecting its Speed. In: Sociokulturni kompetence ve vyuce cizich jazyku: . Paper presented at Sociokulturni kompetence ve vyuce cizich jazyku, Praha, 17-18 June, 2008 (pp. 5 s.). Praha
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Language Acquisition in a Toddler and Factors Affecting its Speed
2008 (English)In: Sociokulturni kompetence ve vyuce cizich jazyku, Praha, 2008, p. 5 s.-Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The paper focuses on the factors affecting the speed at which a toddler acquires language, chiefly new expressions and collocations. A special attention is paid to the individual functions of the child’s early language as described by M.A. K. Halliday (instrumental, regulatory, interactional, etc.) and the situations determining these. It also aims to point out idiosyncrasies of the acquisition process in terms of the infant’s exposure to two different languages – a major one (spoken by most of the members of the infant’s community) and the minor one (spoken by one of his/her parents only). Besides the theoretical background, the paper presents author’s practical examples and authentic recordings.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Praha: , 2008
Keywords
language acquisition, bilingual children, child language functions, context, vocabulary and collocation acquisition
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics Didactics Learning Pedagogy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-20329 (URN)978-80-87238-00-4 (ISBN)
Conference
Sociokulturni kompetence ve vyuce cizich jazyku, Praha, 17-18 June, 2008
Available from: 2012-03-13 Created: 2013-12-03 Last updated: 2020-06-25Bibliographically approved
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