What do you teach EFL for？ Just for kicks!

Why are we teachers of English? That's a good question.I would like to limit my answer to EFL teachers, i.e.to those of us who teach English outside English -speaking countries,and to only those EFL teachers who are not native-speakers of English.     

College students' perspectives, goals, and strategies in sport education

We examined the perspective, goals, and strategies of students enrolled in collegiate physical education courses. Our aim was to determine the extent to which a model developed by Allen (1986) describing student-social systems in high schools would approximate those in a collegiate setting. Forty-six students from two elective volleyball classes completed online surveys and participated in group interviews. It was determined that while specific parts of the original model were appropriate for describing college students' agendas for physical education, participation in the Sport Education model provided a more complimentary (in contrast to adversarial) link between the students' quest for good grades and their socializing strategies. A more appropriate model is presented.     

sMARE: a new paradigm to evaluate and understand query performance prediction methods

Information Retrieval Journal - Query performance prediction (QPP) has been studied extensively in the IR community over the last two decades. A by-product of this research is a methodology to...     

CoSearcher: studying the effectiveness of conversational search refinement and clarification through user simulation

Information Retrieval Journal - A key application of conversational search is refining a user’s search intent by asking a series of clarification questions, aiming to improve the relevance of...     

Linking academic performance to optimistic attributional style: attributions following positive events matter most

European Journal of Psychology of Education - Optimistic attributional style has been shown to be reliably associated with high well-being and low depression and (Hu et al., Journal of Social and...     

Flutter analysis of an articulated high aspect ratio wing in subsonic airflow

We present a methodology for calculating flutter speeds of a high aspect ratio flying wing articulated with point masses in inviscid air flow. This highly flexible wing configuration typically models a HALE (High Altitude Long Endurance) UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) type aircraft. To demonstrate the procedure, we perform flutter analysis on an actual articulated wing model and we investigate the dependence of the flutter speed on the number of loads mounted onto the structure and the number of panels comprising the flying wing for both varying and constant span. The results show that the flutter speed decreases as more panels and point masses are incorporated into the flying wing. On the other hand, the number of point masses mounted onto the structure has a small effect on the flutter speed if the wing span is kept constant.