Exploring the Relations between In-service Training,Prior Contacts and Teachers’ Attitudes towards Persons with Intellectual Disability

This study investigates the relations between teachers’ attitudes towards persons with intellectual disability (ID), in-service training on ID, and prior contacts with persons with ID. A sample of Canadian elementary school teachers (N?=?118) completed the Attitudes Toward Intellectual Disability Questionnaire, which measures cognitive, affective and behavioural components of attitudes towards persons with ID. Correlational and multivariate regression analyses were performed. Frequent contacts with persons with ID and experience of including a child with ID increased the likelihood of reporting prior positive contacts with persons with ID. In turn, this was associated with less discomfort towards persons with ID and more willingness towards interactions. In-service training on ID was related to better knowledge of rights and capabilities of persons with ID. Experience of including a child with ID in general education classrooms increased the likelihood to report feeling competent in teaching children with ID, which predicted more willingness to include children with ID.     

热仿真软件在电子设备设计应用中的优缺点

热仿真在目前的设计流程中大量使用,本文描述了此类软件相比传统热设计在计算扩散热阻和对流换热系数时的优点,也描述了其无法解决非线性问题和尺度差异问题的缺点。描述的同时提出了几个相关的实例进行了分析阐述。在文章的最后提出了解决这些问题可能的途径,强调了在使用这些软件的同时必须清楚掌握相关物理事实,才能有利于指导设计实践。     

探析英汉礼貌用语的语用差异及其成因

礼貌是人际交往的前提条件,中西方礼貌用语的差异导致跨文化交际中出现不必要的障碍。本文通过对比分析英汉礼貌准则和礼貌语用的差异性,分析了英汉礼貌文化交际语用失误的成因。     

连词“缘”的语法化及相关问题考察

"缘"是中古时期新兴的一个表因连词,它的语法化经历了一个由表"凭借、依据"义的动词到工具介词再到表因连词的过程。这个语法化之所以能够完成,内部因素和外部因素的共同作用是一个不可或缺的重要条件。而且这种演变完全是在汉语内部完成的,与语言接触无关。     

从服务接触看图书馆的服务质量管理

图书馆服务质量的一个显著特点就是读者与图书馆的服务接触质量。读者和图书馆员工、图书馆环境之间发生的服务接触,是图书馆向读者展示服务的时机,也是读者评估服务质量的重要途径。为此,我们可从＂蓝图技巧＂、＂馆员管理与读者管理＂和＂服务环境展示＂等三个方面来对图书馆服务质量进行管理。     

印尼“先达国语”词汇语法特点概说

在印尼苏北省第二大城市先达,通行着一种类似西南官话的语言变体,当地华人称之为“先达国语”。本文简要介绍“先达国语”的产生和发展情况,在此基础上,对主要的语言变异特点——词汇和语法方面的典型特征进行分析和讨论,以期揭示在复杂的海外语言环境下先达国语的特色。     

Simulation of droplet topography on super-hydrophobic surface

We established a novel droplet model (with-gravity model) to show the gravity effect of the droplet in the contact angle experiment.By using with-gravity model, we obtained a three-dimensional topography of the droplet including the height of the droplet, the shape of the baseline and the circumference of the baseline.Comparing the with-gravity model with the ideal spherical model, our model considered the measurement error caused by gravity effect in the contact angle experiment which is a key point to influence the three-dimension topography of the droplet.From the calculation of our model, we found that there were two important points to enhance the measurement error: the size of the droplet and the contact angle.With the droplet and the contact angle became larger, measurement error was obviously increased.     

Thawing the North: Mostly Martha as a German-Italian Eatopia

Abstract

The establishment of the European Union, reunification of Germany, and Germany's extension of dual citizenship to immigrant minorities provided challenges to the country's understanding of itself as a nation. In negotiating these changes, debates on citizenship frequently centered on definitions of German culture. Using the concept of Leitkultur (guiding culture), conservatives argued that Germany should reject multiculturalism and stem immigration. This essay analyzes discourses on cultural policy in Germany through a contextual and textual analysis of the film Mostly Martha. In its alignment with aesthetic conventions of the art house food film, Mostly Martha participates in the debate on cultural citizenship and embodies changes in the German film industry that have moved German cinema toward increased commercialism. The film's main character, Martha, is transformed through an intercultural relationship and a trip to Italy. We argue that the film's citation of this well-known tradition of traveling south to redeem oneself and its treatment of ethnic “Otherness” engages in the Leitkultur debate and participates in the transition from national German to transnational cinema. Through the utopian treatment of Italian food, the film fetishizes cultural difference and reaffirms fixed constructs of nation and gender, thereby avoiding an explicitly politicized engagement with intercultural citizenship and identity.     

Stages and Transitions of Relational Identity Formation in Intercultural Friendship: Implications for Identity Management Theory

Abstract

In light of identity management theory (IMT), this research seeks to uncover the stages and transitions that explain the process of relational identity formation within intercultural friendships. Three stages (i.e., initial encounter, interaction, and involvement) and two transition phases emerged within the intercultural friendships of this research. This study concludes that while IMT contributes to our understanding of the process of intercultural relationship formation, it overlooks how intercultural relationships transition from one stage to another and the influences of networks and a third cultural context.     

Measuring communication patterns and intercultural transformation of international students in cross-cultural adaptation

This study attempts to develop a brief scale for measuring cross-cultural adaptation of international students in China and to explore the main pathways to promoting their cross-cultural adaptation. Based on Kim’s structural model of cross-cultural adaptation, this study examined a series of reliability and validity analyses and constructed a structural equation model for exploring the main pathways of cross-cultural adaptation. The findings reveal that the revised scale is reliable and valid for measuring international students’ cross-cultural adaptation. Moreover, the findings also suggest that there exist four main pathways (host communication competence, host social communication, intercultural transformation basic, intercultural transformation advanced) that are essential for the development of international students' cross-cultural adaptation, and the interlocking bilateral relationships among these pathways are significant and positive. This study provides insightful theoretical foundation for investigating international students' cross-cultural adaptation in non-western contexts and the compelling empirical support on the structural model of cross-cultural adaptation.