While research mainly focuses on identification of anxiety, its causes and effects on the learning process and the ways to allay anxiety among foreign language learners, foreign language teaching anxiety has remained a research area that has not attracted much attention. Therefore, in the context of teaching anxiety among preservice teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL), the current s...

BACKGROUND Maternal death reviews is a tool widely recommended to improve the quality of obstetric care and reduce maternal mortality. Our aim was to explore the challenges encountered in the process of facility-based maternal death review in Malawi, and to suggest sustainable and logically sound solutions to these challenges. METHODS SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) an...

OBJECTIVE We propose a method for a reliable quantitative measure of subjectively perceived occupational stress applicable in any company to enhance occupational safety and psychosocial health, to enable precise prevention policies and intervention and to improve work quality and efficiency. MATERIALS AND METHODS A suitable questionnaire was telephonically administered to a stratified sample ...

Destructive communication is a problem within the NHS; however previous research has focused on bullying. Rude, dismissive and aggressive (RDA) communication between doctors is a more widespread problem and underinvestigated. We conducted a mixed method study combining a survey and focus groups to describe the extent of RDA communication between doctors, its context and subsequent impact. In to...

To achieve urban sustainability, growing vegetables at home is a practical necessity. Understanding why people are hesitant to participate in vegetable vital reviving this practice. An in-person survey was conducted among 244 who do not garden Sri Lanka’s Colombo district determine their perception of gardening. Analysis performed with exploratory factor analysis followed by binary logistic reg...

Much research has shown that after being self-affirmed, people respond to challenges in healthy, productive ways, including better task performance. The current research demonstrates that self-affirmation can also deflate motivation and performance, a pattern consistent with goal disengagement. We posited that being self-affirmed and then attempting but failing at a task would lead people to re...

An autonomous school is a complex community. An organizational structure with different roles or «functions» is required in order to achieve its cultural and educational project, and to provide an answer to social needs. Middle professional workers with organizational, planning and coordination duties are expected to support the work of the head teacher and teachers. This article focuses on the...

Motivation to learn is affected by a student’s self-efficacy, goal orientation, locus of control and perceived task difficulty. In the classroom, teachers know how to motivate their students and how to exploit this knowledge to adapt or optimize their instruction when a student shows signs of demotivation. In on-line learning environments it is much more difficult to assess the level of motivat...