This paper describes an online, asynchronous learning module on intellectual property (IP) awareness. The described in this is the first of a planned set designed as online activities to give students foundational knowledge required practice and develop associated skills understand IP landscape identify recognize potential new opportunities. module, titled “IP Literacy,” provides introduction t...

Department of Library and Information Science City University London Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB United Kingdom [email protected] Abstract. The complexities of the many concepts and models around information literacy are considered, and some personal views given as to how they may best be clarified, both theoretically and practically. A slightly adapted idea of the concept of inform...

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are at increased risk for reading difficulties, and some studies suggest that these problems are evident even with pre-reading skills, such as alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness. To date, most studies asserting these emergent literacy difficulties have relied on mean score differences between children with SLI and children who are typi...

BACKGROUND While the association between inadequate health literacy and adverse health outcomes has been well documented, less is known about the impact of health literacy on health perceptions, such as perceptions of control over health, and preventive health behaviors. METHODS We identified a subsample of participants (N = 707) from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally repres...

abstract this study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. to this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, applied linguistics, economics, agriculture, and applied physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. all research article abstracts were extracted from ...

Psychological literacy, a construct developed to reflect the types of skills graduates of a psychology degree should possess and be capable of demonstrating, has recently been scrutinized in terms of its measurement adequacy. The recent development of a multi-item measure encompassing the facets of psychological literacy has provided the potential for improved validity in measuring the construc...

background and purpose: the fact that who is more qualified to teach the emp (english for medical purposes) courses has long been the cause of argument between the heads of language departments (lds) on one side and those of discipline-specific departments(dsds) on the other side. this research was conducted to study the views of both sides as well as those of students in some emp english class...

The authors describe various parenting behaviors, such as nurturance, discipline, teaching, and language use, and explain how researchers measure them. They note racial and ethnic variations in several behaviors. Most striking are differences in language use. Black and Hispanic mothers talk less with their young children than do white mothers and are less likely to read to them daily. They also...