As mandatory involvement requirements may not intrinsically motivate learners to achieve high quality learning, social factors under affective commitment are especially important determinants of TML success. This paper investigates an individual’s social and self identities as important determinants in developing affective commitment (identification) and intrinsic motivation (perceived enjoymen...

At the end of the twentieth century , the Late Modern period still had to be described as ‘the Cinderella of English historical linguistic study’ (Jones 1989 : 279). Fortunately, this scenario has changed over the last fi fteen years or so. Among other things, the change of emphasis within historical linguistics to socio-historical and corpus-based approaches led to a surge of interest in Late ...

In responding to the individual learning needs of bilingual pupils, it is important that linguistic development be integrated with other kinds of learning. Learners require English to communicate with peers and teachers and to continue the process of conceptual development within the context of an English medium school. Thomas and Collier (1997, 2000) have symbolised the relationship between th...

This study advances a detailed social-psychological model of climate change risk perceptions by combining and integrating cognitive, experiential, and socio-cultural factors. The conceptual model is tested empirically on a national sample (N 1⁄4 808) of the UK population. Results indicate that the full climate change risk perception model (CCRPM) is able to explain nearly 70% of the variance in...

The effects of multilingualism have been an explicit focus of a number of PME research reports in recent years. These reports, however, are located in a wide range of socio-linguistic circumstances, making it difficult to compare findings and develop a clearer understanding of the relationship between the teaching, learning or understanding of mathematics. In this paper, I describe a framework ...

Enduring inequalities in Chile’s education system are both a socio-economic and ethno-national problem. Student protests in 2006 and 2011 are representative of growing public concerns over the neoliberal socio-economic model adopted by respective governments since the military regime ended in 1990. Education has also become a contested space in which the recognition of indigenous rights – and c...

this paper examined disagreement in two sets of data in the context of service encounters: problem-solving interactions (doctor-patient communication) and purchase-oriented encounters (pharmacies) from a cross-cultural perspective (spanish-british english). we proposed assertiveness, a term that refers to both socio-psychological and linguistic features of communication, as a concept that may h...