<span>In second or foreign language learning, attitudinal factors were one of the key that determine success and achievement. In Indonesia, (English) has been taught since elementary school, however research showed most Indonesian learners in English unsatisfactorily result. This aimed at disclosing students’ learning by exploring their first experience language. qualitative study employe...

today, companies with superior performance in various industries are moving towards customer retention and loyalty. because they have found that it is very expensive to attract a new customer and to maintain its position in the highly competitive environment they need loyal customers. therefore, identifying the factors that affect on customer loyalty is very important. hence, this study examine...

The Institute of Medicine (2003) challenged all healthcare professions to adopt curricula content focused on the current healthcare needs in the United States. Many medical schools and schools of health professions struggle to implement this challenge. The Surgeon General has identified children with disabilities as a vulnerable and disenfranchised group relating to health prevention, promotion...

Research on family business has been growing and slowly maturing as a distinct research area with substantial practical relevance, academic rigor, and geographic reach (Dawson & Hjorth, 2012; Litz, Pearson, & Litchfield, 2012; Sharma, 2004; Sharma, Chrisman, & Gersick, 2012). With respect to both practical relevance and geographic reach, it has been documented that family businesses dominate th...

corrective feedback (cf) and its different types have long absorbed many scholars and practitioners. as ellis (2009) mentioned some experimental studies need to be carefully designed to discover the relative effectiveness of each of these cf techniques. the goal of this qualitative study was to discover whether the employment of different cf strategies could bring about an attitudinal shift. to...

U.S. Army soldiers with mental disorders report a variety of barriers to initiating and continuing treatment. Improved understanding of these barriers can help direct mental health services to soldiers in need. A representative sample of 5,428 nondeployed Regular Army soldiers participating in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers completed a self-administered questionn...

This experimental study employed a 2 2 2 factorial design to investigate the effects of type of instruction (procedural module, attitudinal module), deictic gesture (presence, absence), and facial expression (presence, absence) on student perception of pedagogical agent persona, attitude toward the content, and learning. The interaction effect between type of instruction and agent nonverbal beh...

To account for disparate findings in the literature on automatic evaluation, Gawronski, Rydell, Vervliet, and De Houwer (2010) proposed a representational theory that specifies the contextual conditions under which automatic evaluations reflect initially acquired attitudinal information or subsequently acquired counterattitudinal information. The theory predicts that automatic evaluations shoul...