The present study examined any possible relationship between teachers’ emotional contagion and their learners’ achievement and motivation for learning English as a foreign language (EFL). In addition, it explored the predictability of learners’ foreign language motivation and achievements in terms of their respective teachers’ emotional contagion. Twenty EFL teachers were asked to fill …
Reflective practice (RP) by EFL teachers has been found to have the potential to improve teachers’ pedagogical and professional competencies. This study reports the implementation of a contextualized RP model that integrates the Lesson Study (LS) principles by Indonesian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. The implementation was conducted at six junior high schools over a course of …
Visual Management (VM), tool of Lean Philosophy, facilitates operation optimisation by improving procedural communication and efficiency while enhancing team accountability and coordination. This paper explores the application of VM in assessment process of an ELT course, Effective Public Speaking, at a technical institute. Adaptable visual aids, Digital Randomisers (DRs), were developed and ut…
This study is an explorative examination of changes in employment, revenue, and firm structure for low, mid, and high-skill firms in urban and rural areas in Sweden from 2007 to 2019, using skill groups based on education levels. For employment in Sweden in general, we find evidence of job upgrading. In the city of Stockholm we also document job polarization in the sense that employment in both…
This article presents novel findings on company factors that determine judgments regarding the fairness of minimum wage increases. Drawing on minimum wage and organizational justice research, we conducted a factorial survey among German employees. It seems that the internal wage structure plays a crucial role because raising only the pay of minimum wage workers and not that of other employees c…
Continuing vocational education and training (CVET) can support technical and digital developments. At the same time, company-based training increases employability in the face of technical rationalization. Multiple studies show that the highly qualified undertake further training more often than the less qualified. This increases their educational and employment inequality. However, it is uncl…
We analyze how employees perceive and evaluate the integration of people with disabilities into the German labor market. In an experimental complement to the Employment Survey by the German Federal Institutes for Vocational Training and Occupational Safety and Health, we ask respondents to estimate the labor force participation rates of persons with and without disabilities. We then inform a su…
Global demand for K-Fashion has paralleled the rise and fall of numerous South Korean firms. Drawing on the corporate life cycle and news priming theories, this study explores how online news on insolvent K-Fashion firms shapes the stock market’s business cycle. In Study 1, we conducted dynamic topic modeling to analyze 35,960 news articles from 2010 to 2022. The findings revealed three categ…
This study compares fashion design processes involving shape memory textiles (SMTs) compared to ones involving conventional textiles (CTs). The primary objectives were to identify barriers to the adoption of SMTs in the fashion industry from designers' perspectives, assess the impact of SMTs on conventional design processes, and develop strategies to enhance the use of SMTs in fashion design. D…
Accurate digital reconstruction of the human body is critical for a wide range of applications, including apparel design, ergonomic evaluation, and biomedical engineering. This study introduces a novel 3D human modeling framework that combines skeleton-driven deformation algorithms with high-resolution 3D body scan data to generate anatomically accurate virtual bodies. The proposed method was b…