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Models and Practices for Empowering Classroom Instruction with Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Grounded Theory Study from China

Using a grounded theory analysis of 65 Chinese higher education cases, this study constructs a three-dimensional model and a cyclical practical pathway to demonstrate how Generative AI transforms classroom instruction by shifting from a traditional teacher-student binary to a "teacher-machine-student" ternary interactive ecology.

xiaoqing zhang, Shipian Xv, Sheng Li, Yuhui Jing2026-07-15
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“It feels like an activity, not a test”: Developing and pilot-testing a sticker-based Likert scale for adolescent museum visitors at the Huangmei Opera Museum

This paper reports on the design and pilot testing of an engaging, sticker-based Likert scale instrument that successfully assesses five key experience dimensions among adolescent visitors at China's Huangmei Opera Museum, demonstrating its viability as a practical quantitative evaluation tool for this demographic.

Li Yang, Liliana Soares, Rute Gomes2026-07-15
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Multilingual Representation of Literary Discourse: The Experience of a Six-Language Parallel Corpus

This article introduces and analyzes a pioneering six-language parallel corpus of M. Auezov's *The Path of Abai* in Kazakh, English, Turkish, Uzbek, Uyghur, and Azerbaijani, demonstrating its value for studying cross-linguistic equivalence and its potential applications in translation studies, comparative linguistics, and AI development.

Anar Fazylzhan¹, Aikerim Mursal¹, Kuralay Kuderinova¹, A. S. Barmenkulova¹, Sara Amirtayeva¹2026-07-15
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A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of how Social Narratives Sustain Second-hand Goods Dumping in West Africa

This critical interpretive synthesis reveals how dominant social narratives—ranging from charity and circularity to affordability and weak governance—legitimize the export of second-hand goods to West Africa, thereby masking waste displacement, perpetuating environmental injustice, and necessitating a justice-oriented reconfiguration of global waste management policies.

Prince Nii Koi Kotei, Kwadwo Adusei-Asante, Shajimon Peter2026-07-15
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Advocating for my Relationships: Youths’ Understanding of Healthy Dating Balance, Staying Safe, and Bystander Behaviors

This study evaluates the "Advocating for My Relationships" (ADMYRE) school-based program, finding that while students initially demonstrated high identification of teen dating violence but lower understanding of relationship balance and bystander strategies, participation significantly increased knowledge across all areas, with baseline differences linked to school-level socioeconomic and academic factors.

Mikaela Scozzafava, Bethany McCurdy, Kate Goudy, Rhonda Evans, Janet Melby, Daeyong Lee, Carl Weems2026-07-15
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Cultural bias in heritage language processing: A web eye-tracking study of dominant Russian and endangered Juhuri

This eye-tracking study reveals that while culturally grounded knowledge is available to multilingual speakers of both dominant Russian and endangered Juhuri, the efficiency and dynamics of accessing this cultural bias differ significantly, manifesting as rapid, automatic integration in the dominant language but relying more on general contextual support in the weaker heritage language.

Ronald Shabtaev, Natalia Meir2026-07-15
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Autonomy as civic motivation: Associations between autonomy and civic duty, civic action, and voting

This preregistered study of 2,480 U.S. voters across four elections demonstrates that both trait and context-specific autonomy, grounded in Self-Determination Theory, serve as robust motivators for civic duty, voting intentions, and actual voting behavior, whereas extrinsic motivations show little to no association with these outcomes.

Kirsten Lydic, Emily Falk, Michael X Delli Carpini, Nicole Cooper, Abigail Dym, Danielle Cosme2026-07-15
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Distinct Associations of Alexithymia Dimensions with Youth Psychopathology and the General Factor of Psychopathology

This study of 255 youth and 142 parents demonstrates that while both difficulties identifying and describing feelings are linked to broad psychopathology, the former is a stronger predictor of emotional distress and internalizing problems, supporting alexithymia's role as a distress-centered transdiagnostic correlate of adolescent mental health difficulties.

David Gosar, Tinkara Primec2026-07-15
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Applying Asset-Based Community Development in a Marginalized Urban Community among the Negede Woyto Community in Ethiopia

This qualitative study documents the successful application of Asset-Based Community Development in Ethiopia's marginalized Negede Woyto community, demonstrating how shifting from a deficit-focused to a strengths-based approach through participatory engagement fostered trust, self-organization, and emergent leadership among residents.

Kerebih Asrese, Bewketu Chekol, Assaye Lake, Seged Ashagrie, Shimelash Cheru, Gojjam Tadesse, Mulualem Atakilit, Awoke A (…)2026-07-15