3054 papers
This quasi-experimental study demonstrates that metacognitive instruction significantly enhances Chinese EFL undergraduates' metacognitive awareness, self-efficacy, and learning performance in metaphor acquisition compared to conventional PPP instruction.
This study empirically demonstrates that users' self-efficacy and their perception of generative AI chatbots' problem-solving ability enhance both utilitarian and hedonic perceived values, which subsequently drive the intention to continue using these chatbots.
This paper argues that digital markets exploit consumers' transient states to extract a "vulnerability premium" that evades existing fairness norms and consumer law due to its imperceptibility and lack of comparative benchmarks, necessitating new regulatory designs like state-blind pricing and rights to re-quotation.
This study employs a dialectical narrative sense-making framework to analyze Chinese online diaries, revealing four key dialectical pairs through which insomniacs interpret their experiences of chronic sleeplessness amidst life stressors.
This qualitative case study of Tarumajaya Village, Indonesia, reveals that while linking civil administrative services to mandatory avocado planting offers a novel pathway for ecological disaster mitigation, its effectiveness is significantly constrained by severe land-tenure inequality, necessitating complementary technical and livelihood support to ensure sustainable community stewardship.
This article argues that while South Africa's post-apartheid water reforms successfully expanded access to millions, they obscured a critical "after access" crisis where under-resourced maintenance and institutional capacity have led to deteriorating infrastructure, unreliable supply, and recurring public health threats like cholera, shifting the challenge from racial exclusion to the political economy of infrastructural reproduction.
This quasi-experimental study conducted in Prayagraj, India, demonstrates that character-driven visual micro-learning interventions significantly outperform traditional textbook instruction in enhancing conceptual retention and reducing math anxiety among middle school students, as evidenced by higher normalized learning gains and qualitative feedback.
This paper reorients the debate on linguistic relativity by employing a phenomenological framework, drawing on Charles Taylor and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, to characterize the Welsh-speaking subject's experience as an irreducible "affective inhabitation" of language, exemplified through the embodied and reflective challenges of the Welsh *ti/chi* asymmetry.
This study of 247 nursing students in Saudi Arabia found that academic self-efficacy is the strongest predictor of psychological well-being, explaining a significant portion of the variance alongside factors like exam anxiety, age, study year, and marital status, while fear of failure and academic motivation were not significant predictors.
Drawing on 39 Swedish homicide cases identified through encrypted communication platforms, this study utilizes crime-script analysis to demonstrate how organized criminal groups employ sophisticated intelligence and counterintelligence strategies to plan lethal violence while actively evading law enforcement detection.