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Showing 1 to 20 of 172 for “"Newcomers"”.
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Practical English for Chinese Newcomers: A Handbook for Teachers
<p>When new Chinese immigrants first arrive in the United States, they face challenges related to both language barriers and acculturative stress. Language barriers and acculturative stress mutually reinforce each other. Furthermore, they significantly inconvenience new Chinese immigrants in terms …
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Strengthening Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada: Learning from Experiences in Saskatoon
… sponsored program Language Instruction to Newcomers to Canada (LINC) has also been in demand. The purpose of this study was to establish ways in which LINC service providers in Saskatoon can support new ESL LINC instructors to excel in their careers. This study examined the experiences of …
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Newcomer Entry and Team Creativity: The Roles of Coworkers, Leaders, and Newcomers
… Unique information and perspectives brought by newcomers have been proposed to provide “fresh blood” for teams, which can benefit team creativity. However, the addition of newcomers can also disrupt the optimal team processes and reduce team effectiveness. To provide insight into the …
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A PROGRAM OF ATTRACTION RATHER THAN PROMOTION: ENCOURAGING NEWCOMERS TO KEEP COMING BACK''
… (AA) have addressed what potentially increases newcomers early engagement with AA. This research regarding what seems persuasive to newcomers, however, reports researchers' rather than newcomers' perspective and standpoints. AA-related research from various fields suggests that AA is an …
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The assimilation of in-laws: the impact of newcomers on the structuration of families
… and expected the newcomer to fit in. The newcomers found it easy to adjust to some routines that were similar to their own, but they felt confused or rebellious in response to other routines. The newcomers attempted to create roles for themselves in their spouse's families, and sometimes …
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Beyond Displacement: Understanding the Intersection of Cultural Variables on Mental Health Service Utilization among Newcomers
… reveals disparities between the experiences of newcomers and their native-born counterparts. Previous studies have mainly focused on how the immigration process and displacement from one’s country of origin influence mental health. Comparatively, few researchers have explored the association …
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The stories people play : the gender relationship in story recall from newcomers in an organization.
Research continues to document psychological and communicative differences associated with gender. This thesis added to this tradition of research by investigating whether men and women recall different stories prior to entry in the workplace, and the sources of the stories. Questionnaires were …
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"""Learning How to Know How to Do"": Enabling Newcomers to Succeed in Complex Micro-Cultures"
"The oversimplification of ""step-by-step"" approaches to software design and instruction creates conceptual barriers for learning in local communities of practice, micro-cultures. This study explored the efficacy of using a sociocultural-based learning environment to help novice computer users …
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The Georgia Project: A Binational Attempt to Reinvent a School District in Response to Latino Newcomers
… negotiate a dramatic influx of Hispanic newcomers. This study situates the Georgia Project within the socio-historical and cultural domains of schooling and ethnic and class relations in both local and the regional contexts of Appalachia, Georgia, and The South. Then it examines the …
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The Dublin patriciate and the reception of migrants in the seventeenth century: civic politics and newcomers
… to the governors of the metropolitan city. The newcomers to Dublin who will be investigated include both short and long distance migrants, from the poorest to the wealthiest and from a variety of social and ethnic backgrounds. The patriciate’s reception of these new arrivals in the city will be …
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Twelve Tales of Engineering in the "Real World:" Narratives of Newcomers' Agency in Transitions to Engineering Work
… the structures of work, which constrained who newcomers could become, and newcomers' agency, which they used to improvise identities within those constraints. The structures of engineering work that I examined required newcomers to acclimate to ongoing practices at their companies, which did …
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The influence of sales force newcomers' met expectations on selected outcome variables: Development and testing of a model
… needs to be devoted to the cognitive process of newcomers to the sales force. The present work examines expectation-based and perception-oriented models of performance and retention for sales force new hires. Interests of this investigation focus on the initial expectations of newly hired sales …
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Take It From the Top Video Project: Northern Perspectives on the North, the South and Newcomers To Their Land
… personal video projects. It examines the North, Newcomers to the North and The South Through Northern Eyes – and their cultural and social implications and how those implications effects communications, within the North and between the North and South. From a Northern perspective of homeland and …
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The Effects of Strong Ties on Socialization
<p>Organizations that successfully socialize newcomers benefit from effective workforces comprised of employees who experience higher job performance, satisfaction, and commitment. Organizational insiders, known as social agents, play an integral role in facilitating the socialization of newcomers, …
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Contribution of Reference Agents to Recovery Maintenance: A Social World Analysis of Narcotics Anonymous Affiliation
… group experience, this study examines how Newcomers learn the norms and values associated with NA, how Newcomers become integrated into the NA group and internalize acceptable recovery behaviors, and how Newcomers transition to becoming Oldtimers. In this study, participant observation and …
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The Academic Acculturation of Newcomer Teens in Iowa Schools: A Phenomenological Study
… the Iowa school system as refugee or immigrant newcomers during grades 7-12, representing 10 nationalities and 15 language groups. A grand tour question guided this study: What are the academic acculturation experiences of teenage newcomers in Iowa schools? Participants completed a narrative …
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Encounters with Authority: Tactics and negotiations at the periphery of participatory platforms
… when opportunities to train and socialize newcomers are constrained by a need for low barriers. As a result, scholarship has focused on answering the question of newcomer learning and socialization by examining how newcomers make sense of their new digital workspaces rather than focus on …
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Collaborative learning in Open Source Software (OSS) communities: The dynamics and challenges in networked learning environments
… interactions between experts and novices or newcomers are critical for the growth and sustenance of a community and therefore it is imperative that experts are able to provide newcomers requisite advice and support as they traverse the community and develop software. Although prior literature …
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Continuidad y cambio en los condicionantes lingüísticos y socio-demográficos del uso del pronombre sujeto en el español de la primera generación en Nueva York
… City that seeks to explore if the grammar of the newcomers and that of the established immigrants, who together make up the first generation, is modified like the grammar of the second generation speakers born in NYC. Through the study of the subject pronoun variable, this dissertation explores …
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The Effect of Ethical Leadership, Behavioural Integrity, and Moral Disengagement in Predicting Turnover Intentions During Newcomer Socialization
One of the major reasons for newcomers voluntarily leaving organizations can be linked to inadequate socialization (Allen, 2006; Feldman, 1989; Fisher, 1986). Socialization has been described as a period of extensive learning where newcomers gather large amounts of information to reduce the …
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