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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"role-play"”.
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ESL students' perceptions of role-play activities
… has been significant discussion on the use of role-play activities. Proponents of role-play believe that the activity provides learners with opportunities to communicate freely and spontaneously in different situations. However, researchers have also identified issues that may jeopardize the …
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Gender, sex, and race in the gamespace of live action role play
… gender, sexuality, and race within live action role play, a game format designed in an impromptu theatre style. My goal was to assess the ways in which sexism, racism, and hypersexuality pervade contemporary forms of entertainment, and to imagine ways in which gamespaces can be re-imagined to be …
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Role-play assessments as a measure of skill acquisition in a parenting program
<p>This study sought to evaluate role-plays assessments with adult role-players as a measure of parents' skill acquisition as taught in the Incredible Years (IY) program. Parent performance during the role-play assessments was compared to parent performance during parent-child interactions. …
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Investigating disorientation through the adoption of role-play in contemporary fine art practice
… programme of practice-led research I have used role-play as a vehicle for the exploration of identity and politics in a series of art works encompassing video, drawing and photography. This research discusses the highly spatialised ways of describing cultural identity, covering aspects of: film, …
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The Phenomenology of Role Play: Are Children “Thinking-As-If” or “Behaving-As-If”?
When children role play, they do things such as change their tone of voice or take on the character’s emotions or needs. These behaviours make it appear as though children adopt the mental perspective of the character they are pretending to be, which has led some researchers to argue that children …
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Generation, Detection, and Evaluation of Role-play based Jailbreak attacks in Large Language Models
… this information using a tactic called a Role-play based Jailbreak Attack. This attack consists of instructing the LLM to take on the role of a fictional character that does not adhere to the model developer’s ethical guidelines and will comply with any request. Role-play based jailbreak …
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The Horned God as Environmental Figure in Anglophone Fantasy Fiction and Live Action Role-Play.
… of this thesis is to explore the Horned God’s role as an environmental figure in modern paganism, fantasy fiction and Live Action Role-Play, while acknowledging that these three fields are interconnected. The Horned God is a modern pagan deity popularised by ‘grandmother of Wicca’, Margaret …
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Preferences for and Effectiveness of Role-Play on the Acquisition of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Skills
… feedback only or feedback combined with brief role-play for incorrect skills. These two teaching strategies alternated across trials to ensure the participant was exposed to each equally. The Choice Phase allowed participants to select their preferred teaching strategy in each trial while …
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A critical analysis of the teaching technique role play, with particular reference to educational drama
This study analyses Role Play teaching techniques employed in Educational Drama and examines the possibility that the current practice of Role Play may actually obstruct the personal and collective empowerment of students, thereby limiting the educative potential of drama.
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Electronic role-play as a manifestation of open task computer-assisted language learning: a case study
… (CALL) as manifested in one specific electronic role-play (ERP) which was designed for a group of final year undergraduate students of international business (with German). The ERP task was informed by a sociocultural perspective of second language acquisition (SLA) and task-based learning, and …
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Towards a Generalised Pedagogical Framework for Creating Mixed-Mode Role-Play in a 3D Virtual Environment
Role-play has proved itself to be an effective teaching method, and role-play within a virtual environment has been found to be more especially so. Thus, there have been many studies concerned with role-play and computer simulation used together; however, up to this point, limitations may still be …
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Role-play simulations : a tool for transformative civic education and engagement around science-intensive environmental issues
… the effectiveness of tailored, science-based role-play simulations as a tool for transformative civic education and engagement around science-intensive environmental issues. I do so by studying the results of the New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP). NECAP was a two-year …
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The self-concept of children disfigured by burns and the effect of role-play on their self-concept
This study aimed at investigating the role of physical-distinctiveness as a pertinent feature of self-concept, using the special case of children disfigured by burns. Within this group of children, the study also aimed to explore, by means of a comparative study, the possibility of improving the …
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Examining the efficacy of joint investigative interview training through analysing the quality of interview conducted with role-play actors
… course, where they interview an adult actor who plays the role of an abused child. Limited field work suggests child interviews in Scotland are of low quality. No empirical work on the quality of JIIT precludes an understanding of whether i) interviewers are trained to an appropriate standard, …
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The language game of role-play: an analysis of assessed consultations between third year medical students and Simulated Patients (SPs)
… of reality. These findings raise questions about role-play in medical education, devising scenarios, communication skills assessments, and the training of SPs.
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Exploring opportunities for children’s creativity and imagination in ‘real world’ and ‘fantasy’ play in the Reception setting.
… the practices of early educators and children in role play areas in the Reception setting within a local context in Wales. The overarching research question is: To what extent does ‘real world’ or ‘fantasy’ play allow children opportunities for creativity and imagination? Which is explored through …
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The Influence of Role-playing on a Reluctant Reader's Attitude Toward Reading
… interventions devised for reluctant readers, role-playing has benefits for the student that include incorporating play, increasing feelings of competence, adding intrinsic value, and prompting visualization to aid in reading comprehension. The author conducts a qualitative study with a single …
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Re-envisioning assessment of interlanguage pragmatic competence through computer-mediated communicative tasks
… 1992, 1995; Roever, 2006, Walters, 2007) have played an important role in advancing the field, but their theories have followed speech act framework often criticized for pragmatic construct under-representation (Grabowski, 2009; Roever, 2011; Youn, 2015). Methodologically, past studies mainly …
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Development and validation of a behavioral measure of drug refusal skills in seventh and eighth graders
This series of studies created and validated a role-play measure of cigarette, alcohol, and drug refusal skills, the Behavioral Substance Refusal Test (BSRT) for seventh and eighth graders, which included a measure of self-efficacy and outcome expectancies, the Role-play Self-Efficacy and Outcome …
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