Vieglā valoda. Rokasgrāmata

Polinska, Velga

doi:10.22364/vv.r.22

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“…Finally, the respondents were asked to evaluate the importance of the following eight principles in teacher's work (using a scale from 1 to 4, where 1 -not important at all, 2 -not very important, 3 -quite important, and 4 -very important): to explain the tasks in an understandable manner, to teach the pupil to divide the task into smaller tasks, to encourage the pupil to concentrate on one activity at a time, to be able to rephrase if a pupil has difficulty to understand, to avoid complicated foreign words, to complement the study material with pictures, and to use grammatically correct language. These principles form the base of Easy language (Liepa, Polinska, 2021), but that was not explicitly announced to the respondents. The questionnaire was conducted in compliance with all ethical principles.…”

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Easy Language in the Context of Modern Pedagogy

Polinska,

Liepa

2023

Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2023

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The idea of language simplification roots back to the beginning of the 18th century, and the significance of understandable and accessible information has gradually increased. Although Easy language development is closely linked to the Plain Language Movement, these are two distinct concepts. Easy language is present in Latvia since the 1990-s; however, its development is still insufficient. Although Easy language is primarily meant for adults, it can be useful for children, too. Moreover, it can provide significant support in both general and special education. Nevertheless, teachers’ understanding of Easy language as a tool and their ability to deliberately apply it is presumably low. Therefore, the aim of the study is to find out whether teachers in Latvia are familiar with the concept of Easy language, how often and what materials in Easy language they use, and how important Easy language, or in other words understandable outlining principles are in the teaching and learning process. To fulfil the tasks of the study, a bibliographic research method was applied, describing the previous research in the field as well as published teaching resources in Easy Latvian. To explore teachers’ attitudes and knowledge of Easy Latvian, the quantitative method was used – i.e., an anonymous online questionnaire for general and special education teachers was created. The questionnaire had 500 eligible respondents. The study showed that information about Easy language in Latvia is insufficient, and the concept itself is still linked to a stigma. Nevertheless, teachers are willing to learn more about Easy language, and one third of the questionnaire respondents believe that teachers should be trained during their studies. Besides developing new materials and offering training opportunities, significant attention should be paid to promoting each Easy language-related activity.

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Easy Language in the Context of Modern Pedagogy

Polinska,

Liepa

2023

Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2023

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The aim of the study was to explore social measurements and COVID-19 -related behavioral choices from a network structure perspective. We tested network models by comparing network structures in 46 countries by cultural dimensions (Hofstede et al., 2010). The pre-registered hypothesis was that the network structure of variables predicting COVID-19-related behavioral choices will be robust across countries, regardless of the mean differences of these variables between countries characterized by high vs low culture dimension indices. Behavioural choices toward COVID-19 situation were: physical hygiene, policy support, and physical contact. In network analysis we used several social/psychological constructs: social belonging, trait optimism, collective narcissism, moral identity, self-esteem, national identification, trait self-control, morality as cooperation, conspiracy beliefs, political ideology, and narcissism. We analysed twelve conditions based on dichotomized culture dimensions (high vs. low Power distance, Individualism, Masculinity, Uncertainty avoidance, Long-term orientation, and Indulgence) across demographics (e.g., age, gender). We conducted network structure analysis using high-dimensional undirected graph estimation with glasso procedure splitting the data by culture dimensions in total with N = 40 795 individuals. The study findings indicated that the network models were fairly consistent across cultures with different scores on each of Hofstede's six cultural dimensions. This similarity reflects the previous studies in terms of the stability of associations between variables regardless of sex, age, and political beliefs.

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“…Pēc šīs procedūras aptaujas apgalvojumi izgāja fināla korekciju. Aptaujas tulkošanā un apgalvojumu interpretēšanā tika ievēroti vieglās valodas principi (Liepa & Polinska, 2022). Ņemot vērā, ka oriģinālaptaujas apgalvojumi ir britu angļu valodā, kurā novērojami daudzi frazeoloģismi, tad būtiskāk ir tos atveidot latviešu valodā, saglabājot pamatdomu, ne tik daudz turoties pie precīza tulkojuma.…”

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Thinking Styles Inventory Adaptation and Standardization in Latvian

Šteinberga,

Hofmane,

Koroļeva

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Thinking styles are defined as consistent individual differences in preferred ways of organizing and processing information and experience, thus bridging the gap between personality traits and cognitive processes, meaning, it is more important to understand what abilities people prefer to develop and use, rather than what abilities they have. Thinking styles remain an ongoing area of research in education and psychology, providing insights into students’ experiences and informing educational practices. Latvia still faces a shortage of validated and standardized tests, thus to determine thinking styles, a questionnaire titled “Thinking Style Inventory – Revised II” was selected. This research is a part of a much wider study, which is based on the idea that nowadays the use of the internet and technology form and develop young people’s habits of mind that have not yet been explored. Based on this idea, a research project was established whose overall goal is to discover the impact of young people’s (age 16-25) internet use patterns on cognitive functioning (The impact of internet usage patterns on the development of youth’s cognitive styles, No.: lzp-2021/1-0357). The goal of the specific stage of the study and thus this article is to adapt and standardize the Thinking Style Inventory–Revised II in Latvian. To reach the goal, the questionnaire underwent back and forth translation, then was piloted (n=30), checked for internal consistency, thus concluding the first stage of adaptation. For standardization (n=2169) factoranalysis, discrimination indexes and norms were determined. The results show an overall good internal consistency and the factoranalysis shows similar structure to the original questionnaire. The obtained results indicate that Thinking Style Inventory – Revised II Latvian version can be successfully used to determine thinking styles in Latvia.

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Vieglā valoda. Rokasgrāmata

Cited by 3 publications

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Easy Language in the Context of Modern Pedagogy

Easy Language in the Context of Modern Pedagogy

Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2023

Thinking Styles Inventory Adaptation and Standardization in Latvian

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