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Exploring the Idea of Task in the Context of the Young Language Learner Classroom

Originating in adult education, the approach of task‐based language teaching (TBLT) has been promoted in young language learner (YLL) education. However, its application often encounters challenges due to varying interpretations of what constitutes a “task.” Previous research has repeatedly highlighted gaps in teachers' understanding of tasks, often reducing them to mere exercises rather than opportunities for genuine communication. A potential issue could be that some of the criteria of a task as defined in the literature that focuses on adult second/foreign language (L2) learners do not necessarily apply or may need to be modified in YLL education. For example, tasks have traditionally been defined as having “authenticity,” but this may vary, as YLLs are often engaged in play and driven by imagination. Additionally, for children, school represents their “real world,” so their concept of an “authentic” task may differ from that of adult L2 learners, who may be attending classes to improve workplace skills. In this study, we aimed to explore the concept of task in the context of teaching an additional language to YLLs in primary education. Utilizing a Delphi method, 16 well‐known experts who work at the intersection of applied linguistics, TBLT, and YLLs participated in three rounds of data collection via email. After providing written definitions of a task and its characteristics in the YLL classroom in Round 1, the experts rated each other's definitions on a 4‐point Likert scale and provided comments on the definitions in two subsequent rounds. Additionally, we conducted follow‐up interviews with a subsample of the participants (n = 6) relative to a particular task characteristic: “authenticity.” Using both quantitative and qualitative analyses, we identified key aspects from the data, including task characteristics, learner considerations, and implementation details. Findings showed a distinction between “activity” and “task,” with the latter being understood as featuring certain characteristics. Accordingly, a task in the YLL classroom has a goal orientation, an orientation to meaning rather than linguistic form, a need for YLLs to use their L2 repertoire, a type of information gap, and a real‐life connection. While largely congruent with the concept of task in the L2 adult literature, the experts particularly highlighted a learner‐oriented approach to tasks that stresses cognitive, social‐emotional, and affective development of YLLs. In particular, experts highlighted the significance of imagination as part of children's authentic world. Thus an “authentic” task for adults may reference a “real‐world” domain, whereas an authentic task for YLLs may reference an imaginary one. We discuss the findings and emphasize that the concept of task in YLL education should be broadened to include aspects of imaginary worlds and make‐believe.

ISLAMIC PHILANTHROPY MOVEMENT IN INDONESIA

This study tries to unravel the contribution of the philanthropic movement in Indonesia in various sectors that have been carried out, both by government, private and voluntary institutions. The method used is to use a juridical normative approach, where data is obtained from secondary data, namely from previous research relevant to this research, as well as a number of fatwas of scholars in the field of muamalah fiqh. The results show that Islamic philanthropy in Indonesia is experiencing significant development, marked by the increasing enthusiasm of the ummah in philanthropy and influenced by the revitalisation of the world vision of Islamic philanthropy, which tries to transform the old paradigm of philanthropy with a new paradigm that is more creative and innovative. A number of solidarity and faith-based national philanthropic institutions have been born, both government-owned, privately-owned and even individually to make a real contribution to strengthening the vision of national development and contributing to the world community

Encouraging Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Engagement: A Case Study of Biology in Text and Film

ABSTRACT In this article, we describe an interdisciplinary course entitled ‘Biologies in Text and Film,’ co-taught by a literary historian and biological scientist. In our course, we use dark science fiction film and texts, as well as biology content, to unpack the ways scientific knowledge is entangled in social and narrative paradigms and vice versa. We first describe our course’s theoretical positioning, which adapts a medical humanities framework. Our positioning breaks from an existing science-via-fiction approach that prioritises the teaching of science at the expense of a more holistic discussion of narrative and science’s social entanglements. Our course uniquely and substantively meets both literary and biology learning outcomes. We provide our four-stage course structure: breadcrumbing, deep-diving, interpretation, and application. We believe this approach can help humanities and STEM students to engage with high-stakes wicked problems through a disciplinary blending that leads students to a more robust understanding of how our real and imagined world(s) are entangled.

Soundscape fiction: designing and situating sonic design fiction to stimulate the imagination

ABSTRACT Experiential intervention in design fiction has been an effective approach to stimulating imagination through visual or textual materials. However, the potential of design fiction to create auditory experiences that encourage listeners to immerse themselves in imagined worlds remains largely unexplored. This paper introduces Soundscape Fiction, a four-layer audio composition for stimulating experiential imagination. We explored its temporal form through audio mixing, framed a design space for each layer using a tangible Soundscape Mixer, and developed research artifacts called Quartet Tubes to enable users to incorporate Soundscape Fiction into their daily lives. We present participants’ experiences of using Quartet Tubes in everyday settings, demonstrating how situated listening, as a form of speculative engagement, can shape personal realities. The research contributes to the experience-centered approach of practical design fiction by illustrating a research-through-design process for creating imaginative auditory experiences. It concludes with design considerations for future exploration of experiential intervention in auditory imagination.

Psychosocial Disorders and Escapism in Nigerian Poetry: A Study of Lara Owoeye’s Time to Sing and Other Poems

Nigerian poetry has consistently responded to issues affecting the country and the people since the pioneer stage to contemporary time. In this instance, the burden of societal failings has propelled the level of social commitment and ideological postures identified in the poetry. However, recent experiences in the socio-political and economic landscape of the Nigerian society seems to have shaped the mentation and emotional condition of contemporary Nigerian poets in a way that calls for a psychological approach to the study of the poets’ creative nuances. Therefore, adopting a descriptive research method and employing relevant psychoanalytic theoretical framework, the study explores how Lara Owoeye's collection, Time to Sing and Other Poems, represents psychosocial disorders and escapism. Through a close reading of the selected poems from the collection, it is discovered that Owoeye employs the resources of language and music like imagery, metaphor, parody, allusion, enjambment, rhyme, tone and other literary devices vis-à-vis the motif of a distressed singer to convey her psychosocial condition. The study also shows that the psychosocial disorders represented in the collection are triggered by memories of bad leadership and harsh socio-economic conditions. In this instance, the poet finds an escape into the world of imagination and emotional recovery through poetic expression. This way, Owoeye's poetry does not only reflect the cultural, historical, and social contexts of the Nigerian society but also offers an understanding of the complex interplay between psychosocial disorders and poetry as an escape mechanism.

From killer bunnies to talking cupcakes: theorizing the diverse universe of virtual influencers

PurposeThis study aims to expand understanding of the diversity of virtual influencer forms by investigating their nonhuman-like, animal and graphic or cartoon variations.Design/methodology/approachA three-year multisite longitudinal netnography studied 174 virtual influencers and spanned ten social media platforms. Typological categories were constructed from the data set, focusing on 14 influencers located across quadrants. In-depth findings were then developed for eight illustrative cases.FindingsFindings deepen the knowledge of the virtual influencer sphere by highlighting diversity in human-like, nonhuman-like, imaginative and realistic forms. The authors postulate four types of virtual influencers: hyper-human, antihuman, pan-human and alter-human. These forms are linked to specific personalities and communication styles, addressing various consumer needs. Imaginatively represented virtual influencers may prompt audiences to reevaluate beliefs, values and behaviors. These findings challenge prior work’s focus on attractive, hyperreal and human-like virtual influencers, encouraging consideration of divergent types engaged in novel meaning-shaping activities and targeting different segments.Research limitations/implicationsThis research paves the way for consumer and marketing researchers and practitioners to broaden their representations of virtual influencers beyond the human-like, beyond the commercial and into new worlds of fantasy, imagination and posthuman possibility.Practical implicationsDifferent types of virtual influencers speak to diverse audiences and convey marketing messages in subtly different ways. Some forms of virtual influencers fit into roles like defiant voices, oppositional characters, activists, educators, entertainers and change leaders. As the universe of virtual influencers diversifies, this research opens new avenues of marketing for brands.Originality/valueThis study pioneers comprehensive qualitative research across the universe of virtual influencers and their communities, exploring links to popular culture. It offers connections between virtual influencer forms and communication strategies for marketers.

Design Aesthetics and Visual Metaphor in Theworks of Tasim Sing Take Falling In, as an Example

Falling In reveals the director's bold and avant-garde style in many ways.Tasim Sing has etched his personal mark on the film in an extremely thorough manner. As per the formula, the imaginary world constructed by the human brain overlaps with the real world to create the most bizarre and uninhibited imaginative space. Bright images also continue in the film. The film features a visual masterpiece, but the visual feast it presents is still different from the so-called commercial blockbuster scenes, and it is as different as one is a realistic oil painting with thick colour, and the other is a colourful surrealist watercolour.

Reading and Performing The Tempest in a Prison: Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood

This article aims to analyse Margaret Atwood's Hagseed as a rewriting of the educational project orchestrated by Prospero, and as a mirror of the process by which Elizabethan actors created and modified their performance in response to their own and their audiences' needs. Set in a prison and planned as both a rehabilitation for criminals and a vengeance, The Tempest is reenacted and adapted in a collective interpretation to suit the inmates' inner turmoil. Unlike Felix, they cannot leave the prison, but they dream of freedom. Freedom they will find by adapting Shakespeare's characters to their world of imagination and experience. Felix will allow them to find their own way of interpreting the text, which is very different from the attitude Prospero takes throughout The Tempest. In the end, the prisoners involved in adapting Caliban will write a sequel to his story, making him (and themselves) the protagonist and author/s of their own story. Undoubtedly functioning as a metatextual reading of the novel itself in relation to its hypotext, the Pirandellian scene allows us to see how a reader can become an author, and how a subordinate and inarticulate group of people can become confident and self-aware enough to reappropriate their own history. Then the Palimpsest is rewritten, bearing the memory of an educational project, but proposing a new one, more appropriate to our times, with new objectives and new tools.

Reading and Performing The Tempest in a Prison: Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood

This article aims to analyse Margaret Atwood's Hagseed as a rewriting of the educational project orchestrated by Prospero, and as a mirror of the process by which Elizabethan actors created and modified their performance in response to their own and their audiences' needs. Set in a prison and planned as both a rehabilitation for criminals and a vengeance, The Tempest is reenacted and adapted in a collective interpretation to suit the inmates' inner turmoil. Unlike Felix, they cannot leave the prison, but they dream of freedom. Freedom they will find by adapting Shakespeare's characters to their world of imagination and experience. Felix will allow them to find their own way of interpreting the text, which is very different from the attitude Prospero takes throughout The Tempest. In the end, the prisoners involved in adapting Caliban will write a sequel to his story, making him (and themselves) the protagonist and author/s of their own story. Undoubtedly functioning as a metatextual reading of the novel itself in relation to its hypotext, the Pirandellian scene allows us to see how a reader can become an author, and how a subordinate and inarticulate group of people can become confident and self-aware enough to reappropriate their own history. Then the Palimpsest is rewritten, bearing the memory of an educational project, but proposing a new one, more appropriate to our times, with new objectives and new tools.

Effects of Recognition on Motivation of Volunteers in Non-Governmental Organizations in Tanzania: A Case of World Vision in Tanzania

This study investigates the impact of various recognition practices on volunteer motivation in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Tanzania, with a focus on World Vision Tanzania. The research addresses the challenge of maintaining volunteer engagement and retention in resource-constrained environments. This study used descriptive research design. Simple random sampling method was used to select 81 respondents. Quantitative data was collected by use of questionnaires. Data was analysed using multiple regression method by the aid of Statistical Package of Social Scientists Program (SPSS). The findings reveal that recognition significantly influences volunteer motivation. Recognition from superiors (Beta coefficient= 0.987, Sig. value = .000) and Member recognition being treated as an integral part of the organization (Beta coefficient= 0. 832, Sig. value = .000) emerged as the most potent motivators. Personal forms of recognition, such as verbal acknowledgment, were found to be more impactful than public or formal recognitions. Based on these results, the study recommends a multi-faceted approach to volunteer recognition, emphasizing personal acknowledgment, organizational inclusion, and strategic use of formal recognition methods. The research suggests that NGOs should prioritize training for supervisors on effective recognition practices, create an inclusive organizational culture, and regularly assess and adapt their recognition strategies to maintain long-term volunteer motivation and engagement.

Transformational Leadership and Performance of Projects: A Case of World Vision Projects in Arusha Region, Tanzania

Transformational Leadership and Performance of Projects: A Case of World Vision Projects in Arusha Region, Tanzania

Imaginary Worlds and Child Readers at Kurrajong Heights in the 1890s

ABSTRACT While authors of the late 19th century may have been concerned with the production of a masculinist boy, the borrowing patterns of a group of children at a Sunday-school library in Australia show a far more fluid approach to reading and to gender. The children of the emerging Presbyterian middle class at Kurrajong Heights approached their library with imagination and originality. Girls were interested in the practicalities of work and engineering, while boys inhabited more imaginary worlds. There were staggered and overlapping ideas of what it was to be male or female. Borrowing records introduce the complex and confused world of lower middle-class female authors and their influence in making boys and girls.

In the World of Potentiality: Gombrowicz, Pinter, Beckett, and Różewicz

This article attempts to analyze Witold Gombrowicz`s, Harold Pinter`s, Samuel Beckett`s, and Tadeusz Różewicz’s works by using methods that are associated with performative literary studies. The author refers to concepts of quantum physics and introduces a new aesthetic category, “entangled arts”. Among these arts are, for example, drama and theater, which are seen from an anti-binary perspective. This approach eliminates the traditional division of arts into the art of literature and performing arts, thus leading us to look on literature as a performing art. Therefore, the idea of “entangled arts” is not about “the synthesis of arts”, but about their unresolvedness and an act of reading which requires one to simultaneously exist and be active in two (or more, potentiality) different realities, for example, in a digital and imagined world, or in film and on stage.

An intimate prayer with the dead

AbstractThis article explores how listening to monājāt (Islamic sung prayer) creates dynamic and unsettling imaginative spaces for Amir—a paraplegic veteran of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War—to be‐with Sohrab, his comrade killed in combat. Amir, who both witnessed Sohrab's tragic death and endured severe physical trauma himself, engages in a profound, nonreciprocal relationship with Sohrab through the act of listening to the sung prayer. Monājāt is a collective experience that derives its power from Amir's imagined world where he finds himself whispering the prayers alongside Sohrab. This participatory mode of listening allows the living to host and welcome the dead. Monājāt creates a nonreciprocal relationship with the dead, a place where Amir hears what is otherwise inaudible. In this imaginary world, Amir finds proximity to be‐with his dead friend. Listening is a mode of being‐in‐the‐world that challenges one to not neglect the other's needs. For Amir, monājāt provides both images of Sohrab in heaven (the radiant face with the angels) and a disturbance by alerting him to recall Sohrab's suffering and the injured face. Listening, then, becomes a response and obligation to care for the dead; a way to attend to and be responsible for Sohrab which for Amir is both healing and haunting.

The right-wing radical vision of a multipolar world: Specifics of anti-globalist rhetoric of leaders of contemporary right-wing politicians in the EU and the United States

The study was devoted to the analysis of the specifics of the anti-globalist rhetoric of contemporary right-wing politicians in the European Union and the United States in the context of their vision of a multipolar world. The purpose of the study was to identify key elements and features of the anti-globalist discourse of right-wing political forces, and its influence on the development of an alternative vision of the world order. The main findings showed that the anti-globalist rhetoric of right-wing politicians is characterised by a complex combination of economic, political, and cultural aspects. It was revealed that the key elements of this rhetoric are criticism of international trade agreements, opposition to immigration, Euroscepticism, and calls for the protection of national sovereignty. It was established that the vision of a multipolar world in the discourse of right-wing politicians is presented as an alternative to global liberalism and American hegemony, focusing on the principles of national sovereignty and balance of power. The analysis showed significant differences in approaches to anti-globalist argumentation between politicians of different countries, due to the specifics of national political cultures and historical context. In particular, in France, anti-globalist rhetoric is closely linked to the idea of protecting national identity, in Italy it focuses on criticising EU fiscal rules, and in the United States it has taken the form of "economic nationalism". The study found that the anti-globalist rhetoric of right-wing politicians has significant mobilisation potential, resonating with feelings of discontent and uncertainty in certain segments of the population. However, it was established that this rhetoric often ignores the positive aspects of globalisation and may contradict the international obligations of countries. The results helped to better understand the mechanisms of development and spread of anti-globalist sentiments, and their impact on political processes in the EU and the United States

Образ и маска в живописи Франсиско Гойи — онтологические и аксиологические аспекты

It is widely recognized that F. Goya’s development of a picturesque manner is in the vein of his great predecessors — El Greco and D. Velázquez. However, with all the importance of the experimental novelty of this Spanish master’s technique, the uniqueness of his creativity should be sought elsewhere. Goya managed to decidedly push the established boundaries of the European art expanding its range with the themes and problems that had previously been rarely and poorly represented. Anticipating an existential and anthropological shift that was evident back in the last decades of the 19th century and being almost a century ahead of it, those themes, plots, and problems were aimed at exteriorizing the inner world of man on the scale that appears to have never existed before. Goya systematically examines the human psyche in extreme existential situations when the conscious and the subconscious intertwine in a whimsical way. The specific feature of this perspective is an interest not in the individual and individuality but in the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness, as C. Jung would later justify it. The master’s true goal is to break through to where the archetypal components of the psyche, thinking, and behaviour rest. In this sense, the images of the mentally disturbed and the imprisoned become semantically significant, the atmosphere of madhouses and prisons, the world of human imagination that engendered the sphere of the irrational. Goya seeks the truth about man scrutinizing him in extreme situations and critical states. The artist often approaches the visualization of all this through a theatrical element — through masks, role-playing, and games. He is interested in that harsh inversion where a person, put into inhuman, unbearable conditions, can no longer to remain rational and turns into a dreadful, meaningless human mask. The main characteristics of the artist’s approach are explored in comparison with thematically similar works by William Hogarth, Henry Fuseli, and Théodore Géricault.

Building a Talent Portfolio: A Modern Approach to Career Development

In today's disruptive business environment where entire job categories are emerging and transforming rapidly, traditional career path models centered on predefined vertical progression no longer adequately equip organizations with the workforce mobility and strategic resilience needed to dynamically deploy talent as work evolves. This article explores how progressive companies like global banking giant HSBC and humanitarian relief leader World Vision have overcome these challenges through transitioning to career portfolio-based talent systems that empower employees to curate diverse experiences through roles, projects, assignments and skills development opportunities. A shift from narrow career paths to emphasis on capability and experience building strengthens organizational agility through a multi-skilled workforce while providing strategic benefits to talent retention, succession planning and futureproofing the business in uncertainty. Perhaps most importantly, the career portfolio approach also empowers individual contributors with the versatility and lifelong learning critical for navigating today's fluid labor market landscape - futureproofing both their employability and work fulfillment in the new world of work.

금융자본주의 사회의 자본, 프레카리아트의 영화적 재현 연구

Film reflects society and society reflects film. Over the course of 130 years of film history, we have witnessed the evolution of media culture from film to digital to OTT platforms, which have generated extensive discourse in film theory. Despite these significant changes, the essence of film remains unchanged: it is closely intertwined with society, serving as an art form readily accessible to the public. Film actively examines and meticulously represents society on screen, possessing a unique ability to embody imaginary and virtual worlds, while also striving to represent our real world and explore its hidden facets. Recently, there has been a surge in films exploring the economy. However, academic research on these films has been somewhat limited due to the inherent complexity of the subject matter. This paper aims to analyze “Helpless” and “Sorry, we Missed You” with grave concern. These films tackle the issue of ‘financial capitalism and the precariat’, exerting a significant influence on the structure and phenomena of contemporary society. This research delved into the lives of the precariat suffering from debt and rhetorics, which are cunning devices created by financial capitalism. Lastly, this paper proposes that these films can be categorized as “social problem films” that raise awareness about societal issues and spark changes in society. Through this study, this paper aims to demonstrate the profound connection between film(as a cultural medium) and society, thereby affirming the impact of film on society.

Russia and the challenges of global leadership

Are we, in 2024, navigating a world without American leadership or a world with contested leadership? Regardless of the winner in the US elections this autumn, contested leadership for influence in international affairs is sure to continue. If the United States fails to lead, little will stand in the way of Putin's vision of a new multipolar world where Russia, as an exceptional power pursues the domination of a natural sphere of geographic influence that extends beyond Ukraine, well into Europe.

Resilient rebound: a visual essay on materials science researchers confronting plastic pollution in the post-COVID-19 era

In this visual essay, the author embarks on a personal and metaphorical journey on the challenges faced by materials science researchers in the post-COVID-19 era through the lens of their own experiences. Central to this narrative is the ‘cart of dreams and knowledge’, representing the researcher´s academic learnings and aspirational pursuits in hobbies and personal passions. As they confront the ‘garbage monster’ – a metaphor for plastic pollution and escalating environmental crises – their metaphorical carts undergo a transformative journey, representing their resilience and adaptability. This resilient rebound is vividly captured through illustrations integrating historical data, observations and personal experiences as primary data collection tools. These illustrations serve as an analytic device reflecting the researchers’ emotional and academic endeavours during the pandemic. This creative approach introduces an imaginative world while integrating real images within the comic format, grounding these experiences in their personal and professional lives. The essay portraits the author in imaginative worlds, probing their resilience and adaptability, evocative of comic book heroes. By highlighting the collective fight against plastic pollution, the author weaves a tale of hope, innovation, and collaborative spirit, inviting a call to action for a sustainable future in the post-COVID-19 era, thus fostering a sense of empathy and connection with a broader audience.