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English Language Teachers’ Awareness of English as a Lingua Franca in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts
Publication . Bayyurt, Yasemin; Kurt, Yavuz; Öztekin, Elifcan; Guerra, Luis; Cavalheiro, Lili; Pereira, Ricardo
Today English has become the Lingua Franca or common language of many people, regardless of their being native or nonnative speaker of English all over the world. Therefore, it has become necessary to educate pre-/in-service teachers with an awareness towards the significance of the involvement of an “English as a lingua franca” (ELF) perspective in their language teaching practice in multilingual/multicultural contexts. In a rapidly changing world, many English language teachers and teacher trainers are cognizant of the impact of migration in their teaching contexts. However, it is still not very clear to what extent and in what context they are integrating ELF related issues in their language teaching practice. In this study, we make an attempt to unveil in-service teachers’ beliefs about ELF in pedagogical practice in three different countries – Poland, Portugal and Turkey. In order to do that we have adopted a questionnaire from an earlier study investigating the involvement of culture in ELT in expanding circle contexts. The findings of the study revealed that although teachers in these contexts are aware of the significance of the inclusion of an ELF-aware perspective in ELT, they are still hesitant about its applicability in their own teaching context. This study has implications for raising English language teachers’ awareness in conceptualizing how an ELF-aware pedagogical approach can be implemented in a multilingual/multicultural context.
Casamento e cuidados com o cônjuge com demência: um estudo transcultural Brasil-Portugal
Publication . Garcia, Camila Rodrigues; Falcão, Deusivania Vieira da Silva; Pimentel, Luísa
Este estudo teve por objetivo geral analisar o significado de casamento e do cuidado com o cônjuge na perspectiva de esposas cuidadoras brasileiras e portuguesas de idosos com doença de Alzheimer (DA). Participaram da pesquisa 12 mulheres sendo a amostra obtida por conveniência, utilizando-se a técnica snowball. Foram utilizados um questionário e uma entrevista com roteiro semiestruturado sendo os dados analisados pela técnica de análise de conteúdo de Bardin. Os resultados destacaram que apesar das diferenças culturais entre Brasil e Portugal, alguns significados referentes ao casamento e ao cuidado com o cônjuge no contexto da DA, foram semelhantes para as esposas brasileiras e portuguesas. A despeito das mudanças conjugais relacionadas à demência, a maioria das esposas sentia-se bem executando seu papel de cuidadora, talvez, porque dentre outras variáveis, essa seja uma tarefa tradicionalmente cultural e esperada para ser desenvolvida por mulheres de ambos os países.
Integrating Tuberculosis data in State of São Paulo over Semantic Web: a proof of concept
Publication . Pellison, Felipe Carvalho; Lima, Vinícius Costa; Rijo, Rui Pedro Charters Lopes; Alves, Domingos
Although tuberculosis is a curable disease and, in most cases, with low cost drugs, its mortality still is a global concern. This facts turns our attention to management issues and the difficulties related to retrieving data of interest that are powdered on many applications. This work presents a semantic web approach to achieve functional and semantic interoperability between two applications in State of São Paulo that contain tuberculosis data. By combining a theoretical-practical development, the geolocalization tool created is a proof of concept that could help managers to take strategic decisions and develop better health policies by showing the distribution of tuberculosis cases across the state. This work stands out the importance of working in solutions that could improve the quality of data in health field and daily activities of health professionals.
Fall Prevention and Geriatric Nursing
Publication . Baixinho, Cristina Lavareda; Henriques, Maria; Costa, Andreia
1. Introduction
Falls among older people remain one of the most pressing and persistent public health challenges worldwide [1]. Given the increased life expectancy, and prevalence of disability, dependency, and comorbidities in this ageing population, there is a high risk that this will become a pandemic.
On the other hand, as populations age the consequences of falls increase, ranging from physical injury and loss of functional independence to psychological distress, fear of falling, social isolation, and increased mortality, posing significant challenges not only to individuals and families but also to healthcare systems and societies [2,3]. Falls are a leading cause of injury-related hospitalizations among older persons and contribute substantially to escalating healthcare costs, long-term care admissions, and diminished quality of life [2].
The growing proportion of older adults, many living with multimorbidity, frailty, cognitive impairment, and social vulnerability, demands a critical rethinking of health, social, and urban policies to support healthy ageing [2,3,4]. While fall prevention is often framed as an individual responsibility, this perspective risks overlooking structural, educational, and systemic barriers that limit older adults’ capacity to engage in effective prevention strategies, such as low health literacy, unequal access to preventive services, and environments that are not age-friendly [4].
Models of corporate governance applied to businesses in the Iberian Peninsula stock markets
Publication . Sardinha, Ana; Ribeiro, Humberto; Alves, Raquel
This paper proposes to analyse models of corporate governance applied to businesses listed in the stock markets of the Iberian Peninsula, namely the ones of Lisbon and Madrid. The corporate governance subject is becoming increasingly important for businesses as it is difficult to manage the interests of every economic agents related to an organization. The corporate governance is characterized by a system in which organizations are managed and controlled with the objective to promote efficiency and competitiveness of businesses. This study is intended to examine the following issue: what are the determinants that may influence the choice of corporate governance models adopted by listed businesses within the Iberian Peninsula? To establish the determinants of the choice of model were selected nine variables that have differentiating characteristic between the models of corporate governance used by corporations in Portugal and Spain. Testing nine possible determinants, the sample employed consists of several businesses listed on the Iberian stock indexes PSI-20 and IBEX-35, over the years 2009 to 2011. The data was obtained through analysis of single annual and consolidated accounts from annual reports, including corporate governance reports. The statistical analysis was carried using the logistic regression model. The variables found to significantly influence the choice of corporate governance model in our study were: the sector of activity and firm size, contributing therefore to the justification of the choice of models of corporate governance adopted by Iberian businesses.