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On behalf of the editorial team of Border Crossing journal, I am pleased to introduce the first issue of the tenth volume. Border Crossing aims to offer a multidisciplinary venue for sharing interesting and novel research from any fields of Social Sciences and Humanities. The “open issue” model we have started last year seems appreciated by authors and readers as it allows us to release the articles once they are through the peer-review process and finalised without delay which is normally the case for most journals. In this issue, the first paper by Meltem Yilmaz Sener focuses on the adaptation experiences of Turkish qualified migrants who returned to Turkey after living in Germany and the US.
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This paper aims to highlight the role of marketing activity in the higher education institutions. To accomplish this work, I chose to make a comparison between the universities in the Romanian education system. I also conducted a marketing research addressed to students of „X” University. Through this I wanted to find out the impact of the university promotion activity on the decisions taken by the students and how they can work with the university staff in order to create the most favourable image for the institution.
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Objective: The aim of the article is to analyse the expectations employers have of job candidates. The study focuses on HR managers’ assessments of the labour market, recruitment opportunities for new employees, and competence requirements for candidates. Research Design & Methods: The article presents the results of qualitative research (focus group interviews – FGI) conducted among 80 employees of HR departments (managers) of various organisations located in eight large cities in Poland. Findings: The managers pointed to increasing difficulties in finding competent employees, the gap between formal and non-formal education and the needs of employers, as well as job candidates’ poorly developed social skills. Implications / Recommendations: The industries surveyed are experiencing great difficulties in recruiting employees for specific positions, particularly experts. Contribution: The mismatch of the supply of competences and the labour market’s expectations, as well as the high saturation characterising the market, are preventing organisations from staffing appropriately.
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There are numerous opportunities for computer application in sound and music education of pupils of primary school age. Digital technologies provide endless possibilities for sound processing and learning of music. The proposed method aims to add a new aspect in terms of musical skills, which is directly related to the basic principles of the creation and processing of an accomplished music product. The new software implements sound and musical training in the form of a game in which the complexity of tasks increases.
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The subject of the article is the cultural frames of social behavior in Mariusz Szczygieł’s reportage Nie ma. I use the assumptions of intercultural psychology to analyze the reportage text. The adopted methodology results from the feeling that in the era of intensified contacts with representatives of various cultures, the researcher is forced to search for answers to questions about the cultural identity of Poles, manifesting themselves both in specific social behaviors and in literature. Intercultural psychology makes this task easier, because it makes us aware of the fact that literature is a mirror in which everyone who consciously enters a new culture looks.
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European mobility programmes have been seen as a promising method to promote European identity, particularly with a focus on young generations. In this article, I discussed the constructing role of the Erasmus exchange programme by employing the result of direct crosscultural interaction. Data from Eurobarometer surveys and outcomes concluded from the semistructured interviews revealed that socialising with other Europeans strengthened European identity but contact with the host country remained limited. Diff erent from other studies, this paper also reveals that the national identity of the participants precisely empower as a result of coaction. Furthermore, for the fi rst time in the literature, semi-structured interviews unveiled that cultural differences such as stereotypes and prejudices have no negative eff ect in promoting European identity among students. Rather, it generates a positive impact for the awareness of national identity.
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The aim of this essay is to discuss the state of democracy in Western Europe in the light of an essential change in public spheres towards more dissonance, disconnection, and noise. It is argued that this condition is the unintended consequence of the co-occurrence of two long-term changes in contemporary societies: political culture changes in liberal democracy and changes in communication infrastructures. The interaction of the disruption of democracy and digital communication has implications for public spheres as opportunity structures for democratic speech and institutions. The dynamics of dissonant public spheres have created a new disinformation order, pushing new political actors and communication modes to the fore. These conditions threaten established patterns of authoritative information flows and public debate, which puts contemporarydemocracy under serious stress.
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The roots of the World Health Organization (WHO) can be traced to the development of the international community’s efforts since the mid-nineteenth century to regulate health issues. They are in response to pandemic threats to Western Europe. Due to the new technologies for shipping and the development of rail transport, increased world trade and travel, cholera and subsequently yellow fever and bubonic plague are leaving their traditional endemic places in the colonies and poorer countries and reach the economically advanced countries of Western Europe. Many Europeans are beginning to believe that a period of real progress on sanitation could occur in the mid-nineteenth century. This article examines the historical development of international health cooperation from the mid-19th century to the creation of the World Health Organization in 1948.
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Language and Systems Theory: Critical Remarks on the Luhmannian Conception. This paper assesses Luhmann’s conception of language as structural coupling. Luhmann treated language as a medium, but also tried to incorporate the Saussurean concept of sign. The paper will deal with three conflictive points. The first one is the erasure of all psychic reference that Luhmann performs. The second issue is Luhmann’s refusal to consider language as a system. The third point poses the question about the ontological bases of language, in comparison to those of the autopoietic systems.
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The main aim of this paper is to prove that the modernization of testing university students makes the learning process more effective and helps teachers to improve and make this process more interesting for students. The Department of Foreign Languages from University of Žilina has recently changed its way of testing and evaluating students capitalizing on the impact on test item analysis and diagnosing easy, optimal and difficult tasks. The most significant part of this piece of research deals with a marker of individual students’ achievement called "student gain" reflecting the knowledge students gain during a semester.
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It has been recently acknowledged that there are certain factors that have contaminating influence on test takers’ performance. One of these is the influence of the test method. This paper presents the results of a study the aim of which was to find the extent to which the performance of 4th-year secondary school students differs depending on test tasks of various formats. The study compared and correlated students’ performance in five different tasks in order to see how their knowledge of certain grammatical features is demonstrated through the various testing instruments. The results indicate that there is a close relationship between the form of a test task and students’ performance.
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The subject of this work is the analysis of interrogative sentences used in A level textbooks intended for students of Serbian as a foreign language. The aim of this work is to examine interrogative sentences according to: the range of the relevant situation; the degree of informativeness аnd the degree of grammaticalisation. The following points are considered: the most dominant model of interrogative sentence; the forming of the interrogative sentence and the impact that the acquisition of interrogative sentences has on the development of receptive and productive language skills in the process of learning Serbian as a foreign language. This analysis demonstrates that interrogative sentences from part of microstructures in textbooks. The acquisition of the various types of interrogative sentences contributes to the development of communicative and productive language skills.
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The capability to use cultural cues in order to function effectively in culturally diverse situations has been measured by the fashionable concept of cultural intelligence (CQ) and its four dimensions (metacognitive CQ, cognitive CQ, motivational CQ and behavioral CQ) in a lot of previous studies and research. This capability is an important asset of the competitive portfolio for almost all companies in today's globalized world. Our study builds on a recent intensive research and brings anew the issue of CQ into the Czech environment. Specifically, the relationship between language skills and cultural intelligence is examined. Using the PLS – SEM statistical method, a sample of 100 respondents studying in the English BA program at one Czech private university and coming from different countries (mostly from China) was analyzed to demonstrate that there was a positive correlation between foreign language proficiency and all dimensions of CQ. On the contrary, another hypothesis (proposed in one previous study) was not confirmed: purposeful preparation for a language exam and its successful passing does not stimulate the development of the motivational (or any other) dimension of CQ or, in any case, no significant difference was found between the two groups of those who possess a language certificate and those who do not.
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The article was first published in English in Eurozine and is based on a talk given by the author on 19 September 2019 as part of the series 'The Tipping Point Talks 2019', organized by the ERSTE Foundation. It is part of the Eurozine Focal Point “Big Tech: The law of power?”. Copyright © Marietje Schaake / ERSTE Foundation / Eurozine
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