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141	Curriculum development for the master craftsman in the printing, newspaper and packaging industries Thomas, David Llewellyn, 1944- 01 1900 (has links) This study centres on curriculum development for a master craftsman level in the Printing, Newspaper and Packaging Industries which is didactically sound and takes cognisance of the dynamic vocational education and training milieu in which it occurs. Curriculum and curriculum development is viewed from a systems perspective and incorporates the specific andragogic didactic needs of the learner target group as well as the unique needs of an industrial sector. Because the National Qualification Framework model advocates an outcomes-based approach to curriculum development this necessitated the identification of a suitable standards generating process to articulate the master craftsman unit standards into a qualification capable of being recognised by the National Qualification Framework. The nature and complexity of the underpinning knowledge, skills and competencies for the master craftsman level were quantified and qualified by means of skills and competency profiling and the development of a job outcome taxonomy of skills, knowledge and attributes which incorporated critical cross field and fundamental skills, and their underpinning knowledge requirements. Using aspects ofvarious vocational education and training models and empirical research course content was sourced, evaluated and developed into appropriate modules of learning that are congruent with the accepted competency based modular training system used in the Industries. Course maps that integrate theory and practice were developed with multi skilling milestones linked to learner certification. Evaluation of resources for the delivery of the Master Craftsman Programme was facilitated by means of a provider quality assessment and accreditation system. The interactive teaching-learning situation and the evaluation processes and procedures were developed to enhance the assessment of applied competencies in the world of work. A pilot study and unit standards generating activities are to be used as a means of implementing and institutionalising the master craftsman curriculum. The findings of this study revealed that by viewing the curriculum from a systems perspective and using a suitable curriculum development model a creative master craftsman curriculum development process could take place. The competency profiling technique and taxonomy of competencies, skills, knowledge and attributes enabled the curriculum process to be a top-down approach which is outcomes-based. / Didactics / D.Ed. (Didactics) Accreditation of Prior Learning Application-Orientated Objective Benchmarking Best Practices Career paths Certification practices Content-Performance Matrix Competency profiling Career progression Curriculum Development Model Curriculum continuum Job competence Job/Function profiling Learning outcome Portfolio development Project cycle management Performance pyramid Qualification for position Qualification for purpose Quality assessment system Qualified worker standard Standards generating Systems didactics Transfer of learning Train the trainer Taxonomy of competencies Skills Knowledge and attributes Unit standards acid test 338.476862071068 Curriculum planning -- South Africa Printing industry -- South Africa
142	The Perception of Lexical Similarities Between L2 English and L3 Swedish Utgof, Darja January 2008 (has links) <p>The present study investigates lexical similarity perceptions by students of Swedish as a foreign language (L3) with a good yet non-native proficiency in English (L2). The general theoretical framework is provided by studies in transfer of learning and its specific instance, transfer in language acquisition.</p><p>It is accepted as true that all previous linguistic knowledge is facilitative in developing proficiency in a new language. However, a frequently reported phenomenon is that students see similarities between two systems in a different way than linguists and theoreticians of education do. As a consequence, the full facilitative potential of transfer remains unused.</p><p>The present research seeks to shed light on the similarity perceptions with the focus on the comprehension of a written text. In order to elucidate students’ views, a form involving similarity judgements and multiple choice questions for formally similar items has been designed, drawing on real language use as provided by corpora. 123 forms have been distributed in 6 groups of international students, 4 of them studying Swedish at Level I and 2 studying at Level II. </p><p>The test items in the form vary in the degree of formal, semantic and functional similarity from very close cognates, to similar words belonging to different word classes, to items exhibiting category membership and/or being in subordinate/superordinate relation to each other, to deceptive cognates. The author proposes expected similarity ratings and compares them to the results obtained. The objective measure of formal similarity is provided by a string matching algorithm, Levenshtein distance.</p><p>The similarity judgements point at the fact that intermediate similarity values can be considered problematic. Similarity ratings between somewhat similar items are usually lower than could be expected. Besides, difference in grammatical meaning lowers similarity values significantly even if lexical meaning nearly coincides. Thus, the obtained results indicate that in order to utilize similarities to facilitate language learning, more attention should be paid to underlying similarities.</p> master master's programme language culture general linguistics linguistics foreign language acquisition similarity formal similarity semantic similarity functional similarity transfer transfer of learning language acquisition form form-based research crosslinguistic infuence one-year master english swedish lexical similarities false friends cognates deceptive cognates origin words of the same origin proto-germanic proto-indo-european competence performance comprehension corpus corpus-based data corpus-based research levenshtein distance objective similarity perceived similarity frequency prototype prototypicality proficiency context informed guess simchecker word recognition tachitoscopic experiments semantic correspondence similarity judgements eurocom surface transfer deep transfer lateral transfer English language Engelska språket Linguistic subjects Lingvistikämnen
143	Curriculum development for the master craftsman in the printing, newspaper and packaging industries Thomas, David Llewellyn, 1944- 01 1900 (has links) This study centres on curriculum development for a master craftsman level in the Printing, Newspaper and Packaging Industries which is didactically sound and takes cognisance of the dynamic vocational education and training milieu in which it occurs. Curriculum and curriculum development is viewed from a systems perspective and incorporates the specific andragogic didactic needs of the learner target group as well as the unique needs of an industrial sector. Because the National Qualification Framework model advocates an outcomes-based approach to curriculum development this necessitated the identification of a suitable standards generating process to articulate the master craftsman unit standards into a qualification capable of being recognised by the National Qualification Framework. The nature and complexity of the underpinning knowledge, skills and competencies for the master craftsman level were quantified and qualified by means of skills and competency profiling and the development of a job outcome taxonomy of skills, knowledge and attributes which incorporated critical cross field and fundamental skills, and their underpinning knowledge requirements. Using aspects ofvarious vocational education and training models and empirical research course content was sourced, evaluated and developed into appropriate modules of learning that are congruent with the accepted competency based modular training system used in the Industries. Course maps that integrate theory and practice were developed with multi skilling milestones linked to learner certification. Evaluation of resources for the delivery of the Master Craftsman Programme was facilitated by means of a provider quality assessment and accreditation system. The interactive teaching-learning situation and the evaluation processes and procedures were developed to enhance the assessment of applied competencies in the world of work. A pilot study and unit standards generating activities are to be used as a means of implementing and institutionalising the master craftsman curriculum. The findings of this study revealed that by viewing the curriculum from a systems perspective and using a suitable curriculum development model a creative master craftsman curriculum development process could take place. The competency profiling technique and taxonomy of competencies, skills, knowledge and attributes enabled the curriculum process to be a top-down approach which is outcomes-based. / Didactics / D.Ed. (Didactics) Accreditation of Prior Learning Application-Orientated Objective Benchmarking Best Practices Career paths Certification practices Content-Performance Matrix Competency profiling Career progression Curriculum Development Model Curriculum continuum Job competence Job/Function profiling Learning outcome Portfolio development Project cycle management Performance pyramid Qualification for position Qualification for purpose Quality assessment system Qualified worker standard Standards generating Systems didactics Transfer of learning Train the trainer Taxonomy of competencies Skills Knowledge and attributes Unit standards acid test 338.476862071068 Curriculum planning -- South Africa Printing industry -- South Africa
144	The Perception of Lexical Similarities Between L2 English and L3 Swedish Utgof, Darja January 2008 (has links) The present study investigates lexical similarity perceptions by students of Swedish as a foreign language (L3) with a good yet non-native proficiency in English (L2). The general theoretical framework is provided by studies in transfer of learning and its specific instance, transfer in language acquisition. It is accepted as true that all previous linguistic knowledge is facilitative in developing proficiency in a new language. However, a frequently reported phenomenon is that students see similarities between two systems in a different way than linguists and theoreticians of education do. As a consequence, the full facilitative potential of transfer remains unused. The present research seeks to shed light on the similarity perceptions with the focus on the comprehension of a written text. In order to elucidate students’ views, a form involving similarity judgements and multiple choice questions for formally similar items has been designed, drawing on real language use as provided by corpora. 123 forms have been distributed in 6 groups of international students, 4 of them studying Swedish at Level I and 2 studying at Level II. The test items in the form vary in the degree of formal, semantic and functional similarity from very close cognates, to similar words belonging to different word classes, to items exhibiting category membership and/or being in subordinate/superordinate relation to each other, to deceptive cognates. The author proposes expected similarity ratings and compares them to the results obtained. The objective measure of formal similarity is provided by a string matching algorithm, Levenshtein distance. The similarity judgements point at the fact that intermediate similarity values can be considered problematic. Similarity ratings between somewhat similar items are usually lower than could be expected. Besides, difference in grammatical meaning lowers similarity values significantly even if lexical meaning nearly coincides. Thus, the obtained results indicate that in order to utilize similarities to facilitate language learning, more attention should be paid to underlying similarities. master master's programme language culture general linguistics linguistics foreign language acquisition similarity formal similarity semantic similarity functional similarity transfer transfer of learning language acquisition form form-based research crosslinguistic infuence one-year master english swedish lexical similarities false friends cognates deceptive cognates origin words of the same origin proto-germanic proto-indo-european competence performance comprehension corpus corpus-based data corpus-based research levenshtein distance objective similarity perceived similarity frequency prototype prototypicality proficiency context informed guess simchecker word recognition tachitoscopic experiments semantic correspondence similarity judgements eurocom surface transfer deep transfer lateral transfer Specific Languages Studier av enskilda språk General Language Studies and Linguistics

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