Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on the Modern Development of Humanities and Social Science

Session: Psychological Research and Education

32 articles
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Developing Your Classroom as a Learning Community — To Refresh Our Motivation for Students

Zhuoya Wu
Teaching theory and methodology has being studied through College English teaching for years in China. With the further reform of education, there are a variety of new English courses given to newly –equipped students on campus. Which teaching method should be well used in class is challenging in order...
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Research on the Reform of College Computer Education

Xuan Li, Miaomiao Xu
With the development of information technology, the computers havebeen benefit to all aspects of social life. Computer education has been largely improved,however, the current university computer teachingeffect is not optimistic. This paper proposes some corresponding reform strategies for current problem...
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The Characteristics of Social Adaptation of College Freshmen and Educational Strategy

Liqiao Xu, Chuanhua Gu, Dongjing Zhang, Zhi Jing
This study investigated 680 freshmen in Wuhan to analyze the characteristics of their social adaptation with the Scale of College Students’ Social Adaptation. The result indicated that, the freshmen from urban areas scored higher significantly on interpersonal adaptation and role adaptation than those...
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The Questionnaire Analysis Research on the Causes of College Students’ Reticence in the English Classroom

Xuehua Wang, Meihua Chen
The research efforts aiming at changing the phenomenon of Chinese students’ reticence should be based on a full understanding of the various causes behind it. It has been revealed in this paper through questionnaire study that the seeming reticence is more likely to be the performance of learners’ habitual...
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Progress of Bibliotherapy Theory and Practice in China

Liting Su, Xiaoli Huang
As an ancient metal therapy measure, bibliotherapy has been recognized worldwide gradually. In China it has been studied systematically for over twenty years. In this paper, the study situation of bibliotherapy in China was summarized from the aspects of theory and practice, and some suggestions were...
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Teaching Mode to Promote Autonomy Learning in Multimedia and Network Environment

Ying Zhan, Hong Li, Yuanyuan Xing
For the last few decades, the dominated learning theory had transmitted from Behaviorism to constructivism. As a result, a large number of language scholars and educators have paid much emphasis on learners, aiming at cultivating them autonomous learners. The traditional “chalk and talk” teaching mode...
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The Relationship among Learning Psychological Process, Learning Behavior and Learning Outcome

Fei Li
We develop and test a theoretical model to investigate the relationship among learning psychology process, learning behavior and learning outcome. Structural Equation Model was used to estimate the relationship. Results by analyzing self-cognitive data of undergraduates’ from one university in China...
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Design of Mobile-based Personality Education Application for Young Children

Tae In Han, Min Young Kim
In this paper, we study the design of the mobile learning system for personality education of young children. To this end, we survey the necessity and the requirements of personality education for young children. Then, we analyze the restrictions and the limitations of the current mobile-based personality...
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Student Teachers’ Attitudes Toward the Interaction on Facebook During Practicum

Yuehchiu Fang, Hui-Lin Hsieh
Student teachers are frequently frustrated by a perceived conflict between the teaching of literacy learned in teaching/learning method courses or practice courses where they see in classrooms and the reality of practicum. The purpose of this study is to investigate student teachers’ attitudes toward...
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The Interpretative Meaning of Stigma Experience in Adolescent Living with CLP

Ruohlih Lei, Chichun Chin, Ptlene Minick, Huiching Liu, Shihching Fang
Cleft lip and palate is one of the common congenital defects. Significant advances have been made in our understanding of Cleft Lip and Plate (CLP) specific physical and psychosocial problems. However, studies of subjective stigma experience in adolescents with cleft lip and palate is limited. From humanistic...
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Emotional Intelligence and Burnout in Managers

Sobia Aftab, Kanwal Qadeer
The objective of the present study was to investigate the predictive association between emotional intelligence and burnout in people working at managerial level. A purposive sample of 100 managers was recruited from different organizations in Karachi, Pakistan. Their ages ranged from 23 to 62 years...
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Analysis of Learning Motivation in Foreign Language Acquisiton: How do non-English majors’ Motivation Impacts Learning Outcome

Fang Huang, Yuhuan Wang
Learning motivation has been a hot issue in the sphere of foreign language acquisition for years. Studies proved that motivational factors are critical to the achievement of language learning. In order to have a better understanding of students’ English learning motivation and how their motivation impact...
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Teacher Self-Efficacy: Implication for Chinese College English Teachers’ Development

Xiyan Wang
With the advancement of research on teacher’s development, researchers have paid much attention to teachers’ sense of self-efficacy which directly affects teachers’ self-development and teaching effect. The previous researches have shown that teachers with high self-efficacy probably will have a positive...
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Learning from the Landscape: Toward Socially Responsible Architectural Education

Vladan Djokic, Ana Nikezic, Nataša Jankovic
This article presents education strategies and results of the research conducted at the University in Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture in the period between 2009th and 2012th by Master’s degree students. The main scope of the research was on situating an architectural intervention in different landscapes....
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Shaping the Future of Undergraduate Environmental Science Education Innovation and Change From the Perspective of Ecological Civilization

Xiangping Li, Zongqiang Zhu, Yinian Zhu, Huili Liu
The College with environmental specialty is the main force in the construction of campus ecological civilization. As a leading indicator of future trends of ecological civilization, it should play a distinctive role and bear the historical pioneer responsibility for the environmental education under...
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Effects of Perceptual Learning Styles and Learning Strategies on College Students’ Spoken English Proficiency

Shenghua Chu
With the advancements of the studies of second language acquisition, learning styles have been put as the center of relevant studies. However, studies on the mechanism of how perceptual learning styles influence non-English major students’ spoken English proficiency have been unsubstantial, needing further...
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Research on Teaching and Organization Change in the Perspective of Creative Talents Cultivation

Yushu Shi, Yuhai Li, Jingtang Jia
College teaching and research organizations are university's fundamental part of the constituent elements, and they determine the strength and level of universities, show the body's health and vitality of universities and shoulder the task of cultivating innovative talents. After a long term of reform,...
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Elements Influencing Students’ Prejudice Towards Non-native English Teacher

Jie Fan
There have been instance of prejudice and discrimination against non-native teachers. This research is designed to test whether prejudice towards non-native English-speaking teachers still exist now. If so, which elements influence the students’ attitude towards the non-native English-speaking teachers...
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A Model for Pain Self-Management of Patients with Haemophilia: Peer Education

Hua Zhao, Yulin Guo, Airong Zhang, Ruihong Wu, Ruijuan Zhang, Linhua Yang, Zhi-Guang Duan
Hemophilia is a lifelong bleeding disorder with no cure. The pain, discomfort and risks that accompany hemophilia can be physically and emotionally stressful. Effective pain management is extremely important for improvement quality of life among patients with haemophi¬lia. While some observational studies...
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Study on the Problems and Countermeasures of Teaching Management in Colleges and Universities

Yuhai Li, Jingtang Jia, Yushu Shi
With the continuous development of our economic and social, the macro and micro environment of the higher education in China have undergone significant changes. The innovation of teaching management in colleges and universities has become an inevitable. There are two main defects of the system of teaching...
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An Empirical Study of the Tourism Management Undergraduates’ Learning Burnout

Jing Fu, Huiliang Yang
Purpose To study the learning burnout of the tourism management undergraduates. Method Take the “Learning Burnout Scale” established by Lian Rong ,etc. as the measure tool, choose Heibei University and Industrial and Commercial College of Hebei University’s Tourism Management undergraduates as subjects,...
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Research on the Training Model of Double-Qualified Teachers

Zhixiong Xiao, Bei Qin
With the rapid development of China’s higher vocational education, it is imperative for higher vocational colleges to raise high-quality double-qualified teachers. Above all, this paper introduced four kinds of foreign training models of double-qualified teachers. They are American model, German model,...
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The Influence of Zhu Xi’s Self-Education on China’s Contemporary Self-Education

Hong Li, Ying Zhan, Fang Zhang
This paper mainly deals with Zhu Xi’s self-education impact on modern education. Through the introduction to Zhu Xi’s self-education processes and methods, the paper then comes to the development of self-education in modern education, and the impact by Zhu’s theory in modern self- education.
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An Empirical Study of Relationship Between University Innovation Team Members' Psychological Contract and Organizational Commitment

Lili Wang, Xiaojun Lu, Jia Li
This paper discusses about the influence mechanism of university innovation team member’s psychological contract on organizational commitment under the micro environment of teamwork. Using data from 514 university innovation team members, the results show that (1)the three dimensions of team’s responsibility...
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Reflection on Scientific Chinese Education from Modern Humanity Perspective

Jun Lei
With the influences of popular culture technological culture, Chinese language education has been distorted by cultural nihilism and utilitarian conceptions, which generated such problems as value uncertainty and lack of systematic approach in teaching Chinese language. Suggestion in this paper is that...
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Exploration of and Research into Implementation of Modern University Governance Model in Universities and Colleges of China

Xiaoming Ma
It is necessary to follow the law of development of universities and colleges, push the reform of the management system of universities and colleges, eliminate the hindrance from system or mechanism, reinforce and innovate the management of universities and colleges, establish a scientific and democratic...
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Relationship Between Creativity and the Tendency of Choosing Entrepreneurship as a Career among The Polytechnic Students in Malaysia

Sri Sumarwati, Jailani Md. Yunos, Tee Tze Kiong
The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between creativity and the tendency of choosing entrepreneurship as a career among the polytechnic students in Malaysia. A total of 425 third semester polytechnic diploma students (PMKL, PMJB, PUO, PMJ, PMK, PSMZA, PMM, PBS and PPD) were selected...
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Analysis on Connotations and Features of Occupational Risks

Wei Huang, Ying Wen, Caichun Zhang
Under the social background where risks have become normal, it is of practical significance to study occupational risks for stable social development, sound organization growth and individual self-improvement. This article analyzes connotations and puts forward features of occupational risks by researching...
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Internship Evaluation from the Perspective of Technological University Students in Taiwan

Yi Hui Chiang, Tan Fen Huang
Recently senior technological university students are asked whether they are going to choose an internship course or not. What is the key determinant considered by them Do the incentives provided by the enterprise and school work The aim of the paper is to propose an internship evaluation model by Analytic...
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Facing Petroleum and Local Markets, Establishing Teaching & Research School

Guihong Pei, Lili Liu
Taken the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Southwest Petroleum University as an example, elaborated how to teaching staff construction as the breakthrough, around the university characteristics, positive for petroleum and local market to carry out the teaching and scientific research work,...
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The Analysis and Visualization of Interdisciplinary Characteristics A Case Study of the International Epigenetics

Hongfang Shao, Zhiguang Duan
In order to demonstrate the interdisciplinary features, the authors retrieved ‘epigenetic*’ in their title, abstract or keywords from Web of Science between 1970 and 2012 to be the dataset of a case study, and used scientific metrology methods and information visualization tools to perform the discipline...
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The Optimal Reaction Condition for Class Demonstrated Experiment of Methane and Chlorine Substitution Reaction

Yufei Wu, Yu Zhang, Zhongqiang Zhang
The success rate for class demonstrated experiment of methane and chlorine substitution reaction (MCSR) is very low during the practical teaching process because the conditions for the experiment of MCSR are difficult to control. So the teaching effects were always poor when the experiment was failure....