Current Issue : July - September Volume : 2016 Issue Number : 3 Articles : 7 Articles
As postmethod EFL teaching method was proposed in 1999, ideas on teaching and learning became\nunthinkably various and dynamic. The views on teachers� questions also changed a lot in\npostmethod period. The term of learning opportunity bridged teaching and learning in this situation.\nThis article aims to explore the way that an expert teacher, an experienced teacher and a novice\nteacher provide learning opportunities for the students in their question-answer sequences.\nA CA approach is used to analyze three teachers� questions based on four different students� first\nresponses: Right Answer, Partly Right Answer, Incomplete Answer and Refusal Answer. The results\nsuggest that the expert teacher can provide more learning opportunities by strengthening\nstudents� identities, extending students� contributions, attracting students� involvement and there\nis an insignificant relation between the type of questions and learning opportunities. It is suggested\nthat EFL teachers can be more aware of the local and dynamic teaching context and promote\nmore negotiation of meaning and students� involvement....
The challenges in higher education and global competition encouraged performance excellence\nand the pursuit towards providing educational services characterized by high quality. To ensure\nperformance excellence, quality management practices are considered as one of the variables that\naffect the organizational performance. On the other hand, organizational learning is a method that\nfacilitates the process of improving the organizational performance. The results of organizational\nperformance vary according to environmental conditions, especially an organizational culture\nthat is one of the important indicators that are characterized by organizations. This encourages\nchoosing the organizational culture as a moderating variable. However, this paper highlights organizational\nperformance through a proposed conceptual framework to be considered in higher\neducation institutes....
Tourism Industry Cluster can adjust the structure of the tourism industry to achieve coordinated\ndevelopment of tourism in the development of the tourism industry. The cultivation of tourism\nindustrial cluster is an effective regional tourism development strategy and effective way to improve\nthe competitiveness of the regional tourism economy. The literature of governance and upgrading\nof tourism industry cluster is less. This study based on the value chain theory to explore\nthe governance mechanism and countermeasures of local tourism industry cluster. This research\nused value chain management analysis framework of Kolinsky and Morris (2000) and put forward\nthe supervision system of government legislation, internal governance and industry association in\nthe value chain. This paper researches the local tourism industry cluster from three aspects of\nbusiness, government and industry associations....
In the internet age, social media and mobile devices are the most important tools of communication\nand marketing in the exhibition and event industry. Only a limited research has explored exhibition\nvisitors� engagement and preference perception through social networking media. Our\nstudy explores relationship between Facebook fan pages and visitor engagements of the exhibitions.\nThe study found that the number of visitors, Facebook fans like counts, comment counts,\nand emotional factors (sentiment polarity) have a significant positive correlation. On the other\nhand, numbers of visitor rapidly grow every year, but comment sentiment polarity of a positive\nemotion drops every year. This reduction is the warning sign that the exhibition management and\nmarketing strategy need to be improved in order to continue to have a positive visitor engagement\nemotion. Our linear Discriminate Analysis (LDA) result found that visitors were highly concerned\nwith gamification activities for an incentive prize both to create involvement and to enhance\nexhibition experience. Our finding also shows the relevance of both FB like counts and\ncomments generated by social media in relation to the visitor engagement performance. This pioneer\nstudy utilized both text mining and sentimental analysis into the exhibition study, especially\nthe area of Asian research....
Based on the Eviews software and panel data of Guangzhou city, Shenzhen city and Zhuhai city, the\nstudy investigated the dynamic relationship between regional tourism and economic growth, using\nthe methods including Cointegration Test, Granger Causality Test, VAR models and Variance\nDecomposition. The study result shows that there are long-term mutual effects between regional\neconomic growth and regional tourism industry in each area. And in each area, the local GDP,\nEarning from International Tourism (EIT) and Earning from Domestic Tourism (EDT) have cointegration\nrelationship. Moreover, in one certain area, the contribution rate of different factors to\nfluctuation of one variable changes over time....
This study is based on the theories of service Science, value co-creation theory and service innovation,\ncombined with existing literatures to in-depth analyze the service innovation performance.\nThis research draws samples from 161 services enterprises in Pearl River delta, adopting structural\nequations modeling (SEM), aiming to explore in depth that co-production and innovation\norientation have mediating effect and moderating effect between relationship property and service\ninnovation performance. The findings show that relationship property has a positive impact\non service innovation performance. Co-production has a moderating effect between relationship\nproperty and service innovation performance. Innovation orientation demonstrates partly positive\nmediating effect toward relationship property and service innovation performance. Implications\nfor research and managerial practices were discussed....
Liquidity has long been known as the ââ?¬Å?lifelineââ?¬Â for commercial banks, it not only lays the foundation\nfor all activities of commercial banks but also plays a decisive role in maintaining the economic\nstability of the whole country and even the world. Since the 1990s, commercial banks of our\ncountry have been exposed to problems such as liquidity inadequacy and liquidity risk due to institutional\nand structural reasons. This paper establishes the ARMA model for empirical analysis\nand brings up corresponding suggestions for the liquidity risk management for Chinaââ?¬â?¢s commercial\nbanks....
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