The assessment of knowledge of technical English in physical education students (CROSBI ID 623672)
Prilog sa skupa u zborniku | izvorni znanstveni rad | međunarodna recenzija
Podaci o odgovornosti
Omrčen, Darija, Ksenija Bosnar
engleski
The assessment of knowledge of technical English in physical education students
One hundred and sixty-one male and sixty-four female first- and second-year university students participated in this study. They took a test in technical English used in kinesiology. The aim of the study was to determine whether the number of years of learning a foreign language affects the results in technical English of kinesiology tests. Two sets of variables were subject to analysis – the first set was comprised of the variables the number of years of learning English as a foreign language, the number of years of learning another foreign language (excluding Latin) and the number of years of learning Latin, and the second of the variables: Test 1, consisting of 16 translation items, Test 2, comprised of three tense items, Test 3, consisting of five synonymous-term items, Test 4, consisted of 12 cloze-test items, and Test 5, consisting of four match-them items. To determine the correlation between these two sets of variables the canonical correlation analysis was used. The analysis showed one statistically significant canonical correlation (R=.333). As expected, the number of years of learning English as a foreign language had the greatest values of canonical coefficients in the first set of variables. But, the values on the canonical factor show that the number of years of learning another foreign language, as well as the number of years of learning Latin are included in forming the canonical correlation too. In the second set, Test 4 and Test 5 were the most important in forming the canonical variable. Test 1 and Test 3 had near zero canonical coefficients. The results showed that the number of years of learning English, Latin and other languages do help to some extent to understand the technical English of kinesiology, but only when the context is provided.
technical English; knowledge; kinesiology
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Podaci o prilogu
670-674.
2005.
objavljeno
Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
Proceeding of the 4th International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology 'Science and Profesion – Challenge for the Future'
Milanović, D., Prot, F.
Zagreb: Kineziološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
953-6378-52-3
Podaci o skupu
4th International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology 'Science and Profesion – Challenge for the Future'
predavanje
07.09.2005-11.09.2005
Opatija, Hrvatska