https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18518 2026-06-03T06:58:23Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18742 Title: The role of various social support variables on Turkish children's anxiety level Authors: Akkok, Fusun; Guneri, Oya; Oral, Gunseli; Sumer, Zeynep (Hatipoglu) Abstract: This study investigated the role of various social support variables on the state and trait anxiety levels of elementary school children. The subjects were 196 4th and 5th graders. The data were collected by the Social Support Form, State Anxiety Inventory, and Trait Anxiety Inventory. Results revealed a significant effect of living together with parents on state and trait anxiety levels: Furthermore, a positive correlation between state anxiety and love and affection for the teacher was explored. No significant difference on the state and trait anxiety levels of children was another finding of the study. The effects of the nature and continuity of home and school environments on the anxiety levels of children were discussed in relation to these variables. 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18740 Title: Motivation and learning preferences of high school students learning English as a foreign language in Morocco Authors: Kyriacou, Chris; Benmansour, Naima Abstract: This study explores the motivation and learning preferences of high school students in Morocco regarding their learning of English as a foreign language. The study sought to identify the students' preferences in relation to a number of instructional practices, and to identify the nature and strength of their motivation towards learning English. Teachers' views concerning the usefulness of different instructional practices were also investigated. A factor analysis of students' sources of motivation produced five factors, which were labelled intrinsic motivation, short-term instrumental motivation. long-term instrumental motivation, social integrative motivation, and cultural integrative motivation. The students had well defined and coherent learning preferences. They were highly visual and kinaesthetic, but weakly auditory. They highly valued cognitively oriented activities which involved grammatical awareness. The students' preferences seemed to be at odds with their teachers' views, who saw communicative activities as the most useful for learning. Such findings suggest that there is a need to bring teachers and students closer together, in a learner-centred approach to teaching. 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18738 Title: Knowledge and attitudes of French and Israeli 12th graders in agricultural or rural secondary schools about water and irrigation related issues Authors: Dreyfus, Amos; Jacobi, Daniel; Mazouz, Yossef; Lacroix, Jean-Louis Abstract: In arid countries, the use of water by agriculture raises important social. economic. and moral issues. This study attempted to compare the knowledge and attitudes of agricultural secondary schools 12th graders in Israel (essentially a Mediterranean arid or semi-arid country) with those of comparable students in France, a country where water is not a central limiting factor in agriculture, concerning six aspects of the use and misuse of water by agriculture. Students were required to assess the desirability of existing situations, the possibility to change them, and the potential influence of five factors of change (scientific knowledge, government authorities, social customs, laws of economics, and the individual citizen). The Israeli students systematically put a strong emphasis on scientific knowledge and authorities. The reactions of the French students were weaker than those of the Israelis. Also, there were only two aspects in which they considered that any of the factors could have a significant influence. And finally, the individual citizen, and not scientific knowledge or authorities, was regarded by the French students to be the potentially most influential factor - actually the only one. 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18724 Title: Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1 (1997) Abstract: Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1 (1997). Description: Contents : Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 42 (2), Theme Issue: Education and Development edited by Beth Young, Raj S. Pannu & Toh Swee-Hin (Guest eds.) (Book Review) / Donna M. Chovanec - Creative Thinking: New Perspectives edited by Sandra Dingli (Book Review) / John P. Portelli - International Conference: Parents' Education edited by Klitos Symeonides (Book Review) / Peter Mayo - Societa ed educazione negli Stati Uniti: Razzismo immigrazione devianza / Society and education in the United States: Racism immigration deviance edited by Albert S. Alissi and Sandra Christolini (Book Review) / Denise Chircop - To learn more than I have ... The educational aspirations and experiences of the Maltese in Melbourne by Les Terry, Helen Borland and Ron Adams (Book Review) / Griff Foley - School Textbooks: Research and Evaluation edited by Marianna Kondyli and Yannis Papamichael (Book Review) / Constantillos COllstalltillou, Helen Plttiaka and Michele Kefala - Conference Announcements - Abstracts 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z