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The Impact of Gender on Learning Anxiety and English Communication Willingness among Chinese University Athletes: A Sports Psychology Analysis
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This study investigated the influence of gender disparities and English learning apprehension on the inclination of Chinese university athletes to engage in English communication. Employing purposive sampling, 787 athletes from diverse universities in China were selected as participants. An online questionnaire survey encompassed the administration of the Learning Anxiety Scale and the Scale of ability to converse in English. Scale validation ensued through confirmatory factor analysis, while the mediation effect of the structural model, along with gender differentials in path coefficients, was scrutinized using structural equation modelling (SEM). Outcomes unveiled the noteworthy impact of gender disparities on the conversational proficiency in English and learning anxiety among Chinese university athletes. Particularly, female athletes exhibited elevated levels of English learning apprehension compared to their male counterparts, thus signifying the necessity for supplementary support and resources to bolster their confidence in English communication. These findings accentuate the significance of athletes' perceptions regarding English acquisition and their attitudes toward English communication in moulding their conversational proficiency. The study carries significant implications for the realms of sports psychology and language education, underscoring the imperative to address gender disparities and attitudes toward English learning within language education initiatives tailored for athletes.
María Dolores Molina Poveda, Eduardo Galak
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The advent of cinema brought with it its use as a propaganda device with which to transmit ideals and doctrines. As a result, newsreels and cinema documentaries were born with the aim of showing the «most relevant» news of the country and abroad, the former with a shorter duration. In this study, the Spanish NO-DO and «Sucesos Argentinos» are used as primary sources to interpret the images and imaginaries that were projected between 1943 and 1955 on female physical culture. The intention is to understand the official discourse of both political regimes on what Argentinean and Spanish society should be like, especially by questioning those meanings about women. In total, 69 issues of NO-DO and 14 editions of «Sucesos Argentinos» have been found which aim to show female physical culture in this period. The female physical culture shown in both newsreels was aimed at strengthening women’s bodies so that they could carry out their «natural functions» (mother, wife, housewife), as well as highlighting their «inferiority» in relation to men through lower impact activities and the homogenization of bodies through clothing, and the performance of the same exercises in synchrony. And all this in countries with different regimes, but which, in the end, coincided.
Keywords:
female physical culture, NO-DO, Sucesos Argentinos, propaganda, audio-visual images
