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- Gustafsson, Bertil, 1949
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Om vikten av att i automationsprocessen integrera handens och hjärnans arbete
- 1999
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This licentiate report attempts to add to our knowledge of how the competence of skilled workers can be incorporated into modern manufacturing systems, without depriving them of the status that they had earned through their previous specialised skills and knowledge. The work is concentrated on establishing a theoretical basis for a model of how the computer can support this work: the Operator's Computer approach has been applied in three case-studies, thus taking it over the threshold into the Swedish engineering industry. The work has shown that the operator's computer serves as a tool for communication in two directions:-as a link between man and machine (programming the robot[s] and manufacturing process[es]):-as a link for coordinating the operator's skills, knowledge and experience with those of other personnel categories (working with the designers and the work planners).The report emphasises that when new technology is to be introduced, it should be considered as a matter of conscious policy, which part the practical knowledge and experience should play, and how it should be valued and best utilised. It is shown that the practical knowledge and skills of the skilled workers, with a significant content of tacit knowledge, can be incorporated into the new production system by guaranteeing training to the workers and ensuring that they are given a new skilled role to play and a proper place in a cross functional working team.The question is how this practical, but unarticulated, knowledge can be transferred from individuals to machines and organisations, refined into articulated as well as scientific knowledge and contribute to further development of technology. This is an area in which the targetboard model of knowledge intensive engineering teams can be helpful. It also shows that the belief is no longer true, that the development of the production technology and corresponding ways to organising the work should inevitably deskill the work. On the contrary, the computer puts reskilling back on to the agenda by:-eliminating the operators' constant tie to the machine;-releasing human skills and resources for more advanced work;-bringing different tasks together and enriching the work content, and-facilitating decentralising of responsibilities and authorisations.
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- Negretti, Raffaella, 1971
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Web based activities and SLA: a conversation analysis approach
- 1999
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Ingår i: Language Learning and Technology. - 1094-3501. ; 3:1, s. 75-87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Different Internet technologies foster the acquisition of different language skills. In the case of synchronous interaction tools, such as Webchat, the concern is to evaluate whether and how this communication context affects the process of acquiring a second langauge. A collection of Webchat interaction data among English non-native speakers (NNS) and native speakers (NS) is the basis for a microanalytic investigation conducted form a Conversation Analysis (CA) perspective.The main purpose is to discover patterns and conversational strategies used by participatns in this on-line context. A CA research approach was chosen since it investigates the machinery and the structure of social action in language, avoiding preformulated theoretic categories. This is important since CMC represents a new SLA context, forcing both NS and NNS to produce different structures and strategies. The study analyzes, in particular, whether Webchat implies a reduction of the range in interactional practices, actions performance, sense making, and meaning negotiation, thus affecting the SLA process. Finally, the researcher considers the reliability and validity of this type of qualitative research in this new technological area.Using some research methodologies taken from CA literature, an analysis of the data focuses first on the overall structure of interaction and sequence organization in connection with the on-line communicaiton setting features. It then passes to turn-taking organization, with attention to recurrent structures and patterns as in openings and closings; turn design (or packaging of actions); expression of paralinguistic features in this on-line context; and some (interlanguage) pragmatic variables. The conclusion resolves the findings and underlines NNS versus NS behaviour, offering hypotheses about SLA through Webchat and synchronous CMC in general, encouraging further investigation.
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- Christie, Michael, 1946, et al.
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Adult Education: a guestion of values
- 1997
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 37th APACE National COnference, University of South Australia, Adelaide 24-26 September 1997.
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- Christie, Michael, 1946
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Training Tourist guides: a comparative study
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Ingår i: The Global Classroom: Proceedings of an International Symposium, Maastricht, Nederlands 20-23 1997.
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- Christie, Michael, 1946
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Valuing the Past
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Ingår i: Conference Proceedings, AAACE 38th National Conference, Freemantle 1998.
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