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  1. Socioemotional skills and refugees' language acquisition
    Published: 9 December 2021
    Publisher:  Institute for Employment Research of the Federal Employment Agency, Nürnberg

    We analyze socioemotional skills' role for destination-language proficiency among recent refugees in Germany. While socioemotional skills have been shown to predict educational outcomes, they have been overlooked for immigrants' language acquisition.... more

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    We analyze socioemotional skills' role for destination-language proficiency among recent refugees in Germany. While socioemotional skills have been shown to predict educational outcomes, they have been overlooked for immigrants' language acquisition. We extend a well-established model of destination-language proficiency and assume that socioemotional skills' effects manifest through the channels of exposure, efficiency, and incentives. Using longitudinal data and growth curve models, we find that socioemotional skills significantly shape destinationlanguage learning. Openness to new experiences, conscientiousness, risk appetite and locus of control positively relate to language proficiency, while extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism are insignificant. We observe mediating effects, suggesting that socioemotional skills shape the channels of efficiency or exposure. Moreover, we observe multiplication effects reinforcing other advanta-geous characteristics' effects on language proficiency. In sum, socioemotional skills affect refugees' destination-language proficiency and thereby contribute to sustainable economic and societal integration processes. We conclude by discussing policy implications. Wir analysieren die Rolle sozio-emotionaler Fähigkeiten für den Erwerb der deutschen Sprache von Geflüchteten, die zwischen 2013 und 2016 nach Deutschland zugezogen sind. Bisher wurden sozio-emotionale Fähigkeiten im Kontext der Bildungsforschung betrachtet, jedoch wurde ihre Bedeutung für den Spracherwerb von Migranten noch nicht untersucht. Wir erweitern ein bekanntes theoretisches Modell des Spracherwerbs des Aufnahmelandes von Migranten und Migrantinnen und nehmen dabei an, dass sozio-emotionale Fähigkeiten über die Kanäle der Gelegenheiten für, beziehungsweise des Zugans, zum Lernen, der Effizienz und der Motivation wirken. Anhand von Längschnittsdaten und Wachstumskurvenmodellen zeigen wir, dass sozioemotionale Fähigkeiten signifikant den Erwerb der Sprache des Ziellandes prägen. Offenheit für neue Erfahrungen, Gewissenhaftigkeit, Risikofreude und Kontrollüberzeugungen stehen in positivem Zusammenhang mit Sprachkenntnissen. Dahingegen finden wir keine signifikanten Zusammenhänge für Extraversion, Verträglichkeit und Neurotizismus. Mediationseffekte deuten an, dass sozio-emotionale Fähigkei-ten die Kanäle der Effizienz und des Kontaktes formen. Darüberhinaus zeigen Multiplikationsef-fekte, dass sozio-emotionale Fähigkeiten andere vorteilhafte Eigenschaften verstärken. Zusammenfassend beeinflussen sozio-emotionale Fähigkeiten somit den Erwerb der Sprache des Aufnahmelandes und tragen zu einem nachhaltigen ökonomischen und sozialen Integrationsprozess bei. Wir schließen mit einer Diskussion der politischen Implikationen.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Series: IAB-discussion paper ; 2021, 19
    Subjects: Big Five; Germany; language acquisition; locus of control; refugees; socioemotional skills; risk aversion
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  2. Can grit be taught?
    lessons from a nationwide field experiment with middle-school students
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

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    Series: Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Performance ; no. 1878 (October 2022)
    Subjects: socioemotional skills; grit; GPAs; middle-school students; field experiment; RCT
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  3. Socioemotional skills and refugees' language acquisition
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, Department of Economics, University College London, London

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration ; CDP 21, 30
    Subjects: language acquisition; refugees; socioemotional skills; Big Five; risk aversion; locus of control; Germany
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  4. Apart but connected: online tutoring and student outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Published: February 2021
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries ordered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention implemented in Italian middle schools... more

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    In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries ordered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention implemented in Italian middle schools that provides free individual tutoring online to disadvantaged students during lock-down. Tutors are university students who volunteer for 3 to 6 hours per week. They were randomly assigned to middle school students, from a list of potential beneficiaries compiled by school principals. Using original survey data collected from students, parents, teachers and tutors, we find that the program substantially increased students' academic performance (by 0.26 SD on average) and that it significantly improved their socio-emotional skills, aspirations, and psychological well-being. Effects are stronger for children from lower socioeconomic status and, in the case of psychological well-being, for immigrant children.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 14094
    Subjects: tutoring; COVID-19; education; achievement; aspirations; socioemotional skills; well-being
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  5. Apart but connected: online tutoring and student outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy School of Government, [Cambridge, MA]

    In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries ordered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention implemented in Italian middle schools... more

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    In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries ordered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention implemented in Italian middle schools that provides free individual tutoring online to disadvantaged students during lock-down. Tutors are university students who volunteer for at least 3 hours per week. They were randomly assigned to middle school students, from a list of potential beneficiaries compiled by school principals. Using original survey data collected from students, parents, teachers and tutors, we find that the program substantially increased students’ academic performance (by 0.26 SD on average) and that it significantly improved their socio-emotional skills, aspirations, and psychological well-being. Effects are stronger for children from lower socioeconomic status and, in the case of psychological well-being, for immigrant children

     

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    Edition: This version: February 2021
    Series: Faculty research working paper series / Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy School of Government ; RWP21, 001 (February 2021)
    Subjects: tutoring; COVID-19; education; achievement; aspirations; socioemotional skills; well-being
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 80 Seiten), Illustrationen
  6. The allocation of after-school time and child soxio-emotional skills
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Collegio Carlo Alberto, [Torino]

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    Series: Carlo Alberto notebooks ; no. 642 (February 2021)
    Subjects: child time use; extra-curricular activities; non-cognitive development; socioemotional skills; omitted variable bias; reverse causality
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