TY - JOUR AB - This study investigates the teaching methods that future teachers of German as a foreign language use in cultural mediation. Utilizing a qualitative and hermeneutic approach, it analyzes data from a teacher-training module of the International Master's in German as a Foreign/Second Language that Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany offers. Participants taught an online course to students from a Japanese university, which focused on cultural learning. Within the teacher training module, the participants discussed their lesson plans, conducted classes, and subsequently reflected on their teaching practices by exploring and critiquing the practical application of their teaching skills. The analysis, which was conducted using qualitative evaluative content analysis following Kuckartz's (2018) approach, revealed a preference for distributive/instructive methods, with some recognition of interactive and collaborative methods. A tendency towards both repetitive and reflective practices was evident, with a predominant focus on content that was specific to a supposed target culture rather than intercultural or transcultural content. The study highlights the need to balance knowledge transmission with the development of critical and reflective skills in cultural mediation. It emphasizes the importance of incorporating collaborative and interactive methods, which promote a critical attitude that is necessary in language teachers and learners. In conclusion, this study advocates adaptive and reflective teaching as an essential component in the training of future language teachers in globalized contexts. AU - Treder, Alexandra ID - 51270 JF - Revista Lengua y Cultura KW - cultural mediation KW - teacher training KW - foreign language teaching KW - teaching methods KW - teaching practice TI - Métodos de la mediación de cultura en el entrenamiento práctico de futuros/as profesores/as de Alemán como Lengua Extranjera ER - TY - JOUR AB - This investigation concentrates on the association of intergenerational value similarity and adult children’s and parents’subjective well-being, on the linkage between relationship quality and subjective well-being. Mediation effects of the relationship quality on the associations between value similarity and subjective well-being were focused. The sample consisted of 600 adult German children (53.8% women) and their parents. Dyadic correlations were constructed to determine the value similarity. In this study, the general value orientation and the family values were objects of research. We measured the subjective well-being with the Satisfaction with Life Scale and we used the Network of Relationships Inventory (NRI) to measure the relationship quality. Associations between subjective well-being and value similarity, and between subjective well-being and relationship quality, as well as mediation effects, were found. All effects depend on gender and perspective. AU - Hoellger, Christian AU - Sommer, Sabrina AU - Buhl, Heike M. ID - 32561 JF - Journal of Family Issues KW - adult child–parent dyads KW - relationship quality KW - life satisfaction KW - parent–child relationship KW - intergenerational stake hypothesis KW - mediation analyses SN - 0192-513X TI - Intergenerational Value Similarity and Subjective Well-Being ER - TY - CONF AB - Websites increasingly embed semantic data for search engine optimization. The most common ontology for semantic data, schema.org, is supported by all major search engines and describes over 500 data types, including calendar events, recipes, products, and TV shows. As of today, users wishing to pass this data to their favorite applications, e.g., their calendars, cookbooks, price comparison applications or even smart devices such as TV receivers, rely on cumbersome and error-prone workarounds such as reentering the data or a series of copy and paste operations. In this paper, we present Semantic Data Mediator (SDM), an approach that allows the easy transfer of semantic data to a multitude of services, ranging from web services to applications installed on different devices. SDM extracts semantic data from the currently displayed web page on the client-side, offers suitable services to the user, and by the press of a button, forwards this data to the desired service while doing all the necessary data conversion and service interface adaptation in between. To realize this, we built a reusable repository of service descriptions, data converters, and service adapters, which can be extended by the crowd. Our approach for linking services to websites relies solely on semantic data and does not require any additional support by either website or service developers. We have fully implemented our approach and present a real-world case study demonstrating its feasibility and usefulness. AU - Wolters, Dennis AU - Heindorf, Stefan AU - Kirchhoff, Jonas AU - Engels, Gregor ED - Altintas, Ilkay ED - Chen, Shiping ID - 5829 KW - Services KW - Websites KW - Semantic Data KW - schema.org KW - Data Conversion KW - Interface Adaptation KW - Mediation SN - 9781538607527 T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) TI - Linking Services to Websites by Leveraging Semantic Data ER - TY - JOUR AB - The role of information and communication technology for economic growth has been emphasized repeatedly. Technological breakthroughs have generated new forms of services, such as self-services or remote services. Although these encounters are qualitatively different from traditional service provision, prior service management literature thus far had paid little attention to theory development and the systematization of technology-based service encounters. To fill this research gap, the present study outlines how new types of technology-based services fit into existing service typologies and provides an extension of existing frameworks to capture their unique characteristics. These insights in turn offer managerial implications and highlight open research questions. AU - Schumann, Jan H AU - Wünderlich, Nancy AU - Wangenheim, Florian ID - 5718 IS - 2 JF - Technovation KW - Services KW - Remote services KW - Self-services KW - Technology mediation TI - Technology Mediation in Service Delivery: A New Typology and an Agenda for Managers and Academics. VL - 32 ER -