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Liddicoat, Anthony J. (2023) Reflections on language learning and social practice for language minority students. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 46 (2). pp. 279-288. doi:10.1075/aral.00043.lid ISSN 0155-0640.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.00043.lid
Abstract
This paper tests whether visual nudges help direct attention towards existing instructions designed to increase waste sorting accuracy. The study was conducted in a quasi-experimental setting over a period of 9 weeks in two buildings of a large UK university campus. Two treatments on recycling behaviour were tested against a control group: one considered the impact of visual nudges in the form of human eyes; the other one combined human eye with pre-existing sorting instructions. Results show that for mixed recycling the combination of visual and information nudges decreased sorting errors by 7 percentage points. In contrast, visual nudges alone increased sorting errors by 4.5 percentage points. These findings indicate that, when combined, information and a visual nudge are cost-effective tools to significantly improve waste sorting behaviour. This paper adds to existing experimental evidence based on neuroscientific theories.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language acquisition -- Study and teaching, Language and languages -- Study and teaching, Multilingualism, Language and education, Minorities -- Education, Education, Bilingual | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Australian Review of Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Monash University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0155-0640 | ||||||||
Official Date: | September 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 46 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 279-288 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1075/aral.00043.lid | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2023 John Benjamins Publishing Company | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 July 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 July 2023 | ||||||||
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