Psychosocial risk of fossilization by occupationally-used non-native English in information and communication technologists of Argentina

Aims. Companies use non-native language as a service tool, and they may incur in occupational psychosocial risks. Interlanguage can be chronic under poor communicative situations, leading to fossilization. It could be an adverse effect because of its impact in productivity and occupational health. T...

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Autores principales: Serra, Silvana Valeria, Buonanotte, Federico, Frankel, Lilian, Brizuela, Mónica, Serra, Mariel, Soria, Elio Andres
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Universidad Nacional Cba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnología 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/med/article/view/11175
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topic Bilingualism
cognition
language stage
learning
occupational health.
spellingShingle Bilingualism
cognition
language stage
learning
occupational health.
Serra, Silvana Valeria
Buonanotte, Federico
Frankel, Lilian
Brizuela, Mónica
Serra, Mariel
Soria, Elio Andres
Psychosocial risk of fossilization by occupationally-used non-native English in information and communication technologists of Argentina
topic_facet Bilingualism
cognition
language stage
learning
occupational health.
author Serra, Silvana Valeria
Buonanotte, Federico
Frankel, Lilian
Brizuela, Mónica
Serra, Mariel
Soria, Elio Andres
author_facet Serra, Silvana Valeria
Buonanotte, Federico
Frankel, Lilian
Brizuela, Mónica
Serra, Mariel
Soria, Elio Andres
author_sort Serra, Silvana Valeria
title Psychosocial risk of fossilization by occupationally-used non-native English in information and communication technologists of Argentina
title_short Psychosocial risk of fossilization by occupationally-used non-native English in information and communication technologists of Argentina
title_full Psychosocial risk of fossilization by occupationally-used non-native English in information and communication technologists of Argentina
title_fullStr Psychosocial risk of fossilization by occupationally-used non-native English in information and communication technologists of Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Psychosocial risk of fossilization by occupationally-used non-native English in information and communication technologists of Argentina
title_sort psychosocial risk of fossilization by occupationally-used non-native english in information and communication technologists of argentina
description Aims. Companies use non-native language as a service tool, and they may incur in occupational psychosocial risks. Interlanguage can be chronic under poor communicative situations, leading to fossilization. It could be an adverse effect because of its impact in productivity and occupational health. Thus, our aim was to establish factors of this psychosocial risk. Methods. 348 information and communication technologists (ICT) were analyzed. They were native Spanish speakers with normal hearing, and used English as a work tool. Age, gender, L2 stages and errors were recorded in relation to fossilization risk. Statistical methods were applied for categorical data (p<0.05). Results. After gender and age adjustments, a significant inverse association was found between L2 stages and fossilization risk (p<0.0001), with higher risk being in the acquisition stage. Also, L2 errors showed a significant direct relation with fossilization risk (p=0.0005). Conclusions. Summing up, ICT in acquisition L2 had upper psychosocial risk to fossilization with mechanistic execution of it, under poorer communicative formats. This results have high sanitary impact given they involved a massively demanded professionals.
publisher Universidad Nacional Cba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnología
publishDate 2016
url https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/med/article/view/11175
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