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Speech Act Analysis on the English Conversation by Indonesian University Students in an EFL Classroom.
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The objectives of this research are (1) to explore the types of speech acts uttered by the students on their EFL classroom communication, (2) to explore the functions and the forms of speech acts uttered by the students on their EFL classroom communication, (3) to examine the students’ perceptions toward the use of speech acts in EFL classroom communication.
This research employed descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of this research were the students of English Department at the first and the third semester of SembilanBelas November University of Kolaka. There were twenty two respondents who participated in the internet survey. All the subjects and the respondents were selected through conveniently selected sampling. The data of this research was collected by employing video recording, transcribing, and online/internet survey. The gained data was analyzed in three major phases namely data reduction, data display, and conclusion.
The results of the research revealed that (1) there were five types of speech acts uttered by the students during lecturing process in EFL classroom namely directive speech act, representative speech act, commisive speech act, declarative speech act, and expressive speech act. (2) Each type of the speech acts was uttered in different functions. First, directive speech act consisted of six different functions, such as for asking question, requesting, ordering, asking permission, commanding, and giving recommendation. The functions were uttered in three forms, namely interrogative, declarative, and non verbal form. Second, representative speech act consisted of five functions, namely for giving information, predicting, explaining, concluding, and asking for assertion. All the functions were uttered in question and declarative forms. Third, commisive speech act consisted of three different functions such as for stating objection, refusing the truth, and stating disagreement. The speech act was uttered in the form of declarative and interrogative forms. Fourth, declarative speech act consisted of two different functions namely for changing status and for giving up. All the functions were uttered in the form of declarative. The last, expressive speech act consisted of nine functions such as for greeting, apologizing, stating sympathy, stating pain, thanking, stating admiration, stating like or preferences, giving praise, and stating a dream. All the functions were uttered in the form of declarative. (3). The internet survey result revealed that the students supported if speech acts were used in EFL classroom and expected to be taught by lecturers during the lecturing process in EFL classroom. They also recommended that speech acts could be taught in early levels of education
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Describing Pictures in Improving the Students’ Ability in Writing
No full textThis Research was designed to improve the students’ ability in writing by Describing pictures.The problem of the research was “can describing pictures improve students’ ability in writing?”. There were many kinds of strategies that could be used in teaching writing, but in this research, the researcher applied only describing pictures, and writing activities focusing on the kinds of activities. The design of this research was Collaborative Classroom Action Research (CAR). Based on the analytical scoring rubric showed that from 63 in the first cycle and got increased to 73 in the second cycle. In the first cycle there were 13 Students of 30 students could reach the minimum score or only 43 % students were success. While in the last cycle there were 27 Students of 30 students could reach even greater that the minimum score or 90% students were success.Based on the conclusion of this research the researcher suggests some points. Firstly, describing pictures could be employed to improve the students’ ability in writing. Secondly, it was suggested that the English teacher could apply describing pictures as one of the alternative techniques that could be used in the teaching of English to all skills especially writing
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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