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Understanding Teachers' and Students' Use and Attitudes of Web 2.0 in ESL Classrooms at the American University of Sharjah
No full textA Master of Arts Thesis in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) by Sebah Al-Ali Entitled, "Understanding Teachers' and Students' Use and Attitudes of Web 2.0 in ESL Classrooms at the American University of Sharjah," May 2010. Available are both Hard and Soft Copies of the Thesis.In an age of rapid change and massive dependence on the Internet, students nowadays are exposed to the Internet and its applications in many aspects and means. This exposure has led to students developing an expectation of having the Internet almost everywhere and in everything at anytime. Such a dramatic change in students' mentalities, personalities and ways of dealing with information makes the need to fully integrate the Internet in language classroom practices even more demanding. One way of addressing this need is by effectively implementing Web 2.0 services in language classrooms in a way that best suits the language teacher, best represents the classroom material, and best responds to students' needs and expectations. In an attempt to figure out an answer for such a quest, the purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of students' and teachers' uses and attitudes of Web 2.0 services so they can be utilized to best serve their English classes. The aim was fulfilled through surveying 13 teachers and 51 students in the Intensive English Program (IEP) at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). The findings of this study showed that students are not familiar with many of the services studied in the study. Although teachers generally know most of the services, they did not use them much, both personally and in their classrooms. Implementing Web 2.0 services in classrooms was limited to a consuming role.College of Arts and SciencesDepartment of EnglishMaster of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MA TESOL
Embracing the Selfie Craze: Exploring the Possible Use of Instagram as a Language mLearning Tool
No full textAlthough only introduced in late 2010, Instagram has quickly gained popularity and become one of the popular social media tools used around the world. This paper reports an action research attempt to integrate Instagram as an active learning tool in a language bridge program. Instagram was used as a production tool for a holiday project and two writing activities in two pre-intermediate/intermediate ESL classes. Results of the study suggest that although students weren’t enthusiastic with the initiative at first, they gradually welcomed the idea and were encouraged to be creative in completing their writing activities. A few teaching implications were concluded from this experiment for a better integration of Instagram as a learning tool in language classrooms.DOI:10.2458/azu_itet_v2i2_ai-al
Can Social Media Use Predict Intercultural Knowledge, Attitude, and Skills Among Generation Z? A snapshot from a pre-COVID19 era
No full textThis study was mainly concerned with the intercultural competence of young Emiratis. In particular, it aimed to investigate the possible correlation between social media use and the development of intercultural knowledge, attitude and skills. Conducted towards the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, 187 female college students revealed their social media use and intercultural competence by responding to an online questionnaire. Preliminary results show some aspects of social media use could possibly be predictive of intercultural competence. Further research is needed to validate the results; however, some teaching and e-learning implications were discussed based on the findings of this study
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Students and Teachers Expectations of Web 2.0 in the ESL Classroom: Do They Match?
Full text linkIn today’s modern world, where many students have considerable knowledge and experience of computers, using technology in the classroom in a way that will best help the students achieve their learning goals may be a daunting task for a teacher. In this study, 51students and 13 teachers were surveyed to gain a better understanding of the participants’ knowledge, use and comfort level with a variety of Web 2.0 services in order to determine to what extent the teachers and the students think that these services can be effectively utilized in the classroom
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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