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Musical Contextual Strategy to Increase Academic Performance and Affectivity in the Teaching and Learning of Spanish as a Foreign Language. Analysis of an Educational Alternative. A Case Study
No full textLa investigación tuvo como propósito principal diseñar una estrategia musical contextual basada en canciones para mejorar tanto el desempeño académico como la afectividad en las clases de español como lengua extranjera en dos centros educativos de Minnesota. En la primera etapa participaron 40 docentes mediante una encuesta. En la segunda, se elaboró la estrategia musical contextual, y en la tercera se implementó la estrategia contextual musical siguiendo un diseño longitudinal pre-experimental estructurado como: G: P1 I P2. Para verificar las hipótesis, se utilizó la prueba de normalidad de Shapiro-Wilk con el software SPSS y, posteriormente, la Prueba T de Student para comparar los promedios de dos muestras relacionadas y evaluar diferencias significativas antes y después de la intervención. Las áreas abordadas incluyeron: gramática, vocabulario, comprensión auditiva y expresión oral. Los resultados evidenciaron diferencias significativas con ambas metodologías, destacando la gramática como la más beneficiada con el enfoque musical. Además, el componente afectivo fue fundamental para el éxito de la estrategia, como lo confirmó la entrevista a los estudiantes, quienes indicaron en un 100% que su motivación, interés, participación y satisfacción fueron mayores en las unidades trabajadas con la metodología musical, en comparación con las tradicionales, basadas en el libro de texto.The primary purpose of the research was to design a contextual musical strategy based on songs to improve both academic performance and affectivity in Spanish as a foreign language classes at two educational centers in Minnesota. In the first stage, 40 teachers participated through a survey. In the second stage, the contextual musical strategy was developed, and in the third stage, the musical strategy was implemented following a longitudinal pre-experimental design structured as: G: P1 I P2. To test the hypotheses, the Shapiro-Wilk normality test was applied using SPSS software, followed by the Student's T-test to compare the means of two related samples and evaluate significant differences before and after the intervention. The areas addressed included grammar, vocabulary, listening comprehension, and oral expression. The results showed significant differences with both methodologies, highlighting grammar as the most positively impacted by the musical approach. Additionally, the affective component was fundamental to the success of the strategy, as confirmed by student interviews, where 100% indicated that their motivation, interest, participation, and satisfaction were higher in the units taught with the musical methodology compared to those taught using traditional textbook-based methods
Estrategia Contextual Musical para Incrementar el rendimiento Académico y la Afectividad en la Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Español como Lengua Extranjera
No full textLa investigación tuvo como propósito principal diseñar una estrategia musical contextual basada en canciones para mejorar tanto el desempeño académico como la afectividad en las clases de español como lengua extranjera en dos centros educativos de Minnesota. En la primera etapa participaron 40 docentes mediante una encuesta. En la segunda, se elaboró la estrategia musical contextual, y en la tercera se implementó la estrategia contextual musical siguiendo un diseño longitudinal pre-experimental estructurado como: G: P1 I P2. Para verificar las hipótesis, se utilizó la prueba de normalidad de Shapiro-Wilk con el software SPSS y, posteriormente, la Prueba T de Student para comparar los promedios de dos muestras relacionadas y evaluar diferencias significativas antes y después de la intervención. Las áreas abordadas incluyeron: gramática, vocabulario, comprensión auditiva y expresión oral. Los resultados evidenciaron diferencias significativas con ambas metodologías, destacando la gramática como la más beneficiada con el enfoque musical. Además, el componente afectivo fue fundamental para el éxito de la estrategia, como lo confirmó la entrevista a los estudiantes, quienes indicaron en un 100% que su motivación, interés, participación y satisfacción fueron mayores en las unidades trabajadas con la metodología musical, en comparación con las tradicionales, basadas en el libro de text
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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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