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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
USING AUTHENTIC READING MATERIALS TO IMPROVE THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP NEGERI 2 PUGER IN THE 2012⁄2013 ACADEMIC YEAR
No full textSUMMARY
Using Authentic Reading Materials to Improve the Seventh Grade
Students’ Active Participation and Their Reading Comprehension Achievement
at SMP Negeri 2 Puger in the 2012/2013 Academic Year; Hasanah Arista Devi,
080210401026; 2013; 69 pages; English Education Program of Language and Arts
Education Department of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of Jember
University.
This Classroom Action Research was intended to improve the seventh grade
students’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement by using
authentic reading materials at SMP Negeri 2 Puger in the 2012/2013 academic year.
This research subjects were the students of class VII-G that was determined
purposively, because their reading comprehension achievement score was low (their
mean score was 57.2) which was below the standard mastery of English of the school
(65). It was known from the result of interview with the English teacher in the
preliminary study. Besides, they also still faced difficulties in comprehending English
texts, especially in descriptive text. They had problems in comprehending words,
sentences, paragraphs, and the whole text. Finally, both the researcher and the
English teacher agreed to apply authentic reading materials from internet as the
reading materials in teaching reading because they were expected to be beneficial for
the students to overcome their problems in reading comprehension.
This research was carried out in two Cycles. Each cycle covered the stages
that include planning the action, implementing the action, observing and evaluating,
and reflecting the action. These activities were conducted in each Cycle. The first
cycle was conducted in three meetings including the reading test. The data about the
students’ reading comprehension achievement were collected through the reading
comprehension test. Meanwhile, observation was used to monitor the teaching and
learning process of reading by using observation guide in the form of checklist.
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The results of the students’ reading comprehension achievement in the first
cycle showed that the percentage of the students who got score 65 or more was
67.4%. In addition, the results of observation in cycle I revealed that only 63.95% of
43 students actively participated in the teaching and learning process of reading by
using authentic reading materials from internet. The rest of the subjects (36.05% of
43 students) were passive in joining the lesson. They were reluctant to ask questions
and answer the researcher’s oral questions. Besides, some students did not make
some note about the lesson. Based on those results, it could be concluded that the
action given in the first cycle was not successful yet. Therefore, the actions were
continued to the second cycle by revising the lesson plans in the first cycle by
considering the students’ weaknesses in the first cycle. In Cycle 2, the researcher used
English and Indonesian language in the teaching and learning process. Besides, she
gave clear instruction to the students to find the difficult words in the texts by writing
them on the whiteboard and finding the meaning of the difficult words together with
the whole class. The results of the students’ active participation in the teaching and
learning process of reading by using authentic reading materials from internet
improved from 63.9% in Cycle 1 to 80.2% in Cycle 2. Moreover, there was also an
improvement on the percentage of the students’ reading comprehension achievement
test. It improved from 67.4%, in Cycle 1 to 82.5% in Cycle 2. It means that both the
students’ active participation and their reading comprehension test improved in the
second cycle and achieved the successful criteria of this research. Thus, the action
research was stopped.
Based on the results above, it could be concluded that the use of authentic
reading materials in the teaching and learning process of reading could improve the
students’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement in two
cycles. Then, it is suggested to the English teacher and the students to use authentic
reading materials from internet as an alternative source of reading materials in
teaching reading. It is due to the fact that authentic reading materials from internet
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could improve the students’ active participation and their reading comprehension
achievement. At last, for the future researcher, this research could be used as
references to conduct further research dealing with different research design or
research method to improve the quality of reading achievement
USING AUTHENTIC READING MATERIALS TO IMPROVE THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP NEGERI 2 PUGER IN THE 2012⁄2013 ACADEMIC YEAR
No full textSUMMARY
Using Authentic Reading Materials to Improve the Seventh Grade
Students’ Active Participation and Their Reading Comprehension Achievement
at SMP Negeri 2 Puger in the 2012/2013 Academic Year; Hasanah Arista Devi,
080210401026; 2013; 69 pages; English Education Program of Language and Arts
Education Department of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of Jember
University.
This Classroom Action Research was intended to improve the seventh grade
students’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement by using
authentic reading materials at SMP Negeri 2 Puger in the 2012/2013 academic year.
This research subjects were the students of class VII-G that was determined
purposively, because their reading comprehension achievement score was low (their
mean score was 57.2) which was below the standard mastery of English of the school
(65). It was known from the result of interview with the English teacher in the
preliminary study. Besides, they also still faced difficulties in comprehending English
texts, especially in descriptive text. They had problems in comprehending words,
sentences, paragraphs, and the whole text. Finally, both the researcher and the
English teacher agreed to apply authentic reading materials from internet as the
reading materials in teaching reading because they were expected to be beneficial for
the students to overcome their problems in reading comprehension.
This research was carried out in two Cycles. Each cycle covered the stages
that include planning the action, implementing the action, observing and evaluating,
and reflecting the action. These activities were conducted in each Cycle. The first
cycle was conducted in three meetings including the reading test. The data about the
students’ reading comprehension achievement were collected through the reading
comprehension test. Meanwhile, observation was used to monitor the teaching and
learning process of reading by using observation guide in the form of checklist.
xiv
The results of the students’ reading comprehension achievement in the first
cycle showed that the percentage of the students who got score 65 or more was
67.4%. In addition, the results of observation in cycle I revealed that only 63.95% of
43 students actively participated in the teaching and learning process of reading by
using authentic reading materials from internet. The rest of the subjects (36.05% of
43 students) were passive in joining the lesson. They were reluctant to ask questions
and answer the researcher’s oral questions. Besides, some students did not make
some note about the lesson. Based on those results, it could be concluded that the
action given in the first cycle was not successful yet. Therefore, the actions were
continued to the second cycle by revising the lesson plans in the first cycle by
considering the students’ weaknesses in the first cycle. In Cycle 2, the researcher used
English and Indonesian language in the teaching and learning process. Besides, she
gave clear instruction to the students to find the difficult words in the texts by writing
them on the whiteboard and finding the meaning of the difficult words together with
the whole class. The results of the students’ active participation in the teaching and
learning process of reading by using authentic reading materials from internet
improved from 63.9% in Cycle 1 to 80.2% in Cycle 2. Moreover, there was also an
improvement on the percentage of the students’ reading comprehension achievement
test. It improved from 67.4%, in Cycle 1 to 82.5% in Cycle 2. It means that both the
students’ active participation and their reading comprehension test improved in the
second cycle and achieved the successful criteria of this research. Thus, the action
research was stopped.
Based on the results above, it could be concluded that the use of authentic
reading materials in the teaching and learning process of reading could improve the
students’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement in two
cycles. Then, it is suggested to the English teacher and the students to use authentic
reading materials from internet as an alternative source of reading materials in
teaching reading. It is due to the fact that authentic reading materials from internet
could improve the students’ active participation and their reading comprehension
achievement. At last, for the future researcher, this research could be used as
references to conduct further research dealing with different research design or
research method to improve the quality of reading achievemen
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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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