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Incidental foreign vocabulary learning through multimodal exposure; the role of orthographic input
No full textIncidental foreign vocabulary learning has mainly focussed on learning vocabulary through context. Recent research has shown that it is possible to acquire new foreign language vocabulary through multimodal situations without any prior knowledge of the foreign language. It has also shown that it is possible to learn the meaning of the words through the exposure to pictorial information. However, these studies focus on languages that use the same script. In this thesis, the multimodal situations were used with a language with a partially overlapping script (i.e. Greek). The study of partially overlapping scripts could shed light to less explored areas in incidental learning research and contribute to our understanding of the processes involved in foreign language learning. The aim of this thesis was to explore the impact of orthographic input on the incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary (both the auditory and the written form) in complete beginners in a foreign language. Participants were native English speakers without any prior knowledge of Greek.
Incidental learning of spoken words was explored under different conditions of orthographic input, i.e. written input in partially overlapping script (both uppercase and lowercase), in romanised letters and in absence of orthographic input. The incidental learning of the word forms was also explored under different multimodal situations. For the analyses of these experiments a subjective method of measuring script similarity and familiarity was employed. Results showed acquisition of foreign language vocabulary (both auditory and written forms) in complete beginners after multimodal exposure to the foreign words. Participants had higher recognition and recall for the words that they were exposed to in the incidental learning phase. Results also showed that the presence of a familiar orthographic input (Romanised) facilitates learning of the spoken foreign words.
The role of script similarity and familiarity was also explored in the incidental learning of the written form of the words. It was shown that script similarity and word familiarity have a positive impact in the learning of foreign different script written vocabulary. These findings are discussed in relation to current psychological theories of word learning
Incidental foreign vocabulary learning through multimodal exposure; the role of orthographic input
No full textIncidental foreign vocabulary learning has mainly focussed on learning vocabulary through context. Recent research has shown that it is possible to acquire new foreign language vocabulary through multimodal situations without any prior knowledge of the foreign language. It has also shown that it is possible to learn the meaning of the words through the exposure to pictorial information. However, these studies focus on languages that use the same script. In this thesis, the multimodal situations were used with a language with a partially overlapping script (i.e. Greek). The study of partially overlapping scripts could shed light to less explored areas in incidental learning research and contribute to our understanding of the processes involved in foreign language learning. The aim of this thesis was to explore the impact of orthographic input on the incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary (both the auditory and the written form) in complete beginners in a foreign language. Participants were native English speakers without any prior knowledge of Greek.
Incidental learning of spoken words was explored under different conditions of orthographic input, i.e. written input in partially overlapping script (both uppercase and lowercase), in romanised letters and in absence of orthographic input. The incidental learning of the word forms was also explored under different multimodal situations. For the analyses of these experiments a subjective method of measuring script similarity and familiarity was employed. Results showed acquisition of foreign language vocabulary (both auditory and written forms) in complete beginners after multimodal exposure to the foreign words. Participants had higher recognition and recall for the words that they were exposed to in the incidental learning phase. Results also showed that the presence of a familiar orthographic input (Romanised) facilitates learning of the spoken foreign words.
The role of script similarity and familiarity was also explored in the incidental learning of the written form of the words. It was shown that script similarity and word familiarity have a positive impact in the learning of foreign different script written vocabulary. These findings are discussed in relation to current psychological theories of word learning
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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