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Towards Oracy in Higher Education: Policy, Discourses, Practices, and Experiences of Communication Skills in Australian Law and Medicine Courses
No full textDespite the prominence of communication skills in higher education discourse – in policies, regulations and institutional frameworks (see Australian Government, 2024; UNESCO, 2016b), academic spoken language, understood as listening and speaking needed to access university learning environments, remains surprisingly underexplored in academic research (Dippold & Heron, 2021). While policy may characterise communication skills as ‘generic’ and ‘transferable’, that framing may mask the complex and situated nature of spoken communication across disciplinary contexts (Hill, 2021; Doherty et al., 2011). Student oral engagement in learning environments involves not only general abilities such as appropriate use of vocabulary, voice, and body language (Mercer et al., 2020), but also context-specific behaviours shaped by disciplinary norms and expectations. Recent research points to a possible gap in how universities define and support communication skills (Heron et al., 2023a), yet little attention has been given to the pedagogical strategies required to develop these skills within different disciplinary environments. In particular, there is scant literature examining the influence policy and disciplinary requirements might have on learning outcomes and classroom practices. In challenging the notion of communication skills as generic and applicable similarly across university disciplines, this study relies on policy analysis and existing educational frameworks to examine contextualised approaches to oral communication skills development in one law and one medicine course at a metropolitan Australian university. This qualitative study addresses gaps in the existing research by investigating the situated nature of communication skills in these courses, offering insights into how professional accreditation requirements, pedagogical structures, and classroom practices interact. In doing so, this thesis relies on the concept of oracy as encompassing the dual role of spoken language in the university classroom, as an outcome (framed as learning to talk) and as a pedagogical tool (learning through talk)
Oral communication skills discourse and higher education pedagogy: The underexplored role of students’ spoken language in the global law classroom
Full text linkThis article investigates regulatory frameworks influencing oral communication in the global law classroom. It proposes a policy analysis through the lenses of pedagogical theory. Recent educational research investigating the roles of spoken language in the university classroom identifies oral communication as both a learning outcome and a pedagogical tool for learning. Although classroom interaction and discussions are essential pedagogical tools to learning and assessment in law schools worldwide, the role of disciplinary classroom spoken language is underexplored in the higher education literature. This discussion is particularly relevant as the rise of generative AI has highlighted the importance of verbal communication, with experts suggesting different forms of oral examination as effective alternatives for student assessment. While challenges related to law students’ spoken language have been reported globally, this article examines the discourse surrounding spoken language in Australian legal education as a case study of the global classroom. It seeks to uncover the sources, characteristics and underlying discourses surrounding oral communication skills in national policy, accreditation requirements, and university learning outcomes. This article concludes with brief recommendations for practice and future research
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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