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Learning English by walking down the street
No full textWith internationalisation and globalisation, English has proliferated in urban spaces around the world. This creates new opportunities for EFL learning and teaching. An English literacy walk is one activity that can be used productively to capitalise on this potential. The activity has roots in: (i) long-established approaches to emergent literacy education for young children; and (ii) pedagogic projects inspired by recent research on linguistic landscapes. Drawing on these traditions, teachers can target reading outcomes involving code, semantic, pragmatic and critical knowledge and skills. We use the four resources model of literate practices to systematically map some of the potential of literacy walks in multilingual, multimodal linguistic landscapes. We suggest tasks and teacher questions that might be used for purposes of explicit teaching of reading during and after literacy walks. Although grounded in Taipei, our ideas might be of interest to EFL teachers in other globalised cities around the world
Language awareness in language education
Get PDFpublished_or_final_versionIntroduction Nunan, David Nunan, David Berry, Roger Berry, Roger Berry, Vivien Berry, Vivien iCh.1 How aware should language aware teachers and learners be? Carter, Ronald Carter, Ronald 1Ch.2 Using thematic organisation for evaluating school children's written narratives Ghadessy, Mohsen Ghadessy, Mohsen 17Ch.3 Why 'often' isn't 'always' Allison, Desmond Allison, Desmond 33Ch.4 Grammatical terminology: is there a student/ teacher gap? Berry, Roger Berry, Roger 51Ch.5 Hong Kong learners and English words: the formal- semantic gap McNeil, Arthur McNeil, Arthur 69Ch.6 Exponents of repair and other interactional features in small group work Martyn, Elaine Martyn, Elaine 87Ch.7 Towards a critical competence Chew, Phyllis G.L. Chew, Phyllis G.L. 103Ch.8 When does a carrot become a stick? Changing attitudes and English language proficiency of Hong Kong student teachers Crew, Vernon Crew, Vernon 117Ch.9 Investigating the oral fluency of 15 EFL teachers: a quantitative approach revisited Lam, Wendy Y.K. Lam, Wendy Y.K. 133Ch.10 Coherence rating: what goes on in the raters' minds? Wong, Grace Wong, Grace 149Ch.11 Self-assessment of pronunciation by Chinese tertiary students Jones, Rodney H. Jones, Rodney H. 169Ch.12 First language literacy and second language reading Parry, Kate Parry, Kate 181Ch.13 A theoretical framework for teaching Chinese- English/English-Chinese translation to tertiary students: the use of 'foreign translation theories' for 'domestic' purposes through S.E.A.S. Ngan, Heltan Ngan, Heltan Kong, Judy Kong, Judy 199Ch.14 Oral miscue analysis for Chinese readers reading in Chinese Chern, Chiou-lan Chern, Chiou-lan 21
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
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