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Flipped Learning in EFL Higher Education in Afghanistan: A Systematic Literature Review
Get PDFWith increasing global integration of technology in education, flipped learning has emerged as an innovative pedagogical approach, particularly effective in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts where learner engagement is critical. This study conducts a systematic literature review of empirical studies published from 2015 to 2024, focusing on flipped learning\u27s effectiveness and challenges in higher education. The review pays special attention to the context of Afghanistan, a country facing significant infrastructural, socio-political, and cultural challenges. Drawing on thematic content analysis, the review reveals that flipped learning enhances student motivation, participation, and language skills when properly supported. However, in Afghanistan, its implementation is hindered by unreliable internet, limited digital literacy, lack of teacher training, and deeply rooted traditional educational practices. The study concludes with recommendations for context-sensitive adaptations of flipped learning tailored to Afghanistan’s educational system. These include blended offline strategies, incremental faculty development, and institutional policy support, aiming to strengthen EFL instruction across Afghan universities
Utlilizing ICT in English Language Teaching and Learning from the Perspective of Afghan EFL Tearchers
Get PDFThis study researched to determine Afghanistan public universities teachers’ perceptions and challenges towards ICT utilization in teaching and learning the English language. The study used a quantitative design to collect data from 50 Afghanistan public universities’ teachers through a questionnaire which was analysed through descriptive statistics (percentage, mean, standard deviation and frequency). The results of the study indicated that Afghanistan public universities teachers’ perceptions were positive towards ICT utilization in teaching and learning of the English language in spite of some major, mild and minor challenges which preclude them from using ICT in teaching. The study suggested that further research should be conducted to find out the perceptions and challenges of both private and public universities’ teachers towards ICT use in teaching and learning the English language. Finally, the finding of this study is significant for MOHE, MOE, and MOICT to integrate a successful ICT system in Afghanistan, especially in educational institutions
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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