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Faces, roles and identities in argumentative discourse : the development of facework strategies by L2 learners of German
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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
Spotlights on ‘practiced’ language policy in the internationalised university
Get PDFUniversities in the UK are often adopting ‘internationalisation strategies’ to adapt to the continuous transnational movements of staff and students. As a result, multilingualism is now a key characteristic of higher education in the UK. However, as UK universities are traditionally shaped by English monolingual discourses and English as a medium of instruction, little is known as to whether the ethnolinguistic diversity of staff and students is reflected in daily teaching and learning activities. This chapter takes the case of two taught Master’s programmes in a UK university where there is a high percentage of international students, especially from mainland China. As part of a larger project on the investigation of language policy in the multilingual university (Bonacina-Pugh, Barakos and Chen, forthcoming), this study aims to shed light on the ‘practiced’ language policy (Bonacina-Pugh, 2012, 2020) observed in a corpus of audio-recorded classroom interaction. Taking a Conversation Analytic approach with a focus on language choice acts and shifts of participation frameworks applied by the teacher and students in classroom interaction, our study reveals how languages other than English (e.g. Mandarin) were used and legitimised by a ‘practiced’ language policy developed at the local level of the classroom and support students’ learning
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
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A study into the challenges faced by transnational education students (TNE) upon integration into advanced STEM practical classes through investigation of the oral learning environment
Get PDFThere are a number of potential implications from the findings of this study. Language, namely knowledge of technical vocabulary and receptive difficulty with oral communication, was found to be a major barrier to interaction between, and therefore integration with, cohorts during laboratory work. This suggests that the way in which TNE-students are prepared for study in the UK should be reviewed. Despite the fact that the TNE-students are taught in English in China, there may be an argument for more intensive, discipline-specific vocabulary input and development of listening skills.
In order to ensure interaction, and subsequent integration, between student cohorts, mixed nationality pairings should be considered when designing laboratory or similar workshop activities. However, this is a sensitive and complex part of the programme structure, thus changes should be carefully considered. One possible way to facilitate greater interaction and subsequent integration between the two cultural groups might be to explore whether the principles of ‘compassionate group work’ could be applied to the laboratory setting. This technique was developed and embedded within assessment at the University of Hertfordshire by Gilbert (2016a, 2017) to promote diversity and inclusion. In this work, students’ individual, observable demonstrations of compassion were credit-bearing in some modules. The rationale was that when people feel socially safe in task-focussed groups, their thinking processes are able to concentrate on task rather than on the evolutionarily determined priority of (social) defence mechanisms. Students were trained in compassion-based micro skills for task focussed, face-to-face student group work in a short workshop at the beginning of the module and then gave a seminar in which their compassion skills were assessed. It was shown that credit for compassionate behaviours appeared to positively motivate students to attempt compassionate group management, regardless of their ethnic or national status (Gilbert 2016b; Gilbert et al. 2018). It may be possible to adapt the original model as used for seminar work to the oral environment of the laboratory
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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