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Students’ Voices from the Pandemic. The Use of Modal and Semi-Modal Verbs for Expressing Subjectivity in a Local Academic Learner Corpus
Full text linkThis essay presents the results of a small-scale study on learner output obtained through an asynchronous writing activity completed in a Moodle forum during an English course targeting students of Primary Teacher Education at the University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy) in spring 2020. The activity encouraged learners’ expression about topics relevant to their disciplinary and professional domain, thus enhancing their engagement in the learning process. The analysis focuses on the use of modal and semi-modal verbs, and it aims at contributing to research into modality in learners’ academic writing. Indeed, the insights obtained by examining material created by learners during the pandemic can help develop resources and strategies to be incorporated in a more conscious, organic, and learner-centred manner into the design of future courses. The corpus (27,430 tokens) was investigated using Sketch Engine, and the results show the students’ preference for modals and semi-modals expressing obligation. This may be determined by the topic and by the students’ background, as they integrate their personal perspective as insiders into their contributions, hence demonstrating their strong commitment towards the profession for which they are training
Inhomogeneous two-dimensional photonic media: A statistical study
No full textPhotonic media, in which disorder is introduced, are interesting materials for light management. In this paper, we have performed a statistical study of the average light transmission, over the range of wavelengths 450-1400 nm, for two-dimensional photonic structures with different homogeneity (quantified by the Shannon index). The photonic structure is a square lattice of circular pillars and the homogeneity is varied by clustering pillars in the crystal unit cells. We have calculated the light transmission for 50 different crystal realizations (permutating cluster position in the crystal) for each Shannon index value. Such Monte Carlo Markov Chain method produced the "a posteriori" distribution of the light transmission. We have observed a linear trend of the average transmission as a function of the crystal homogeneity. Furthermore, we have found a linear dependence of the average light transmission on the mean distance between pillars in the photonic structures
THE ITALY ELT ARCHIVE: IMPLICATIONS FOR SECOND LANGUAGE AWARENESS RESEARCH AND TEACHER EDUCATION
Full text linkThe pivotal role of archives and special collections in education, particularly in the humanities, has been researched for many years. However, the use of digital archives for second language teacher education appears to have been overlooked. Moreover, while research into the history of second language teaching is an expanding field in Europe, the history of English Language Teaching (ELT) in Italy is still undeveloped. To fill these gaps, a project is underway at the University of Milan to create an online, open-access archive of ELT materials published in the twentieth century targeting Italian learners of English, the Italy ELT Archive (IELTA). The purpose is to promote research and provide in-service and pre-service teachers with tools to understand the principles underpinning ELT materials and develop their awareness of second language teaching methods. In thefirst part of this article, we describe how IELTA was designed and developed to fulfil both research and education purposes. In the second part, we provide examples of how IELTA can be used to research language variation and language attitudes to enhance teachers’ awareness of these linguistic phenomena. One critical issue in teacher education is bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge of second language teaching methods and their practical implementation. In the last part, we provide examples of how IELTA was used to enhance student teachers’ awareness of teaching methods through the analysis and evaluation of ELT materials.
L’archivio italiano ELT: implicazioni per la ricerca sulla consapevolezza della seconda lingua e la formazione degli insegnanti
Il ruolo centrale degli archivi e delle collezioni speciali nell’educazione, in particolare nelle scienze umane, è stato studiato per molti anni. Tuttavia, l’uso degli archivi digitali per la formazione degli insegnanti di seconda lingua sembra essere stato trascurato. Inoltre, mentre la ricerca sulla storia dell’insegnamento delle seconde lingue è un campo in espansione in Europa, la storia dell’insegnamento della lingua inglese (ELT) in Italia è ancora poco sviluppata. Per colmare queste lacune, presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano è in corso un progetto per la creazione di un archivio online, ad accesso libero, di materiali ELT pubblicati nel XX secolo e destinati agli studenti italiani di inglese, l’Italy ELT Archive (IELTA). Lo scopo è quello di promuovere la ricerca e di fornire agli insegnanti in servizio e pre-servizio gli strumenti per comprendere i principi alla base dei materiali ELT e sviluppare la loro consapevolezza dei metodi di insegnamento della seconda lingua. Nella prima parte di questo articolo, descriviamo come IELTA è stato progettato e sviluppato per soddisfare sia gli scopi di ricerca che quelli educativi. Nella seconda parte, forniamo esempi di come IELTA possa essere utilizzato per la ricerca sulle variazioni linguistiche e sugli atteggiamenti linguistici, al fine di migliorare la consapevolezza degli insegnanti su questi fenomeni linguistici. Una questione critica nella formazione degli insegnanti è quella di colmare il divario tra la conoscenza teorica dei metodi di insegnamento delle seconde lingue e la loro applicazione pratica. Nell’ultima parte, forniamo esempi di come l’IELTA sia stato utilizzato per migliorare la consapevolezza degli studenti insegnanti sui metodi di insegnamento attraverso l’analisi e la valutazione dei materiali ELT
Supplemental Material - Researcher Views of Barriers to Clinical and Translational Research in a Statewide Program
No full textSupplemental Material for Researcher Views of Barriers to Clinical and Translational Research in a Statewide Program Judy A. Kimberly, Stephen Kogut, John F. Stevenson, Jacquelyn Fede, Anthony R. Hayward, and Meghan E. Tenca in Evaluation and the Health Professions.</p
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
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