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Lo sviluppo del lessico e della sensibilità sublessicale negli apprendenti di cinese LS: uno studio basato sui descrittori del Sillabo della lingua cinese
Full text linkQuesta ricerca di dottorato ha preso l’avvio dal Sillabo della lingua cinese, documento corale nato dalla collaborazione di docenti universitari e professori impiegati nelle scuole secondarie. In una prospettiva di più largo respiro, l’introduzione del cinese come materia curriculare nelle scuole secondarie italiane, sia dal punto di vista del target di riferimento che da quello della definizione degli standard di competenza, ha rappresentato un’importante occasione per condurre degli studi più approfonditi in un contesto ancora poco battuto, di cui il presente lavoro vuole rappresentare un esempio. Con questo studio si è quindi deciso di andare a indagare come i descrittori presenti nel Sillabo e mutuati dai can-do statements del Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento (QCER) si configurino rispetto alle competenze reali degli apprendenti e al processo generale di acquisizione linguistica, con l’obiettivo di poter meglio contribuire alla progressiva standardizzazione dell’insegnamento della lingua cinese nelle scuole italiane. Prendendo le mosse dal Sillabo si è deciso di esaminare un aspetto specifico dell’apprendimento della lingua per gli studenti italofoni di cinese LS: lo sviluppo del lessico e della sensibilità subelssicale. L’obiettivo è quindi di andare a indagare come, nel processo di sviluppo delle abilità di lettura, gli apprendenti di cinese LS riescano a sfruttare le informazioni espresse dagli elementi sublessicali afferenti ai livelli strutturale, submorfemico e morfemico, e come riescano a usarle in maniera efficace per la costruzione del significato. Poiché l’apprendimento del lessico è considerato come uno dei più forti predittori del successo nell’acquisizione delle abilità di lettura (Laufer, 1992), la ricerca si è concentrata sull’analisi dei sub-word-level lexemes del cinese scritto. Nel primo capitolo sono stati presi in esame i layer sublessicali del cinese scritto, tentando di mettere in risalto gli aspetti che, per un apprendente la cui L1 è l’italiano, potevano risultare maggiormente significativi. Sono state presentate altresì le componenti di base (bùjiàn 部件), le componenti laterali (pianpang 偏旁) i radicali (bushou 部首) e la categoria dei caratteri pittofonetici (xingshengzi 形声字), di cui si sono messi in luce gli aspetti strutturali e tassonomici. Nel secondo capitolo si sono presi in esame gli aspetti e le implicazioni legate agli standard didattici nell’insegnamento del cinese considerato sia come LS che come L2; si è inoltre tentato un confronto su come questi standard siano stati espressi nei diversi sillabi e curricola in vari contesti internazionali. Si sono quindi messi in relazione i descrittori del Sillabo con le esperienze relative all’European Benchmarking Chinese Language (EBCL), l’Australian Curriculum of Languages (ACL) e l’International Curriculum of Chinese Language Education (ICCLE). Si è condotto questo confronto andando a identificare quali descrittori si riferissero nello specifico all’acquisizione lessicale e agli elementi sublessicali, per tutti i sillabi e i curricula presi in esame per il confronto. Nel terzo capitolo sono presentati i quattro test che sono stati poi sottoposti agli studenti. In questo capitolo vengono descritte le scelte che hanno portato alla loro strutturazione e modifica. Sono state anche descritte le fasi di piloting degli strumenti, nelle quali i test sono stati sottoposti ad apprendenti adulti che studiano la lingua cinese all’università. In ultimo, a seguito della raccolta e della successiva analisi dei dati, sono state raggiunte le seguenti conclusioni: (i) Per la competenza strutturale è emersa una differenza significativa tra il riconoscimento dei caratteri con struttura top-down rispetto a quelli left-right. La capacità di riconoscere i non-characters e di percepire la correttezza strutturale dei caratteri inizia ad emergere già dal primo anno di studio della lingua cinese. (ii) Per le componenti submorfemiche è emersa, in linea con la letteratura, una differenza significativa tra la capacità di riconoscere i marcatori semantici e quelli fonetici, con una preminenza rilevante verso il riconoscimento dei marcatori semantici su quelli fonetici. (iii) Sono risultate essere più trasparenti le parole composte che presentavano una struttura affissuale rispetto a quelle costruite con dei suffissi. (iv) È emerso un rapporto di correlazione positivo e debole tra la sensibilità submorfemica e quella morfemica. Sulla base di questi risultati si è infine deciso di proporre delle integrazioni ai descrittori del Sillabo relativi allo sviluppo del lessico e della trasparenza sublessicale
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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