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English Teachers’ Expectations And Perceptions Of Support For English Teaching
No full textIn view of the current importance of, and demand for, the English language nowadays, learning and teaching the language increases in significance. Determining teachers’ expectations of classroom processes may have beneficial consequences for the nature of education. This study aims to determine English teachers’ expectations and perceptions of support for English teaching. A qualitative research method was used, designed with descriptive modelling and a case study approach was adopted. In order to elicit English teachers’ expectations, a semistructured interview form was prepared from a review of the literature and an examination of related studies in the field. The qualitative data obtained from the interview forms were subjected to content analysis, coded and categorised by the researchers. The categories were then classified according to the characteristics and themes extracted. In this study, the concepts of credibility and transferability were given preference over those of validity and reliability. Among the findings, language laboratories were the facilities most often featuring in English teachers’ expectations of principals. From parents, teachers principally expected more positive attitudes towards English language learning and greater provision of materials to support study at home. It was also found that teachers’ expectations of cooperation and collaboration with colleagues were not met, nor were colleagues employing the variety of teaching methods expected
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
MOTIVATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING
No full textBu araştırmanın amacı, Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi'ndeki bütün bölümlerde eğitim gören öğrencilerin dil öğrenmeye ilişkin motivasyonlarını belirlemektir. Nitel yaklaşımla yapılan bu çalışmada durum deseni kullanılmıştır. Amaçlı örnekleme yöntemlerinden maksimum çeşitlilik örneklemesi ile öğrenciler bütün sınıf düzeyi, farklı cinsiyet ve sınıflardan belirlenmiştir. Araştırmada yapılandırılmış anket ve yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu kullanılmıştır. Nitel verilerin analizinde betimsel analiz tekniği kullanılarak verilerin anlamlı ve anlaşılır bir şekilde belirlenen tema başlıkları altında yer alması sağlanmıştır. Araştırmanın inandırıcılık (iç geçerlik), aktarılabilirliğini (dış geçerliğini), tutarlılık (iç güvenirliğini), teyit edilebilirlik (dış güvenirliğini)artırmak amacıyla verilerin analizi birden fazla uzman görüşü alınarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Üniversite öğrencilerinin öğrenme motivasyon düzeylerini belirlemek amacıyla düzenlenen 10'lu dereceli puanlama anahtarına göre 184 öğrencinin 134'ününpuan olarak 5 ve üzerinde motivasyon düzeyinde oldukları saptanmıştır. Öğrencilerin çoğunluğunun motivasyonlarının orta düzey ve üzerinde olduğu belirlenmiştir.The aim of this research is to determine the students' motivation in English language learning. To do this, the students from the relevant Departments of Education Faculty of Cumhuriyet University were included in this qualitative study, in which case design was used. Using typical case sampling, one of the purposive sampling methods, participants were determined equally from all grade levels. Structured and semi-structured interview forms were used in the study. The descriptive analysis technique was used in the qualitative data analysis and they were provided to be included under the clearly identified them as headings. In order to increase research Credibility (internal validity), Transferability (external validity), Consistency (internal reliability), Ability confirmation (external reliability) multiple expert opinion were learned to perform data analysis studies. Out of 184 students, 134 expressed their motivation level as 5 and above through the 10s scoring rubric used in this study to determine the university students' motivation. It can be said that the motivation level of majority of the students who carried out coding is on the mean value or above. The attitudes and behaviors towards the target language compared with the results of this research shows similarities to the findings that students' interest and willing has positive effects on motivation
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
The University Student’s Motivation Level on Learning English
No full textThis study aims to determine the university students’ level of motivation in terms of different variables. A study group of this research has been designed through one of the non-random sampling methods, Using appropriate sampling, 606 students from Faculty of Education of C.U. have been involved in this study. Motivation scale in English Language Learning developed by Mehdiyev,Usta,Uğurlu (2015) was used as an instrument of data collection. T-test and one - way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to resolve problems of this research. As a result of the research the motivation level of university students hasn’t been revealed significantly different regarding to the gender variable. However, considering the t-test results of motivation scale dimensions, confidence, attitude and personal use, significant difference is seen in favour of women in personal use dimension. The level of language learning motivation of female students is higher than men’s regarding to personal use dimension. However, men’s and women’s views don’t differ significantly in attitude and confidence dimensions. University students don’t present significant differences in terms of birth place, parent’s education level, total motivation scores and confident, attitude and personal dimensions. Students’ motivation levels are seen not to be influenced by the places such as village, provision or city where they have spent the most of their lifetime. At the same time the findings revealed that parental status variable in terms of primary, secondary and university graduates has no effects on students’ motivation.</jats:p
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