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METALINGUISTIC AWARENESS. THEORY, DEVELOPMENT AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS
No full textThe book presents an overview on the concept of metalinguistic awareness from a theoretical linguistic, developmental, and applied perspective and then describes three tests for assessing metalinguistic awareness from 4 years-old to adult age
Bilingualism in university students: further evidence of metalinguistic benefits
No full textThis empirical study aims at assessing metalinguistic abilities in Italian-English bilinguals compared to both Italian and English monolinguals. 40 University students (age range: 20-29 y.-old), enrolled in humanistic studies, of middle class background, were recruited partly in Italy and partly in UK. They were all administered a subtest of a metalinguistic ability test devised for adults, the subtest Comprehension, existing in Italian and in English version. Results showed significant metalinguistic superiority of bilinguals over monolinguals in the most complex, type of responsesm although English monolinguals outperformed Italian monolinguals. No differences appeared between simultaneous and consecutive bilinguals
Metalinguistic abilities in Italian-English adult bilinguals . A comparison with Italian-speaking and English-speaking monolinguals.
No full textThis empirical research studies long-term effects of different types of early biligualism on metalinguistic abilities at young adult age. A sample of 40 university students has been recruited and subdivided into a bilingual Italian-English group and a monolingual group, itself subdivided into Italian monolinguals, tested in Italy, and English monolinguals, tested in UK. Students received a metalinguistic ability test specific for adults (TAM-3, Pinto, Iliceto, 2007), existing also in English version. Bilinguals, as a whole, significantly ourperformed monolinguals, and monolinguals of either type performed at very similar level, irrespective of the linguistic version of the test
Primo sviluppo metalinguistico in bambini bilingui italiano-inglese. Una ricerca in contesto britannico
No full textThis article presents research into metalinguistic development in Italian-English pre- schoolers. A total sample of 118 children was selected, aged 4 to 5,11 years, all living in London and subdivided into two sub-samples. The bilingual sub-sample was composed of 64 children from Italian families, balanced bilinguals from birth and attending an Italian kindergarten, while the monolingual sub-sample was made up of 54 English-speaking children attending an English kindergarten. Half of the bilinguals, randomly selected, was tested through the Italian version of a battery of metalinguistic tasks, the TAM-1 (Pinto, Candilera 2000), while the other half was tested through the English version of the same test, the MAT-1 (Pinto, Titone, Trusso 1999), as were also the English-speaking monolinguals. Results, obtained by means of a 3 factor Anova (type of language experience, age, gender) show a statistically significant effect of biligualism, but at different levels
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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