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ALGERIAN ARABIC AND TAMAZIGHT ETYMOLOGIES
Get PDFAbstract : The contact between Arabic and Tamazight resulted in a set of loanwords introduced to the varieties of both languages due to the continuous contact since the arrival of the Arabs around 700 AD. As such, this linguistic situation makes it hard for scholars to explore early and later words integrated into their varieties. To this end, the main aim of the current research is to shed light on existing etymologies in both Algerian dialectal Arabic and Tamazight varieties. Secondly, it also intends to explore the semantic distribution of these words through a corpus analysis of the Tamazight dialect spoken in the Bejaia and Tlemcen varieties used in the Beni Bousaid region. The results revealed that Tamazight varieties imported many loanwords from Standard Arabic. The analysis also demonstrated that a set of lexicons still exists in the Tlemcen variety of the Beni Bousaid region. By analyzing loanwords in the Beni Bousaid dialect, the researchers found that most belong to Tachelhit. The findings confirmed phonological and morphological borrowings into Algerian Arabic spoken in the Beni Bousaid region taken from Tamazight. Moreover, the analysis showed that the contact between Tamazight and Algerian-spoken Arabic impacts stress placement.
Keywords: Algerian Arabic, etymology, loanwords, Modern Standard Arabic, Tamazigh
Algerians’ Attitudes Towards Teaching the English Language at Primary Schools: Rahal BENAOUDA Primary School as a Case Study
No full textAbstract: The present research study describes the main aspects of implementing the English language in the Algerian primary school. It focuses on the requirements, and the challenges faced by educators at the mentioned level. The research method adopted in this study is descriptive to discover the challenges and requirements for such an initiative. Moreover, the study is based on both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Data was gathered through the questionnaire and interview. The study on the one hand aims at identifying parent’s attitudes towards introducing teaching English at primary schools in Algeria. The findings showed a significant number of the informants who strongly agreed that English should integrated into Algerian primary schools. However, introducing English as a second language faces challenges, including a lack of trained teachers and adequate resources. Many teachers are not fluent in English themselves, making it difficult for them to teach the language to students effectively. Additionally, there is often a shortage of materials and resources such as textbooks and audio-visual aids, making it difficult for teachers to deliver engaging and interactive lessons, less than one hour per week is not sufficient to learn a new foreign language from scratch and the disruptive behaviour child’s behavior become common challenges for the teacher to teach English, disruptive child behavior is detrimental to the community because it interferes with the learning process for other children. The implementation of English in primary schools in Algeria requires continuous effort and investment. While there are challenges, the government's commitment to improving language proficiency and preparing children for the globalized world is a positive step towards a brighter future.
Keywords: Attitudes, Challenges, English Language Teaching, primary school, pupil
The Use of Information and Communication Technology in Academic Research: Is it possible to Realize Academic Integrity?
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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
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
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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