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A Comparative Study of English Education Department
Full text linkThe comparative study of English Department students' achievement at Khairun University explores significant variations in speaking skills among 300 students from the 1st, 3rd, and 5th semesters. This research uses quantitative-descriptive methods. The research employs questionnaires and interviews to assess demographic information, speaking challenges, influencing factors, and supporting elements. Findings reveal an average age of 19.2 years impacting speaking achievement, with a noteworthy correlation between proficiency, Grade Point Average (GPA), and academic grades. Higher-than-average GPA and grades correspond to enhanced speaking skills. Additionally, parents' educational backgrounds and occupations significantly influence speaking achievement, with 17.1% having a Bachelor's degree and 53.6% working as farmers. Students from educated and employed families excel in speaking English. Study habits indicate limited commitment, with most students spending less than an hour per week practicing speaking. English speaking courses show advantages for participants, particularly those dedicating more hours to study. The study emphasizes the need to enhance students' awareness and motivation for developing speaking proficiency beyond academic contexts. Overall, the research provides insights for targeted educational interventions to improve students speaking skills in English Department at Universitas Khairun
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
The Honorific of Gamkonora Language: A Study of Sociolinguistics
Full text linkThis study aims to identify and document the use of honorifics in the Gamkonora language, a non-Austronesian language used by the Gamkonora community in West Halmahera, North Maluku. The research method is descriptive qualitative with a sociolinguistic approach. Data were obtained through in-depth interviews, direct observation, and conversation recordings from various social contexts, such as family, education, and religion. The results of the study indicate that the Gamkonora language has a complex honorific system, including referential and addressee honorifics, which reflect social norms and hierarchical structures in its community. The use of honorifics is influenced by factors of social status, age, kinship, and formal or informal situations. This study not only contributes to the documentation of endangered regional languages, but also provides insight into the relationship between language and social structure in the Gamkonora community
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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