81 research outputs found
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study-Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions
No full textThis data-driven study framed in the interactionist approach investigates the influence of social graph topology and peer interaction dynamics among foreign exchange students in Germany taking part in an intensive language course on both self-reported and objectively measured SLA outcomes. Applying the algorithms and metrics of computational social network analysis (SNA), we find that the best predictor of TL performance is reciprocal interactions in the language being acquired, that the proportion of output in the TL is a stronger predictor than input, a negative relationship between performance and interactions with same-L1 speakers, a significantly underperforming English native-speaker dominated cluster, more intense interactions taking place between students of different proficiency levels, as well as several other significant findings. Unlike previous Study Abroad social network research concentrating on i) the micro-level of individual learners’ egocentric networks, presenting an emic view only, and ii) primarily TL native-speaker contacts, we demonstrate how and why peer learner networks can be examined in their entirety, complementing an etic perspective. This study, constituting the first application of computational SNA to a complete learner network (sociogram), provides new insights into the link between social relations and second language acquisition, showing how social network configuration and peer interaction dynamics are stronger predictors of L2/L3/Lx performance than individual factors such as attitude or motivation, and offers a rigorous methodology for investigating the phenomenon.
The data accompany the following publication:
Paradowski, M.B., Cierpich-Kozieł, A., Chen, C.-C., & Ochab, J.K. (2022). How output outweighs input and interlocutors matter for study-abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of learner interactions. The Modern Language Journal, 106(4)
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study-Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions
No full textThis data-driven study framed in the interactionist approach investigates the influence of social graph topology and peer interaction dynamics among foreign exchange students in Germany taking part in an intensive language course on both self-reported and objectively measured SLA outcomes. Applying the algorithms and metrics of computational social network analysis (SNA), we find that the best predictor of TL performance is reciprocal interactions in the language being acquired, that the proportion of output in the TL is a stronger predictor than input, a negative relationship between performance and interactions with same-L1 speakers, a significantly underperforming English native-speaker dominated cluster, more intense interactions taking place between students of different proficiency levels, as well as several other significant findings. Unlike previous Study Abroad social network research concentrating on i) the micro-level of individual learners’ egocentric networks, presenting an emic view only, and ii) primarily TL native-speaker contacts, we demonstrate how and why peer learner networks can be examined in their entirety, complementing an etic perspective. This study, constituting the first application of computational SNA to a complete learner network (sociogram), provides new insights into the link between social relations and second language acquisition, showing how social network configuration and peer interaction dynamics are stronger predictors of L2/L3/Lx performance than individual factors such as attitude or motivation, and offers a rigorous methodology for investigating the phenomenon.
The data accompany the following publication:
Paradowski, M.B., Cierpich-Kozieł, A., Chen, C.-C., & Ochab, J.K. (2022). How output outweighs input and interlocutors matter for study-abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of learner interactions. The Modern Language Journal, 106(4)
Władza i prawo. Studium z hermeneutyki politycznej
No full textPolitical position of the Catholic Church in Poland, eclectic nature of constitutional principles of the 1997 Constitution as well as persistent attempts made to acknowledge the Christian character of the European Union pose a question about the actual meaning of Christian values as well as their attitude to democratic values and principles. Addressing this question the author analyzes the notion of authority and law in the Old and New Testament. He refers to the authoritarian interpretation of these notions in Catholicism and in particular to the secondary and inferior commandment of loving ones’ neighbor, which is subordinated to the commandment of unconditional subjection to the Highest Authority.Political position of the Catholic Church in Poland, eclectic nature of constitutional principles of the 1997 Constitution as well as persistent attempts made to acknowledge the Christian character of the European Union pose a question about the actual meaning of Christian values as well as their attitude to democratic values and principles. Addressing this question the author analyzes the notion of authority and law in the Old and New Testament. He refers to the authoritarian interpretation of these notions in Catholicism and in particular to the secondary and inferior commandment of loving ones’ neighbor, which is subordinated to the commandment of unconditional subjection to the Highest Authority
„Stworzenie człowieka” i typy komunikowania. Studium hermeneutyczne
No full textThe author of the paper highlights that McQuail’s typology of communication, which is most commonly applied in Polish science, and quoted as a whole by Tomasz Goban-Klas, among others, refers to levels of communication discerned by means of a quantitative criterion. In the author’s opinion, however, a type cannot be solely by quantitative differences. Therefore, he suggests that two types of communicative relations be directly referred to: obedience and covenant, which can in his opinion, alread btered in the Old Testament. He identifies two fundamental types of communication on this basis: an advanced type, where the sender is simultaneously a recipient, and the recipient is a sender; and a reduced type where the sender is only a sender, and the recipient only a recipient, which is a result of a significant disproportion of power between the parties.The author of the paper highlights that McQuail’s typology of communication, which is most commonly applied in Polish science, and quoted as a whole by Tomasz Goban-Klas, among others, refers to levels of communication discerned by means of a quantitative criterion. In the author’s opinion, however, a type cannot be solely by quantitative differences. Therefore, he suggests that two types of communicative relations be directly referred to: obedience and covenant, which can in his opinion, alread btered in the Old Testament. He identifies two fundamental types of communication on this basis: an advanced type, where the sender is simultaneously a recipient, and the recipient is a sender; and a reduced type where the sender is only a sender, and the recipient only a recipient, which is a result of a significant disproportion of power between the parties
Mit totalitaryzmu i Platońska filozofia demokracji
No full textA certain trend in political philosophy has associated Plato with a totalitarian tradition, which is disputed in this paper. The author argues that Plato could be included in the political philosophy of a democratic type, referring to the interpretation of the theory of ideas, presented in the text. This interpretation involves a certain understanding of the idea of the Good and the two principal methods of defining it, as well as ‘Plato’s dilemma’ (the Good above the Demiurge versus the Demiurge above the Good), and a peculiar Platonic way to resolve this dilemma. Additionally, the author confronts Plato’s dilemma with the axiological duality of the cultural message conveyed by the Old Testament. The author develops a hypothesis that especially (albeit not exclusively) as the author of The Republic, Plato laid the foundations for the political philosophy in general, but also, despite the disapproval of the Athenian democracy he manifested, for the philosophy of democracy, perceived as a kind of order, based on defining the Good by means of dialogue and the prevalence of so-defined Good over any kind of ‘Demiurge’, including a political Demiurge
Mit totalitaryzmu i Platońska filozofia demokracji
No full textA certain trend in political philosophy has associated Plato with a totalitarian tradition,
which is disputed in this paper. The author argues that Plato could be included in the political
philosophy of a democratic type, referring to the interpretation of the theory of ideas, presented
in the text. This interpretation involves a certain understanding of the idea of the Good
and the two principal methods of defining it, as well as ‘Plato’s dilemma’ (the Good above the Demiurge versus the Demiurge above the Good), and a peculiar Platonic way to resolve this
dilemma. Additionally, the author confronts Plato’s dilemma with the axiological duality of
the cultural message conveyed by the Old Testament. The author develops a hypothesis that
especially (albeit not exclusively) as the author of The Republic, Plato laid the foundations for
the political philosophy in general, but also, despite the disapproval of the Athenian democracy
he manifested, for the philosophy of democracy, perceived as a kind of order, based on
defining the Good by means of dialogue and the prevalence of so-defined Good over any kind
of ‘Demiurge’, including a political Demiurge
Ella G. Zadorożniuk, Ot krushenija Prażskoj Wiesny k triumfu „barkhatnoj revolucii”. Iz istorii oppozicionnogo dvizhenija v Czekhoslovakii (avgust 1968–nojabr 1989 g.), Moskwa 2008, ss. 439.
No full text"The Creation of Man" and Types of Communication, A Hermeneutical Study
No full textThe author is of opinion that contemporary local press publications should focus
on providing their readers with current information, whatever the distribution channel
(print, the Internet, mobile news). This requires certain financial outlays, appropriate
professional personnel, and the correct legal form to perform publishing activities and
organize the publishing house efficiently. In the author’s opinion the current situation
on the press publishing market requires a combination of traditional media with modern anderactive
Pre-Columbian Myth and Divided Reality. Philosophical Grounds for the Definition of Culture, Politics and Ideology
No full textW artykule podjęto próbę ukazania immanentnej dwoistości
bytu w świetle niektórych mitów wybranych
kultur świata, w szczególności mitów mezopotamskich,
irańskich, żydowskich i prekolumbijskich, w tym
zwłaszcza poprzez analizę Księgi Rodzaju Starego
Testamentu i Popol Vuh. Księgi rady narodu Quiche
oraz w świetle autorskiej koncepcji dialektycznej metafizyki
wyboru, a także – próbę wydobycia heurystycznego
potencjału tkwiącego w specyficznych „dualizmach”
mitu i metafizyki dla definiowania kultury.
Ukazano status religii jako archetypicznej autorytarnej
ideologii hierarchii; podobnie archetypiczna jest przeciwstawna
jej ideologia umowy społecznej („przymierza”).The author states the immanent duality of being after
some myths of selected world's cultures, especially
Mesopotamians, Iranians, Jewish and Pre-
Columbian (including analysis of The Book of
Genesis of The Old Testament and The Popol Vuh.
The Book of The Council of The Quiche People)
and makes that on the ground of his own concept of
the dialectical metaphysics of choice. The author
underlines the heuristic possibilities of the specific
“dualities” of the myth and metaphysics for the understanding
of culture and describes the status of
religion as an archetypical authoritarian ideology
of hierarchy, as well as likewise archetypical one
of the social agreement
Authority and Law. A Study in Political Hermeneutics
No full textPolitical position of the Catholic Church in Poland, eclectic nature of constitutional principles of the 1997 Constitution as well as persistent attempts made to acknowledge the Christian character of the European Union pose a question about the actual meaning of Christian values as well as their attitude to democratic values and principles. Addressing this question the author analyzes the notion of authority and law in the Old and New Testament. He refers to the authoritarian interpretation of these notions in Catholicism and in particular to the secondary and inferior commandment of loving ones’ neighbor, which is subordinated to the commandment of unconditional subjection to the Highest Authority
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