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The struggles of an international foreign language lecturer with representations of cultural identity
Get PDFMalaysian universities often resort to international faculties to teach, so-called, international languages, especially when a BA program is offered by the institution. International foreign language lecturers (IFLL) are “convenient”: (i) their presence enables the country to overcome the shortage of local qualified lecturers (Bodycott and Walker, 2000, 80-1); (ii) when they are native speakers, they guarantee a high level of proficiency in the taught language-for a representation of the native speaker see Rampton (1990/2003) and for a critique of “native-speakerism” ideology Holliday (2006); (iii) their fluency in (at least) one international language is expected to give them an advantage in publishing in international journals; (iv) they contribute to the dissemination of an image of a global (reputable) university which can attract international staff; and (v) more recently, with the increasing importance given to international rankings for universities such as that of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Marginson and van der Wende, 2007), where the number of international staff has become an evaluation criterion, their presence reputedly improves the place in which they work. While beneficial for the institution from an administrative point of view, IFLL also become the incarnation of a language and its associated culture for the language learners, especially when the geographical distance reinforces the xénité [strangeness] (Dabène, 1994) of the studied language. IFLL thus fall under the widespread association of language and culture, even if the latter concept is rarely questioned in the Malaysian context (Chin, 2013). As native speakers, they become the living example of the language they teach, and at the same time, a representative of an “imagined culture” (Dervin, 2012)
Twists and turns:Forging a career as a psychology academic in Australia
No full textIn my first academic job in Australia, my supervisor told me at lunch time that shewould “knock off” for the day to take her poodle for a hair-do appointment. I was lost for words. Would this be the kind of work ethic to instil into a new research assistant like me? At the same time, I found her honesty refreshing. I became curious to learn about cultural differences in values and social rules between workplaces in Australia and Hong Kong, where Iwas from.</p
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
Five Keys to Improving Assistant Language Teacher & Japanese Teacher Relations on the JET Program
No full textBridging Japanese and immigrant expectations for membership in Japanese society
No full textUsing the Keio Grant for the Development of Academic Research, my research about Social Markers of Acculturation ("SMA") has advanced in two ways: 1. I have conducted survey research and given presentations at academic conferences to share the results as to which SMA Japanese people value the most when deciding whether or not to socially accept immigrants as members of Japanese society (as well as how those SMA change according to variables such as the degrees of threat and contribution that Japanese perceive from immigrants), and 2. I have conducted survey research to assess the impact of expectations for SMA on immigrants' mental health (for example, levels of stress and life satisfaction).
For #1 above, I published my paper "The Exigent Case for Belonging: Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Actualization" in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations (published by Elsevier) and delivered an invited lecture online about this material at the Intercultural Development Research Institute in Milan, Italy on September 30th, 2021. I also gave presentations at two online conferences: the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology 25th International Congress (July 29, 2021) and the SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research) Japan Annual Conference (November 27, 2021).
For #2 above, I collected data from 800 migrants living in Japan and am currently analyzing this data to prepare myself to give presentations about it at academic conferences later in 2022 (for example, the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology 26th International Congress and the SIETAR Europa Congress).
I have used this year's budget of 300,000 yen to gather additional data related to #1 above. In other words, I am also researching whether Japanese people expect different SMA depending upon immigrants' national origin. Therefore, I hired Rakuten to survey 800 Japanese people to assess which SMA they value most and how those criteria change according to context depending upon which immigrant group they are considering (Chinese, Koreans, Westerners, or South Americans)
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
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