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Learning beyond the classroom: students’ attitudes towards the integration of CLIL and museum-based pedagogies
Get PDFIn the last two decades, several studies have reported on the benefits of
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) on students’ affective
and cognitive gains. These studies, however, have mainly concentrated
on the implementation of CLIL within the formal (school) context, with
very little research on its impact in non-formal (out-of-school) contexts.
Thus, the present article addresses this gap by describing an action
research project aimed at understanding secondary school students’
attitudes towards the integration of CLIL and museum-based
pedagogies. The project involved 284 students (14–16 years old) in
northern Italy, who participated in a CLIL museum visit on Animal
Classification through English at the Natural History Museum in Venice. A
mixed-method research design was implemented and data was
collected through students’ questionnaires and focus groups. Results
reveal that students showed very positive attitudes towards taking part
in a CLIL museum visit based on the interaction among the following
dimensions: engagement with museum objects, use of English beyond
the classroom, methodology and students’ interests, self-concept and
career plans
A Holistic Approach to Language Attitudes in Two Multilingual Educational Contexts
No full textIn line with the multilingual turn in language education, this chapter targets prospective teachers in two European multilingual contexts whose most common Dominant Language Constellation includes the local minority language, the State language and English as the primary foreign language learned at school. The two contexts under consideration are the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC) in Spain and Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) in Italy. We intend to look into one aspect of future teachers’ multilinguality in particular: their attitudes towards the majority language (Spanish in the BAC and Italian in FVG), the minority language (Basque and Friulian respectively) and the foreign language (English in both contexts). Quantitative data were collected via a questionnaire that was filled out by 553 participants from both settings. The aim of the study is twofold. First, attitudes towards the three languages in contact are examined to see if the significant differences observed between the two contexts when the traditional monolingual approach was used to measure attitudes persist once a holistic/multilingual approach is implemented. Second, the impact of relevant factors (e.g., gender, L1, or school type) on language attitudes is investigated from both a monolingual and a multilingual, holistic perspective
Test de habilidades metalingüísticas para adolescentes y adultos:THAM-3
Get PDFThis book is the manual of a Spanish metalinguistic test targeting adolescents and adults, called THAM-3.. It describes the theoretical background, the protocol of the three subtests that compose the test, the administration and coding procedures. To facilitate the assignment of the scores, extensive exemplification of the possible answers is provided for each item. The final section presents the major psychometric characteristics, basic descriptive statistics for each type of score in each subtest, and the T scores
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
La formación del profesorado en los programas de instrucción en inglés: necesidades formativas, acreditación lingüística y retos futuros
No full textMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)Ediciones ComplutenseDepto. de Estudios Ingleses: Lingüística y LiteraturaEdiciones ComplutenseFac. de FilologíaTRUEpu
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
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