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English Teachers’ Learning Activities as Learners
No full textTeachers’ task is not solely related to teaching, such as planning, implementing, and evaluating teachinglearning activities. Teachers also have a responsibility to grow professionally by upgrading their
instructional knowledge and skills so that they can manage better teaching practices aligned with current
educational demand and advancement in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). In this
case, teachers are learners who do continuous learning about themselves, their students, and their
profession as teachers. This study using survey design aims to explore learning activities that the English
teachers participate in as their professional development conduct in the Indonesian context. This study
further investigates the teachers’ perception of the learning activities and the obstacles that hinder them
from participating in the learning activities. The participants of this study were 30 English teachers from
junior and senior high schools in South Kalimantan Province attending PPG (Education for Teacher
Profession). The data of this study was collected using the teacher questionnaire based on the Teaching
and Learning International Survey (TALIS). The analysis of the findings on practices of teacher
professional development regarding real professional development activities that English teachers
participate in showed that they experienced some obstacles in participating in the program. The obstacles
consisted of the schedule, high payment of some TPD activities, family’s responsibilities, employer
support, unsuitability of the offered professional development program, and lack of information about the
availability of professional development activities. Despite facing those obstacles, English teachers in this
particular context are committed to growing through continuous professional learning
Tongue Twister, Students’ Pronunciation Ability, and Learning Styles
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In EFL context, considering appropriate technique in teaching pronunciation is a pivotal issue
since it could help students to learn how to pronounce English sounds easy. This study aimed to
investigate the effect of tongue twister technique on pronunciation ability of students across
different learning styles. This study involved 34 first-year English major students taking Intensive
English course at Universitas Lambung Mangkurat, one of leading universities in Indonesia. The
students in the experimental group were taught by using tongue twister, while those in the control
group were taught by using repetition technique. The students were also grouped based on two
types of learning styles, namely active and reflective learning styles referring to Felder and
Silverman’s (1988) learning style model. The findings of the study showed that there was no
significant difference in pronunciation ability between the groups. No significant difference was
either found in pronunciation ability between students with active learning style and those with
reflective learning style. In spite of the insignificant results, tongue twister is considered beneficial
by the students as they perceived that practicing tongue twisters cultivated joyful learning and it
helped them to improve their pronunciation, fluency, and motivation in learning English
pronunciation. Tongue twister practice could complement the use of repetition technique to
enhance students’ learning experience and learning outcome.
Keywords: active, learning styles, pronunciation, reflective, tongue twiste
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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