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Empowering Multilingual Learners Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Arts-based Learning in Burkina Faso
Get PDFThis dissertation explores how culturally sustaining pedagogy and arts-based learning can engage multilingual learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL) in Burkina Faso. The research emphasizes the incorporation of local cultural elements and learners\u27 linguistic backgrounds into the EAL curriculum to address challenges such as limited classroom interactions (Somé-Guiebré, 2020) and monolingual instructional strategies with inadequate cultural representation (Ndlangamandla, 2024). This qualitative study integrates culturally relevant materials, including Forum Theater, slam poetry, and griot-style storytelling, to create an engaging and inclusive learning environment. Data consisted of observation, images from arts-based workshops and pre- and post-workshop interviews with selected teachers and students from Première and Terminale classes (~11th and 12th grades) in a Burkinabe high school. The data were analyzed thematically using MAXQDA 24. Findings show that students experienced increased engagement, improved linguistic confidence, the beginnings of the development of critical cultural awareness and critical consciousness, and greater cultural appreciation when culturally sustaining pedagogy and arts-based methods were employed. Teachers also reported a shift towards more facilitative and inclusive teaching practices. The research suggests that incorporating local cultural practices can not only enhance learning experiences but also empower multilingual learners by addressing systemic inequities in postcolonial education settings, particularly among immigrant students of African descent.Advisor: Theresa Catalan
Home Language Policy and Identity in Multilingual Families in Ouagadougou
Get PDFLanguage functions as both a social practice and an identity marker through which communities express themselves in arts and literature. It is intrinsically linked to culture and, by extension, identity. Consequently, losing one\u27s language is equivalent to losing one\u27s identity (G. Kedrebégo, 1998, p. 181). In an era where English serves as a lingua franca and colonial legacy languages remain the official languages throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Indigenous African languages are at risk. This collective qualitative case study aims to explore how parents navigate language choices as they strive to preserve their identity while ensuring their children are well-prepared for a globalizing world. Data was gathered through 30-50 minute open-ended interviews with six multilingual parents in Ouagadougou. Thematic analysis revealed several key themes, including the role of language in maintaining family ties, language use as linked to geographic spaces, and instrumental motivations for learning and using multiple languages. The findings suggest that multilingual parents\u27 language decisions are influenced by social and economic considerations. The study concludes by emphasizing the cultural importance of maintaining local languages, with the hope that Burkinabe people will continue to uphold their linguistic heritage while also acquiring and using French and English.
Résumé
La langue est à la fois une pratique sociale et un marqueur d\u27identité dans lequel les communautés s\u27expriment à travers les arts et la littérature. La langue est intrinsèquement liée à la culture et, par extension, à l\u27identité. Ainsi, perdre sa langue équivaut à perdre son identité (G. Kedrebégo, 1998, p. 181. À une époque où l\u27anglais sert de lingua franca et où les langues héritées de la colonisation sont les langues officielles de l\u27Afrique subsaharienne, les langues autochtones africaines sont en danger. Cette étude de cas qualitative vise à comprendre comment les parents naviguent dans les choix linguistiques en cherchant à préserver leur identité tout en veillant à ce que leurs enfants soient bien préparés pour un monde mondialisé. Les données ont consisté en des entretiens ouverts de 30 à 50 minutes avec six parents multilingues à Ouagadougou. Une analyse thématique a produit des thèmes qui ont émergé des entretiens tels que le maintien des liens familiaux, l\u27utilisation de la langue liée aux espaces géographiques et les raisons instrumentales d\u27apprendre et de parler des langues. Les résultats indiquent que les décisions linguistiques des parents multilingues sont influencées par des considérations sociales et économiques. L\u27auteur conclut en soulignant les raisons culturelles de maintenir les langues locales dans l\u27espoir que les Burkinabè conserveront leurs langues locales tout en acquérant et en utilisant le français et l\u27anglais
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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