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Réponse à Marjolijn Verspoor : de la nécessité d’aller au-delà du linguistique
Full text linkCet article est d’un type particulier, puisque son auteur répond à un auteur du même numéro qui retrace les débats d’une journée d’étude NEQ (Notion en questions), consacrée à l’émergentisme en janvier 2016. Le positionnement du répondant, didacticien de l’intervention, explique sa réaction. Une première partie situe donc l’auteur dans un courant transdisciplinaire où l’émergentisme a sa place dans une perspective plurilingue. La suite est autant une réaction à l’article de Marjolijn Verspoor qu’aux débats de la journée. L’apport des recherches présentées dans l’article initial est d’un grand intérêt, mais leurs limites confirment le besoin d’un travail transdisciplinaire incluant d’ailleurs la discipline des documents académiques.This article has an unusual format as its author responds to another article in the same issue that relates the exchanges that took place during a Notion in Question (NEQ) seminar devoted to « Emergentism » in January 2016. The theoretical position of the respondent, a researcher in language learning and teaching, justifies his response. The first part of the article will describe this transdisciplinary position in which emergentism has a place in a plurilingual perspective. The second part is as much a response to Marjolijn’s Verspoor (MV)’s contribution as to the debates on that day. The results of MV’s research are rich and worthwhile but their very limitations justify the need for transdisciplinary collaboration in which the various fields of research complement each other
Measures of variability in transitional phases in second language development
Full text linkThis paper investigates measures of change to help demonstrate the necessity of variability as a developmental mechanism for advancing different features of L2 learning (related here primarily to writing, but also to reading) with a particular focus on learners at different stages of development. To do so, the work draws on three studies to build a case for using variability as a meaningful marker of change. Lowie, Wander M. & Marjolijn Verspoor. 2019. Individual differences and the ergodicity problem. Language Learning 69. 184-206 found in a group of 22 Dutch learners of English that the Coefficient of Variation (CoV), rather than individual factors such as motivation and aptitude, showed a significant correlation with writing proficiency gains. A replication study by Huang, Ting, Rasmus Steinkrauss & Marjolijn Verspoor. 2020b. Variability as predictors for L2 writing proficiency. Journal of Second Language Writing, with 22 Chinese learners of English revealed that the CoV rather than motivation, aptitude or working memory was a significant predictor in writing proficiency gains. A study by Gui, Min, Xiaokan Chen & Marjolijn Verspoor. Submitted. The dynamics of reading development in English for Academic Purposes, on reading for academic purposes with 27 Chinese Chemistry majors showed that the Standard Deviation of differences (SDd) rather than proficiency in English or knowledge of Chemistry correlated with reading gains. Two further studies present tentative evidence that these changes take place especially at transitional phases while learning a new skill
Notions en questions - Emergentisme
No full textInternational audienceGrégory MirasEmergentismeNotions en questionsWander LowieEmergentism: wide ranging theoretical framework or just one more meta-theory? Georges Daniel VéroniqueRéponse à Wander Lowie : L’émergentisme, la recherche sur l’acquisition des langues et la didactique des langues étrangères Heather E. HiltonEnjeux méthodologiques de l’émergentisme pour la recherche en acquisition et en didactique des languesVéronique CastellottiRéponse à Heather Hilton : Expérience, diversité, réception, relation ou : la partie immergée de l’appropriationJoëlle AdenLangues et langage dans un paradigme enactifGrégory MirasRéponse à Joëlle Aden : le corps à la lumière de l’émergentisme linguistique.Marjolijn Verspoor, Wander Lowie, Hui Ping Chan et Louisa VahtrickLinguistic complexity in second language development: variability and variation at advanced stagesJean-Paul Narcy-CombesRéponse à Marjolijn Verspoor : de la nécessité d’aller au-delà du linguistiqueGrégory MirasEmergentismeNotions en questionsWander LowieEmergentism: wide ranging theoretical framework or just one more meta-theory? Georges Daniel VéroniqueRéponse à Wander Lowie : L’émergentisme, la recherche sur l’acquisition des langues et la didactique des langues étrangères Heather E. HiltonEnjeux méthodologiques de l’émergentisme pour la recherche en acquisition et en didactique des languesVéronique CastellottiRéponse à Heather Hilton : Expérience, diversité, réception, relation ou : la partie immergée de l’appropriationJoëlle AdenLangues et langage dans un paradigme enactifGrégory MirasRéponse à Joëlle Aden : le corps à la lumière de l’émergentisme linguistique.Marjolijn Verspoor, Wander Lowie, Hui Ping Chan et Louisa VahtrickLinguistic complexity in second language development: variability and variation at advanced stagesJean-Paul Narcy-CombesRéponse à Marjolijn Verspoor : de la nécessité d’aller au-delà du linguistiqu
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
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