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Using reflective journal in ESL pre-service teacher education
Full text linkThe concept of reflective teaching has been an accepted approach in teacher education training for quite some time (Richards & Ho, 1998). Advocates of reflective teaching have reported that this approach has been effective in helping trainees become better teachers (Cruickshank et.al.l98l, Zeichner, 1987; Schon, 1987). One way to implement this approach into a teacher training
programme is through journal writing or reflective journals.
This paper will describe a study which attempted to investigate the role of journals in shaping the reflective process of pre service teachers in Malaysia. The main research questions were: l) to what extent were reflective journals an effective tool of growth in enhancing pre-service teachers to become more reflective. 2) to what extent did reflective journals provide insights into
understanding complex concepts such as teachers’ beliefs and attitudes of teaching English in the Malaysian context.
This paper will report the findings of this study. Instances from the journal entries will be analyzed
and discussed. The primary source of data was from journal entries as well as observations and an interview. The participants involved were final year Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) students in a Simulated Teaching (PBET3l03) course at the Education Faculty, University
of Malaya
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Malay English intonation: the cooperative rise
No full textThis paper presents the findings of a study on the intonational features in ten proficient Malay Speakers of English (MSEs), focusing on a distinct rising tone (the Cooperative Rise, CR). Using Brazil’s (1985) Discourse Intonation as a framework for analysis, the CR discourse function differs from the rise and fall-rise of Standard Southern British English (SSBE) as described in Brazil (1985). The CR is a referring tone used to provide extra emphasis on important information and create a more cooperative and supportive tone. The form and function of the CR are examined in relation to Standard Southern British English (SSBE, 1985) and other varieties of World Englishes. The results indicate that duration and pitch range of the CR are significantly different from the standard rise
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Stress and prominence in the speech of Malay speakers of English
No full textThis chapter discusses the notion of stress and prominence in World Englishes, with a focus on Malay English (ME), a sub-variety of Malaysian English (MalE), and is based on a larger study (Mat Nayan, 2012) which examined the prosodic features of Malay Speakers of English (MSEs). In this chapter, three inter-related aspects of stress and prominence are discussed: (i) the fluidity of the tonic syllable (i.e., the main stressed syllable in a tone unit); (ii) the shift of the tonic syllable towards the final syllable in a tone unit; and (iii) the difficulty in identifying the tonic syllable using paradigms for other varieties of English. The motivation for this research is to consider the role of stress and prominence in intelligibility in World Englishes. Based on the findings, what can be seen in the MSE data is that the notion of stress in ME is different to that of Standard Southern British English (SSBE). In comparison to other Asian Englishes in the region, ME does share similar features, such as the shift towards the final syllable, but it also has more distinct features such as the fluidity of the tonic syllable. This implies that stress and prominence in ME may lead to difficulties in intelligibility for some speakers of English, but not necessarily for those using varieties spoken in the region. While some studies have suggested that the prosodic features of ME could be an influence from L1, i.e., the Malay language as it is spoken in Malaysia, more substantial and robust studies need to be conducted to prove this. What can be said though is that the notion of stress and prominence is an ambiguous and complex area that needs further investigation
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
The intonation patterns of Malay speakers of English: A discourse intonation approach
Full text linkThis paper presents some preliminary data from a study which investigates the intonation patterns of Malay speakers of English (MSEs).The study examines the MSEs’ intonation using Brazil’s [4] Discourse Intonation (DI) approach as the main method of analysis, with a view to modifying DI for this variety in view of how meaning is conveyed and understood.
The spoken discourse of MSEs collected using a map task is examined, where conversations are between MSEs and MSEs as well as MSEs with a Chinese Non-Native Speaker (NNS) of English
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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