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Student perspectives on Mi'gmaq language-learning through multi-modal teaching: A community-linguistics partnership
Get PDFThis paper aims to share the experiences of heritage Mi’gmaq language learners who engaged in a summer Mi'gmaq-as-a-second-language class. Also participating in the class were linguists collaborating with the teachers to document and expand the multi-modal teaching method to a digital platform. In this method, teachers Mary Ann Metallic and Janice Vicaire fostered an atmosphere of equality between themselves and the students. The students were encouraged to learn horizontally from each other, as well as from the speakers around them in their day-to- day life.
The method combines pictures, speaking, and minimal text in an optimally-challenging environment. The pictures encourage students to leave English outside the classroom and reduce the amount of word-to-word translation, thereby diminishing English's status as the default communicative language. There was no strict syllabus and the teachings catered to the students, focusing on material they wanted to learn. The absence of grading relieves the habitual school-related pressure to perform; students are self-motivated. This method could be extended to other Algonquian languages because of its effectiveness in simplifying polysyntheticity (see e.g. Baker 1996), and because it reflects the primarily oral status of the language in the community.
The linguists made the following contributions to the program: (i) documentation of the program and adaptation into a digital platform; (ii) connecting intuitive speaker knowledge to meta- linguistic information about formal grammatical patterns; and (iii) documentation of the language for linguistic research and community interests. Linguistic research informed the data structure of the complementary digital program, developed to both complement the in-class instruction, as well as to increase accessibility for students living outside of the community.
In our presentation, we introduce the method, its strengths and weaknesses as experienced by students, and provide suggestions for the implementation of such a program in your own community
Our stories: Language stories and experiences of young adult Mi'gmaq
No full textThe purpose of this study was to explore the experiences and perspectives of young adult Mi'gmaw language learners who were learning their Indigenous heritage language as a second language. I believed that a better understanding of the contextual factors that shape language learning experiences would inform decision-making for language planning by community members, teachers, and education administrators. Therefore, this study aimed to answer the following overarching research question: How do young adult Mi'gmaq learn their Indigenous heritage language in their home community? The study also aimed to address the following sub-questions: 1) How do young adult Mi'gmaq describe their language learning experiences? 2) How is the Mi'gmaw language taught in this context? This research employed a blend of qualitative research and Indigenous research methodologies to explore and understand the language learning experiences of young adult Mi'gmaq. The participants of this study included seven young adult Mi'gmaq postsecondary students who participated in a Mi'gmaw language class in Listuguj during the summer of 2012. Three broad themes emerged from the analysis of the participant interviews: 1) reflecting on past language learning experiences; 2) finding a place in the classroom; and 3) maintaining cultural continuity. The analysis of observational data provided insights into the pedagogical practice used to teach Mi'gmaw language, which involved: 1) creating a comfortable classroom; 2) relating to others; and 3) fostering a collaborative learning community. Taken together, these findings provide important insights into the experience of Mi'gmaw language learning and how the language is taught. These insights will help inform local decision-making about school and community planning for language revitalization.Cette recherche, dont les sujets sont de jeunes adultes Micmacs (Mi'gmaq) désirant se familiariser avec l'héritage linguistique de leurs ancêtres et faire l'étude du micmac comme langue seconde, vise à explorer leur expérience ainsi que la perception qu'ils en ont. Pour ce faire, elle tente de répondre à la question suivante : Comment les jeunes adultes Micmacs apprennent-ils la langue de leurs ancêtres dans leur communauté? Les sous-questions abordées dans l'étude sont : 1) Comment les jeunes adultes Micmacs décrivent-ils leur expérience d'apprentissage de la langue? 2) Comment est-ce que la langue micmac s'enseigne-t-elle dans ce contexte? Cette recherche utilise autant une méthodologie qualitative qu'autochtone afin d'explorer et de comprendre l'expérience d'apprentissage des jeunes Micmacs. Les participants de l'étude sont sept jeunes diplômés du secondaire qui ont participé à un programme d'étude du micmac à Listuguj durant l'été 2012. En utilisant ces méthodes autochtones et qualitatives, trois thèmes généraux ont émergé de l'analyse des entrevues des participants : 1) leur réflexion sur les expériences qu'ils ont vécues; 2) l'endroit où ils prennent place dans la classe; 3) le maintien de la continuité culturelle. L'analyse des données sur l'observation du terrain a fourni des indices sur les pratiques pédagogiques utilisées pour enseigner le micmac qui incluaient ces éléments suivants : 1) la création d'un environnement de classe agréable; 2) le respect et l'entrée en relation avec les autres; et 3) la priorité accordée à la collaboration dans la communauté d'apprenants. Mis en commun, ces résultats donnent des indices importants sur l'expérience de l'apprentissage du micmac et sur les pratiques pédagogiques choisies. Ils contribuent également à la prise de décisions concernant la planification scolaire et communautaire en ce qui concerne le mouvement de renaissance des communautés autochtones et la revitalisation de leur langue
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
Understanding diabetes in a Cree community : a qualitative study
No full textThe purpose of this study was to explore aboriginal perspectives of diabetes, nutrition and health so as to eventually develop culturally-appropriate means of implementing diabetes prevention and intervention activities. The participants included community members living in an Eastern James Bay Cree community in northern Quebec. In this qualitative research study, in-depth interviews, focus groups, and participant observation were used for data collection. Key themes that emerged from analyzing the in-depth interviews were "re-presented" using "found poetry" so as to capture the participants' experiences and perspectives using their own words. Focus groups were carried out to share the initial findings from the in-depth interviews as well as to elicit additional feedback from the community
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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