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Influence of the linguistic context on the comprehension of complex sentences
No full textAccess to thesis permanently restricted to Ball State community onlyChildren’s second language acquisition and the factors that influence their proficiency is an
expanding topic of interest among researchers. Studies have covered topics such as home language
input, societal interactions, classroom influences, and language of instruction. Other research has
centered on the comprehension of specific linguistic structures and the requisite skills. A considerable
amount of the data is acquired from sample populations of bilingual students living in America,
attending an English immersive school. The current study compared language comprehension scores
between kindergarteners attending school in the greater Boston area and kindergarteners attending
school in the greater Santa Cruz area. The research sought to answer the following questions: Is there a
difference in comprehension of sentences between English learners in America and English learners in
Bolivia? Do the children struggle with certain syntactic constructions more than others? If the schools
differ in scores, with which linguistic structures does each school struggle with most? Are the structures
with which the students struggle similar? The results showed that the children attending school in the
greater Boston area scored significantly higher on the test than the children attending school in the
greater Santa Cruz area. The study began a preliminary analysis of the sentences to further understand
what syntactic structures the children struggled with most. No pattern of specific constructs emerged.
However, the children in both schools struggled with the same sentences and excelled with the same
sentences. We propose that a more thorough investigation of sentence structure will provide an
improved model of education when addressing the unique opportunities of teaching second language
learners.Thesis (M.S.
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
Influence of the Linguistic Context on the Comprehension of Complex Sentences
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This study examined English learners\u27 comprehension of complex sentences and compared scores between a school in Boston and an American school in Bolivia. Studies have covered topics such as home language input, societal interactions, classroom influences, and language of instruction. Other research has centered on the comprehension of specific linguistic structures and the requisite skills. A considerable amount of the data is acquired from sample populations of bilingual students living in the United States, attending an English immersive school. The current study compared language comprehension scores between kindergarteners attending school in the greater Boston area in the United States and kindergarteners attending school in the greater Santa Cruz area in Bolivia. The research sought to answer the following questions: (1) Do the children struggle with certain syntactic constructions more than others? (2) Is there a difference in comprehension of sentences between English learners in the United States and English learners in Bolivia? (3) Is there an interaction between school and sentence type on students’ scores? If so, which sentence type does each school struggle with most? The study began with a preliminary item analysis of the sentences to explore possible similarities among the students’ performance. No pattern of specific constructs emerged. Importantly, the results of the two mixed effects models indicated that school and classroom did not account for variation in scores. Furthermore, sentence type and its interaction with school did not have an impact on student’s scores. However, the results showed that scores vary between students. The importance of context on second language development and sentence structure when teaching second language learners is 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
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
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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