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Mastering Mandarin endocentric phrases: a five-step technique / Mok Soon Sim, S. Suchithra K.Sankaran and Lau Suk Khin
Get PDFMandarin Endocentric Phrases (MEP) is a type of Mandarin phrase which is classified according to its internal structure. It is formed by two components which share a [modifier-head word] relationship. The modifier component pre cedes the head word it modifies. The role of the modifier is to describe or limit the head word. The Five-Step Technique is a simplified method of arranging words to form MEP. It helps non-native speakers to master the process of sequencing MEP. This technique is informed by findings from research on error analysis in the use of MEP among Malay students in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam campus in 2019. UiTM Malay students are influenced by their mother tongue which is the Malay language when they learn the MEP, thus they often make mistakes in the construction and translation of MEP. This Five-Step technique delineates the correct sequence of MEP into five parts, starting from the demonstrative pronouns, followed by the measure word, modifier or adjective, particle “de” and finally the noun or object. This technique will enable students to produce error-free MEPs and instinctively build their motivation to master the language. Ideally, Mandarin teachers can use this innovative teaching approach to create an interactive and collaborative learning partnership in the Mandarin classroom
MEPCP: an effective game-based learning for Mandarin endocentric phrases / Mok Soon Sim, Lau Suk Khin, and S. Suchithra K. Sankaran
Get PDFThis study is to investigate the effectiveness of using Mandarin Endocentric Phrases Crossword Puzzle (MEPCP), an online game-based teaching tool, to teach Mandarin Endocentric Phrases (MEP) in Mandarin classrooms. Game-based learning is widely acknowledged as an effective method to increase engagement among learners in foreign language classrooms. Within this backdrop, MEPCP was created to enable learners to experience the structuring of correct MEP in an engaging way. This study explores the efficacy of MEPCP in achieving the mastery of MEP. 155 students responded to 28 items on a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 24. Findings reveal that the students learn MEP more effectively via MEPCP. It is also evident that MEPCP is easily accessible and user friendly. Besides being learner-centred and entertaining, results indicate that it provides immediate feedback to the students. The conclusions underline that being grounded in the constructivist paradigm, MEPCP enables learners to experience content under authentic circumstances. This suggests the implementation of MEPCP helps to improve students’ Mandarin communication skills, thus nurtures holistic individuals who can realize the aspirations of the Malaysian education system
The error analysis of learning mandarin endocentric phrases among the Malay students in Malaysia / Mok Soon Sim, Lau Suk Khin and S. Suchithra K. Sankaran
Get PDFThe Mandarin language has gained currency in the Malaysian education landscape. Particularly in tertiary educational settings in Malaysia, it is common to find Malay students learning the Mandarin language. Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) is the largest university in Malaysia and it has the greatest number of Malay students learning Mandarin as a third language in the country. Almost all of the Malay students who study the Mandarin language at the university have no background in Mandarin. They are inevitably influenced by their mother tongue which is the Malay language. This paper aims to analyze Endocentric Mandarin phrasal errors commonly made by Malay students while studying Mandarin in UiTM. In addition, some teaching methods are also recommended to guide those involved in teaching and learning Mandarin. This study is conducted using a mixed method approach. Two research instruments were used in this study, that is question papers and interviews. 40 Malay students who were taking Introductory Mandarin Level II course in UiTM Shah Alam campus were chosen as the survey respondents. The results of the research revealed that there are 4 types of errors commonly made by Malay students in learning the Mandarin Endocentric Phrases, namely: (i) Omission of Measure Words, (ii) Reversed string order of Endocentric Phrases, (iii) Errors in Using Demonstrative Pronouns and (iv) Excess of the particle “de”. The most obvious mistake is the Omission of Measure Words and the Reversed string order of Endocentric Phrases due to the first language disruption. These errors have often resulted in structural and morphological inaccuracies
The error analysis of learning Mandarin Endocentric Phrases among the Malay students in Malaysia
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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
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