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Metalinguistic Abilities Across Different Typologies of Minority Language Speakers. recent Advances in Italian Research.
No full textThe article presents research conducted by the author on metalinguistic abilities in disadvantaged bilingual Italian children . An additive and a substractive case were analysed, both assessed by means of the same test, targeted for 9-14 year-old children. In the additive situation, bilinguals outperformed their monolingual homologues, whereas in the substractive case, the contrary was true. The results are discussed in the light of the educational variables which characterize the two contexts
Three Age-Level Metalinguistic Ability Tests. Theoretical Framework and Description.
No full textThe article describes three Italian tests of metalinguistic abilities (MATs, in acronym), from 4 years old to adulthood, which have been devised by the author, in collaboration with an Italian applied psycholinguist and applied linguist, Prof. Renzo Titone. The description of the tests is preceded by an introduction about the concept of metalinguistic development as an increasingly abstract capability of reflecting upon structures and meanings of language
Twenty years on metalinguistic awareness and bilingualism with Renzo Titone: the history of a long partnership
No full textThis paper outlines the major milestones of a twenty-year-long collaboration between the author and an international figure in Educational Psycholinguistics and bilingual studies, namely, Renzo Titone. The stucture of Titone's glosso-dynamic model is first described. In this model, the deepest level, named "ego-dynamic", is viewed as the source of metalinguistic awareness (MLA, henceforth), to which bilingualism and language learning, in general, can bring an added value.Then, the main objectives and outcomes of an international project on MLA Titone has been coordinating during the 80s and the 90s, are described. Among these outcomes, particular focus is placed on the development of MLA assessment tools, their translation in various languages, and their extensive use in research in bilingual contexts. The overall picture emphasizes the increasing enlargement of the range of participants, countries and languages involved in this project, that have long survived Titone'life
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
The Italian metalinguistic ability tests TAM-2 and TAM-3 (Pinto & Titone 1989 ; Pinto 1995, 1999) and their use in research: an overview
No full textThis article describes two metalinguistic ability tests, the TAM-2 and the TAM-3 (Pinto
& Titone 1989 ; Pinto 1995, 1999), which address two different age ranges, 9-14 and late adolescenceadulthood,
respectively. In both tests, there is a clear distinction between L questions, which elicit
an intuitive and global form of metalinguistic awareness (henceforth, MLA), and ML questions,
which request justification of the previous L questions, and thus elicit MLA at the explicit level. To
assess these more complex ML processes, a three-step scale has been created, based on Piaget’s final
equilibration model (Piaget, 1975) which posits three types of mental regulations to face cognitive
conflicts : alpha, beta, and gamma. As metalinguistic tasks are intrinsically generated by cognitive
conflicts between linguistic elements of different nature (in form and in meaning), the alpha, beta,
and gamma pattern has been transposed to the metalinguistic domain. This coding system ensures
continuity between the TAM-2 and the TAM-3, beyond differences in metalinguistic complexity. This
article also offers an overview of the extensive research that has been conducted with the TAM-2 and
the TAM-3, not only in their original linguistic version, i.e. Italian, but in all the other linguistic versions
available (English, French, Spanish, and German)
Editorial to The “MATEL” (metalinguistic awareness tests in european languages) project: validations and translations
No full textThis is the Editorial to a special issue devoted to the results of a European project called MATEL (Metalinguistic Awareness Tests in European Languages), that set out to implement research for validating some metalinguistic tests in Spanish and French versions, translate these tests into German, and create educational resources to enhance metalinguistic awareness in various areas of the curriculum and in different languages
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
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