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Students’ Perspectives about the Influence of Mass Media on Their English Language Acquisition in Higher Education
Full text linkThis study collected students' viewpoints about the impact of mass media on their English language learning in higher education in Albania. Their perspectives hold significance for professors to enhance their future educational experience. The study used a questionnaire that was designed and distributed via Google Forms during the academic year in 2022 and 2023. Study participants were 56 students enrolled in the two study programs: a three-year bachelor’s study program in "English Language" and a two-year Professional master's study program for "English Teachers" within the Department of Foreign Languages at the Faculty of Education and Philology at "Fan S. Noli" University, Korҫa, Albania. Most participants used mass media to improve their English language learning. Additionally, students who used various types of mass media had a more extensive vocabulary, were more fluent in English, had higher levels of motivation, and a more positive outlook about learning the English language. Mass media transformed students from dependent passive learners to active independent learners
CHALLENGES OF ACQUIRING SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE FOR STUDENTS OF PRE-UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AND TEACHER RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT
Full text linkIt is already known that one of the greatest challenges of education nowadays is: motivating students in language acquisition. The school, besides being one of the main agents of socialization, is at the same time the main institution which has the responsibility and the attribute to provide students with scientific knowledge according to their age and characteristics.
Thus, in order to guarantee this attribute, specialists of education, educators, researchers in the field of education psychology, methodology, etc. constantly recommend the application of critical thinking techniques by the teachers.
The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of acquiring scientific knowledge at an early age and defining effective strategies in order to achieve this goal.
This paper also aims to review some important issues such as: motivating students through teaching strategies in classroom environments and the responsibilities of the teacher who will serve as a catalyst to carry out the above processes.
Through this study we will answer these questions: How can students be motivated in classroom environments when scientific knowledge can be provided in different ways and in relatively short time? What are the most effective strategies for their motivation? Why is it so important to acquire scientific knowledge for this age? What are the specific responsibilities of the teacher during this process?It is already known that one of the greatest challenges of education nowadays is: motivating students in language acquisition. The school, besides being one of the main agents of socialization, is at the same time the main institution which has the responsibility and the attribute to provide students with scientific knowledge according to their age and characteristics.
Thus, in order to guarantee this attribute, specialists of education, educators, researchers in the field of education psychology, methodology, etc. constantly recommend the application of critical thinking techniques by the teachers.
The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of acquiring scientific knowledge at an early age and defining effective strategies in order to achieve this goal.
This paper also aims to review some important issues such as: motivating students through teaching strategies in classroom environments and the responsibilities of the teacher who will serve as a catalyst to carry out the above processes.
Through this study we will answer these questions: How can students be motivated in classroom environments when scientific knowledge can be provided in different ways and in relatively short time? What are the most effective strategies for their motivation? Why is it so important to acquire scientific knowledge for this age? What are the specific responsibilities of the teacher during this process
Preparing Real-world Professionals: Integrating Translation, Sustainability, and Digital Media in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Education
Full text linkInnovative pedagogical approaches are essential in fostering environmentally conscious professionals who can successfully deal with complex, real-world challenges. This paper investigates how integrating themes of sustainability into an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course enhances students' four competencies (4Cs; critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication) while strengthening linguistic and professional skills. First-year students pursuing a degree in marketing at Fan S. Noli University engaged in bilingual translation tasks and digital content creation, using Instagram to create, translate, and share sustainability messages and MURAL for collaborative problem-solving. A pre- and post-course survey assessed students’ evolving perceptions of sustainability and skill development. Findings among others indicate that translation reinforced comprehension, social media fostered engagement, and interdisciplinary digital tools enhanced critical thinking and communication skills. These results highlight the pedagogical benefits of integrating translation and social media into ESP curricula to develop multilingual professionals with a strong awareness of sustainability
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
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
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