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The use of information and communication technology in academic research: is it possible to realize academic integrity?
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The Use of Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training in Teaching English Pronunciation for First-Year EFL Students at Saida University
Full text linkThe present research work investigates the use of Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training in teaching English pronunciation for first-year EFL students at the department of English language and literature, Saida University, Algeria. It also aims to provide a cursory account of the vital place of Information and Communication Technology in developing the linguistic skills of English foreign language learners in particular and the learning process in Algerian universities in general. The topic is an original contribution in the Algerian context since there is a scarcity of studies related to the teaching of English pronunciation through the use of ICT tools. The researchers relied on “Pronunciation Coach Software,” which focuses on developing the learner’s correct pronunciation of English sounds, including consonants and diphthongs, through an experiment with two groups of students. The investigation took six months. To evaluate students’ oral production, the researchers conducted a Pretest and a Posttest. The test proved that students’ negative attitudes towards learning English pronunciation changed after integrating the Pronunciation Coach. The results also revealed that there is an improvement in pronouncing certain sounds mainly, /S,tS/, dZ, Z/ and /T, D/ and, some vowels, including /Q, ℘/, /U,, /↔U, aU/ and /eI, aI/. The findings further demonstrated that students became more aware of the main differences between English and Arabic pronunciations in terms of place and manner of articulation of sounds
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
Integrating Language-Sensitive Pedagogy Across Disciplines: A Qualitative Exploration of Interdisciplinary Practices in Multilingual Education
No full textThis study examines the implementation of language-sensitive pedagogy in the disciplinary contexts of multilingual higher education. Leveraging seminal theoretical frameworks such as the ROAD-MAPPING model (Dafouz & Smit, 2020), translanguaging theory (García & Wei, 2014), and disciplinary literacy (Shanahan & Shanahan, 2008), the article directly attends to long-standing content-area instruction deficits, whereby language often remains an extremely neglected but requisite element in knowledge construction. Using a qualitative synthesis of research evidence, the study examines cross-disciplinary practices, including integrated content and language teaching, co-teaching, language-responsive curriculum design, and professional collaboration between content and language specialists. Outcomes reveal institutional and ideological barriers, such as monolingual norms and inadequate policy support; yet, they also inform transformative approaches that reconceptualize multilingualism as a pedagogical resource. The article argues for structural and ideological reforms in higher education systems through policy-making, curriculum development, and teacher training to promote equity and linguistic inclusion, and suggests an institutional model of reforms based on the integration of disciplinary knowledge and linguistic capability to bridge the divide between language and content. Finally, it calls for a reconceptualization of teaching practice that places language at the center of disciplinary learning, allowing all students, regardless of their linguistic background, to contribute fully and richly to the life of the academy
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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