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Vokabellernen mit Mozart Welchen Effekt hat klassische Musik auf das Lernen deutscher Vokabeln bei niederländischen DaF-Lernern?
No full textDer Mozart-Effekt besagt, dass man sich Vokabeln besser merken kann, wenn die Vokabeln mit klassischer Musik von Mozart im Hintergrund gelernt werden. Verschiedene Untersuchungen haben in der Vergangenheit unterschiedliche Ergebnisse was die Existenz des Mozart-Effekts betrifft gefunden. Diese Studie versucht die Existenz des Mozart-Effekts zu überprüfen. Dafür sollten 46 niederländische Versuchsteilnehmer, verteilt über zwei separate Gruppen, in zwei unterschiedlichen Konditionen 40 deutsche Vokabeln lernen. In der ersten Kondition sollten die Versuchsteilnehmer 20 Vokabeln mit klassischer Musik von Mozart im Hintergrund lernen. In der zweiten Kondition sollten die Versuchsteilnehmer wieder, aber diesmal 20 andere deutsche Vokabeln ohne Musik lernen. Beide Konditionen wurden nach dem lateinischen Quadrat in jeder Gruppe durchgeführt. Aus den Ergebnissen ging ein signifikanter Unterschied hervor, der besagt, dass das Lernen von Vokabeln mit klassischer Musik von Mozart im Hintergrund im Rahmen dieses Experiments zu positiveren Ergebnissen führte. Die deutschen Vokabeln konnten also besser mit klassischer Musik von Mozart im Hintergrund gelernt werden, als ohne Musik im Hintergrund
The reading and writing abilities in different reading and writing cultures
No full textThe aim of this study was to investigate the possible relationship between the presence or absence of a reading and writing culture in pre-education in the country of origin of a refugee and the connection with the Dutch educational system. This question was answered by examining the reading and writing abilities and the use of reading and writing strategies among 51 high educated Syrian, German, and Dutch participants who learned Dutch as a second language at the time of testing at A2/B1 level by conducting interviews, thinking-out-loud experiments, and Frog Story Tests in Dutch. Qualitive and quantitative analysis reveals that the Syrians use the least reading strategies in the thinking-out-loud experiments and that least writing strategies in the Frog Story Tests. They also produced the shortest narratives in the Frog Story Tests. Thereafter, the Germans follow up the Syrians and the Dutch use all the reading and writing elements the most. The use of all the reading and writing elements and strategies can be related to the absence or presence of reading comprehension and writing papers classes in primary and secondary school including learning how to use learning reading and writing strategies. The interviews showed that the Syrian participants did not learn these elements and strategies at all, the German participants learned them to some extent, and the Dutch participants discussed the reading and writing elements and strategies extensively during primary schools, high schools, and even higher education. To sum up, there is a relationship between the absence or presence of a reading and writing culture in pre-education in the country of origin of a refugee and the connection with the Dutch educational system
Literacy in Limburgian bidialectal children: The effect of raising Limburgian children bilingually on their reading and writing abilities
No full textA prejudice still prevalent today is the thought that speaking a Limburgian dialect has a negative influence on the language abilities of a Limburgian child going to primary school. However, proper evidence in the form of scientific research to counter this prejudice does not yet exist. Therefore, the current study examined whether one can speak of a possible relationship between speaking a Limburgian dialect and the reading and writing abilities in Dutch within primary school children in Limburg of grade 4 and 8. In this study, it was hypothesized that there would be no or a positive relationship between the reading and writing abilities of bilingual (bidialectal) Limburgian children speaking a local Limburgian variety and Dutch. CITO spelling and reading comprehension skills test scores and language background information from 283 primary school children in Limburg were collected and analysed statistically to answer the research question of this study. A five-way independent factorial ANOVA revealed that there is a positive relationship between speaking a Limburgian dialect and performance on the Dutch spelling test and that there is no relationship between speaking a dialect and performance on the Dutch reading test. Furthermore, it was found that there is a positive relationship between the amount of spelling and reading scores and the library visits of the bidialectal children. Finally, positive relationships were found for the amount of reading of the child itself to other persons, the amount of library visits, the amount of reading by the parents and the height of the spelling test scores. Especially the bilingual children seem to benefit from more frequent reading by their parents and library visits. Finally, we can draw the conclusion that the beliefs that many Limburgian governmental institutions, teachers and parents have, namely saying that Limburgian bidialectal children have lower writing and reading abilities than Limburgian monolingual children, are false
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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