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Willingness to communicate of Korean learners of English in an overseas L2 environment
No full textTheoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 144-157.1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Research mthodology -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion and implications -- 6. Conclusions and suggestions.Willingness to communicate (WTC) represents the tendency of an individual to initiate conversation when free to do so. In the past WTC has been examined in both a person's first language (L1) and second language (L2). Investigations found that different variables are in effect when a person is using their L1 and L2, and so these need to be investigated separately. This project examined L2 WTC of Korean learners’ of English in an ESL setting in Sydney. It was an approximate replication of studies carried out by Tomoko Yashima among a cohort of Japanese students studying English as an L2 in an EFL setting. Of particular interest to the current study was the relationship between the constructs International Posture and WTC, which was shown to be significant in the Yashima studies. The present study also investigated how a learner's attitudes and perceptions of the L2, while immersed in the L2 community, can change over time and result in a change in WTC and its underlying antecedents; this was a variable that was not included in Yashima’s studies. Yashima et al.’s (2004) research instrument was adapted to the present ESL context. A total of 117 Korean learners of English participated in the study. With the use of SPSS AMOS 21.0, a path model was adapted from Yashima et al. (2004), to test the causal relationships among the variables. Pearson correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the learners’ attitudes across time.The results demonstrated that all relationships within the path model were significant, except the relationship between International Posture and L2 WTC. This result highlights that International Posture in predicting L2 WTC may not be as applicable in an ESL setting as it is in an EFL setting. A number of sociocultural factors may be at play that an EFL environment cannot account for. It was also shown that Intercultural Friendship Orientation, a variable associated with International Posture, showed higher scores for participants who had been in Australia a shorter time than a longer time. It was also shown that participants who had stayed longer in the L2 environment showed higher scores in Perceived Competence than shorter staying participants. Based on the findings, the significance of the study, its limitations, and suggestions for further research are laid out.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (xii, 157 pages) diagrams, graphs, table
Global English, global identities, and the global world: perceptions of a group of Korean English language users
No full textTheoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 298-325.Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Interpreting globalisation -- 5. Interpreting English in the world -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion.While global flows of information can be considered to be co - constructed and dynamic in nature, these same cultural movements may be seen by some to be under the influence of more prominent global forces and their associated cultural assets, e.g. the US and English. Nevertheless, contemporary English users' increased global mobility, leading to more intensified cultural encounters can foreground more nuanced interpretations of the global world and its cultural cycles and dynamics. Essentially, viewed from Ulrich Beck's Cosmopolitan Perspective, the contemporary era is one of intensified online and offline global encounters that enables Global English users to take on more subjective globally critical dispositions. Therefore, this research is in response to current globalising trends where global values, knowledge, and identities are constructed through more unique individual experiences. Such perspectives allow for a more critical analysis of English's position in the world, how it is consumed, and ho w it and its users interrelate. Adopting a Cosmopolitan Perspective, this study investigated seven Korean English users' views and interpretations of globalisation flows and Global English, and their subsequent positioning to English with respect to their being L2 users of Global English. Attitudes towards globalisation trends, Global English culture, English's position in the world and in the Korean context, World Englishes, and global/local identities were discussed. To address these issues, a longitudinal qualitative case study approach was utilised. Five semi - structured interviews were conducted with the participants over a 10 - month period. Pre - interview prompts and post - interview reflection blogs were also employed, which aided in the consolidation and recursive element running through the data collection process.The main findings to emerge were as follows. First, global technological innovations, e.g. the Internet, were pin - pointed as being particularly significant in the contemporary world. Such pervasiveness of Internet usage was a main implicating factor in the participants' perspective that iv English is 'not the only way' to navigate and become familiar with the world. It s ubiquitous usage was also highlighted as significantly contributing to a more dynamically woven and interrelating international culture rather than one interpreted through simplistic cultural polarities. Second , while the participants displayed open attitudes towards English variety (WEs), it was rather an acceptance of linguistic nuance as a representation of cultural background than legitimacy of alternative varieties of English. Subsequently Standard English should maintain adherence to native English speaker norms; albeit, global communicative competence among English's many users bore more prominence in this decision than one of native - centred ideology. Third, within the Korean context, the participants unanimously observed a disjuncture between the English received within Korean education system and the English needed for a more globally engaged Korean populace. Their views here also contributed to their acceptance of Korean English, as being a representation of Korean global engagement and agency. Lastly, while the participants displayed a sense of ownership and appropriation of English, such a relationship with the language did not necessarily fact or into their self - described global identities and orientations. Global knowledge and personal experiences were better descriptors for these orientations. Such perceptions bring into focus the complex processes involved in the construction of global dispositions and identities - certainly, English is a mitigating factor, but is one among many. The findings overall, suggest that as an outcome of increased global mobility, English users are forming more critical nuanced dispositions towards English, the global context, and its situatedness therein. Positioning oneself to native English speaker practices does not concurrently mean one is positioning oneself to native imperialistic ideologies. While insights revealed here certainly shine a spotlight on the Korean English education system, findings overall have implications for English education worldwide, in that, more awareness needs to be employed in terms of English learners more global active engagement.1 online resource (x, 349 pages
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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