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Don’t throw your paper dictionary away! Using different types of dictionaries for improving EFL vocabulary learning
No full textThe digitalization has revolutionized L2 acquisition and fostered a great diffusion of online dictionaries (Müller-Spitzer 2014). But experiments comparing online to paper-based dictionaries provide mixed results (Lew&DeSchryver 2014): Chen (2010) did not find significant differences for vocabulary acquisition between the two kind of dictionaries, while Allharbi (2016) and Dziemianko (2010) found that students using online dictionaries could learn more words compared to paper-based dictionaries. In contrast Li-Ling&Liu (2013) and Ferrett&Dollinger (2021) brought data in favour of the printed dictionary. The present study was carried out in order to see if there were any significant differences between online and paper dictionaries in the context of EFL learning with regard to: a) vocabulary acquisition; b) memorization of (15) new words; c) reading comprehension d) long-term retention of new words. Fifty-four students carried out the experiment in 4 sessions at a language centre run by a German university; they were randomly assigned to the online, paper and a control group. Based on the results, in the short-term test users of paper dictionaries performed slightly better on an exercise on the correct spelling of words than the control group. Another statistically significant difference was that students rated the user-friendliness of the paper dictionary slightly better
Prefazione
No full textIl testo introduce il numero 35-36 di Lexia - Rivista di Semiotica, dedicato al tema "Isolanità. Per una semiotica culturale delle isole / Islandness. Toward a Cultural Semiotics of Islands". La prefazione dà conto del senso di uno studio semiotico delle isole e delle soggettività che ad essa si correlano e introduce i saggi che compongono il numero della rivista
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
Proposal of a simple expression for predicting the horizontal capacity of masonry walls
No full textIn this paper, a simple expression for predicting the horizontal capacity of multistorey unreinforced masonry frames is proposed and discussed in the framework of limit analysis approach. To this aim, the panels of Convent of San Carlo all'Arena in Naples has been analyzed via nonlinear static analysis. The results have been compared with the values provided by the application of the proposed simple expressions, which only depend on geometrical parameters and external loads. The results show that the values obtained with the simplified formula are very close to the values obtained by pushover analysis, especially if higher compressive strength values are assumed, and the scatters assume greater values as the irregularity in the arrangement of the openings in the vertical and horizontal direction increases
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
Isolanità. Per una semiotica culturale delle isole / Islandness. Toward a Cultural Semiotics of Islands
No full textDire “isola” pare implicare un senso di chiusura, oggettivazione, naturalità, sintetizzato dal concetto d’insularità.
Questo volume di semiotica delle culture vuole invece cogliere la soggettività delle isole e di chi le popola. Per farlo tesse connessioni fra mito e storia, utopia e distopia, metafora e modelli, immaginario e teoria; fra semiotica, nissologia, antropologia, filosofia, mediologia, studi culturali.
Parlare d’isolanità significa dunque contribuire ad emancipare lo studio delle isole da una concezione riduttivistica, facendo vedere tutta l’arcipelagica ricchezza di relazioni e identificazioni che queste custodiscono nella loro storia, nel loro presente, nelle loro aspirazioni.Saying "island" seems to imply a sense of closure, objectification, naturalness, synthesized by the concept of insularity.
This volume of semiotics of cultures, on the other hand, seeks to capture the subjectivity of islands and of those who populate them. To do this, the volume weaves connections between myth and history, utopia and dystopia, metaphor and models, imagination and theory; between semiotics, nyssology, anthropology, philosophy, mediology, cultural studies.
Speaking of islandness therefore means contributing to emancipating the study of islands from a reductivistic conception, showing all the archipelagic richness of relationships and identifications that they preserve in their history, in their present, in their aspirations
A proposal for evaluation of seismic vulnerability of complex masonry building with additions: the case of Zoological Station Anton Dohrn
No full textNowadays, interest in the preservation of cultural built heritage is globally increasing. The assessment of seismic vulnerability of existing masonry buildings is a complex task as their morphological evolution is often characterised by transformations, aggregations, addition of structural portion to existing ones and modifications developed over centuries. In this paper the seismic vulnerability of the Zoological Station Anton Dohrn in Naples has been evaluated. It is a complex masonry building that includes six parts (the central part, West wing, East wing, two connecting parts and the library) built in different periods. Preliminary analysis, as the evaluation of geometric parameters (for example the ratio between the area of masonry walls and the geometric area), and nonlinear static analysis, by using the equivalent frame model, of central part and connecting parts, part A and B, respectively, have been carried out. Due to the complexity of the building, two hypotheses have been considered. The first hypothesis involves the analysis of the central part and the connecting parts as isolated structures, neglecting the interaction between the parts; the second hypothesis considers a perfect interaction between the parts that are analysed as a single structure. By discussing the results obtained, a proposal for the evaluation of the seismic vulnerability of complex masonry buildings with additions of structural portions is formulated
Complex monumental buildings. Definition of complexities and structural implications
No full textIn the present paper, the typical complexities of masonry structures are investigated and discussed throughout the case of San Carlo all'Arena Convent in order to underline their structural implications. It is a masonry building located in Naples that has a strong historical interest because of its different occupancy over time. It is part of an aggregate, with adjacent buildings with different height and a church. Located on a hill, the Convent case study is characterized by variable height and a rectangular plan with a courtyard. During its history, it was subjected to modifications, as the additions of parts in plan and of floors, and alterations, as openings which are often misaligned in vertical direction and are not characterized by the same sizes as the existing ones. For this reason, this masonry building allows the analysis of the typical complexities of masonry structures. Among these, the following will be highlighted: the evolution in the time, the interconnection among different constructions, addition of floors, the presence of different occupancy, foundations at different heights and the presence of alterations, as addition of openings. To discuss this issue, the complexities and their structural implications of San Carlo all'Arena Convent in Naples are analysed
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