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Jordanian Undergraduate Students’ Use of English Prepositional Verbs: Analytical Study
Get PDFThis study investigates the difficulties of English prepositions that face Arab English language learners (ELLs) at the university level. It attempts to unfold the factors that cause these problems and to help English as foreign language (EFL) teachers to come up with effective teaching methods in teaching English prepositions. Many studies have been conducted on the ELLs when it comes to English prepositions. However, this study explains what causes these problems in the first place, and what EFL teachers can do to avoid those problems especially for Arab ELLs. The results show that using preposition collocation in teaching Arab ELLs is proved to be better than teaching prepositions individually.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
The Effectiveness of a Proposed Program Based on a Mind Mapping Strategy in Developing the Writing Achievement of Eleventh Grade EFL Students in Jordan and Their Attitudes Towards Writing
Get PDFThe purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to explore the effectiveness of a proposed mind mapping program on developing writing achievement skills of first secondary students and to evaluate that the role that this strategy may play in promoting students' attitudes towards writing in Jordan. Throughout her experience as a teacher, the researcher noticed that many students find it difficult to write in English. Even when they write, they look worried, hesitant, and disorganized. They may have some ideas, but they are usually unable to convey them using proper language, diction, and cohesion. The researcher thinks that this could be due to the teaching strategies used, the types of feedback students receive, the types of writing activities in textbooks, or lack of opportunities to practice writing. Many teachers also complain that teaching writing skills is difficult because these skills are not easy to measure, they do not have due emphasis in the class because of time pressure. This study may derive its significance from the attempts to highlight the characteristics of Mind Mapping Program for teaching writing skills of Jordanian schools since these are normally ignored or least attended to by many teachers. The subjects of the study consisted of 91 female students who were purposefully chosen from eleventh grade students at Sands National Academy, Amman Second Directorate of Education during the first semester of the academic year 2013/2014. The experimental and control groups were randomly assigned. The treatment group was instructed by using the mind mapping strategy for teaching writing skills whereas students of the control group were tutored by using the conventional method of teaching writing. At the end of the experiment, the different groups (experimental and control) sat for the writing achievement post-test, filled the attitudinal questionnaire. Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was used to measure statistical differences in the mean scores of subjects of the study. The results of the study showed that there were statistically significant differences at (? =0.05) in the mean scores of students regarding their writing achievement and their attitudes towards writing. Those differences were in favor of the experimental group. However, the results of the study revealed no significant interaction between the method of instruction and students’ general levels of English (good, average, or poor) in students’ writing achievement or attitudes towards writing. Based on these results, it was recommended that more research be carried out to provide additional knowledge with regard to the replication of the current experiment by investigating other aspects of the English language and at different grade levels. Training courses for teachers on the mind mapping strategy should be encouraged to equip those teachers with the necessary knowledge and practice needed to apply mind mapping instruction in their classrooms. The mind mapping strategy can also be integrated into the EFL curriculum in Jordan to develop students’ attitudes toward writing. Teachers are also advised to use the mind mapping technique to increase students’ interest and motivation to write more often. Keywords: Mind Mapping, Mind Mapping-Based Program (MMBP), Conventional method, Process writing, Writing achievement test, Writing achievement scale, Attitudes towards writing, Students' general level of English
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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