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Discourse analysis in Tamil classrooms using corpus data: A study of the acquisition and usage of standard spoken Tamil in Singapore Tamil classrooms [தரவு வங்கியைப் பயன்படுத்தித் தமிழ் வகுப்புகளில் சொல்லாடல் பகுப்பாய்வு: மாணவர் முகவரும் வகுப்பறை இடைவினையாடலும்]
No full textThis paper aims to examine how student agency affects the level of classroom interaction through discourse analysis in Tamil classrooms. This study is part of a larger research project that analyses language acquisition in Singapore Tamil classrooms. Before effective learning takes place, it is important for the students to feel that they are the key agents in their learning. They need to have a sense of comradeship in their classroom where they feel a sense of connectedness and feel empowered to develop their capacity in learning. This is only possible when teachers create a suitable learning environment where they are responsive to students’ voices and subsequently actions that follow (Wiliams, 2017). Student agency is critical in language learning and discourse analysis will enable one to study the interaction that takes place in a language classroom. This will facilitate the understanding of how the learning environment is structured and to what extent there is a capacity for student agency. This paper analyses the data collected from the Tamil classrooms under the research project (DEV03/SL15) (Seetha Lakshmi et al., 2015). Data included audio and video recordings that have been transcribed into Tamil and then translated into English. The preliminary findings of two Primary classroom data reveal that the level of classroom interaction is increased by student agency and teachers’ facilitation on sustained speaking.</p
Creating a corpus Tamil data bank to investigate the impact of Standard Spoken Tamil (SST) and to provide pedagogical guidance to Tamil teachers on Standard Spoken Tamil (SST) in Singapore
No full textNote: Restricted to NIE staff.This project aims to develop a Corpus Tamil Data Bank based on classroom studies and observations and analysis to study the impact and the enactment of Standard Spoken Tamil (SST) in Tamil Education This project will provide empirical evidence on the use of SST in Tamil classrooms at Primary and to Secondary levels. SST has been recommended by the Tamil Language Curriculum and Pedagogy Review Committee (Ministry of Education, 2005) to introduce measures to enhance the teaching and learning of Tamil language in Tamil classrooms. With the corpus created, this project examined the enactment of the main recommendations of the review committees (MOE, 2005, Seetha Lakshmi et al., 2006).The purpose of this project was to create a Corpus Data Bank on Tamil language with classroom video recordings and observations with the aim of investigating the impact of Standard Spoken Tamil (SST) in the Singapore classroom domain on Tamil Teaching. The objective is to provide pedagogical guidance to Tamil language teachers on the use and functions of SST in Tamil teaching and learning. The setting up and collection of a corpus on Tamil classroom data that makes a contribution to this gap in the knowledge and pedagogy of Spoken Tamil.The data in turn will help develop the teaching and learning of SST in Singapore that will lead to the introduction of effective and sustained measures in enhancing the teaching and learning of SST in the classroom domain. This is in response to the use of SST that was recommended by the Tamil Language Curriculum and Pedagogy Review Committee (MOE, 2005). In examining the enactment of recommendations set by the review committees (MOE, 2005, Seetha Lakshmi et al., 2006, Seetha Lakshmi and Vanithamani Saravanan, 2010), this project, in focusing on spoken Tamil, will bridge the theory and practice of SST with the new Tamil language curriculum that is being implemented in Tamil language classrooms, will provide empirical evidence on the use of SST in Tamil classrooms - from Primary One to Secondary Five. The collection of data on Tamil language Teaching in the Tamil Corpus Data Bank is based on a detailed analysis of the use of SST – with an emphasis on the patterns of interactions in classroom discourse in the Singapore Tamil classrooms. This in turn will allow Tamil language curriculum writers, specialists and educators to produce learning materials that emphasizes the uses and functions of SST in Spoken Tamil in the classroom. It is hoped that the successful completion of this project has the potential for further research projects on SST in the classroom. This will require additional support from NIE and MOE on Tamil Corpus Data projects on the publication of Singapore’s first dictionary of Tamil language education - providing a significant contribution to the use and understanding of SST amongst Tamil language teachers and studentsDEV 03/15 S
Respect for knowledge and guru in contemporary music education
No full textGurus, responsible for imparting knowledge and guiding their shishyas, have historically fulfilled the role of imparting knowledge and core values. In Tamil culture, gurus are placed on a par with parents as nurturing individuals who instill knowledge imbued with values such as acceptance, tolerance toward humankind, and generosity to society. However, modernization and technical advancements have transformed the role of the guru, the dynamics of the guru-shishya relationship, and pedagogical techniques. The author traces the history and philosophy of the guru, which encompasses “respect for knowledge” and the time-honored system of guru-shishya parampara. Focusing on music education, this essay discusses factors that have contributed to the changes in the landscape. The author argues that, although the landscape has evolved, the basic concept of respect for knowledge and for the guru remains. The author also proposes strategies that can be undertaken to preserve the important aspects of the guru-shishya relationship
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
RaBBiT (Raising Biilingual Babies in Talk)
No full textThe RaBBiT (Raising Bilingual Babies in Talk) initiative aims to provide research-informed guidance on how to raise bilingual children to expecting parents and parents with young children aged 0 to 6. The production of the videos and booklets are supported by the Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism (MOE), Singapore. The initiative is led by Dr. Yvonne Tse Crepaldi and supported by a team of experts in bilingualism from Singapore and overseas. They include Prof. Suzy Styles and Prof. Ng Bee Chin from NTU, Prof. Seetha Lakshmi and Prof. Mukhlis Abu Bakar from NIE, and Prof. Elizabeth Lanza from the University of Oslo
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
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