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Integrating the Arts into English Learning: A Case Study of EFL Learners in a Canadian University
Get PDFThis study is to explore what happens when the arts are integrated into the program called “English Through the Arts” in a Canadian university. This research has been conducted to investigate whether including arts activities contributes to better outcomes for the students who are working to improve their language skills. Semi-structured interviews, participant observation and artifacts elicitation have been employed as methods of data collection. Seven participants from China, Kazakhstan, India and Saudi Arabic have been interviewed with their artworks crafted in sessions. The results showed that arts serve as a stimulus, refresher, guider and facilitator in English language learning. In addition, arts also act as cohesion of the class, contributing to learning English. Participants in this program showed high involvement and engagement in learning English when integrating arts into English language learning
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
Plagiarism education, perceptions, and responsibilities in post-secondary education.
Get PDFResearch on plagiarism in post-secondary education is currently receiving a lot of attention. Most of this research focuses on student plagiarism rates, which is typically done through self-reporting, as well as student plagiarism perceptions. A limited number of studies on plagiarism education, particularly in the Canadian context, are available. There are two groups of participants in this study: undergraduate students and instructors at a comprehensive southwestern university in Ontario, Canada. This mixed-method online study investigates plagiarism education, student academic entitlement, and student personal values, and it explores plagiarism perceptions, including responsibility for plagiarism education and reasons for student engagement in plagiarism. Findings from this study suggest that students would like plagiarism education and that providing students with plagiarism education may reduce the plagiarism engagement rate. The results of this study reveal that instructor participants agree on how plagiarism is defined, but they differ in how they handle plagiarism
Senior Chinese English as a second language (ESL) learners on their learning expectations and needs in a communicative-approach-based program in Windsor: A case study
Get PDFThis study probes into the learning milieu of a cohort of Chinese senior immigrants in order to inquire into their learning needs and expectations in a communicative-approach-based program. The participants, who acknowledged the importance of learning English as a second language (ESL), nevertheless expressed pessimism about their English learning outcomes. The elderly ESL students expect the curricula to adopt Chinese and English as classroom languages and present more senior life-related topics. A moderate learning pace integrated with recurrent learning cycles is considered appropriate for Chinese elderly ESL learners
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
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
Identity In/Formation: A Visual Autoethnographic Exploration Through The Voices And Images Of Six Immigrant Women Graduate Students
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to examine the formation of the researcher's identity through narratives of immigrant women, collected through interviews, who are completing masters programs at the University of Windsor. The purpose of this study is to expand a body of knowledge, document and critique social practice/s, and reflect on epistemological or philosophical questions. Using a case study approach and a convenience sample, the researcher interviewed six graduate student participants who self-identify both as a woman and as an immigrant. At the end of each semi-structured interview, each participant was invited to perform a `song of identity' - a song she felt is significant to her personal history and/or cultural background. Applying autoethography, narrative and arts-based research methods, the researcher assembled a visual representation of [her] identity through the answers and song performances of the participants. The fragmented nature of the supporting project parallels the fragmented glimpses into the researcher's own identity formation and exemplifies identity as a series of sub-identities unified through flux, separations and breaks. Additionally, this project explores the interplay between personal experiences or life positions (immigrant, woman, graduate student) and research interests
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