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AN AUTHENTICITY ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL TEXTS IN THE INDONESIAN EFL TEXTBOOKS
No full textAlthough the exposure of naturally occurring language use is important for learners (Carter et al., 2011; Tomlinson, 2011), in the Indonesian context artificiality can still be found in some teaching and learning materials published and used in the EFL classroom. Regarding this issue, this thesis reports on the analysis of the authenticity of three Indonesian published textbook materials (Pathway to English 1, 2, and 3) which are commonly used in EFL practices. Ten dialogues from the textbook materials with ten different topics were selected as the textbook data (TD). To find out how they display the features of authentic language use, they were compared with their reality-like equivalents or reality-like data (RD) which were performed in natural contexts by six native speakers acting as the reality-like dialogue performers. Both sets of data were transcribed and contrasted across a range of discourse features: hesitation markers, turn-taking, back-channels and lexical density (Gilmore, 2004). The findings suggest that, in terms of hesitations, latches, and overlaps, the textbook dialogues differ significantly from their reality-like equivalents indicated by the absence of the features in TD and the consistent inclusion in RD. Therefore, it can be concluded that textbook audio dialogues do not reflect the ways in which natural conversations are produced in the real contexts. Such a clear gap may be due to some pedagogical justifications such as emphasis on particular learning objectives, teachability, learnability, and presentation of the scripts in the textbooks. Based on the research findings, it is recommended that textbook writers start incorporating natural dialogue features into students’ textbooks. Moreover, since both students and teachers need more exposure to the authentic use of the target language, their teaching and learning process should provide activities which represent how native speakers interact. As a final point, the future research needs to focus on wider aspects of a natural interaction such as suprasegmental features, the grammatical points and the pragmatic features.;
Meskipun pemajangan terhadap penggunaan bahasa yang natural sangat penting bagi siswa (Carter dkk., 2011; Tomlinson, 2011), di Indonesia masih banyak ditemukan ketidakotentikan pada buku-buku teks yang digunakan dalam pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris. Berkaitan dengan hal tersebut, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui keotentikan tiga buku teks terbitan penerbit Indonesia (Pathway to English 1, 2, and 3) yang umum digunakan dalam pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris. Studi komparatif digunakan dalam penelitian ini untuk mengidentifikasi bagaimana dialog-dialog dalam buku teks memasukan fitur-fitur bahasa yang otentik yaitu hesitation markers, turn-taking, back-channels dan lexical density (Gilmore, 2004). Sepuluh dialog dengan topic yang berbeda dipilih dari buku-buku sampel secara purposive sebagai textbook data (TD). Sedangkan data pembanding atau reality-like data (RD) dikumpulkan dengan cara meminta enam orang penutur bahasa Inggris asli, yang juga dipilih secara purposive, untuk melakukan dialog yang ekuifalen dengan dialog pada TD. Kedua jenis data ditranskrip dan dibandingkan berdasarkan jumlah kemunculan fitur-fitur bahasa natural. Hasil temuan menunjukan, dalam hal hesitations, latches, dan overlaps, dialog pada buku teks berbeda secara signifikan dengan dialog natural, yang diindikasikan dengan absennya fitur-fitur tersebut pada TD dan kemunculan yang konsisten pada RD. Dari hasil tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa audio dialog pada buku teks tidak merefleksikan bagaimana bahasa Inggris digunakan di dalam konteks yang sebenarnya. Perbedaan tersebut mungkin disebabkan karena penulis bermaksud untuk mengakomodasi aspek pedagogi seperti tujuan pembelaran, tingkat teachability dan learnability, serta presentasi naskah dialog dalam buku teks. Berdasarkan temuan tersebut, penulis buku teks sebaiknya memulai untuk menyertakan fitur-fitur dialog natural di dalam buku-buku teks. Selain itu, mengingat baik guru maupun siswa sangat memerlukan pemajangan terhadap penggunaan bahasa target yang otentik, di dalam proses pembelajaran aktifitas-aktifitas yang dilakukan sebaiknya merepresentasikan bagaimana penutur asli berinteraksi menggunakan bahasa target. Terahir, penelitian selanjutnya diharapkan difokuskan pada aspek lain yang lebih luas sperti fitur suprasegmental, gramatikal, dan pragmatic
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
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
Students’ Motivation and English Learning Achievement in Senior High School Students
Get PDFThis study aims at investigating the relationship between students’ motivation and their English learning achievement of the tenth grade students of a Senior High School. 100 students were randomly chosen as the sample to evaluate and determine the students’ motivation and their English learning achievement. A set of questionnaire consisting of 18 items was used in this study to see the correlation between the two variables. Pearson correlation and descriptive analysis were used in analyzing data by using SPSS version 22.0. Pearson correlation shows an average level of correlation between motivation and English learning achievement. The finding shows that there was a significant relationship between students’ motivation and their English learning achievement. The findings could be useful for researchers and teachers in improving students’ achievement by conducting effective teaching and learning strategies to develop students’ motivation
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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