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Students who don't want to write
No full textThis article explores the problems related to learners' unwillingness to do written work in class. By presenting the written work as part of an integrated skills approach writing can become motivating for learners who can use it in a task-based context to communicate meanings to their peers. The author provides examples from her own classroom experience.
What level are you?
No full textThis article approaches the question of how language competence levels are not necessarily constant and may vary according to a whole range of factors. it then asks how fair it is to establish a level as a point on a scale assessed by means of summative performance testing. The author suggests that continuous assessment may be a fairer system and illustrates this from her own classroom
From the heart of the expanding circle
No full textThis articles asks the question of how to apply the teaching of English as a foreign language with an eye to the developments due to the spread of English as a Lingua Franca. Is English as a Lingua Franca a cimmunity of use or can it be codified and taught as a language in its own right? The author suggests that a native speaker model is still required for the teaching stage
TEASIG webinars and Facebook discussions
No full textThis article describes the ways in which the popular webinars organised by IATEFL TEASIG, where speaker from the field of ELT assessment provide one hour webinars on various topics, can be extended by means of social media facilitated discussions. A specific example is provided to illustrate this phenomenon, which the author believes to be an effective way of extending the conversation beyond the constraints of the formal webinar, providing participants with a familiar context in which they can voice their own ideas and ask the speaker further questions, sharing insights and resources
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
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
Introduction to “Tourism Discourse in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Directions”
No full textIntroduction to the special section “Tourism Discourse in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Directions” in Iperstoria 1
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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