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EFL learning strategies used by female undergraduate students / Wafa Ismail Saud
Get PDFThe aim of the present study was to provide an accurate and holistic description of the language learning strategies used by female EFL undergraduate students, as well as to explore the relationship of language learning strategies with the two variables: major field of study and performance level in the English language. It also aimed at specifying the English language learning strategies that were associated with the four language skills.
The survey method was used on a sample of 264 female EFL undergraduate students who were enrolled in the first and second year of their undergraduate degree programme. Their majors were Medicine, English Language, Computer Science and Biology. Four tools were employed for eliciting information: Oxford’s (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL), interviews, class observations and an achievement test.
The findings indicated that while EFL students employed a variety of language learning strategies, the cognitive and meta-cognitive ones were more frequently used than others. In general, EFL students reported medium overall strategy use. More importantly, the results provided new evidence for the relationship between strategy use and the two variables: major field of study and English language performance level. Medical, English and Computer Science majors used the meta-cognitive strategy category most often followed by the cognitive one. On the other hand Biology majors used the compensation strategy category most frequently followed by the meta-cognitive one. Similarly, results indicated that Medical students used the memory strategy category more than the students in all the other major fields of study. In general, Medical students reported the highest use of overall strategy while the Computer Science and
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Biology students reported the least use of overall strategy. Regarding the relationship between strategy use and year level of the students, results revealed that both first and second year students share most of the strategies and that they are meta-cognitive strategy users. In general, they both reported medium overall strategy use. Additional results confirm the conclusion that language learning strategies are related to language proficiency. The findings indicated that proficient learners do not necessarily use more strategies but rather use different and more appropriate ones. Finally, the findings specified the language learning strategies that were associated with each of the four language skills.
The study concluded by bringing together the key findings, recommendations for EFL teachers and suggested areas for further research
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
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
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