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“I feel like I cannot manage without her” : Literacy brokers for recently immigrated adolescents with little prior experience of school-based learning
No full textThis study explores how a teacher at a Swedish language introductory school is perceived as a literacy mediator or literacy broker (Brandt, 1998) by a group of migrant adolescents with limited prior formal education. Beyond traditional language acquisition elements like grammar and vocabulary, these students are navigating emergent literacy in a second language while adapting to a new society (Gee, 2005). My research is guided by two main questions: (1) How do the students report that their teacher supports their engagement in literacy practices? (2) What do the students think about the fact that certain literacy practices seem to be enabled while others are hindered? Conducted during the 2017/18 school year as an ethnographic case study in an introductory language class, the investigation utilizes field notes, recorded interactions, field conversations, and formal interviews with nine students. The analysis reveals the students’ appreciation for the teacher’s support in meeting new literacy standards, while also highlighting their acceptance of the devaluation of some prior literacy practices as a strategic choice to facilitate engagement in mainstream society’s literacy practices (Nocon & Cole, 2009; Janks, 2010). The study also discusses the students’ opportunities to express themselves, both in interviews and within the classroom, in connection to these findings. Additionally, the concept of literacy sponsorship is explored in relation to these discussions
Inte för räddhågsna. Undervisning i grundläggande litteracitet och svenska som andraspråk på gymnasieskolans språkintroduktion
Full text linkThe overall aim of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding about the education of Swedish as
a second language and basic literacy to recently immigrated adolescents with little prior experience of school-based learning. It investigates how the students are given access to the literacy practices that are required for active and independent participation in school and in society, how the students take part in the activities and interactions offered in this particular school context, how the relationship between the teachers and these adolescents is manifested and finally, how the rules of the school context relate to the literacy practices that are available to the students. The thesis is based on four ethnographic studies investigating diverse aspects of this education, using different theoretical frameworks. The data consists of observations of lessons in Swedish and social sciences, conversations with the teacher, the students and the language tutor, in addition to formal interviews with the students. The results indicate that the teacher and the language tutor played an important role to give the students access to the literacy practices and rules of schooling. Students’ previous knowledge, as well as class field trips and concrete examples, served as important foundations for their instruction. Also, the teachers’ engagement with the students’ linguistic and other semiotic resources contributed to the students’ participation in literacy practices. Concurrently, the interaction about topics that had previously been unfamiliar to the students seemed to enhance their ability to understand
new discourses. The study implies that some of the rules and norms associated with schooling promote learning in this specific context, while other rules seemed adapted to prepare the students for future studies. The thesis also discusses students’ agency and opportunities to invest in their schooling in the mainstream society
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
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
"Negotiating knowledge of sexual and gender diversity: a case study with migrant students in a Swedish language course"
No full textVerksamhetsförlagd SFI på skola och förskola - en språkbehovsanalys
No full textI föreliggande uppsats observeras två SFI-studerande på sina respektive praktikplatser, en skola och en förskola. Ambitionen med undersökningen är att beskriva och analysera några kommunikativa situationer som SFI-praktikanter kan ställas inför och bör behärska på sina praktikplatser. Jag frågar mig om deltagarna besitter de kompetenser som behövs på praktikplatsen och vilka situationer som bereder dem mest svårigheter. Slutligen undrar jag om de praktikplatser deltagarna placerats på är bra praktikplatser ur språkutvecklingssynpunkt och försöker se vilka faktorer som påverkar detta.
Jag kommer fram till att deltagaren som praktiserade på en grundskola ställdes inför många skiftande kommunikativa situationer och också ofta besatt de kommunikativa kompetenser som krävdes. Den andra deltagaren hade större svårigheter att klara av aktuella kommunikativa situationer på förskolan. Dessa olika situationer var färre än på den första platsen. Faktorer som brist på tillfällen till fördjupad interaktion med andra vuxna eller större barn gjorde att denna praktikplats fungerade sämre för elevens språkutveckling. Jag betraktar dock ändå bägge platserna som lämpliga för verksamhetsförlagd SFI då deltagarna där fick tillfälle att kommunicera i autentiska situationer och därmed möjlighet att utveckla språket
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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