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Digital Portfolios in English Language Teaching: A Systematic Review of Trends, Benefits, and Future Directions
Full text linkThe current study examines the trends and main results of the research on the e-portfolios use in English language teaching within the last ten years. For this aim, the researchers reviewed various databases, including Google Scholar, Eric, Taylor & Francis, and Scopus, and investigated 17 journal articles that meet the criteria. The research used a systematic review as the research methodology, with content analysis to analyze the data. The findings showed that e-portfolios have been widely employed to teach English for more than ten years, with the number of research in the area rapidly increasing in the last two years (2022-2023). Furthermore, the most used research methods were experimental studies, with some claims that they can successfully improve the learners’ English skills. Besides, writing and vocabulary were the common language skills to learn. A further analysis revealed opportunities for the use of e-portfolios in English classrooms. Additionally, in the reviewed studies on the effectiveness of e-portfolios in English language teaching, the findings suggested the advantages of e-portfolios. Based on the reviews, some recommendations and suggestions were made for teaching practitioners and future research
Digital Portfolios in English Language Teaching: A Systematic Review of Trends, Benefits, and Future Directions
Full text linkThe current study examines the trends and main results of the research on the e-portfolios use in English language teaching within the last ten years. For this aim, the researchers reviewed various databases, including Google Scholar, Eric, Taylor & Francis, and Scopus, and investigated 17 journal articles that meet the criteria. The research used a systematic review as the research methodology, with content analysis to analyze the data. The findings showed that e-portfolios have been widely employed to teach English for more than ten years, with the number of research in the area rapidly increasing in the last two years (2022-2023). Furthermore, the most used research methods were experimental studies, with some claims that they can successfully improve the learners’ English skills. Besides, writing and vocabulary were the common language skills to learn. A further analysis revealed opportunities for the use of e-portfolios in English classrooms. Additionally, in the reviewed studies on the effectiveness of e-portfolios in English language teaching, the findings suggested the advantages of e-portfolios. Based on the reviews, some recommendations and suggestions were made for teaching practitioners and future research
O’Speak Version 1.0: A New Tool to Measure Segmental Pronunciation Features
Full text linkThe rapid enhancement of technology has made it possible to integrate technology and L2 pronunciation assessment. While the investigation of L2 pronunciation was considered vital in English Language Teaching, assessing pronunciation is granted the least attention. This study attempts to discuss the roles and impacts of O’Speak version 1.0 as an automated pronunciation tool and compare it with human ratings while assessing L2 segmental pronunciation features uttered by Indonesian learners of English. This study aims to pilot an android-based pronunciation test, namely, O’Speak, which was developed using Feuerstein’s Mediated Learning Experience principles. Performed under a quasi-experimental research design, this study ran an independent two-sample t-test involving 50 participants. The study showed that there was no statistically significant difference between O’Speak and human ratings in the segmental pronunciation assessment. This indicates that a new tool functions equally with the ability that human rating has. During the study, this study identified some caveats shown by the human rating that leads to its ability to be equal to O’Speak, and these include teaching experience, hallo effect, and rating experience
O’Speak Version 1.0: A New Tool to Measure Segmental Pronunciation Features
Full text linkThe rapid enhancement of technology has made it possible to integrate technology and L2 pronunciation assessment. While the investigation of L2 pronunciation was considered vital in English Language Teaching, assessing pronunciation is granted the least attention. This study attempts to discuss the roles and impacts of O’Speak version 1.0 as an automated pronunciation tool and compare it with human ratings while assessing L2 segmental pronunciation features uttered by Indonesian learners of English. This study aims to pilot an android-based pronunciation test, namely, O’Speak, which was developed using Feuerstein’s Mediated Learning Experience principles. Performed under a quasi-experimental research design, this study ran an independent two-sample t-test involving 50 participants. The study showed that there was no statistically significant difference between O’Speak and human ratings in the segmental pronunciation assessment. This indicates that a new tool functions equally with the ability that human rating has. During the study, this study identified some caveats shown by the human rating that leads to its ability to be equal to O’Speak, and these include teaching experience, hallo effect, and rating experience
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
THE ROLE OF CRITICAL DIGITAL LITERACY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING: A SURVEY ON YOUNG LEARNERS
Full text linkThe covid-19 pandemic has brought influential disruptions to the education sector. EFL teachers ought to find ways to trigger their learners by utilizing ICT. Digital literacy tools which it possible for young learners to improve their understanding of every word, text, and meaning conveyed. There will be new risks and threats that can only be countered with adequate digital literacy knowledge in all-digital situations. Young learners are indicated as Gen-Z, which might be digital natives. Thus, this study aims to survey EFL teacher and learners in digital literacy at the level of young learners, focusing on the critical digital literacy skills in a rural school. To obtain the data, the authors used questionnaires and some interviews. To assess the young learners’ view, the authors tracked it of 31 EFL learners by using questionnaires. While the interview is used to the EFL teacher’ view. Evidences show the role of critical digital literacy is considered it an effective ability to be acquired in learning English, and it can increase the young learners’ motivation because in learning English using technology is easier and more enjoyable
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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