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O Pivô da aprendizagem
Get PDFUma das consagradas tendências mundiais na área de ensino e aprendizagem de língua estrangeira – a interação – é tratada com seriedade, autenticidade e pragmatismo neste livro. A imagem da capa, de um trabalho de colheita coletivo, evocado pela Vinha vermelha em Arles, de Van Gogh, estabelece o campo metafórico da construção simultaneamente individual e coletiva, em que se constitui a ação interativa. Ao focalizar o ensino de língua estrangeira, a interação é às vezes tratada tanto como o meio quanto como o fim desejado. Pode referir-se à troca de idéias entre dois ou mais participantes do processo, e várias metáforas são utilizadas para se referir a ela, tais quais: é o pivô sobre o qual a aprendizagem de língua gira; é a camada mais aparente do uso da língua; é a medida do sucesso ou fracasso da aprendizagem; é o processo-chave para a gestão da aprendizagem; é facilitadora e a chave para a aprendizagem. Alguns mais entusiastas defendem que a interação “é a própria aprendizagem” da língua. Sob este último prisma, mais do que a prática do conhecimento lingüístico obtido, a interação é vista como o processo no qual o conhecimento lingüístico e a habilidade lingüística são desenvolvidos. A perspectiva tratada no livro é a de interação como “o conjunto de oportunidades criadas para que os alunos comuniquem-se uns com os outros ou com o professor na língua que estão aprendendo” (p. 17), que é claramente a posição dos profissionais comprometidos com a abordagem comunicativa de ensino de língua estrangeira. O enfoque é dado à interação em um estudo feito sobre a correção colaborativa de erros em textos escritos dos alunos. (Continua...
“My Version of it Matters Too”: Confession and Identity in Makhosazana Xaba’s Short Story “Behind The Suit”
No full textMakhosazana Xaba’s “Behind The Suit”, a revisioning of Can Themba’s “The Suit”, takes the form of a letter written by Mbatha, ex-lover of Philemon (Themba’s protagonist), to his estranged daughter. In it, he tells her about their ancestors’ lives and he confesses his role in Philemon’s abuse of his wife, Matilda, which eventually led to her suicide. In this article, we examine Mbatha’s attempt to solidify his and his daughter’s sense of self through the act of confession – a confession that is not wholly true. Consequently, Mbatha’s false self prevails. Bearing in mind the dominance of this false self, we pay attention to the significance of the story’s epistolary form – how it enables Mbatha to build a bridge between himself (I) and his daughter (You). The letter also assists Mbatha in locating him and his daughter in time and place through repeated references to their ancestors to Johannesburg and Sophiatown. We determine that, ultimately, Mbatha’s project cannot succeed due either to his unwillingness or inability to access his true self, with the result that the meaningful connection he hopes to have created with his daughter is rendered impossible. In the end, the onus falls on his daughter to locate and assert her own identity through the information given to her in the letter
ASPECTOS PSICOLÓGICOS E LINGÜÍSTICOS DO LIDAR COM UMA
Get PDFThis paper reports the results of a research carried out on the basis ofPsychology and Linguistics theories, in which we aimed at analyzing the beliefs of two inserviceEnglish teachers concerning the teaching/learning process of that language. As the fundament for this research, we used studies regarding foreign language teaching/learningwhose aim was investigating the issue of beliefs. We chose the case study as methodologyand the following instruments to collect the data: questionnaire, classroom observation,and journal. The results show that participants have similar and distinct beliefs, as well asthe fact that an English teaching major degree or its absence influences their teachingpractice.Este artigo relata os resultados obtidos em uma pesquisa com base nospressupostos da Psicologia e da Lingüística, em que buscou-se analisar as crenças de doisprofessores de inglês em serviço sobre o processo de ensino/aprendizagem desse idioma.O referencial teórico apoiou-se em estudos da área de ensino/aprendizagem de línguasestrangeiras que tiveram como foco de investigação o construto crenças. A metodologiaescolhida foi o estudo de caso e os seguintes instrumentos de coleta de dados foramutilizados: questionário do tipo semi-aberto, observações de aulas e diário. Os resultadosindicam que os participantes apresentam algumas crenças em comum e outrascontrastantes, e que a formação específica na área ou a falta dela influencia sua práticadocente
De Codename Villanelle a Killing Eve: traçando relações intersemióticas entre literatura e TV
No full textThis essay aimed to investigate the transposition of literary signs to audiovisual signs in the light of Peircean semiotics, reflecting how the adaptation Killing Eve by Phoebe Waller-Bridge translates specific codes present in the thriller Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings, a procedure that was understood here as intersemiotic translation. The analysis focused on the identity construction of the protagonists, investigating how and what audiovisual strategies transcreate certain sensitive aspects of literary work, namely, the psychological and subjective characteristics involved in the conception of the charactersEste ensaio teve por objetivo investigar a transposição dos sig-nos literários para os signos audiovisuais à luz da semiótica peirceana, refletindo de que modo a adaptação Killing Eve de Phoebe Waller-Bridge traduz determinados códigos presentes no thrillerCodename Villanelle de Luke Jennings, procedimento que aqui foi entendido como tradução inter-semiótica. A análise teve como foco a construção identitária das protago-nistas, investigando de que modo e quais estratégias audiovisuais trans-criam certos aspectos sensíveis da obra literária, a saber, as características psicológicas e subjetivas envolvidas na concepção das personagen
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
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