How Do Readers Engage With the Texts of an Academic Journal?

This article reports the findings of a scoping review of the use of small-sided games (SSGs) as a teaching or coaching pedagogy across four game categories. The selection criteria included empirical research available online, published after January 1 2006 and prior to December 31, 2016, in an academic journal. The data were analysed through an inductive thematic approach which generated two themes: Development and Practical considerations. This review found that SSGs can be used as a deliberate pedagogy to elicit physiological responses for a training effect. Given that the variables associated with SSGs include pitch size, game intensity, and number of players, a key determining factor in the implementation of SSGs includes the objective of the practice activity.

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Scholars Academic Journal of Biosciences

10.36347/sajb ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Academic Journal

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Reflection of the Editorial Process of an Academic Journal

Relay Journal ◽

10.37237/relay/030108 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 100-109

Author(s):

Phillip A. Bennett ◽

Maria Giovanna Tassinari ◽

Ena Hollinshead ◽

Fergal Bradley

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Reflective Practice ◽

Learner Autonomy ◽

Editorial Process ◽

Academic Journal ◽

Editing Process ◽

Insight Into

This paper is a reflection on our experiences as managing editors and layout editors of volume 2, issue 2 of Relay Journal. In accordance with the developmental aims of Relay Journal, via this reflective practice, our motivations are not only to foster each others’ learner autonomy and grow our professional development, but additionally to encourage others to also share reflections of their editing responsibilities, practices, and realisations. We also believe this will provide insight into the process for those who do not have the experience in such roles, yet wish to pursue them. With that in mind, we will briefly detail the journal-editing process and our roles in such; then follow with our individual reflections upon our experiences. Our reflections will focus on our responsibilities and roles, our feelings, and what we learned through the experience.

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Critical self-reflection: A performative act 批判的自己内省 ―パフォーマティヴな実践―

The Language Teacher - The Language Teacher 39.1 ◽

10.37546/jalttlt34.4-2 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 49

Author(s):

Misako Tajima

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Secondary School ◽

School Teacher ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

English Learner ◽

Academic Journal ◽

Self Reflection ◽

Academic Fields ◽

Global Spread ◽

The Relationship

Autobiographic and narrative research has recently grown in stature in the field of social sciences. Inspired by Asian TESOL researchers’ critical analyses of self-stories, this paper attempts to reflect upon the author’s personal history in relation to English and discuss ways in which she can position herself as both an English learner and a non-native English speaker (NNES) teacher. The self-reflection and discussion is followed by an argument for performativity, a notion drawing on poststructuralism to understand language itself and the global spread of English. This paper, itself a performative act conducted by a secondary school teacher, exemplifies the concept. The non-academic schoolteacher’s very act of writing in an academic journal aims to contribute to questioning assumptions underlying the relationship between theory and practice and to reconstituting the academic fields of applied linguistics and TESOL. 近年、自伝的かつ語りを含む研究が社会科学の分野で活発になってきている。本稿では、TESOLを専門とする、あるアジア人研究者が彼女たち自身の物語を素材として実施した批判的分析に着想を得て、英語にまつわる自己の歴史を振り返り、英語学習者としての、またNNESの英語教師としてのポジショナリティをどこに位置づけるのかという問題について議論する。さらに、この批判的自己内省を経て、言語そのもの、あるいは英語という言語の地球規模的広がりを理解するために、ポスト構造主義の概念であるパフォーマティヴィティについて検証する。なお、本稿これ自体がある高校教師によるパフォーマティヴな実践であることに言及しておきたい。研究者ではなく、一高校教師が学術雑誌に投稿することを通じ、理論と実践の関係性の背後にある前提に疑問を投げかけ、その結果、応用言語学やTESOLという学問分野の再構築に貢献できることを希望している。

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