scholarly journals The professional translator and information literacy: Perceptions and needs

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 246-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dora Sales ◽  
Maria Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Information Competencies ◽  
Professional Translator ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This paper is part of a broader research project, the main goal of which is to provide translators with solid instruction in information literacy (IL). For this, it is important to know the views of the community of professional translators. The results of the ongoing research which we analyse in this paper provide this view, by means of a qualitative case study (using a semi-structured questionnaire for data gathering). These results highlight the strengths and weaknesses indicated by professional translators regarding the information competencies they need.

scholarly journals Grammaticalization and the linguistic individual: new avenues in lifespan research

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (s2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Anthonissen ◽  
Peter Petré
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Grammatical Change ◽  
Adult Cognition

AbstractThis paper reviews theoretical and methodological advances and issues in lifespan research and discusses how the issues at stake are addressed in an ongoing research project. Summarizing the state of the art, we conclude that next to nothing is known about lifespan changes affecting syntactic or grammaticalizing constructions that goes beyond exploratory or anecdotal evidence. The Mind-Bending Grammars project, which examines the adaptive powers of adult cognition and constraints on these powers, aspires to make headway in this area. In this paper, we introduce some of the major goals of the project and present a new large-scale longitudinal corpus of 50 adults that was established to study grammatical change across the lifespan. Particular attention is paid to the constraints on the adoption of novel grammatical patterns in the aging mind. Taking be going to as a case study, we present evidence that (highly educated) healthy monolingual speakers continue to participate in grammatical innovations across the lifespan.

scholarly journals Contamination of overt data with covert data

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
James Pickles
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Personal Experiences

A research project was conducted which explored LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) hate crime. Participants were invited to share their narratives and personal experiences of hate crime, discrimination and violence through semi-structured interviews. The study helped us understand how people who experience ‘hate’ responded to, managed and reconciled the identities for which they were victimized. This case study focuses on a situation where a research participant requested a copy of an interview they gave for the hate crime project. The interview copy was to be used for the participant’s own personal purposes. The participant’s request potentially risked the contamination of ethical (overt) data collection, with their own covert data gathering. The ethical implications of this scenario raise many questions for ethicists and researchers to discuss.

scholarly journals The problems faced in study periods and in leisure-time activities at regional boarding primary education schools: A case study of Elazığ

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
İbrahim Yaşar Kazu ◽  
Zehra Aşkın
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The purpose of this study is to present the problems faced at study periods and leisure-time activities at the Regional Boarding Primary Education Schools and propose solutions to these problems. The population of the study is the Regional Boarding Primary Education Schools (YİBOs) in Elazığ. As the data gathering instrument, a half-structured questionnaire has been administered to the teachers. Data gathered from meetings have been analyzed and interpreted using context analysis. The assembled finding, following the interpretation of the questionnaire items, indicates that these schools are physically inadequate, the study and hobby rooms are particularly unsatisfactory and these rooms need to be reconstructed. Problems regarding the shift system of the supervisor teachers also need to be resolved. It is apparent that the Regional Boarding Primary Education Schools are common in the country and their number varies from one district to another. The aim of this study is to aid the determination of and solutions to, the problems at Regional Boarding Primary Education Schools.

Metamorphosis from exalted person to cultural symbol: A case study of the GOAT in tennis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2110449
Author(s):  
Hannah Intezar ◽  
Paul Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Critical Rhetoric ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Symbolic Form ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Cultural Symbol ◽  
Individual Consciousness

In this article, we suggest that our semiotic understanding of embodiment could be expanded to include a socially exalted individual, who embodies a symbol. To illustrate this argument, we draw on an ongoing research project that examines fandom rhetoric and debates around the ‘Greatest of all time’ or the GOAT symbol in Tennis. Grounding Bakhtin’s tri-distinctions of identity, I-for-myself, I-for-other and other-for-me, in a Kantian hermeneutic tradition, we perform a theoretically informed analysis of the GOAT debate. None of the three tri-components exists in isolation; rather, they interact in a reflexive dialogue which continually shapes and re-shapes individual consciousness and experiences of embodiment. We apply a ‘romanticism aesthetic activity’ analytical framework to the tri-distinctions of identity, that consists of ‘creative’ and ‘critical’ rhetoric, within which we found genres of ‘myth’, ‘art’ and ‘science’. Each genre functions through disparate means to exalt or metamorphise an individual (our focus is on Roger Federer) into a cultural symbol, and that the symbolic form of GOAT reflexively organises the emotional field and identities for those fans deeply invested in it. This article contributes to the current cultural psychological literature on understanding the mediation of people to symbols in a new digital age.

scholarly journals Qualitative Case Study on Challenges Recoupled Parents Encounter Raising Step Children with ASD

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Cann-Milland ◽  
Penny Round
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Family Form ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Biological Children ◽  
Informal Supports

The purpose of this study is to address the lack of research into the challenges and issues recoupled parents face when raising their step/biological children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) together in a stepfamily environment. Data shows clinicians, community support services, and policy makers are recognising that stepfamilies are the fastest growing family form to date and hypothesising stepfamilies will become the norm as the most prominent family form in most western countries. Ongoing research recognises the importance of understanding parents’ experiences and perspectives of having a child with ASD, and resourcing and managing their child’s everyday needs, behaviour and necessary treatments. Research exploring the parents’ journey of supporting a child with ASD will benefit families and other relevant formal and informal supports involved with that child. Stepfamilies are distinctly different to the nuclear family in design, origin and function. The researcher, through a small-scale qualitative case study, interviewed two recoupled parents to gain insights from their own personal and stepfamily experiences. This study has substantiated the existing research and highlighted other specific challenges and issues recoupled parents of children with ASD face. The researcher uses the term step/biological children throughout this article in recognition that the child/children is/are connected to one parent as a blood child and the stepparent through the biological parents’ choice in re-partnering. The outcome of this research indicates the need for recoupled parents to have a forum to express their subjective experiences in raising children with ASD. The interviewees articulated the need for further understanding from professional and informal supports when working with children and parents in a stepfamily form.

scholarly journals Monitoring Overtourism :

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Ibrahim Khalil ◽  
Mst. Khadijatul Kobra
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Destination Management Organizations ◽  
Structured Questionnaire ◽  
Tourist Flow

Destination Management Systems (DMS) come up with comprehensive and latest statistical data on a particular or numerous tourist destinations. DMS make a widespread set of tourism supervision, advancement and fulfillment tools obtainable with tourism products and services, and tourist databases as its basis. However, the core objective of this research is to put forward a common DMS together with sub-systems of DMS to the tourism destinations in Bangladesh to make sure proper tourism administration, particularly in the over-tourists places, by using this common podium. Therefore, the study has been conducted using qualitative case study approach. Focus Group Discussion has been conducted among the technology experts, tourism specialists, concerned government bodies, tourist police and other stakeholders. In addition, interviews among associated destination management organizations with structured questionnaire have been taken to embody the idea. DMS are of great use to manage the tourist flow and to have appropriate statistics. It helps to connect with national server to put a ceiling on number of visitations in an area. This platform can be used for both marketing and de-marketing of destinations according to individual situations. Categorizing tourists, their preferences, characteristics and most importantly to lessen the seasonality of tourism business this system is indispensable. Furthermore, this research can overlay the way onward to have suitable management over the tourism systems in Bangladesh by providing required guidelines to form and maintain DMS entirely.

scholarly journals Student Support at Unisa: A Flowing-River Metaphor

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gladys Mokwena
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Student Support ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Pedagogical Guide ◽  
Available Resources

The flowing-river metaphor is explored in this paper for the Unisa Department of Adult Education’s higher certificate programme student support. It is a qualitative case study, grounded in Connectivism. It involves seven lecturers’ reflections of using the elements of the flowing-river metaphor on the way in which technology has reorganised lecturers’ interactions when providing support to students in teaching and learning. Virtual talking circles on the Microsoft Teams forum, a review of departmental reports on student support, and my reflection on the experiences of higher certificate lecturers when providing student support in teaching the module material are the main data gathering tools. The flowing-river metaphor, on the other hand, uses the contrast between vehicle and target to help higher certificate students to develop their teaching and learning. In this case, the complexity of using available resources varies from lecturer to lecturer. The paper encourages other higher education lecturers to think more carefully about the flowing-river metaphor’s potential as a pedagogical guide for student support.

scholarly journals Work practices of onsite construction crews and their influence on productivity

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santhosh Loganathan ◽  
Perry Forsythe ◽  
Satyanarayana N Kalidindi
Keyword(s):  
Group Formation ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Execution Strategy ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Five Practices

The nature of construction work processes allow crews and workers to follow their own practices in how they plan, organise and coordinate work. However, there is little research into the nature of crew work practices. This paper aims to unveil the influence of onsite crew work practices on productivity. An exploratory case study investigated work practices on a residential project involving two separate crews (of 18 and 23 workers) engaged in rebar placement for 112 columns each, which included a high-performing and an average-performing crew. A triangulated mixed methods approach to data gathering utilised site observations, individual and group interviews, and time measured work studies, to assess productivity of the crews. The findings indicate that the high-performing crew achieved 44% higher productivity than the average-performing crew and this manifested across specific tasks including rebar cutting, bending, stirrup fabrication and tieing. Five broad work practices were observed to significantly influence the above productivity differences: work preparation and execution strategy; group formation and stability; avoiding duplication of tasks; crew social cohesion; and internal and external leadership practices. These five practices are proposed as dimensions that can be used to measure crew productivity in ongoing research. In-depth understanding of crew based work practices will enable training of foremen and work crews in such practices to systematically develop high-performing crews.

Qualitative Case Study Research Design

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Tetnowski
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Real World ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Study Research

Qualitative case study research can be a valuable tool for answering complex, real-world questions. This method is often misunderstood or neglected due to a lack of understanding by researchers and reviewers. This tutorial defines the characteristics of qualitative case study research and its application to a broader understanding of stuttering that cannot be defined through other methodologies. This article will describe ways that data can be collected and analyzed.

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