scholarly journals The development of science academic word list

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 657
Author(s):  
Todsaporn It-ngam ◽  
Supakorn Phoocharoensil
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Word List ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Word Families ◽  
Word Selection ◽  
Science Disciplines

Knowledge of specialized academic vocabulary is important for the academic success of EFL natural science students. Specialized words outside the General Service List (GSL) (West, 1953) and the Academic Word List (AWL) (Coxhead, 2000) are necessary for comprehending scientific text. The existing lists of words do not cover all sub-disciplines of natural science. The present study aims to explore the specialized academic words across 11 sub-disciplines of natural science. To identify the words, a corpus-based approach and an expert-judged approach were used. A 5.5-million-word corpus called the Science Academic Journal (SAJ) Corpus was created for this study. Applying the established word selection criteria, 513 word families were selected. The potential list was reviewed by a panel of experts in order to remove the overly-technical words from the list. The Science Academic Word List (SAWL) was established with 432 word families and provided 5.82% coverage of the running words in the SAJ corpus. To validate the word list, the SAWL was tested against two independent corpora. The findings revealed that the SAWL contains 432 word families that are useful for reading journal articles in natural science disciplines. In addition, it was also found that the SAWL performed better on an independent corpus compared to the Science World List (Coxhead & Hirsh, 2007). It is expected that the SAWL established in this study will be a useful source for learning and teaching vocabulary in natural science disciplines.

scholarly journals COMPARISON ANALYSIS ON AWL OF THE ARTICLES IN INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

ETNOLINGUAL ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahsyurotun Nikmah
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Word List ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Word Families ◽  
Oxford University Press

This study focus on comparing the utilization of Academic Word List (AWL) from the local and International journal article. The articles that used in this study must meet two criteria. First, the articles should have open access articles. Eventually it is found the journal articles from Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJAL) and Oxford University Press of Applied Linguistics (OUP) that provide the open access articles. Second, the articles should have the newest issues that have been published in the last two years. There are fifteen articles that have been chosen, and it found 507 academic word families of AWL from IJAL and 535 academic word of OUP. The Type Token Ratio (TTR) of AWL from IJAL is about 0,13%, while the Type Token Ratio of AWL from OUP is about 0,09%. The articles of IJAL have the percentage of AWL about 10,22% but the OUP articles shows 11,41%. There are 68 different of academic words from the articles of IJAL and OUP, the 20 words belong to IJAL and the other 48 words belong to OUP. Those differences word are then occupied into the Sublist AWL, it is found that the 20 AWL of IJAL journal only fill the sublist 9 and 10, while the 48 other AWL of OUP journal are categorized into sublist 2 up to sublist 10. It can be concluded that both of the journal articles of IJAL and OUP are categorized as academic journal although it is in different side.

scholarly journals A Corpus-Based Lexical Study of the Frequency, Coverage and Distribution of Academic Vocabulary in Islamic Academic Research Articles

2018 ◽  
pp. 570-577
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Word List ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Frequency Coverage ◽  
Lexical Study

This corpus-based lexical study aimed to explore the use of words in Coxhead (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) in academic journal articles in the field of Islamic studies. Around 472,621 word corpus, called the Islamic Academic Research Articles (IARA) corpus, was created for this study. The corpus consisted of 66 research articles written in English that were published in more than 10 different Islamic academic journals. Authentic and academic research articles written on Islam, and from Islamic perspectives, covering a wide range of topics, were selected. The study found that the most frequent 317 AWL words which occurred in the IARA corpus was only 56% of Coxhead’s AWL of 570 words. This finding points to the need for a special AWL for students. Findings suggest the need to produce field-specific academic word lists incorporating all frequent academic lexical items necessary for the expression of the rhetoric of the specific research area. Findings also revealed that some of the words which were found in the present study were not found in Coxhead’s Academic Word List. This suggests that vocabulary needs of students in Islamic studies are characteristically different from those of students in other disciplines.

scholarly journals إسهامات المدونات النصية العربية في الدراسات اللغوية وتعليم اللغة العربية /The Contribution of Arabic Corpus in language studies and Arabic teaching

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-21
Author(s):  
Haslina Hassan ◽  
Khadijah Khalilah Abdul Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Word List ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Basic Reference ◽  
Conference Papers

ملخص البحث: تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى الكشف عن إسهامات المدوَّنات النصيَّة في الدراسات اللغويَّة وبيان دورها في تعليم اللغة العربيَّة وتعلُّمها، ستقوم هذه الدراسة بتحليل مدوَّنتين نصيَّتين في ماليزيا، هما: مُدوَّنة الكتب العربيَّة الـمُقرَّرة  والـمُدونات النصيَّة العربيَّة للجامعة الإسلاميَّة العالميَّة بماليزيا؛ إذ تتمثَّل مدوَّنة الكتب العربيَّة في الكتب الـمُقرَّرة لـمادّة اللغة العربيَّة بالمدارس الثانويَّة بماليزيا ابتداء من السنة الأولى حتى السنة الخامسة؛ أمَّا المدوَّنات الأخرى فتحتوي على النصوص الأكاديميَّة العربيَّة التابعة للجامعة الإسلاميَّة العالميَّة بماليزيا مثل الأطروحات الجامعيَّة، وأوراق المؤتمرات والمقالات المنشورة في المجلات الـمُحكَّمة. ونتج عن هذه الدراسة قوائم كلمات، وكشافات سياقيَّة اعتماداً على كلتا الـمُدوَّنتين سعياً إلى الكشف عن الكلمات الشائعة ووجوه استخدامها في السياقات المختلفة، وأوضحت الدراسة بأنَّه لا يمكن الاستغناء عن الـمُدوَّنات النصيَّة لمن لديهم اهتمام في تطوير لغتهم وتعبيرهم مثل الـطلاب والـمُعلِّمين ومؤلفي الكتب المقرَّرة، وكتب تمارين اللغة العربيَّة والمعاجم؛ حيث تُعتبر قائمة الكلمات مرجعاً أساسيّاً ومهمّاً في الدراسات اللغويَّة وبالأخصّ في تعليم اللغة وتعلُّمها. الكلمات المفتاحية: المدوَّنات النصيَّة-قائمة الكلمات-الكشافات السياقيَّة-تكرار الكلمات-الكتب العربية المقررة. Abstract: This study aims to discover the contribution of Arabic corpus in language studies, and to explain it’s role in learning and teaching Arabic language. This study analyses two Malaysian corpora which are Arabic Textbooks Corpus and Arabic Corpus of International Islamic University Malaysia. The first corpus is on Arabic textbooks used in Malaysian secondary schools by the first until the fifth years of the secondary schools. The second corpus contains academic texts for example from theses, conference papers and journal articles. The result of this study shows the word list and concordance for both corpuses. This study proves that the corpus is important to develop the language among learners, teachers, writers of textbooks, exercise books and dictionaries. The word list is regarded as the basic reference in language study as well as in learning and teaching of language. Keywords: Corpus, word list, concordance, word frequency, arabic textbooks   Abstrak: Kajian ini bertujuan mengenal pasti sumbangan korpus berbahasa Arab dalam pengajian bahasa, di samping menghuraikan peranannya dalam pembelajaran dan pengajaran bahasa Arab. Kajian ini menganalisis dua korpus dari Malaysia iaitu Korpus Buku Teks Bahasa Arab dan Korpus Bahasa Arab dari Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia. Sumber korpus yang pertama daripada buku teks bahasa Arab bagi tingkatan satu hingga tingkatan lima yang digunakan di sekolah menengah di Malaysia. Manakala korpus yang kedua mengandungi teks akademik seperti tesis, kertas persidangan dan artikel jurnal. Hasil bagi kajian ini ditunjukkan dalam bentuk senarai kata dan konkordans bagi kedua-dua korpus. Kajian ini membuktikan bahawa korpus penting untuk pengajian bahasa dalam kalagan pelajar, tenaga pengajar, serta penulis buku teks, buku latihan dan kamus terutamanya hasil daripada senarai kata yang menjadi rujukan asas dalam kajian bahasa, serta pembelajaran dan pengajaran bahasa. Kata kunci: Kekerapan kata kerja, data korpus-buku teks-kekerapan, senarai kata.

scholarly journals What We Talk About When We Talk About Virtual Learning Environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-193
Author(s):  
Michael Flavin ◽  
Aditi Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Research Students

This is a literature review analysing articles published on virtual learning environments (VLEs), otherwise known as learning management systems, in higher education in the years 2014–2018. The Web of Science database was used to identity relevant articles over this five-year period. The sample comprises 99 peer-reviewed, academic journal articles. A coding sheet is used to analyse each article, identifying the research method, the classification of research (macro, meso, or micro), the focus of research (students, instructors, or both), and, where applicable, the specific brand of VLE. Most output on VLEs is found to be quantitative, to focus on students and on the micro level of learning and teaching, to not have a clear theoretical focus, to not specify which brand of VLE is used, and to be produced in affluent countries. This article adds to the understanding of VLE research by identifying the most frequent foci of research on VLEs, as well as identifying areas that have been under-researched.

Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Grup Investigation (GI) Berbantuan Vidio Pembelajaran Untuk Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar IPA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Ketut Hariawan
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Multiple Choice Tests ◽  
Choice Tests ◽  
Academic Year

This action research aims: (1) to improve the science learning outcomes of VIIA class students in the even semester of SMP Negeri 1 Manggis in the academic year 2017/2018 by applying the learning investigation (GI) learning model assisted by learning videos. This type of research is classroom action research. The subjects of this study were 30 students in class VIIA, and the object of this study was the science learning outcomes. This action research is planned to be carried out in two cycles. Learning outcomes data were collected using multiple choice tests. Data were analyzed by descriptive analysis. The results showed that: (1) The natural science learning outcomes of the VIIA class in the second semester increased in the first cycle by an average of 70, 70% absorption, with a 50% grade completeness, and an average cycle II of 77, 77 absorption %, with 86.6% class completeness. With the achievement of an average of 77 Natural Science learning outcomes, it means that it is above the established success level of 70, so that the action is considered successful. Thus it can be said that the application of the learning investigation (GI) group learning model assisted by learning videos can improve the learning outcomes of natural science students in class VIIA an even number at SMPN 1 Manggis in the academic year 2017/2018.

scholarly journals Predicting Student Performance Using Data Mining and Learning Analytics Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Abdallah Namoun ◽  
Abdullah Alshanqiti
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Learning And Teaching

The prediction of student academic performance has drawn considerable attention in education. However, although the learning outcomes are believed to improve learning and teaching, prognosticating the attainment of student outcomes remains underexplored. A decade of research work conducted between 2010 and November 2020 was surveyed to present a fundamental understanding of the intelligent techniques used for the prediction of student performance, where academic success is strictly measured using student learning outcomes. The electronic bibliographic databases searched include ACM, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Scopus, Springer, and Web of Science. Eventually, we synthesized and analyzed a total of 62 relevant papers with a focus on three perspectives, (1) the forms in which the learning outcomes are predicted, (2) the predictive analytics models developed to forecast student learning, and (3) the dominant factors impacting student outcomes. The best practices for conducting systematic literature reviews, e.g., PICO and PRISMA, were applied to synthesize and report the main results. The attainment of learning outcomes was measured mainly as performance class standings (i.e., ranks) and achievement scores (i.e., grades). Regression and supervised machine learning models were frequently employed to classify student performance. Finally, student online learning activities, term assessment grades, and student academic emotions were the most evident predictors of learning outcomes. We conclude the survey by highlighting some major research challenges and suggesting a summary of significant recommendations to motivate future works in this field.

Historical Cognition and Cognitive Sciences: New in Russian Historiography

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8 (106)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Lidia Sofronova
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Science Disciplines

The article presents an analytical review of the recent literature on cognitive history, especially the Russian collective monograph “Cognitive Sciences and Historical Cognition”, published in 2020. It traces the patterns typical for interdisciplinary research not only within the humanitarian disciplines, but also at the “borders” between the humanities and the “natural sciences”. The article highlights the paradoxical and productive nature of the “mutual interventions” of cognitive science and the humanities, which contribute to overcoming “atomism” both within the humanities and at the “frontier” between them and the natural science disciplines.

scholarly journals Human and Steppe in the Early Iron Age. Results of Interdisciplinary Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 6-30
Author(s):  
Mikhail Krivosheev ◽  
◽  
Evgeniy Pererva ◽  
Maksim Eltsov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Mode Of Life ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
Science Disciplines

Introduction. Recent archaeological studies deal with the integration of natural science disciplines. Such scientific interaction includes the reconstruction of climatic changes, human adaptation to the changing conditions of nature, study of sociocultural specifics in nomadic groups as well as rising archaeological cultures, with emphasis on the interconnection between the fluctuations of steppe environmental conditions and steppe populations. Analysis. The article presents the results of the carried out interdisciplinary analysis of classic and modern archaeological studies and natural science disciplines. This allows evaluating the specifics of different factors (paleoclimatic, sociocultural, etc.) influencing the “steppe-human” system in a new way. Such factors as registered climatic changes, spreading areas of archaeological cultures, mortuary funeral rites, results of paleoanthropological examination, written records and ethnographic data provide evidence to reconstructing different time-span events of early nomads’ history in one context. The reconstruction of historical reality shows quite strong correlation between the environment and specific features in the development of ancient steppe societies. Human has high adaptive abilities to changing factors. However, the steppe population mode of life is extremely conservative and it has practically never changed during the Sarmatian or Sauromatian history. Climate fluctuations over the steppe area influenced the demographic and social structure of nomadic society. During auspicious periods, nomadic communities became populous and active politically and military. If negative factors dominated, the population tended to decrease and the social structure tended to simplify. Critical indicators of aridization and humidization in Eurasian steppes are followed with the population outflow, which is evidenced by small amount of archaeological sites or even by vanishing of cultures. Results. Thus, the authors conclude that when studying archaeological sites of the Early Iron Age nomadic cultures, it is necessary to consider the steppe and human as a single organism responsive to changing and a strong impact of environmental and socio-cultural factors.

scholarly journals Word Roots in English: Learning English Words through Form and Meaning Similarity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Zheng Wei
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Word List ◽  
Word Families ◽  
Frequency Criterion ◽  
Etymological Dictionary ◽  
Two Stages

<p>The research first proposes a vocabulary learning technique: the word part technique, and then tests its effectiveness in aiding vocabulary learning and retention. The first part of the thesis centers around the idea that the knowledge of the first 2000 words language learners already possess may give them easier access to words of other frequency levels because the root parts of the low frequency new words share form and meaning similarities with the high frequency known words. The research addresses the issue at two stages: to quantify the information concerning the number of words able to be accessed through the analysis of the word roots, and to analyze the pedagogical usefulness of the accessible words. A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (Klein, 1966) was used as the source to show the possible formal and meaning connections among words. All the words in the first 2000 word list were first looked up individually and all the cognates provided under each of these words were collected and placed under each of the high frequency words if they meet the requirement that their roots share more than one letter and/or more than one phoneme with the roots of the first 2000 known words. After the data was roughly gathered, three criteria were applied to filter the data, namely, the frequency criterion, the meaning criterion and form criterion. In applying the frequency criterion, words with frequency levels lower than the tenth thousand were removed from the data. In applying the meaning criterion, hints were given to show the semantic relations between the higher frequency words and the first 2000 thousand words. The hints were then rated on the scale for measuring meaning transparency. Words that were rated at level 5 on the scale were considered inaccessible; words that were rated at levels 1, 2a, 2b, 2c, and 3a were considered easy to access. In applying the form criterion, calculations were done for each semantically accessible word to show their phonological similarity and orthographic similarity in relation to the known word. The words whose phonological or orthographical similarity scores were larger than 0.5 were considered to be phonologically or orthographically easy to access. Finally the "find" function of Microsoft Word was used to check the data by picking up any words that might have been missed in the first round of data gathering. The above procedures resulted in 2156 word families that are able to be accessed through the meaning and form relations with the first 2000 words in their root parts. Among the 2156 word families, 739 can be accessed easily and are therefore more pedagogically useful and 259 can be accessed, but with difficulty. 21 pedagogically useful form constants were selected because they can give access to more unknown lower frequency words than other form constants. In the second part of the thesis, an experiment was conducted to test the effectiveness of the word part technique in comparison with the keyword technique and self-strategy learning. The results show that with the experienced Chinese EFL learners, the keyword technique is slightly inferior to the word part technique and the self-strategy learning.</p>

scholarly journals Bibliometric Analysis of Academic Journal Articles Reporting Results of Psychedelic Clinical Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Weleff ◽  
Teddy J. Akiki ◽  
Brian S. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Clinical Studies ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
International Collaborations ◽  
Psychedelic Research

After a decades long period of investigational dormancy, there is renewed interest in employing psychedelics as treatments for mental illness and addiction. The academic journals, journal articles, academic institutions, and countries that have helped sustain clinical psychedelic research and the evolution of the literature on clinical studies of psychedelic compounds have only been minimally investigated. Therefore, in we conducted a bibliometric analysis of clinical studies of 5-methoxy-N, N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT), ayahuasca, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), ibogaine, mescaline, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), and psilocybin published from 1965-2018. Our search revealed 320 articles published across 106 journals. After a nearly quarter century lull between the 1970s and 1990s, publications in this area have resurged over the last two decades and continue on an upward trajectory, with most clinical studies now focusing on LSD, MDMA, and psilocybin. A subanalysis of the ten most cited articles in psychedelic research prior to 2010 and afterwards demonstrated a shift from research on risks of psychedelics, primarily those of MDMA, to research on therapeutic applications, predominantly those of psilocybin. We also conducted network analyses of inter-country collaborations in psychedelic research, which suggested that psychedelic researchers in the United Kingdom have more diverse international collaborations.

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