scholarly journals Adapting Intertextuality: The case of nursery rhyme characters in creating new canons in children’s culture

2018 ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Catalina Millan
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Visual Input ◽  
Visual Adaptation ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Nursery Rhyme ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Key Words Adaptation ◽  
Insight Into

The increasingly common use of English nursery rhymes intertextually has impacted upon their transfer into target cultures: entire nursery rhymes, fragments and characters are now found in translational situations. Most of these situations are adaptations of nursery rhymes into other media; and one of the most evident is the use of nursery rhyme characters found in a different context, frequently portrayed visually. Through a reception case study with Spanish students, this report intends to address issues about the relevance of intertextuality in translation, as well as the child’s assumptions in relation to discourse and visual input. Through a qualitative mixed-method study, children worked with nursery rhymes without visual prompts as well as intertextually presented nursery rhyme characters, and offered insight into acquired expectations and anticipations. Through the revision of the results, visual adaptation proves to contribute to children’s acculturation and assumptions, reducing the openness to foreignization. Key words: adaptation, intertextuality, nursery rhymes, translation, acculturation ResumenEl uso cada vez más común de las nursery rhymes inglesas de forma intertextual tiene un impacto sobre su transferencia a la cultura meta: rimas enteras, fragmentos o personajes se encuentran ahora en situaciones de traducción. Muchas de estas situaciones son adaptaciones de nursery rhymes a otros medios; y una de las más evidentes es el uso de personajes de nursery rhymes en un contexto diferente, normalmente con un apoyo visual. A través de un estudio de recepción con estudiantes españoles de edades comprendidas entre 12 y 14 años, este artículo pretende ofrecer respuestas sobre la relevancia de la intertextualidad en la traducción, además de las presuposiciones en relación al discurso y a los mensajes visuales. A través de un estudio de métodos mixtos, un grupo de participantes trabajó con nursery rhymes sin apoyo visual y con personajes de nursery rhymes presentados de forma intertextual y con apoyo visual. El estudio ofrece información sobre las expectativas adquiridas y los patrones discursivos de los niños y adolescentes. En la revisión de los resultados, se demuestra que la adaptación visual influye en la aculturación y las presuposiciones de los niños partiendo de un modelo hegemónico, y reduce su capacidad de extranjerización en transferencias culturales. Palabras clave: adaptación, intertextualidad, nursery rhymes, traducción, aculturación. ResumL’ús cada vegada més comú de les nursery rhymes ingleses de forma intertextual té un impacte sobre la seua transferència a la cultura meta: rimes senceres, fragments o personatges es troben ara en situacions de traducció. Moltes d’aquestes situacions són adaptacions de nursery rhymes a d’altre mitjans i una de les més evidents és l’ús de personatges de de nursery rhymes en un context diferent, normalment amb un suport visual. A través d’un estudi de recepció amb estudiants espanyols d’edats compreses entre 12 i 14 anys, aquest article pretén oferir respostes sobre la rellevància de la intertextualitat en la traducció, a més de les pressuposicions en relació al discurs i als missatges visuals. A través d’un estudi de mètodes mixts, un grup de participants va treballar amb nursery rhymes presentats ací de forma intertextual i amb suport visual. L’estudi ofereix informació sobre les expectatives adquirides i els patrons discursius dels infants i adolescents. En la revisió dels resultats, es demostra que l’adaptació visual influeix en la aculturació i les pressuposicions dels infants tot partint d’un model hegemònic i redueix la seua capacitat d’estrangerització en transferències culturals. Paraules clau: adaptació, intertextualitat, nursery rhymes, traducció, aculturació

STUDENTS’ ACCEPTANCE TO USING GRAPHIC NOVELS IN LEARNING LITERATURE (L2): A MALAYSIAN CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Abu Yazid Abu Bakar ◽  
Dayang Nurfaezah Abang Ahmad ◽  
Melor Md Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Esl Teachers ◽  
English As Second Language ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Research has shown that using graphic novels in the classroom is one of useful approaches to promote the understanding of learners especially for lengthy and difficult literature texts. This study reports the extent of graphic novel in facilitating students’ understanding of literature and the students’ perceptions towards using graphic novel in learning literature (L2) as compared to other genre of texts. This is a mixed method study which employs quantitative and qualitative methods to obtain data. The findings indicate that most students found that graphic novel helped them to enrich their vocabularies and understand the text better. The findings also reveal that students were attracted to the illustrations in the literature text in which this helps to boost their motivation to learn literature in the classroom. The findings provide useful insights for English as Second Language (ESL) teachers in incorporating and expanding the literature learning through graphic novels in the future. The findings also imply the need of ESL teachers to use graphic novels effectively in facilitating their teaching and learning of literature in L2 classrooms particularly to suit the 21<sup>st</sup> century teaching and learning.

Oral language development among Mandarin learners in Chinese homestays

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-57
Author(s):  
Wenhao Diao ◽  
Anne Donovan ◽  
Margaret Malone
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Oral Proficiency ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Oral Language Development ◽  
American Students ◽  
Host Families

Abstract This mixed-method study describes the oral Mandarin development of 25 American students living in Chinese homestays, and how it may relate to the ways they respond to opportunities for interaction with their host families. While scholars have begun to examine students’ Mandarin development during their sojourns in China, there is little research regarding changes in their holistic oral proficiency and how such changes may be related to the quality of interaction they have with their interlocutors. The results of this study show robust gains in proficiency ratings of their oral performances over the course of one semester. A case study of two purposefully selected student performances – one who demonstrated the most prominent proficiency gains and the other who showed no gains – reveals differences in the ways they respond to opportunities for interaction. These findings provide suggestions on ways to best facilitate students’ learning experience while living with host families.

scholarly journals Recensione: Pavesi, Maria, & Ghia, Elisa (2020). Informal contact with English. A case study of Italian postgraduate students. Edizioni ETS.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-81
Author(s):  
Giulia Staggini
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
English Language ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Italian Context

IT Informal Contact with English. A case study of Italian postgraduate students tratta dell’acquisizione informale della lingua inglese in contesto italiano. Il volume, infatti, dopo una rassegna dei principali studi acquisizionali attorno al tema, illustra e descrive i risultati dell’indagine condotta su studenti dell’Università di Pavia riguardo al loro rapporto con media e input in lingua inglese. Il testo presenta un focus specifico sui benefici e sull’impatto dei testi audiovisivi in generale, e dei testi audiovisivi sottotitolati in particolare. Parole chiave: ACQUISIZIONE INFORMALE, LINGUISTICA ACQUISIZIONALE, LINGUA INGLESE, INPUT AUDIOVISIVI EN Informal Contact with English. A case study of Italian postgraduate students examines informal English acquisition in the Italian context. After a review of major studies of informal acquisition, the volume describes the results of a study conducted with students at the Università di Pavia (Italy) regarding their engagement with English-language media. Specifically, the text focuses on the benefits and impact of input from audiovisual materials and, in particular, audiovisual materials with subtitles. Key words: INFORMAL ACQUISITION, ACQUISITIONAL LINGUISTICS, ENGLISH LANGUAGE, AUDIOVISUAL INPUT ES Informal Contact with English. A case study of Italian postgraduate students se ocupa de la adquisición informal de la lengua inglesa en el contexto italiano. Tras un análisis de los principales estudios adquisicionales sobre el tema, el volumen ilustra y describe los resultados de una investigación llevada a cabo con estudiantes de la Universidad de Pavía (Italia) sobre su relación con los medios y el input en lengua inglesa. El texto se centra especialmente en los beneficios y el impacto del input procedente de materiales audiovisuales y, en particular, de aquellos que incluyen subtítulos. Palabras clave: ADQUISICIÓN INFORMAL, LINGÜÍSTICA ADQUISICIONAL, LENGUA INGLESA, INPUT AUDIOVISUAL

scholarly journals The paths and the ways: an insight into transdisciplinarity

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (69) ◽  
pp. 1295-1322
Author(s):  
Paul Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Tao Te Ching ◽  
Essential Nature ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Insight Into

The paths and the ways: an insight into transdisciplinarity Abstract: This is a short study of how the notion of thinking that Heidegger developed in his writing, in the Conversation on a Country Path about Thinking (2010a), can be read through a consideration of a Chinese Taoist text Tao Te Ching  (Laozi) and the Confucian, though a Taoist inspired text, by Zisi, the Zhongyong, to illuminate the essential nature of openness in transdisciplinarity and the restrictions of disciplinarity of knowing taken as the  ritual and rules of methodology. This approach offers a way to understand unconcealment in the onto-cosmology of the harmony of all Being and of personal cultivation which is essential to the ontology of Heidegger. I then suggest how this might be offered in what could be called a transdisciplinary pedagogy. Key words: Heidegger. Confucianism. Taoism. Transdisciplinarity. Harmony. Os caminhos e os meios: uma visão da transdisciplinaridade Resumo: Este é um breve estudo sobre como a noção de pensamento que Heidegger desenvolveu em seus escritos, em Conversation on a Country Path about Thinking [Uma Conversa no Caminho do Campo sobre o Pensar] (2010a), pode ser lida através da consideração de um texto taoísta chinês Tao Te Ching (Laozi) e de um texto confucionista, embora inspirado por taoístas, de Zisi, o Zhongyong [A Doutrina do Meio], para iluminar a natureza essencial da abertura na transdisciplinaridade e as restrições da disciplinaridade do conhecimento a serem tomadas como ritual e regras da metodologia. Essa abordagem oferece uma maneira de entender a desocultação na ontocosmologia da harmonia de todo o Ser e do cultivo pessoal, essencial à ontologia de Heidegger. Sugiro então como isso pode ser oferecido no que poderia ser chamado de pedagogia transdisciplinar. Palavras-chave: Heidegger. Confucionismo. Taoísmo. Transdisciplinaridade. Harmonia. Los caminos y los medios: una visión de la transdisciplinariedad Resumen: Este es un breve estudio de cómo la noción de pensamiento que desarrolló Heidegger en sus escritos, Conversación sobre un camino rural sobre el pensamiento (2010a), puede leerse mediante la consideración de un texto chino taoísta Tao Te Ching (Laozi) y un texto confuciano, aunque inspirado por los taoístas de Zisi, el Zhongyong [La Doctrina del Medio], para iluminar la naturaleza esencial de la apertura en la transdisciplinariedad y las limitaciones de la disciplina del conocimiento a tomado como ritual y reglas de metodología. Este enfoque ofrece una forma de entender la falta de cultivación de la ontocosmología de la armonía de todo Ser y el cultivo personal, esencial para la ontología de Heidegger. Luego sugiero cómo se podría ofrecer esto en lo que podría llamarse pedagogía transdisciplinaria. Palabras clave: Heidegger. Confuciano. Taoísmo. Transdisciplinariedad. Armonía. Data de registro: 30/07/2020 Data de aceite: 21/10/2020

A Case Study of the Adoption and Use of Information Systems Technology in a Business-Format Franchise

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana L. Repack ◽  
William F. Repack
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Franchise System ◽  
Successful Business

This research identifies factors that influence technology use and adoption within the context of a growing international commercial and residential moving franchise system. This mixed method study explores differences in attitudes and expectations about technology between the franchisor and its franchisees. Franchise systems are different than other small or medium sized businesses because there are many individuals running their own relatively small business, yet they are still part of a larger whole. Running a successful business requires time, and individual franchisees tend to be more interested in spending that time on their day-to-day operation rather on addressing the information needs of the franchisor. As a result, franchisors often feel that the technologies they offer to facilitate information sharing are underutilized. A set of recommendations is provided for maximizing franchisees’ acceptance and usage of the technologies.

scholarly journals A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Examining learners’ illustrations to understand Attitudes towards Mathematics

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-248
Author(s):  
Farhat Syyeda ◽  
Farhat Syyeda
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
School Students ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Mathematical Symbols ◽  
Insight Into

This article presents my experience of using pictures/images drawn by children as a form of data in research and discusses the merits and implications of employing this method. It comes from research of a mixed method exploratory case study to investigate the attitudes of 11 and 15 year old secondary school students (in the East Midlands) towards Mathematics. The aim of this research was to gain an insight into the emotions, cognition, beliefs and behaviour of learners regarding Maths and the factors which influence their attitude. Besides using the tried and tested data collection tools such as focus groups and questionnaires, the children were asked to draw pictures illustrating their vision of Maths and its impact on their lives. The idea was to offer them an alternative medium of communication to exhibit their feelings and thoughts. Students used emoticons, numerals, figures, characters and mathematical symbols to show their favourable/unfavourable attitudes towards Maths and their understanding of the importance of Maths in future life. The results of visual data in this study conform to the findings of the other forms of data collected and show that boys and higher ability students have a more positive attitude towards Mathematics as compared to girls and low ability students.

scholarly journals Online Collaborative Writing (OCW) in Arabic as a Second Language (ASL) Classrooms: A Mixed-Method Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 266-279
Author(s):  
Mohammed Alwaleedi
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test

This study investigated how ASL learners interact during the OCW tasks, how ASL learners perceive the implementation of OCW, and whether or not there is a difference in students’ ASL writing performance before and after the implementation of OCW. This study employed a mixed-method study, a qualitative case study and a one-group experimental with pre-and-posttest design, involving 16 students who participated in the ASL writing class. The collected data included observations, document analysis, in-depth interviews, questionnaires, and tests. Pre- and post-test results were compared to analyze whether or not there is a statistically significant difference in students’ ASL writing skills before and after the implementation of OCW. The findings showed variations in interaction patterns during online collaborative writing activities. The students also had a positive perception of the implementation of OCW. The results also indicated a statistically significant difference in students’ ASL writing skills before and after the implementation of OCW.

scholarly journals Educator Responses to Migrant Children in Mexican Schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Sánchez García ◽  
Edmund T. Hamann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Mexican Schools ◽  
Teacher Sensemaking ◽  
Elementary And Middle School ◽  
Insight Into

A decade-long, five-state, mixed-method study of students encountered in Mexican schools with previous experience in the United States suggests there may be 400,000 such students in educación básica alone (elementary and middle school). The focus here, however, are data from 68 educators asked how they have responded to such students and their families. We offer an emergent taxonomy of teacher sensemaking about these students and teachers’ responsibilities to respond. We then assert that because they are at the interface between a national institution (school) and transnational phenomena (migration), educators can provide key insight into how migration is shaped and negotiated. Un estudio de una década, en cinco estados, y que utiliza métodos mixtos con estudiantes que se encuentran en escuelas mexicanas con experiencias previas en los Estados Unidos sugiere que se pueden encontrar 400,000 estudiantes de este tipo tan sólo cursando la educación básica (primaria y secundaria). Sin embargo, el enfoque aquí son los datos de 68 educadores a quienes se les preguntó cómo responden a esta clase de estudiantes y a sus familias. Ofrecemos una taxonomía emergente sobre cómo es que los maestros dan sentido a las responsabilidades de tener que responder a este tipo de circunstancias, enfrentadas por estos estudiantes y sus maestros. Procedemos a afirmar que, a causa de que se encuentran en el punto de contacto entre una institución nacional (la escuela) y un fenómeno transnacional (la migración), los educadores pueden proveer información clave sobre cómo es que la migración se define y se negocia.

scholarly journals ACCESSING HIGHER EDUCATION AFTER 23 YEARS OLD: OPPORTUNITIES AND MOTIVATIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (172) ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Catarina Mangas ◽  
Sara Lopes ◽  
Paula Ferreira ◽  
Isabel Beato
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Professional Change

Abstract This article reports a case study in a Portuguese public institution of higher education that aimed at characterizing the profile of the students that access the institution, through examinations for candidates aged 23 or over (M23 Access), focusing on the motivations for their entry and on their perspective of this type of access to higher education. This mixed method study used a questionnaire, answered by 180 former students. Acquisition of new knowledge, personal valorization and a professional change are among the most important reasons to access higher education. While analyzing the results, we are also able to discern the importance of implementing educational policies for adults, which, in the Portuguese case and regarding the promotion of learning opportunities for all, are still few and poorly disseminated.

scholarly journals A logistics sector’s perspective of factors and risks within the business environment that influence supply chains’ effectiveness: An explorative mixed method study

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna A. Badenhorst-Weiss ◽  
Beverley J. Waugh
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Logistics Industry ◽  
Operational Management ◽  
Insight Into

Background: Supply chains in South Africa operate in a challenging business environment. This environment influences the efficiency and effectiveness of South African businesses and supply chains. These factors further influence the competitiveness of products produced in the country, the economic growth and development of South Africa.Objectives: The purpose of this study was two-fold: Firstly, to obtain insight into the main business environment risks and other factors, from a logistics perspective; and secondly, to demonstrate the use of methodology not often used in logistics research − the sequential mixed method.Method: The explorative study was conducted amongst logistics service providers and cargo owners in 2013 by means of a sequential mixed method study, consisting of a survey to determine the importance of risk factors in the business environment, followed by a qualitative study in the form of a focus group discussion to obtain richer data and insight into these risks and factors. The results of these two methods were integrated with industry literature.Results: It was found that increasing transportation costs, operational management of infrastructure and human resources-related problems pose the biggest challenges in the logistics industry. In addition, it was found that the mixed method research study has application possibilities in logistics research.Conclusion: The factors identified as particularly problematic for the logistics industry, namely ineffective operational management of infrastructure, the general conditions in the labour market and increasing costs (to some extent) are outside the control of individual organisations. However, organisations can control how they react and mitigate these risk factors. It is shown that these factors and risks can change overnight. The use of the explorative mixed method in obtaining qualitative and quantitative inputs and integrating it with existing literature proved to be a workable and usable methodology.

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