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Visual Methods in Researching Language Practices and Language Learning: Looking at, Seeing, and Designing Language
2016
The changing ways of using language and various understandings of what language is have consequences for the way we research language practices and language learning. When engaging in social contact, people use diverse and complex forms, modes, and varieties of language to communicate, and moreover, these resources often include icons, images, and other semiotic ways of meaning making. Visuality thus has a natural position in people’s language practices. In this chapter, we discuss how visual methods have been adopted and used as a methodological tool in researching language practices and language learning. With this focus, attention is geared to the materiality of language, on the one hand…
Words and images of multilingualism: A case study of two North Korean refugees
2018
Abstract The article analyses the experience of multilingualism in the South Korean context, focusing on the experiences of North Korean refugees. The research participants (N=2) are originally from North Korea, but now live in South Korea, where they face challenges in their adaptation to the new society, its linguistic landscape and its practices and positions with regard to language issues in society and in education. By combining verbal and visual means of data collection, we aim to analyse the multilingual trajectory of the research participants, their experiences of different languages and language learning and, further, the emotions that are attached to these. Our approach is socio-c…
Progress Checking for Dummies
2018
Verification of progress properties is both conceptually and technically significantly more difficult than verification of safety and deadlock properties. In this study we focus on the conceptual side. We make a simple modification to a well-known model to demonstrate that it passes progress verification although the resulting model is intuitively badly incorrect. Then we point out that the error can be caught easily by adding a termination branch to the system. We compare the use of termination branches to the established method of addressing the same need, that is, weak fairness. Then we discuss another problem that may cause failure of catching progress errors even with weak fairness. Fi…
Using evaluation criteria and rubrics as learning tools in subtitling for the D/deaf and the hard of hearing
2018
This paper focuses on the use of evaluation criteria and rubrics as tools for training in an audiovisual translation mode: subtitling for the D/deaf and the hard of hearing (SDH). Following an introduction to the current conception of and research carried out on quality assurance and assessment both in the translation industry and academia, a brief overview of the assessment processes and instruments used in SDH university training and in the professional sector is provided. This is followed by a case study of SDH assessment practices in Spain. Two questionnaires were filled in by five service providers and 12 university trainers, and the data gathered has enabled a better understanding of …
Molecular characterization of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum in Switzerland and France with a new multilocus sequence typing scheme
2018
Syphilis is an important public health problem and an increasing incidence has been noted in recent years. Characterization of strain diversity through molecular data plays a critical role in the epidemiological understanding of this re-emergence. We here propose a new high-resolution multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum (TPA). We analyzed 30 complete and draft TPA genomes obtained directly from clinical samples or from rabbit propagated strains to identify suitable typing loci and tested the new scheme on 120 clinical samples collected in Switzerland and France. Our analyses yielded three loci with high discriminatory power: TP0136, TP0548, and TP…
Supplemental Material, Participant_instructions_for_the_Graphic_Vignettes - School Bullying Through Graphic Vignettes: Developing a New Arts-Based Me…
2020
Supplemental Material, Participant_instructions_for_the_Graphic_Vignettes for School Bullying Through Graphic Vignettes: Developing a New Arts-Based Method to Study a Sensitive Topic by Daria Khanolainen and Elena Semenova in International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Supplemental Material, Appendix_1_-_Vignettes_1-4_(English_translation) - School Bullying Through Graphic Vignettes: Developing a New Arts-Based Meth…
2020
Supplemental Material, Appendix_1_-_Vignettes_1-4_(English_translation) for School Bullying Through Graphic Vignettes: Developing a New Arts-Based Method to Study a Sensitive Topic by Daria Khanolainen and Elena Semenova in International Journal of Qualitative Methods
sj-zip-1-smm-10.1177_0962280220941159 - Supplemental material for Nonlinear parametric quantile models
2020
Supplemental material, sj-zip-1-smm-10.1177_0962280220941159 for Nonlinear parametric quantile models by Matteo Bottai and Giovanna Cilluffo in Statistical Methods in Medical Research
SMM900901 Supplemental material - Supplemental material for On powerful exact nonrandomized tests for the Poisson two-sample setting
2020
Supplemental material, SMM900901 Supplemental material for On powerful exact nonrandomized tests for the Poisson two-sample setting by Stefan Wellek in Statistical Methods in Medical Research
sj-pdf-2-qhr-10.1177_1049732320982945 – Supplemental material for The Clip Approach: A Visual Methodology to Support the (Re)Construction of Life Nar…
2021
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-qhr-10.1177_1049732320982945 for The Clip Approach: A Visual Methodology to Support the (Re)Construction of Life Narratives by Riikka Talsi, Aarno Laitila, Timo Joensuu and Esa Saarinen in Qualitative Health Research