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Routledge eBooks, Sep 24, 2023

Springer International Publishing eBooks, 2022

ABSTRACT Este artigo considera que "Literacia da informação" como uma competênc... more ABSTRACT Este artigo considera que "Literacia da informação" como uma competência académica associada com o conhecimento sobre as fontes de informação, "fonte de crítica", o pensamento crítico e a teoria do conhecimento. A partir de uma perspectiva de Ciência da Informação, deve ser definida em relação à pesquisa de campo. Argumenta-se que a questão central é a compreensão crítica da produção do conhecimento e seus argumentos e como permitir aos utilizadores uma tomada de decisão racional na sobrecarregada ecologia da Informação. A ênfase deve ser colocada sobre as funções do sistema de comunicação académico considerado sob as perspectivas sociológica e epistemológica. This paper considers "information literacy" as a scholarly skill associated with knowledge about information sources, "source criticism", critical thinking and theory of knowledge. From the perspective of Library and Information Science (LIS) it should be defined in relation to the research field of LIS: What we can offer and what we should offer in relation to this concept? It is argued that the core issue is the critical understanding of knowledge production and knowledge claims and how to enable users to make rational decisions in the overloaded information ecology. Emphasis should be put on the functions of the scholarly communication system considered from sociological and epistemological perspectives. Palavras- chave: Literacia Informacional

Academic Writing and Information Literacy Instruction in Digital Environments

The purpose of this article is to investigate the best teacher evaluation method that can reveal ... more The purpose of this article is to investigate the best teacher evaluation method that can reveal English language teachers ’ abilities to adapt to modern teaching approaches under the conditions of innovative and progressive language teaching trends. It is also extremely important to find out the general problems that prevent some of the teachers from using innovative ELT approaches and techniques. Thus, within the general area of teachers ’ assessment, twenty teachers from Azerbaijan University of Languages with the work experience of over fifteen years have been selected for a four-stage evaluation process that consisted of general English language knowledge testing, class management observation, teachers ’ self-evaluation, and evaluation of the selected teachers done by their students. The analysis of the completed assessment demonstrates that the best method of teachers ’ evaluation is class management observation, since three other assessment methods seem to be subjective and o...

English Studies

The study of interfaces in a grammatical domain has been approached by many scholars at different... more The study of interfaces in a grammatical domain has been approached by many scholars at different periods. The book Exploring Interfaces explores major linguistic interface areas and brings all three strands of Zubizarreta’s research programmes together. Edited by Mónica Cabrera and José Camacho, this book is a valuable contribution of ten individual chapters that constitute the three main parts of the collection. One thing that makes the book particularly interesting is its selection of contributors as they represent ideas and studies from different universities and disciplines around the globe. Moreover, while some of the papers are single-authored, others are written in collaboration. Following Zubizarreta’s seminal work exploring the division of labour between syntax and the lexicon, the first part of the collection includes four individual chapters bound by a single idea of syntax-lexicon interface and argument structure. In her chapter entitled “The L2 acquisition of English anticausative structures by L1 Spanish speakers,” Mónica Cabrera (p. 16) investigates the role of grammatical transfer to acquire a structure at the lexico-syntax interface. The paper juxtaposes two main hypotheses, Full versus Developmentally Constrained Transfer hypotheses, that constitute the core of the whole collection. Unlike the first chapter that studies anticausative structures, chapter two deals with semantic-syntactic alteration of adjectival constructions, where Violeta Demonte focuses on the Sideward Movement Theory of Control. Built on the ideas of Zubizarreta and Oh, the third chapter of the volume by Roberto Mayoral Hernández engages with a general explanation of all unaccusative verbs in Spanish focusing on the distribution of the clitic with reflexive morphology that typically occurs with certain unaccusative verbs in this language. This chapter may be considered the most intriguing since it provides a uniform account for all unaccusative verbs in Spanish and analyzes the distribution of obligatory PPs and clitics. What makes the chapter particularly remarkable is that the author walks the reader through all the samples of unaccusative verbs in Spanish that imply a change of state/location or just a state. At the same time, the verbs are approached from the point of view of their use by speakers from all Spanish-speaking countries (pp. 79–80) which makes it possible to compare and contrast the frequency of their uses. Part one terminates with the fourth chapter written by Mythili Menon and Roumyana Pancheva. The authors study the degree of achievements derived from property-concept expressions of colour in Malayalam that behave differently from the degree achievements of colour in other languages, English being no exception. In the second part, “Syntax-Semantics Interface,” José Camacho reviews a set of negative idioms in Spanish by distinguishing three types of idiomatic expressions, mainly those that require syntactic negation, non-syntactic negation, and those that are licensed in a wider downward-entailing context. In contrast to the idioms study, Tania Ionin and Tatiana Luchkina provide experimental evidence on learners’ preferences of word order, contrastive prosody, and scope interpretation in the Russian language. That is another outstanding chapter of the collection that studies the Russian language from the generative perspective. It should be emphasised that the Russian language, and Slavic languages as a whole, have

Azerbaijan Journal of Educational Studies

International Journal of Technologies in Higher Education

Azerbaijan Journal of Educational Studies, 2022

Reflection has long been advocated in the literature as a vital means of investigating the person... more Reflection has long been advocated in the literature as a vital means
of investigating the personal and professional self. It is believed that
teacher development might be more efficient if driven by peer
observation and accompanied by a structured follow-up discussion.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes of instructors
towards a peer observation-feedback model. It is hypothesized that
when involved in peer observation and feedback, instructors will
report improvement on their teaching styles and methodology.

Exploring English Language Teaching in Post-Soviet Era Countries

Routledge eBooks, Sep 24, 2023

Springer International Publishing eBooks, 2022

Academic Writing and Information Literacy Instruction in Digital Environments

English Studies

Azerbaijan Journal of Educational Studies

International Journal of Technologies in Higher Education

Azerbaijan Journal of Educational Studies, 2022

Exploring English Language Teaching in Post-Soviet Era Countries

Springer, 2023

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of academic writing and informatio... more This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of academic writing and information literacy in a new digital dimension, drawing on recent trends towards project-based writing, digital writing and multimodal writing in Education, and synthesising theory with practice to provide a handy toolkit for teachers and researchers. The author combines a practical orientation to teaching academic writing and information literacy with a grounding in current theories of writing instruction in the digitalized era, and argue that as digital environments become more universal in modern society - particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic - the lines between traditional academic writing and multi-modal digital writing must necessary become blurred. This book will be of use to teachers and instructors of academic writing and information literacy, particularly within the context of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), as well as students and researchers in Applied Linguistics, Pedagogy and Digital Writing.

Cambridge Scholars, 2021

The 21st century is marked by the intensive movement of people across international borders. Whil... more The 21st century is marked by the intensive movement of people across international borders. While languages are used as a means of interaction across the globe, the nuances of communication vary from culture to culture. This book explores how the misperception of cultural values and norms may result in misapprehension and communication breakdowns in various settings.

Book, 2020

Exploring English Language Teaching in Post-Soviet Era Countries analyses different elements of E... more Exploring English Language Teaching in Post-Soviet Era Countries analyses different elements of English language teaching from the Soviet era to a new era of Westernised influence. This work provides an insight into the problems that occur in present-day English language education in post-Soviet era countries, considering English language teaching at all stages of education.

The book outlines the challenges that many countries of the former Soviet Union experienced at the turn of the twenty-first century and relates these to education as a crucial social phenomenon. It considers the teaching of English as a lingua franca at all education levels in the countries of the former Soviet Union, with particular emphasis on universities. Using empirical research from case studies in Azerbaijan, the book considers whether post-Soviet era countries have truly moved towards a Westernised model of language education or simply imitated one. This book is the first of its kind to treat the problem by listening to teachers’ and students’ voices as the major actors of the educational process.

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019

This is a unique book that covers innovative grammar teaching approaches and techniques for a mod... more This is a unique book that covers innovative grammar teaching approaches and techniques for a modern generation of EFL/ESL students. It juxtaposes traditional grammar teaching methods with newer ones, and reveals the advantages and disadvantages of each. Moreover, it provides free and controlled grammar activities which offer instructors an ample variety of tasks that facilitate EFL/ESL teachers’ work to practice certain grammatical patterns.

English Studies , 2021