Applied Linguisticshttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/59932024-03-18T18:42:48Z2024-03-18T18:42:48ZThe informational richness of testimonial contextsKenyon, Timhttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/151842021-10-04T01:25:17Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZThe informational richness of testimonial contexts
Kenyon, Tim
An influential idea in the epistemology of testimony is that people often acquire justified beliefs through testimony, in contexts too informationally poor for the justification to be evidential. This has been described as the Scarcity of Information Objection (SIO). It is an objection to the reductive thesis that the acceptance of testimony is justified by evidence of general kinds not unique to testimony. SIO hinges on examples intended to show clearly that testimonial justification arises in low‐information contexts; I argue that the common examples show no such thing. There is a great deal of information available in testimonial contexts, including in the examples alleged to show otherwise – enough information to render SIO implausible. Purported SIO examples tend to give a wrong impression about the informational richness of testimonial contexts, I argue, due to the lack of detail in which they are presented.
2013-01-01T00:00:00ZCritical incident analysis through narrative reflective practice: A case studyFarrell, Thomashttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/61392021-08-04T03:29:09Z2012-12-25T00:00:00ZCritical incident analysis through narrative reflective practice: A case study
Farrell, Thomas
Teachers can reflect on their practices by articulating and exploring incidents they consider
critical to themselves or others. By talking about these critical incidents, teachers can
make better sense of seemingly random experiences that occur in their teaching because
they hold the real inside knowledge, especially personal intuitive knowledge, expertise and
experience that is based on their accumulated years as language educators teaching in
schools and classrooms. This paper is about one such critical incident analysis that an ESL
teacher in Canada revealed to her critical friend and how both used McCabe’s (2002)
narrative framework for analyzing an important critical incident that occurred in the
teacher’s class.
2012-12-25T00:00:00ZPsychocentricity and participant profiles: implications for lexical processing among multilingualsLibben, GaryCurtiss, KaitlinWeber, Silkehttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/60042021-08-02T01:57:59Z2014-06-30T00:00:00ZPsychocentricity and participant profiles: implications for lexical processing among multilinguals
Libben, Gary; Curtiss, Kaitlin; Weber, Silke
Lexical processing among bilinguals is often affected by complex patterns of individual
experience. In this paper we discuss the psychocentric perspective on language
representation and processing, which highlights the centrality of individual experience
in psycholinguistic experimentation. We discuss applications to the investigation of
lexical processing among multilinguals and explore the advantages of using high-density
experiments with multilinguals. High density experiments are designed to co-index
measures of lexical perception and production, as well as participant profiles. We discuss
the challenges associated with the characterization of participant profiles and present a
new data visualization technique, that we term Facial Profiles. This technique is based
on Chernoff faces developed over 40 years ago. The Facial Profile technique seeks to
overcome some of the challenges associated with the use of Chernoff faces, while
maintaining the core insight that recoding multivariate data as facial features can engage
the human face recognition system and thus enhance our ability to detect and interpret
patterns within multivariate datasets. We demonstrate that Facial Profiles can code
participant characteristics in lexical processing studies by recoding variables such as
reading ability, speaking ability, and listening ability into iconically-related relative sizes of
eye, mouth, and ear, respectively. The balance of ability in bilinguals can be captured by
creating composite facial profiles or Janus Facial Profiles. We demonstrate the use of
Facial Profiles and Janus Facial Profiles in the characterization of participant effects in the
study of lexical perception and production.
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