The Nuevo cancionero: A change of paradigm in argentine folklore

Fil: Díaz, Claudio Fernando. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras; Argentina.A field of cultural production that was gradually established in Argentina since the mid twentieth century as part of the more general evolution of the communications media and mass culture came to controversially be called “folklore” in the social imaginary. Quite a number of scholars have shown the difference between this type of musical expression, which pertains to mass culture, and authentically folkloric phenomena--no matter how they are defined. Despite these issues, the “folklore” connected to the recording industry and big Argentine festivals like Cosquín and Jesús María has continued to evolve, is still called “folklore” and is an important type of popular music in Argentina. As I have mentioned elsewhere, I propose that Argentine folklore be studied as a specific field of cultural production--in other words, as a system of social relations having its own rules of production and consecration. Because this field of discursive production is part of the cultural industry’s overall production of popular music, its game rules are very different from the ones found in the sociocultural areas where the musical genres comprising the larger field of popular music originally came from. However, like all fields of discursive cultural production, folklore operates according to the principle of competition for legitimacy, which evolved per specific rules and is based upon specific ideals regarding conseration. These rules are not arbitrary; instead, they were gradually constructed by means of the battles that impacted the field’s formative process from the 1920s on. This is how the “classic” paradigm of production -as I call it--specific to the field of folklore was constructed.Fil: Díaz, Claudio Fernando. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras; Argentina.Ciencias Sociales Interdisciplinaria

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF QUIZIZZ WHEN WORKING WITH DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES

Deficient use of vocabulary in learners is common when they use English to express their ideas. The use of technology to motivate students learning is an ally for teachers when they want to innovate and develop new strategies. The aim of this action research study is to assess the effectiveness of using the Quizizz online platform to improve one participant’s listening skill to recognize descriptive adjectives. The participant was one English language learner from an A1 level in a semi private school from Concepción, Chile. During 5 sessions he used and played on the Quizizz platform, there he listened to words, simple phrases and complex sentences. He had to choose the correct picture that represented that the descriptive adjectives that he had heard. To identify and analyze the results of the Quizizz platform, it was used an observation checklist. Then, at the end of each session, a multiple choice task with similar questions to Quizizz was used. To identify the participant’s perception about the Quizizz platform it was used a Likert scale. The findings showed that the use of the platform didn’t contribute to the participant’s improvement of his listening skill related to descriptive adjectives. In addition, the participant perceived the Quizizz platform positively. For these reasons, the Quizizz platform is recommended to be used for educational purposes. El uso deficiente del vocabulario en los estudiantes pequeños es común cuando usan inglés para expresar sus ideas. El uso de tecnología para motivar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes es un aliado para los docentes cuando quieren innovar y desarrollar nuevas estrategias. El objetivo de este estudio de investigación-acción es evaluar la efectividad del uso de la plataforma en línea Quizizz para mejorar la habilidad de escucha de un participante para reconocer adjetivos descriptivos. El participante fue solo un estudiante de inglés de nivel A1 de una escuela semi privada de la ciudad de Concepción, Chile. Durante 5 sesiones él utilizó y jugó en la plataforma Quizizz, allí escuchó palabras, frases, oraciones complejas y tuvo que elegir la imagen correcta que representaba el adjetivo descriptivo que había escuchado. Para conocer y analizar los resultados de la plataforma Quizizz se utilizó un checklist de observación, luego al final de cada sesión se utilizó una tarea de opción múltiple con preguntas similares a las del Quizizz. Para identificar la percepción del participante sobre la plataforma se utilizó una escala Likert. Los hallazgos mostraron que el uso de la plataforma no contribuyó a que el participante mejorara su habilidad de escuchar en relación a los adjetivos descriptivos. Además, el participante percibió positivamente la plataforma. Por estas razones, se recomienda utilizar Quizizz con fines educativos. Article visualizations

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Olikoye a design-of-materials proposal to introduce literature in the EFL classroom

Treball Final de Màster Universitari en Professor/a d'Educació Secundària Obligatòria i Batxillerat, Formació Professional i Ensenyaments d'Idiomes. Codi SAP419. Curs: 2020/2021In the last three decades, literature has regained its position as an educational tool capable of promoting students' linguistic proficiency. Moreover, literary texts convey an education in values and attitudes, alongside an awareness of different cultures and worldviews. Under these parameters, the introduction of authentic reading material in the English as a Foreign Language curriculum seems not only appropriate but desirable. This design-of-material proposal intends to exploit Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story Olikoye to achieve the abovementioned results. To this end, the activities and teaching materials comprised in the following Didactic Unit are designed following the three-model approach by Carter & Long (1991), which intends to develop the student's linguistic, cultural and personal growth competences

El rol de la dinámica de fuerzas en la construcción reflexiva formal pasarse + dativo

En aquest article es descriu la construcció reflexiva formal pasarse + datiu en el marc de la Lingüística Cognitiva. L’estudi caracteritza les eines descriptives provinents d’aquest enfocament, tals com esquemes d’imatge i metàfora conceptual, amb èmfasi en l’anàlisi de la dinàmica de forces. En la descripció es postula com a sentit espaial un esquema d’imatge, els components del qual es projecten sistemàticament a altres dominis per constituir sentits metafòrics que comparteixen un mateix patró sintàctic. L’article mostra que aquesta construcció té un significat estable que aporta el matís significatiu de falta de control als diferents sentits, el qual s’explica mitjançant una dinàmica de forces particular

Dynamic parameter estimation problem for ethanol production from seaweed

Ethanol has been studied extensively as one of the current and probably future energy vectors. Fermentation of hydrolysed oligosaccharides from macroalgae biomass to ethanol has been certified, and several processing options have been proposed. In the present work, we model the production of ethanol based on Laminaria, a seaweed genus that belongs to the so-called "brown algae" group, as the carbon source. In brown algae, the most relevant sugars that can be used as substrate for fermentation are mannitol -the alcohol form of the sugar mannose- and laminaran, a linear polysaccharide of(1,3)-β-Dglucopyranose. We consider the yeast Pichia angophorae as the fermenting microorganism. The model includes dynamic mass balances for biomass, ethanol, mannitol and laminaran. Growth is controlled via limiting functions that modify the biomass equation for temperature and oxygen transfer rate (OTR). It is also modified by including a term that considers inhibition by ethanol. Based on the proposed model, a dynamic parameter estimation problem is formulated, the objective function being weighted least-squares fit to data, subject to the mass balance equations. The data set for parameter estimation was obtained in batch liquid cultures, with experiments performed over 40 hours. Numerical results provide useful insights on ethanol production using macroalgae biomass as carbon sourceFil: Delpino, Claudio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química; ArgentinaFil: de Genaro, Pablo Adrian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química; ArgentinaFil: Di Maggio, Jimena Andrea. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química; ArgentinaFil: Estrada, Vanina Gisela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química; ArgentinaFil: Díaz, María Soledad. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química; Argentin

Foreign-language teaching and studying in Chilean and Finnish classrooms as seen by teachers

This article reports Chilean and Finnish foreign-language (FL) teachers’ perceptions of teaching and study realities in their own FL classrooms. Communicative language teaching (CLT) is used as the teaching–studying–learning methodological framework of an international KIELO project (= the acronym for Finnish “kieltenopetus” meaning “language teaching”), whose online survey was used to collect data for this article. We aim at answering the following research question: What are the FL teachers’ main approaches to teaching and studying in Chilean and Finnish FL classrooms and what is the FL classroom teaching and study reality like in these two countries? The data were collected from 83 Chilean and 147 Finnish FL teachers through an online survey covering 15 key themes of CLT and including 115 Likert-scale statements and 8 open-ended questions. In the descriptive data analysis, both Chilean and Finnish FL teachers claim that they encourage their students to use the target language considerably and that they use communicative oral tasks. For both groups of participants, however, teacher-centeredness and use of textbook score relatively high. The two-cluster analysis revealed a context-dependent cluster and a context-independent cluster. Context-dependent teachers tended to favor communicative oral tasks, real-life tasks and their own language tasks, whereas context-independent teachers favored more non-communicative tasks. Context-dependent teachers proved more student-centered than context-independent teachers. For Chilean and Finnish research participants, the use of mother tongue in foreign language classrooms appears to be an issue despite the growing need of foreign language communication. Key words: Foreign language teaching and studying, communicative language teaching, teachers’ perception of teaching and studying.Peer reviewe

Versión española de la Escala de Justicia Organizacional de Colquitt

Organizational justice (OJ) is an important predictor of different work attitudes and behaviors. Colquitt’s Organizational Justice Scale (COJS) was designed to assess employees’ perceptions of fairness. This scale has four dimensions: distributive, procedural, informational, and interpersonal justice. The objective of this study is to validate it in a Spanish sample. Method: The scale was administered to 460 Spanish employees from the service sector. 40.4% were men and 59.6% women. Results: The Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) supported the four dimensions structure for Spanish version of COJS. This model showed a better fi t to data that the others models tested. Cronbach’s alpha obtained for subscales ranged between .88 and .95. Correlations of the Spanish version of COJS with measures of incivility and job satisfaction were statistically significant and had a moderate to high magnitude, indicating a reasonable degree of construct validity. Conclusions: The Spanish version of COJS has adequate psychometric properties and may be of value in assessing OJ in Spanish settingLa justicia organizacional (JO) es un predictor importante de diferentes actitudes y conductas organizacionales. La Escala de Justicia Organizacional de Colquitt (EJOC) fue desarrollada para evaluar las percepciones de justicia de los empleados. Tiene cuatro dimensiones: justicia distributiva, procedimental, informativa e interpersonal. El objetivo de este estudio es validarla en una muestra española. Método: la escala fue administrada a una muestra de 460 trabajadores españoles del sector servicios. El 40,4% fueron hombres y el 59,6% mujeres. Resultados: el Análisis Factorial Confirmatorio (AFC) apoyó la estructura de cuatro dimensiones para la versión española de la EJOC. Este modelo mostró un mejor ajuste de los datos que los otros modelos probados. El alfa de Cronbach obtenido para las subescalas varió entre .88 y .95. Las correlaciones de la versión española con las escalas de incivismo y satisfacción laboral fueron estadísticamente signifi cativas y de una magnitud moderada a alta, lo que indica un grado razonable de validez de constructo. Conclusiones: la versión española de la EJOC tiene propiedades psicométricas adecuadas y puede ser de utilidad en la evaluación de la JO en el entorno españo

Las cláusulas democráticas en los tratados internacionales

En el presente trabajo nos proponemos analizar el desarrollo jurídico internacional que significa la presencia de cláusulas en defensa del régimen democrático en tratados internacionales interamericanos e intramericanos. (Párrafo extraído del texto a modo de resumen)Mesa: Nuevos desarrollos del Derecho InternacionalInstituto de Relaciones Internacionale