Paul Stapleton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1193821 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Stapleton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Stapleton |
| SIGNATURE | STAPLETON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0733-7944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Charting L2 argumentative writing
Towards a framework of critical thinking for assessing EAP speaking
As one of the fundamental skills of the 21st century, critical thinking (CT) is a topic of considerable interest within the domain of assessing English for academic purposes (EAP). Recent literature on EAP instruction and assessment indicates that EAP has evolved beyond a strict focus on language improvement to encompass discourse competence and broader academic literacy development, with CT playing an important role in academic communication. A …
How Do Aesthetics Get into Muscles and Muscles into Aesthetics? Insights from Musical Interactions in an Experimental Context
In certain contexts, processes of perception, action and skill development and those related to aesthetic experiences can have mutual influence upon each other. Concepts from the domains of ecological psychology and aesthetics may therefore be distinct but entangled. These entanglements are explored here through observations from an experiment in which musicians' behaviours and experiences were recorded while they interacted with a computer music…
The Virtual is Material
Link to performance: https://vimeo.com/640946914/cf858052e1This performance-lecture was originally presented at the DRHA (Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts) conference in 2021 in Berlin. 3BP (Paul Stapleton, Adam Pultz Melbye and John Bowers) presents three views on the creation of an online performance ecology that allows the trio to improvise together, despite living in three separate locations. Rather than trying to overcome the inst…
Reassembled, Slightly Askew
Reassembled, Slightly Askew (RSA) is an audio theatre work which takes the audience through the visceral and embodied experience of Shannon Yee (Sickels) as she lives through a catastrophic brain infection and surgery, and eventually (as the title indicates) reassembles herself, and familiarizes herself with her acquired brain injury. Audience members experience RSA lying in hospital beds, wearing eyemasks and headphones. Sonically you, as audien…
Counterargumentation at the primary level
Theory of mind, the capacity to imagine the thoughts of others, is a remarkable human ability, and this gift is essential for students to acknowledge alternative views when writing argumentative essays. However, evidence shows that this gift often goes unapplied by students at all levels. Numerous studies have revealed that students frequently fail to include opposing arguments whether they are writing in their native tongue or their second langu…
Capsaicin and gingerol analogues inhibit the growth of efflux-multidrug resistant bacteria and R-plasmids conjugal transfer
Errors in the written English of native users of sign language
Walking like a toddler
Writing prompt convergence in high-stakes tests
Self-emergent peer support using online social networking during cross-border transition
Transitioning from school to university is a major development for learners, often accompanied by difficulties. When overseas students arrive at university for the first time these challenges are multiplied. It is suggested, however, that these difficulties can be mitigated to a certain extent via the use of online social networks. The present study, using data generated by a group of 350 first-year students from mainland China (called QQ), explo…
Counterargumentation and the cultivation of critical thinking in argumentative writing
Autobiography and Invention
In this article, I will argue that acts of improvisation are not productively understood in opposition to other practices which form our wider musical culture. Improvisation might be better understood as both rooted in, but not limited by, personal and cultural memory. Improvisational activities are legible to the performer and audience through a shared understanding of social norms, but only become a singular instance of improvisation through un…
Shifting cognitive processes while composing in an electronic environment
The current shift from a pen-and-paper environment to a digital one in which multiple electronic tools and resources assist the writer in both generating ideas and transforming them into words and sentences may represent a significant transition in the way we compose. Such a shift has implications for the cognitive processes used by student authors as they set fingers to keyboards. The present study explores the composing behaviors of 30 L2 gradu…
Dialogic Evidence
Performance and documentation have long been characterised as oppositional practices, separated by competing voices which argue the virtues of disappearance and reproducibility. In response to this state of affairs, the recently completed Dialogic Evidence project was designed to explore the possibility (and the limits) of a productive co-existence between performance and documentation practices. In this paper I reflect on this project’s processe…
Critiquing Research Methodology
Steven Ross's (2005) recent paper empirically measuring the efficacy of formative assessment compared to the summative variety found that the former produced positive effects on some aspects of language learning. In this critique, it is contended that Ross's study is flawed because his two groups of learners, one receiving summative assessment and the other formative, are neither distinct enough to have statistical measures applied to them, nor c…
Analyzing the function of meta-oriented critical comments in Japanese comic conversations
Documentation in Performance-Led Research
This article begins by setting the question of why practitioner-researchers engage in the practice of documentation within the context of academic research conventions. The assumption that performance requires documentation for dissemination is brought into question through reference to Caroline Rye's provocative suggestion that documentation should be banned from the 'practice as research in performance' debate to bring into view transitory and …
Culture's Role in Tefl
The role of culture in TEFL has received considerable attention in the past twenty years. While few researchers doubt its importance, how, and to what extent culture should be part of the TEFL curriculum remains unresolved. The present study investigates native English speaking teachers' views on the role of culture in TEFL. Twenty-eight university-level teachers in Japan responded to a questionnaire providing comments about the extent and nature…
Counterargumentation and the cultivation of critical thinking in argumentative writing
Walking like a toddler
Culture's Role in Tefl
The role of culture in TEFL has received considerable attention in the past twenty years. While few researchers doubt its importance, how, and to what extent culture should be part of the TEFL curriculum remains unresolved. The present study investigates native English speaking teachers' views on the role of culture in TEFL. Twenty-eight university-level teachers in Japan responded to a questionnaire providing comments about the extent and nature…
Counterargumentation at the primary level
Theory of mind, the capacity to imagine the thoughts of others, is a remarkable human ability, and this gift is essential for students to acknowledge alternative views when writing argumentative essays. However, evidence shows that this gift often goes unapplied by students at all levels. Numerous studies have revealed that students frequently fail to include opposing arguments whether they are writing in their native tongue or their second langu…
Analyzing the function of meta-oriented critical comments in Japanese comic conversations
Autobiography and Invention
In this article, I will argue that acts of improvisation are not productively understood in opposition to other practices which form our wider musical culture. Improvisation might be better understood as both rooted in, but not limited by, personal and cultural memory. Improvisational activities are legible to the performer and audience through a shared understanding of social norms, but only become a singular instance of improvisation through un…
Culture's Role in Tefl
The role of culture in TEFL has received considerable attention in the past twenty years. While few researchers doubt its importance, how, and to what extent culture should be part of the TEFL curriculum remains unresolved. The present study investigates native English speaking teachers' views on the role of culture in TEFL. Twenty-eight university-level teachers in Japan responded to a questionnaire providing comments about the extent and nature…
Critiquing Research Methodology
Steven Ross's (2005) recent paper empirically measuring the efficacy of formative assessment compared to the summative variety found that the former produced positive effects on some aspects of language learning. In this critique, it is contended that Ross's study is flawed because his two groups of learners, one receiving summative assessment and the other formative, are neither distinct enough to have statistical measures applied to them, nor c…
Analyzing the function of meta-oriented critical comments in Japanese comic conversations
Documentation in Performance-Led Research
This article begins by setting the question of why practitioner-researchers engage in the practice of documentation within the context of academic research conventions. The assumption that performance requires documentation for dissemination is brought into question through reference to Caroline Rye's provocative suggestion that documentation should be banned from the 'practice as research in performance' debate to bring into view transitory and …
Dialogic Evidence
Performance and documentation have long been characterised as oppositional practices, separated by competing voices which argue the virtues of disappearance and reproducibility. In response to this state of affairs, the recently completed Dialogic Evidence project was designed to explore the possibility (and the limits) of a productive co-existence between performance and documentation practices. In this paper I reflect on this project’s processe…
Shifting cognitive processes while composing in an electronic environment
The current shift from a pen-and-paper environment to a digital one in which multiple electronic tools and resources assist the writer in both generating ideas and transforming them into words and sentences may represent a significant transition in the way we compose. Such a shift has implications for the cognitive processes used by student authors as they set fingers to keyboards. The present study explores the composing behaviors of 30 L2 gradu…
Autobiography and Invention
In this article, I will argue that acts of improvisation are not productively understood in opposition to other practices which form our wider musical culture. Improvisation might be better understood as both rooted in, but not limited by, personal and cultural memory. Improvisational activities are legible to the performer and audience through a shared understanding of social norms, but only become a singular instance of improvisation through un…
Counterargumentation and the cultivation of critical thinking in argumentative writing
Writing prompt convergence in high-stakes tests
Self-emergent peer support using online social networking during cross-border transition
Transitioning from school to university is a major development for learners, often accompanied by difficulties. When overseas students arrive at university for the first time these challenges are multiplied. It is suggested, however, that these difficulties can be mitigated to a certain extent via the use of online social networks. The present study, using data generated by a group of 350 first-year students from mainland China (called QQ), explo…
Errors in the written English of native users of sign language
Walking like a toddler
Capsaicin and gingerol analogues inhibit the growth of efflux-multidrug resistant bacteria and R-plasmids conjugal transfer
Counterargumentation at the primary level
Theory of mind, the capacity to imagine the thoughts of others, is a remarkable human ability, and this gift is essential for students to acknowledge alternative views when writing argumentative essays. However, evidence shows that this gift often goes unapplied by students at all levels. Numerous studies have revealed that students frequently fail to include opposing arguments whether they are writing in their native tongue or their second langu…
Reassembled, Slightly Askew
Reassembled, Slightly Askew (RSA) is an audio theatre work which takes the audience through the visceral and embodied experience of Shannon Yee (Sickels) as she lives through a catastrophic brain infection and surgery, and eventually (as the title indicates) reassembles herself, and familiarizes herself with her acquired brain injury. Audience members experience RSA lying in hospital beds, wearing eyemasks and headphones. Sonically you, as audien…
The Virtual is Material
Link to performance: https://vimeo.com/640946914/cf858052e1This performance-lecture was originally presented at the DRHA (Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts) conference in 2021 in Berlin. 3BP (Paul Stapleton, Adam Pultz Melbye and John Bowers) presents three views on the creation of an online performance ecology that allows the trio to improvise together, despite living in three separate locations. Rather than trying to overcome the inst…
Towards a framework of critical thinking for assessing EAP speaking
As one of the fundamental skills of the 21st century, critical thinking (CT) is a topic of considerable interest within the domain of assessing English for academic purposes (EAP). Recent literature on EAP instruction and assessment indicates that EAP has evolved beyond a strict focus on language improvement to encompass discourse competence and broader academic literacy development, with CT playing an important role in academic communication. A …
How Do Aesthetics Get into Muscles and Muscles into Aesthetics? Insights from Musical Interactions in an Experimental Context
In certain contexts, processes of perception, action and skill development and those related to aesthetic experiences can have mutual influence upon each other. Concepts from the domains of ecological psychology and aesthetics may therefore be distinct but entangled. These entanglements are explored here through observations from an experiment in which musicians' behaviours and experiences were recorded while they interacted with a computer music…
Charting L2 argumentative writing
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