Steven J Ro
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3823682 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steven J Ro |
| PRENOMES | Steven J |
| SOBRENOME | Ro |
| ASSINATURA | RO S J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Kwansei Gakuin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6125-0148 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Working-Class Hollywood
The social life of methods
Achieving epistemic alignment in a psycholinguistic experiment
A critical condition for obtaining valid data in a psycholinguistic experiment is that the participants understand how to perform the experimental tasks. Participants usually are not familiar with the organization and requirements of the experiment and are therefore given instruction and often practice opportunities prior to the actual test trials. Pre-experimental instruction is a regular component of the experimental set-up, yet no research exi…
Listener response as a facet of interactional competence
Interactional competence has been variously defined as turn-taking ability, paralinguistic features of communication such as eye contact, gesture, and gesticulation, and listener responses. In existing assessment systems such as the oral proficiency interview (OPI), interactional competence is only rarely explicitly factored into the holistic task-based rating system. The present article explores the potential relevance of a facet of interactiona…
Improving Second Language Quantitative Research
Guidelines for Reporting Quantitative Methods and Results in Primary Research
Adequate reporting of quantitative research about language learning involves careful consideration of the logic, rationale, and actions underlying both study designs and the ways in which data are analyzed. These guidelines, commissioned and vetted by the board of directors of Language Learning, outline the basic expectations for reporting of quantitative primary research with a specific focus on Method and Results sections. The guidelines are ba…
Bayesian Approaches to Imputation, Hypothesis Testing, and Parameter Estimation
This chapter introduces three applications of Bayesian inference to common and novel issues in second language research. After a review of the critiques of conventional hypothesis testing, our focus centers on ways Bayesian inference can be used for dealing with missing data, for testing theory-driven substantive hypotheses without a default null hypothesis, and for extending the findings of meta-analyses to Bayesian estimations of parameters hyp…
Probability and Hypothesis Testing
Hypothesis testing is a fundamental tool for the evaluation of any explanatory theory.
Contextual Dynamics in Foreign Language Learning Motivation
Learning context has increasingly been postulated to exert an influence on the dynamics of individual differences in language learning. In a longitudinal design that tested the proficiency gains of 1,682 learners over a 2-year foreign language program, a multilevel modeling approach was deployed in this study to account for variation in second language (L2) growth over time. Different aspects of learner career and social aspiration were postulate…
Language testing in Asia
Multiple questions in oral proficiency interviews
A comparative task-in-interaction analysis of OPI backsliding
Transfer and proficiency in interlanguage apologizing
A Response to Paul Stapleton's ‘Critiquing Research Methodology’
Paul Stapleton's (2006) critique of quantitative research brings to the surface some common interpretive problems arising when experimental and quasi-experimental research designs are compared. While Stapleton may be correct in pointing out the superiority of experimental research designs because they best eliminate the influence of extraneous factors, his construction of factitious intervening variables do little to support his argument that nat…
The Impact of Assessment Method on Foreign Language Proficiency Growth
Alternative assessment procedures have made consistent inroads into second and foreign language assessment practices over the last decade. The original impetus for alternative assessment methods has been predicated more on the ideological appeal this approach offers than on firm empirical evidence that alternative assessment approaches actually yield value-added outcomes for foreign and second language learners. The present study addresses the is…
The Visual Politics of Class
As the gap between rich and poor grows ever wider, movies rarely provide visions of genuine political alternatives. Given the realities of film production within global capitalism this may come as no surprise. However, as Steven J Ross suggests in this essay, the situation was once very different. Filmmakers of the early silent era were in fact much more likely to offer their audiences images of how they could radically change their world through…
A Diachronic Coherence Model for Language Program Evaluation
Language programs often generate complex date providing a rich source of comparative information about changes in curriculum policies and learning. Historical program archives often reveal how curricula and assessment methods evolve to include increasingly varied components of achievment. This article presents a novel quantitative methodology for assessing the construct of "program coherence" in an English as a Foreign Language context. Revolving…
Hollywood Renaissance
Journal Article Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan. By Sam B. Girgus. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii, 258 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-62388-X. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-521-62552-1.) Get access Steven J. Ross Steven J. Ross University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, …
City of Dreams
Journal Article City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. By Bernard R. Dick. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. xiv, 249 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2016-0.) Get access Steven J. Ross Steven J. Ross University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1637–1638, https://do…
Working-Class Hollywood
Self-assessment in second language testing
Self-assessment in second language testing
Self-assessment has been used widely in language testing research, but has produced variable results. In many quarters self-assessment is considered a viable alternative to formal second language assessment for placement and criterion-referenced interpretations, although variation in self-assessment validity coefficients suggests potential difficulty in accurate interpretation. This article first summarizes the research literature with the use of…
Working-Class Hollywood
Journal Article Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America. By Steven J. Ross. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xviii, 367 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-03234-3.) Get access Milton Cantor Milton Cantor University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1135–1136, https:…
The Conundrum of Class
The ins and outs of paragoge and apocope in Japanese-English interphonology
Syllable structure in interphonology has consistently demarcated the initial phases of phonological transfer, as well as the basis for a putative universal preference for the open syllable. The manner in which syllable structure is continually reorganized during the processes of acquisition has, however, not attracted much attention. This article addresses two phenomena in the acquisition of second language syllable structure - a preference for o…
Salience of Feedback on Error and Its Effect on EFL Writing Quality
The researcher was a participant-observer who guided students in the writing process
Learner Use of Strategies in Interaction
This paper reports on a two-phase study of L2 learner use of listener feedback, particularly their use of clarification questions, in NS-NNS discourse. The initial research questions of interest concerned the degree to which patterns in listener clarification questions could differentiate learners of varying proficiency, the degree to which use of clarification strategies (move types) could be explicitly taught (rather than developed alongside lo…
Guidelines for Reporting Quantitative Methods and Results in Primary Research
Adequate reporting of quantitative research about language learning involves careful consideration of the logic, rationale, and actions underlying both study designs and the ways in which data are analyzed. These guidelines, commissioned and vetted by the board of directors of Language Learning, outline the basic expectations for reporting of quantitative primary research with a specific focus on Method and Results sections. The guidelines are ba…
Multiple questions in oral proficiency interviews
The Effects of Simplified and Elaborated Texts on Foreign Language Reading Comprehension
Linguistic simplification of written texts can increase their comprehensibility for nonnative speakers but reduce their utility for language learning in other ways, for example, through the removal of linguistic items that learners do not know but need to learn. This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that elaborative modification observed in oral foreigner talk discourse, where redundancy and explicitness compensate for unknown linguisti…
Contextual Dynamics in Foreign Language Learning Motivation
Learning context has increasingly been postulated to exert an influence on the dynamics of individual differences in language learning. In a longitudinal design that tested the proficiency gains of 1,682 learners over a 2-year foreign language program, a multilevel modeling approach was deployed in this study to account for variation in second language (L2) growth over time. Different aspects of learner career and social aspiration were postulate…
A comparative task-in-interaction analysis of OPI backsliding
Working-Class Hollywood
America's Labor Day
Journal Article America's Labor Day: The Dilemma of a Workers' Celebration Get access Michael Kazin, Michael Kazin associate professor of history American University in Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven J. Ross Steven J. Ross associate professor of history University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…
The Transformation of Republican Ideology
Accomodation in interlanguage discourse from an EFL perspective
The politicization of the working class
Improving Second Language Quantitative Research
Bayesian Approaches to Imputation, Hypothesis Testing, and Parameter Estimation
This chapter introduces three applications of Bayesian inference to common and novel issues in second language research. After a review of the critiques of conventional hypothesis testing, our focus centers on ways Bayesian inference can be used for dealing with missing data, for testing theory-driven substantive hypotheses without a default null hypothesis, and for extending the findings of meta-analyses to Bayesian estimations of parameters hyp…
Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Freed Soil, Freed Labor, Freed Men
Freed Soil, Freed Labor, Freed Men
Drink and Disorder
German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910
Journal Article German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850–1910: A Comparative Perspective. Ed. by Hartmut Keil and John B. Jentz. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983. viii + 252 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, and notes. $22.50.) Get access Steven J. Ross Steven J. Ross University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 1,…
The politicization of the working class
The "Unmade" Class
The Germans in Missouri, 1900-1918
Salience of Feedback on Error and Its Effect on EFL Writing Quality
The researcher was a participant-observer who guided students in the writing process
Workers on the Edge
Journal Article Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788–1890. By Steven J. Ross. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xx + 406 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $35.00.) Get access Bruce Laurie Bruce Laurie University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 7…
In Memory
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Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Essays from the Lowell Conference on Industrial History 1982 and 1983
Workers on the Edge
Accomodation in interlanguage discourse from an EFL perspective
A Generation of Boomers
Journal Article A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America. By Shelton Stromquist. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xix + 353 pp. $29.95.) Get access Steven J. Ross Steven J. Ross University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 628, https://doi.org/10.2307/1…
American Labour's Longue Durée
Recent work in united states labour history casts a curious shadow over the middle decades of the 19th century. Studies of New York, Philadel phia, and Lynn, to make the most prominent examples, indicate the forma tion of a working class and attendant class culture already by the 1830s. But at least two problems remain in characterizing and assigning significance to these developments in national (even national urban) terms. First, the con nectio…
The Transformation of Republican Ideology
Living for the Weekend
Learner Use of Strategies in Interaction
This paper reports on a two-phase study of L2 learner use of listener feedback, particularly their use of clarification questions, in NS-NNS discourse. The initial research questions of interest concerned the degree to which patterns in listener clarification questions could differentiate learners of varying proficiency, the degree to which use of clarification strategies (move types) could be explicitly taught (rather than developed alongside lo…
A Tale of Three Cities
Accommodative questions in oral proficiency interviews
The processes involved in defining oral proficiency in second languages have to date not involved detailed analysis of the discourse characteristic of oral proficiency interviews. This study considers the phenomenon of variation in questions posed by interviewers at key junctures in the interview process. Based on variable rule analyses of 16 full-length oral proficiency interviews, it is argued that perceptions of oral proficiency are reflected …
America's Labor Day
Journal Article America's Labor Day: The Dilemma of a Workers' Celebration Get access Michael Kazin, Michael Kazin associate professor of history American University in Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven J. Ross Steven J. Ross associate professor of history University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…
The ins and outs of paragoge and apocope in Japanese-English interphonology
Syllable structure in interphonology has consistently demarcated the initial phases of phonological transfer, as well as the basis for a putative universal preference for the open syllable. The manner in which syllable structure is continually reorganized during the processes of acquisition has, however, not attracted much attention. This article addresses two phenomena in the acquisition of second language syllable structure - a preference for o…
The Effects of Simplified and Elaborated Texts on Foreign Language Reading Comprehension
Linguistic simplification of written texts can increase their comprehensibility for nonnative speakers but reduce their utility for language learning in other ways, for example, through the removal of linguistic items that learners do not know but need to learn. This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that elaborative modification observed in oral foreigner talk discourse, where redundancy and explicitness compensate for unknown linguisti…
The Conundrum of Class
Self-assessment in second language testing
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