The scientific production of Ibero-American authors on information literacy (1985–2013)

the role of semantic and communicative translation on reading comprehension of scientific texts

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

Integration of Information and Scientific Literacy: Promoting Literacy in Undergraduates

The Association of College and Research Libraries recommends incorporating information literacy (IL) skills across university and college curricula, for the goal of developing information literate graduates. Congruent with this goal, the Departments of Biological Sciences and Information Science developed an integrated IL and scientific literacy (SL) exercise for use in a first-year biology cou...

The 8th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA'02)

Open access and civic scientific information literacy

Introduction: We examine how residents/citizens of The Netherlands perceive Open Access to acquire preliminary insight into the role it might play in cultivating civic scientific literacy. Open Access refers to scientific/scholarly research literature available on the Web to scholars and the general public in free online journals and institutional repositories. Method: Four focus group sessions...

‏‎faciliting lexical access for the fluent production of speech‎‏

‏‎the hypothesis is that recent and frequent exposure to lexical items leads to a more fluent production of speech in terms of rate of speech. to test the hypothesis,a one-way anova experimental design was carried out. 24 sednior students of efl participated in a one-way interview test. data analyses revealed that those who were exposed frequently to the lexical items over a week prior to inter...