Bridging the gap between sport science and coaching: A qualitative analysis of perceptions of South African coaches

There exists a wide gap between coaches’ needs and the information that is being disseminated by sport scientists. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine coaches’ perceptions concerning this bridging the knowledge gap between sport science and coaching in South Africa. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight high-performance sport coaches aged 24 to 42 years (M age = 33.50, SD = 6.44 years). Coaches participated in the study if they met the following selection criteria: (1) coaching a priority sport recommended by Sport and Recreation South Africa and (2) having been in coaching for at least five years at a high-performance level. Following a thematic analysis of the transcripts, the following three broad themes emerged: (1) sources of coaching knowledge, (2) barriers to sport science support, and (3) coaches’ thoughts about knowledge transfer. Recommendations on strategies to close the gap between sport scientists and coaches are provided.

Eradicating Poverty through Zakat Utilization (A Case from Kelompok Bina Zakat Program)

Economic inequality is something that is still visible in a developing country. The wide gap between the rich and the poor is a key factor in causing poverty. The National Amil Zakat Agency (BAZNAS) is one of the institutions that aim to collect and distribute zakat funds. In its distribution, BAZNAS formed Kelompok Bina Zakat (KBZ) spread across various regions. The establishment of the KBZ is expected to be a solution to the problem of poverty in Indonesia. This study aims: what is the background of banuayu village and KBZ Program? Can the formation of KBZ be a solution to poverty alleviation? And how the BAZNAS stimulant fund mechanism can develop? This research is a field research with a qualitative descriptive approach. The data collection techniques used are observation, interviews, and documentation. The results show that there is a significant influence on the formation of the KBZ in poverty alleviation with the assistance of venture capital from the BAZNAS stimulant fund, so that the economy of the community in Banuayu OKUT Village, South Sumatra can live. Then the mechanism is to charge a loan principal return of Rp. 100,000 as a profit sharing from borrowed funds of Rp. 1,000,000.

EXPLORING NOMINALIZATION USE IN GRADUATE THESIS ABSTRACTS: AN SFL APPROACH TO ACADEMIC WRITING

becomes the mandatory part of an article which should be concise and lexically condensed. Unfortunately, not all academic writers can meet this demand. Following Halliday Matthiessen’s (1999) types of the grammatical metaphor in which the nominalization plays as the main tendency of the construal, this study investigates nominalization cases and how they are manifested in the texts. Seven graduate students’ thesis abstracts of the Linguistics Department of a state university in Indonesia were opted as the object of the investigation. Each instance of the nominalization was coded, counted, and classified to decide their types and an in-depth elaboration of how they are manifested in the texts is provided as well. The results showed that the graduate students employed all types of the nominalization to increase the abstracts’ conciseness. The Process nominalization realized from the process-thing transference highly dominates the abstracts. The findings also reveal a wide gap of the nominalization use between the process nominalization and the other types indicating the students’ lower intermediacy of the nominalization mastery in the academic writing. Therefore, the explicit teaching of the nominalization is highly recommended as this could be of value to the students involved in the scientific publication in this university.