scholarly journals Enhancing Spoken Language through Graphic Organizers

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
S. Suriyakumari ◽  
Dr. R. Seetha
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Organizers ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Predominant Role ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Monosyllabic Words ◽  
Basic Purpose ◽  
The One ◽  
Play Group ◽  
Short Utterances

The basic purpose of learning a language is to communicate. The spoken form of the language takes the predominant role in the communication. The spoken form includes monologue, elocution, role play, group discussion, conversation including the one that uses monosyllabic words or short utterances and so on. Though speech is inseparable from listening, understanding the spoken form and responding to the same comprises both the receptive and productive skills. The present study uses the materials provided in the text book. The activities are based on familiar situations with known vocabulary. By using graphic organizers, the pupils  could be motivated to start a conversation and also enabled to respond in succession.

Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Faking in Selection Exercises Varying in Fidelity

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Dürr ◽  
Ute-Christine Klehe
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Selection Procedure ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Selection Research ◽  
Play Group

Abstract. Faking has been a concern in selection research for many years. Many studies have examined faking in questionnaires while far less is known about faking in selection exercises with higher fidelity. This study applies the theory of planned behavior (TPB; Ajzen, 1991 ) to low- (interviews) and high-fidelity (role play, group discussion) exercises, testing whether the TPB predicts reported faking behavior. Data from a mock selection procedure suggests that candidates do report to fake in low- and high-fidelity exercises. Additionally, the TPB showed good predictive validity for faking in a low-fidelity exercise, yet not for faking in high-fidelity exercises.

scholarly journals Reviving the genitive. Prescription and practice in the Netherlands (1770–1840)

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Krogull ◽  
Gijsbert Rutten
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Extreme Case ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
National Language ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Historical Sociolinguistics ◽  
The One ◽  
Genitive Case

AbstractHistorical metalinguistic discourse is known to often prescribe linguistic variants that are not very frequent in actual language use, and to proscribe frequent variants. Infrequent variants that are promoted through prescription can be innovations, but they can also be conservative forms that have already largely vanished from the spoken language and are now also disappearing in writing. An extreme case in point is the genitive case in Dutch. This has been in decline in usage from at least the thirteenth century onwards, gradually giving way to analytical alternatives such as prepositional phrases. In the grammatical tradition, however, a preference for the genitive case was maintained for centuries. When ‘standard’ Dutch is officially codified in 1805 in the context of a national language policy, the genitive case is again strongly preferred, still aiming to ‘revive’ the synthetic forms. The striking discrepancy between metalinguistic discourse on the one hand, and developments in language use on the other, make the genitive case in Dutch an interesting case for historical sociolinguistics. In this paper, we tackle various issues raised by the research literature, such as the importance of genre differences as well as variation within particular genres, through a detailed corpus-based analysis of the influence of prescription on language practices in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch.

scholarly journals Tertiary Teachers Strike (TTS) and e-Learning Deficit amidst Covid-19 Crisis in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Okoro Ukaogo ◽  
◽  
Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze ◽  
Chika Kate Ojukwu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Group Discussion ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Learning Deficit ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The One ◽  
Participant Observer

Amid the raging Covid-19 pandemic across the world and the debilitating tertiary teachers strike in Nigeria, this study’s objective seeks to examine the prevailing un-lived experiences of Nigerian tertiary students in e-learning. The study argues that Covid-19 has widened the digital divide between Nigerian universities and other universities in other parts of the world on the one hand and between public and private tertiary institutions in Nigeria on the other. This e-learning deficit is worsened by university teachers’ strikes, constituting a twin inhibition into which higher education is consigned in Nigeria. The study identifies poor funding of education as a major constraint to virtual learning and instruction faced by public tertiary students especially in the era of the pandemic. Data collection for the study will be carried out through oral interviews basically focus group discussion (FGD) from a sample population of 50 university students (male and female) in three universities across the southeast region of Nigeria, newspaper reports, and participant-observer methods of research analysis.

scholarly journals Professionalism of the Female Teacher at Riau Palm Oil Plantation Sumatera Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S9) ◽  
pp. 176-178
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Child Health Services ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Female Teacher ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Additional Task ◽  
The One

This research shows professionalism of the female teachers at palm oil plantation’s school which belongs to Astra Agro Lestari Company 18% of the Astra Agro Lestary company’s employees is female, and some of them work as a teacher. Teacher’s professionalism is considered important to be investigated because by professionalism, teachers can perform their best to serve the need of education for their students. Individually, female teacher holds double tasks as a mother in their family and as a female teacher professionally. Research method of this research is descriptive quantitative with the total of the sample is 48 female teacher. In collecting the data, researcher used questionnaire. The result of the research shows that female teachers in the Astra Agro Lestary company’s palm oil plantation has worked professionally according to their tasks. Focus Group Discussion result and based on the data analysis, the researcher found out that female teacher who hasn’t married yet shows a dynamic behavior on technology development in teaching compares to the one who has married. Female teacher owns a primary task as a teacher and an additional task, helping the company in assisting the society internally and externally. The additional task is training and assisting maternal and child health services workers, introducing the central trash disposal to the society, assisting the community, assisting the day care workers, doing an assistance to the parents about the importance of breast milk feeding, and stimulating the mothers in following the family welfare programme activities.

scholarly journals The Helping Behavior of Senior and Vocational High School Students Based on the Values of Pancasila in Pemalang Regency

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Dedit Priyono ◽  
Alvanov Z. Mansoor ◽  
Intan R. Mutiaz
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Character Building ◽  
The One ◽  
Building Program

The decline in a social relationship has led people, particularly teenagers, to an unwillingness to help others. Therefore, there needs such an effort to help teenagers realize the importance of helping others. One possible effort is to hold a character building program. In this case, the writer involves Pancasila as the fundamental principle of the program to relate its values to the helping behavior the teenagers might show. Accordingly, this study focuses on finding the helping behavior related to the values contained in the Sila of Pancasila shown by the teenagers. This descriptive-qualitative study uses Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and literature study methods to collect data. From the research, the writer finds Sila 2 Kemanusiaan Yang Adil dan Beradab fits the helping behavior shown by the teenagers the most. The helping behavior shown relates, particularly, with the following values of Pancasila, i.e., "To recognize equality both in rights and responsibility, to uphold the values of humanity," and "To promote fairness to others." Nevertheless, teenagers have not shown yet the one related with "To practice tolerance and show empathy."

scholarly journals Learner Autonomy Practices in English Language Teaching in EFL Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Jagadish Paudel
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Learner Autonomy ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Taking Charge ◽  
The One ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

Einstein says “I never teach my students. I simply provide the situations in which they can learn”. In line with this saying the learner autonomy (LA) approach provides learners with situations where they can learn independently in their own pace. This learner centered approach to teaching, emerged during the 1980s, aims at empowering learners by transforming responsibilities to them. This study aimed at exploring the practice level scenario of LA in English language teaching and learning. To this end, I employed the qualitative research design i.e. I observed teachers’ classes and conducted Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with the students. The information elicited from participants was transcribed, codified, categorized and finally themes were generated. The study revealed that, though the teachers and the students were affirmative towards LA, in a real sense, the majority of them did not adopt in English language teaching and learning. The classroom ritual is still teacher oriented. On the one hand, the teachers are still in the cockpit of pedagogy without providing any agency for the students. On the other hand, students' readiness for bearing responsibility of their learning was found weak. They preferred attachment to teachers without taking charge of learning.

scholarly journals Nerve heat production as a physiological response to excitation

1934 ◽  
Vol 115 (793) ◽  
pp. 200-216 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Production ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Production ◽  
Physiological Characteristic ◽  
Electric Response ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
Thermal Changes ◽  
The One ◽  
Oxygen Measurements ◽  
Made In

For many years attempts were made to record the energetic and metabolic changes in nerve associated with activity. Since 1926, when the heat production was first measured, a considerable amount of work has been published on the chemical and thermal changes and on the oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production caused in nerve by stimulation. The regularity of the results obtained under all kinds of conditions ( e. g ., of frequency and duration of stimulus, of temperature, of the presence and absence of oxygen) and the general agreement between heat and oxygen measurements on the one hand and the electric response on the other, seemed to give assurance that a genuine physiological characteristic was being investigated. It has, however, been persistently objected by H. Winterstein that the increase observed, as the result of electric current passed through it and has nothing whatever to do with the normal process by which the impluse is propagated. This drastic view has been embodied in a text-book article (1932) in which "the regrettable conclusion" is reached that "the wonderful technique" developed for studying the heat production of the nervous system has led to no results of value as to the energetics of the physiological process of excitation. The experiments on which this opinion is based have been criticized in detail by Gerard (1932, where full reference will be found), by Meyerhof and Schulz (1930), by Schmitt (1933), by Hill, Fenn and Gerard (1934), by Harashima (1933), by Gerard and hartline (1934), and by Hill (1932, a, b ). It can easily be calculated, moreover, that in the later experiments by Winterstein and his colleagues ( e. g ., Ledebur, 1933) on "reflex excitation" the method employed was so unreliable and the quantities to be observed so small that the negative results found were to be expected in any case. Since, however, the "regrettable conclusion" might, in spite of the evidence, confuse the issue the experiments to be described have been made in the hope of deciding the matter.

scholarly journals New networked technologies and carers of people with dementia: an interview study

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1073-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN POWELL ◽  
LEE GUNN ◽  
PAM LOWE ◽  
BART SHEEHAN ◽  
FRANCES GRIFFITHS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
New Information ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The One

ABSTRACTDementia is one of the greatest contemporary health and social care challenges, and novel approaches to the care of its sufferers are needed. New information and communication technologies (ICT) have the potential to assist those caring for people with dementia, through access to networked information and support, tracking and surveillance. This article reports the views about such new technologies of 34 carers of people with dementia. We also held a group discussion with nine carers for respondent validation. The carers' actual use of new ICT was limited, although they thought a gradual increase in the use of networked technology in dementia care was inevitable but would bypass some carers who saw themselves as too old. Carers expressed a general enthusiasm for the benefits of ICT, but usually not for themselves, and they identified several key challenges including: establishing an appropriate balance between, on the one hand, privacy and autonomy and, on the other: maximising safety; establishing responsibility for and ownership of the equipment and who bears the costs; the possibility that technological help would mean a loss of valued personal contact; and the possibility that technology would substitute for existing services rather than be complementary. For carers and dementia sufferers to be supported, the expanding use of these technologies should be accompanied by intensive debate of the associated issues.

Neo-Babylonian ba-ga-ni(-'). I

1937 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-343
Author(s):  
C. P. T. Winckworth
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Old Persian ◽  
The One

In an article by W. Eilers, entitled “Eine mittelpersische Wortform aus frühachämenidischer Zeit ?” (ZDMG., 90, 160 ff.), it is contended that already by the end of the sixth century B.C. the nominal inflexions of Old Persian had completely disappeared from the Persian spoken language, in contradistinction to the literary language of the Achsemenid inscriptions. The author's arguments are based entirely upon his own novel interpretation of two short passages contained in Neo-Babylonian private letters of the time of Darius I, which are to all intents and purposes identical the one with the other, and which may be provisionally transliterated:—

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI DAN PERMASALAHAN DALAM IMPLEMENTASI PERMENDIKNAS NOMOR 2 TAHUN 2008 TENTANG BUKU

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-324
Author(s):  
Lina Miftahul Jannah ◽  
Muh Azis Muslim ◽  
Eko Sakapurnama
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Information Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The People ◽  
Printing Quality ◽  
Implementation Policy

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui implementasi Permendiknas Nomor 2 Tahun 2002 tantang buku dan mendeskripsikan masalah-masalah yang ditimbulkannya. Pene-litian dilaksanakan dengan metode campuran kuantitatif dan kualitatif di Kota Depok, Kabupaten Cianjur, Kota Makassar, dan Kabupaten Maros dengan menggunakan angket, wawancara mendalam dan diskusi kelompok terfokus untuk mengumpul-kan data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa implementasi Permendiknas yang bertujuan untuk menyediakan buku murah dan berkualitas bagi masyarakat belum sepenuhnya tercapai. Terdapat beragam masalah dalam pelaksanaannya antara lain minimnya sosialisasi, tidak memadainya infra-struktur teknologi informasi, ketidaksesuaian materi dengan kurikulum, rendahnya kualitas cetakan, dan Permendiknas dianggap sebagai kebijakan elitis yang mematikan iklim persaingan usaha.Kata kunci: kebijakan, pelaksanaan, buku cetak, buku sekolah elektronik ______________________________________________________________IMPLEMENTATION AND ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTATION PERMENDIKNAS NUMBER 2 OF 2008 ON THE BOOKAbstract This research aims to figure out and elaborate the implementation of  Cultural and Educational Ministry’s regulation No 2, 2002 as well as the problems occurring during the implementation. The research was conducted by applying mixed method -qualitative and quantitative- held in Depok City, Cianjur Regency, Makassar City, and Maros Regency using questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussion to collect data. The result shows that the implementation of regulation, which originally aimed to provide affordable and quality book for the people, fails to achieve its purpose. There are various problems found in the implementation, e.g. lack of socialization, lack of information technology infrastructure, unfitness between the materials with the curriculum, lack of printing quality, and the prevailing opinion that the regulation is an elitist policy that kills business competition.Keywords: implementation, policy, education, text book

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