Comparison of the Effects of Two Phonics Training Programs on L2 Word Reading

Empirical evidence shows that explicit phonics teaching is beneficial for English word reading. However, there has been controversy as to whether phonics teaching should incorporate meaning-involved decodable text instruction to facilitate children's word reading. This study compares the effects of phonics teaching with and without decodable text instruction on immediate and delayed English word reading in 117 Taiwanese children learning English, assigned to a Phonics-only group ( n = 58) and a phonics plus decodable text instruction (Phonics+) group ( n = 59). Results showed that although both groups significantly improved in immediate and delayed post-test word reading, the Phonics+ group performed better in both post-tests, but the difference was significant only in the delayed word reading, suggesting a better long-term retention effect produced by Phonics+ teaching. These indicated that incorporated meaning-involved decodable text reading might offer another better facultative linking route for English word reading even for non-alphabetic child learners of English. The findings were discussed from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and reading perspectives, with implications drawn for second/foreign language teaching and research in reading instruction.

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Perbedaan Motivasi Wanita PUS Usia 35-49 Tahun untuk Menggunakan Implant Sebelum dan Setelah Diberi Penyuluhan di Dusun Mojolegi Desa Bendo Kec. Pare.

Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan ◽

10.32831/jik.v3i2.60 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 68

Author(s):

Triatmi Andri Yanuarini ◽

Susanti Pratamaningtyas ◽

Rika Aprilia Susanti

Keyword(s):

Random Sampling ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

Test Design ◽

Childbearing Age ◽

Exclusion Criteria ◽

Before And After ◽

Post Test ◽

The Difference ◽

Removal Technique

Women who have age 35 these group will get increased morbidity and mortality experience if they pregnant. Implant is one method of effective an safety long-term contraception. Bendo Health Center have the lowest acceptor implants in Kediri that is 0%. The purpose of this research to know the difference motivation of childbearing age couples women in age 35-49 years to use implant before and after giving information. The design used a pre-experiment design with one group pre-test post-test design, the population was all childbearing age couples women in age 35-49 years at Mojolegi Hamlet Bendo Village Pare District who have children, not use contraception or still use non-Long Term contraception Method which total 72 people. The samplehave a lot 61 people according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. The sample removal technique used simple random sampling. The result of this research, from 61 respondents get average of respondent motivation before give information is 65 and after give information is 69, show that respondent’s motivation get increase after got information. And after going through the data analysis it was found z calculate ; z table, so in this case have difference motivation of childbearing age couples women in age 35-49 years to use implants before and after giving information.; Keywords: Counseling, Motivation, Implants

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Using phonics to develop the emergent English literacy skills of Spanish learners

Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras ◽

10.30827/portalin.v0i35.16876 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 111-128

Author(s):

Sara Isabel Rendón-Romero ◽

Macarena Navarro-Pablo ◽

Eduardo García-Jiménez

Keyword(s):

Treatment Group ◽

Word Reading ◽

English Word ◽

Literacy Skills ◽

Reading Level ◽

Early Years ◽

Post Test ◽

English Speaking ◽

English Literacy ◽

English Speaking World

Phonics is well established in the English-speaking world, but to date it has beenimplemented to only a limited extent in contexts where English is a foreign language.This study aimed to evaluate the appropriateness of phonics for developing literacy skills of Spanishlearners of English. An experimental pre-test – post-test design was used to determine the method’sadded value. The sample consisted of two equivalent groups in a Spanish bilingual state primaryschool, a control and a treatment group, where a phonic method was implemented by the researcher.Data were collected through tests measuring emergent Spanish and English literacy skills. Non-parametric tests and correlations were used for data analysis.The treatment group presented a significant improvement in phonological awareness, naming andletter and pseudo-word reading in the Spanish and English post-test. These 7-year-old childrenattained a level in English literacy skills equivalent to English children aged 5.8. The findings alsosuggested a positive transference of skills between English word reading and Spanish pseudo-wordreading.The present study can serve as a possible proposal to help improve our Spanish bilingual programmesthrough the use of phonics in the early years in order to increase learners’ English reading level.

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THE COMPARISON OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY USING YOU TUBE DOWNLOADED VIDEO AND SERIAL PICTURES AT THE STUDENTS’OF SMPN 2 METROACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Premise Journal of English Education ◽

10.24127/pj.v2i2.165 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Eka Bayu Pramanca ◽

Dedi Turmudi

Keyword(s):

Research Design ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

First Grade ◽

Writing Ability ◽

Effective Media ◽

Post Test ◽

Text Instruction ◽

The Difference ◽

And Control

This research discusses about how two different techniques affect the students’ ability in descriptive text at SMP N 2 Metro. The objectives of this research are (1) to know the difference result of using YouTube Downloaded Video and Serial Pictures media toward students’ writing ability in descriptive text and (2) to know which one is more effective of students’ writing ability in descriptive text instruction between learning by using YouTube Downloaded Video and Serial Pictures media. The implemented method is quantitative research design in that both researchers use true experimental research design. In this research , experimental and control class pre-test and post test are conducted. It is carried out at the first grade of SMP N 2 Metro in academic year 2012/2013. The population in this research is 7 different classes with total number of 224 students. 2 classes of the total population are taken as the samples; VII.1 students in experimental class and VII.2 students in control class by using cluster random sampling technique. The instruments of the research are tests, treatment and post-test. The data analyzing procedure uses t-test and results the following output. The result of ttest is 3,96 and ttable is 2,06. It means that tcount > ttable with the criterion of ttest is Ha is accepted if tcount > ttable. So, there is any difference result of students’ writing ability using YouTube Downloaded Video and Serial Pictures Media. However; Youtube Downloaded Video media is more effective media than Serial Pictures media toward students’ writing ability. This research is consistent with the previous result of the studies and thus this technique is recommended to use in writing instruction especially in descriptive text in order that students may feel fun and enjoy during the learning process.

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A Problem of Long - Term Digital Preservation: Difference in Humanities and Natural Sciences

Bibliotheca Lituana ◽

10.15388/bibllita.2014.3.15570 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 183-195

Author(s):

Elena Macevičiūtė

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Digital Preservation ◽

Dynamic Activity ◽

Private Companies ◽

Time Line ◽

Digital Documents ◽

Whole Process ◽

The Difference ◽

Technological Science

The article deals with the requirements and needs for long-term digital preservation in different areas of scholarly work. The concept of long-term digital preservation is introduced by comparing it to digitization and archiving concepts and defined with the emphasis on dynamic activity within a certain time line. The structure of digital preservation is presented with regard to the elements of the activity as understood in Activity Theory. The life-cycle of digitization processes forms the basis of the main processing of preserved data in preservation archival system.The author draws on the differences between humanities and social sciences on one hand and natural and technological science on the other. The empirical data characterizing the needs for digital preservation within different areas of scholarship are presented and show the difference in approaches to long-term digital preservation, as well as differences in selecting the items and implementing the projects of digital preservation. Institutions and organizations can also develop different understanding of preservation requirements for digital documents and other objects.The final part of the paper is devoted to some general problems pertaining to the longterm digital preservation with the emphasis of the responsibility for the whole process of safe-guarding the cultural and scholarly heritage for the re-use of the posterior generations. It is suggested that the longevity of the libraries in comparison with much shorter life-span of private companies strengthens the claim of memory institutions to playing the central role in the long-term digital preservation.

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DISTINGUISHING THE INDISTINGUISHABLE OF THE WORDS INJURED, WOUNDED, AND HURT: A CORPUS INVESTIGATION

Lingua Scientia ◽

10.23887/ls.v24i1.18793 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 19

Author(s):

Kusumawardani Dewa Ayu Novi

Keyword(s):

English Word ◽

Know How ◽

Efl Students ◽

The Difference

Most people, especially EFL students, claimed that English has rich vocabularies. Each vocabulary has many synonyms that could be found in thesaurus. But the problem is, those synonymous words can hardly be differentiated when applied in daily communication. It is because each of the English word has its own context and rule when it is used in a sentence or an utterance. However, in reality, this rule is often ignored by people. It is because they rely more on their intuition. Yet, it needs more than intuition to know the difference and how to use the words properly. The words ‘injured’, ‘wounded’, and ‘hurt’ were chosen as the object of this study, since those words are synonymous and distinguishable. A quick survey had been done by the researcher to know how EFL students and people in general used these three words. It turned out that they used those three words by ignoring the rule and depending on their intuition instead. The aim of this research is to help people to know the difference among those three words. By retrieving data from COCA and finding the collocation of those words, it is hoped that the reader will realize that these synonymous words are not as synonymous as they thought.

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L'anglicisme dans la langue française

Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities ◽

10.29037/digitalpress.43286 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 00013

Author(s):

Danny Susanto

Keyword(s):

English Language ◽

Oil Industry ◽

English Word ◽

Public Institutions ◽

Font Size ◽

The World ◽

French Speaking ◽

The Difference ◽

Definition Of ◽

Bibliographic Study

The purpose of this study is to analyze the phenomenon known as “anglicism”: a loan made to the English language by another language. Anglicism arose either from the adoption of an English word as a result of a translation defect despite the existence of an equivalent term in the language of the speaker, or from a wrong translation, as a word-by-word translation. Said phenomenon is very common nowadays and most languages of the world including making use of some linguistic concepts such as anglicism, neologism, syntax, morphology etc, this article addresses various aspects related to Anglicisms in French through a bibliographic study: the definition of Anglicism, the origin of Anglicisms in French and the current situation, the areas most affected by Anglicism, the different categories of Anglicism, the difference between French Anglicism in France and French-speaking Canada, the attitude of French-speaking society towards to the Anglicisms and their efforts to stop this phenomenon. The study shows that the areas affected are, among others, trade, travel, parliamentary and judicial institutions, sports, rail, industrial production and most recently film, industrial production, sport, oil industry, information technology, science and technology. Various initiatives have been implemented either by public institutions or by individuals who share concerns about the increasingly felt threat of the omnipresence of Anglicism in everyday life.

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CSO Modelling Considering Moving Storms and Tipping Bucket Gauge Failures

Water Practice & Technology ◽

10.2166/wpt.2007.024 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Hochedlinger ◽

W. Sprung ◽

H. Kainz ◽

K. König

Keyword(s):

Hydrological Models ◽

Rain Intensity ◽

Hydrodynamic Models ◽

Data Intensive ◽

Storm Flow ◽

Cell Velocity ◽

Combined Sewer ◽

Moving Direction ◽

The Difference

The simulation of combined sewer overflow volumes and loads is important for the assessment of the overflow and overflow load to the receiving water to predict the hydraulic or the pollution impact. Hydrodynamic models are very data-intensive and time-consuming for long-term quality modelling. Hence, for long-term modelling, hydrological models are used to predict the storm flow in a fast way. However, in most cases, a constant rain intensity is used as load for the simulation, but in practice even for small catchments rain occurs in rain cells, which are not constant over the whole catchment area. This paper presents the results of quality modelling considering moving storms depending on the rain cell velocity and its moving direction. Additionally, tipping bucket gauge failures and different corrections are also taken into account. The results evidence the importance of these considerations for precipitation due the effects on overflow load and show the difference up to 28% of corrected and uncorrected data and of moving rain cells instead of constant raining intensities.

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Soil erosion by snow gliding – a first quantification attempt in a subalpine area in Switzerland

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ◽

10.5194/hess-18-3763-2014 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 18 (9) ◽

pp. 3763-3775 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

K. Meusburger ◽

G. Leitinger ◽

L. Mabit ◽

M. H. Mueller ◽

A. Walter ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Soil Erosion ◽

Land Cover ◽

Sediment Yield ◽

Soil Loss ◽

Water Erosion ◽

Erosion Rates ◽

The Difference ◽

Snow Gliding

Abstract. Snow processes might be one important driver of soil erosion in Alpine grasslands and thus the unknown variable when erosion modelling is attempted. The aim of this study is to assess the importance of snow gliding as a soil erosion agent for four different land use/land cover types in a subalpine area in Switzerland. We used three different approaches to estimate soil erosion rates: sediment yield measurements in snow glide depositions, the fallout radionuclide 137Cs and modelling with the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE). RUSLE permits the evaluation of soil loss by water erosion, the 137Cs method integrates soil loss due to all erosion agents involved, and the measurement of snow glide deposition sediment yield can be directly related to snow-glide-induced erosion. Further, cumulative snow glide distance was measured for the sites in the winter of 2009/2010 and modelled for the surrounding area and long-term average winter precipitation (1959–2010) with the spatial snow glide model (SSGM). Measured snow glide distance confirmed the presence of snow gliding and ranged from 2 to 189 cm, with lower values on the north-facing slopes. We observed a reduction of snow glide distance with increasing surface roughness of the vegetation, which is an important information with respect to conservation planning and expected and ongoing land use changes in the Alps. Snow glide erosion estimated from the snow glide depositions was highly variable with values ranging from 0.03 to 22.9 t ha−1 yr−1 in the winter of 2012/2013. For sites affected by snow glide deposition, a mean erosion rate of 8.4 t ha−1 yr−1 was found. The difference in long-term erosion rates determined with RUSLE and 137Cs confirms the constant influence of snow-glide-induced erosion, since a large difference (lower proportion of water erosion compared to total net erosion) was observed for sites with high snow glide rates and vice versa. Moreover, the difference between RUSLE and 137Cs erosion rates was related to the measured snow glide distance (R2 = 0.64; p < 0.005) and to the snow deposition sediment yields (R2 = 0.39; p = 0.13). The SSGM reproduced the relative difference of the measured snow glide values under different land uses and land cover types. The resulting map highlighted the relevance of snow gliding for large parts of the investigated area. Based on these results, we conclude that snow gliding appears to be a crucial and non-negligible process impacting soil erosion patterns and magnitude in subalpine areas with similar topographic and climatic conditions.

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Malpigmentation of Common Sole (Solea solea) during Metamorphosis Is Associated with Differential Synaptic-Related Gene Expression

Animals ◽

10.3390/ani11082273 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (8) ◽

pp. 2273

Author(s):

Menelaos Kavouras ◽

Emmanouil E. Malandrakis ◽

Ewout Blom ◽

Kyriaki Tsilika ◽

Theodoros Danis ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Gene Expression ◽

Nervous System ◽

De Novo ◽

Close Association ◽

Ionic Channels ◽

Long Term Potentiation ◽

General Term ◽

The Difference ◽

Common Sole

In farmed flatfish, such as common sole, color disturbances are common. Dyschromia is a general term that includes the color defects on the blind and ocular sides of the fish. The purpose was to examine the difference in gene expression between normal pigmented and juveniles who present ambicoloration. The analysis was carried out with next-generation sequencing techniques and de novo assembly of the transcriptome. Transcripts that showed significant differences (FDR < 0.05) in the expression between the two groups, were related to those of zebrafish (Danio rerio), functionally identified, and classified into categories of the gene ontology. The results revealed that ambicolorated juveniles exhibit a divergent function, mainly of the central nervous system at the synaptic level, as well as the ionic channels. The close association of chromophore cells with the growth of nerve cells and the nervous system was recorded. The pathway, glutamate binding–activation of AMPA and NMDA receptors–long-term stimulation of postsynaptic potential–LTP (long term potentiation)–plasticity of synapses, appears to be affected. In addition, the development of synapses also seems to be affected by the interaction of the LGI (leucine-rich glioma inactivated) protein family with the ADAM (a disintegrin and metalloprotease) ones.

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Long-term risks after kidney donation: how do we inform potential donors? A survey from DESCARTES and EKITA transplantation working groups

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation ◽

10.1093/ndt/gfab035 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Geir Mjøen ◽

Umberto Maggiore ◽

Nicos Kessaris ◽

Diederik Kimenai ◽

Bruno Watschinger ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Evaluation Process ◽

Kidney Donation ◽

Kidney Donors ◽

Living Kidney Donors ◽

Relative Risks ◽

Written Information ◽

The Difference ◽

Stage Renal Disease ◽

End Stage

Abstract Background Publications from the last decade have increased knowledge regarding long-term risks after kidney donation. We wanted to perform a survey to assess how transplant professionals in Europe inform potential kidney donors regarding long-term risks. The objectives of the survey were to determine how they inform donors and to what extent, and to evaluate the degree of variation. Methods All transplant professionals involved in the evaluation process were considered eligible, regardless of the type of profession. The survey was dispatched as a link to a web-based survey. The subjects included questions on demographics, the information policy of the respondent and the use of risk calculators, including the difference of relative and absolute risks and how the respondents themselves understood these risks. Results The main finding was a large variation in how often different long-term risks were discussed with the potential donors, i.e. from always to never. Eighty percent of respondents stated that they always discuss the risk of end-stage renal disease, while 56% of respondents stated that they always discuss the risk of preeclampsia. Twenty percent of respondents answered correctly regarding the relationship between absolute and relative risks for rare outcomes. Conclusions The use of written information and checklists should be encouraged. This may improve standardization regarding the information provided to potential living kidney donors in Europe. There is a need for information and education among European transplant professionals regarding long-term risks after kidney donation and how to interpret and present these risks.

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