scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN CONSTRUCTING INFORMATION QUESTION

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Adila Destrianti ◽  
Adnan Aryuliva ◽  
Fitrawati
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Good Ability ◽  
Main Verb ◽  
Auxiliary Verb ◽  
Low Ability

Constructing information question with correct grammar is an ability that should be owned by the students. The aim of this research is to find out the research question about how the students’ ability in constructing information question is. This is a descriptive research. The data were collected from twenty-eight students of eighth grade of SMP 30 Padang that were chosen randomly. This research used test as the instrument that consist of twelve question tests that represent question word what, where, who, why, when, and how. Analysis data based on indicators of information question; question word, auxiliary verb, subject, main verb, and sentence complement. From the result of this study, it was gained that students’ abilities were very good in determining question word, not very good in determining auxiliary verb, good in determining subject, not good in determining verb, and average in determining complement. It can be concluded that students have good ability in determining question word, subject, and complement in constructing information question, while students still have low ability in determining auxiliary verb and verb in constructing information question. 

scholarly journals The Students’ Strategies in Developing Their Ideas in Writing Essay

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-406
Author(s):  
Dhani Oktavianti ◽  
Paidi Gusmuliana ◽  
Eka Apriani
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Research Questions

This research aimed to find out the students strategies in developing their ideas in writing essay in at fourth semester in IAIN Curup who have best score in writing essay. This research is a descriptive research which is presented in qualitative way. The researcher have two research questions, the research question are: the first what are the students’ strategies in developing their ideas in writing essay. The second what are the students’ problem in developing their ideas in writing essay. Subject of the research was 10 students at fourth semester on 2019-2020 academic years of English Study Program at IAIN Curup. The instrument of the research was used interview. In analysis data, first researcher identified and check data that be collected. After that, researcher describes all the data. Next the researcher classified the data of the students which is used the strategy or not.

AN ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH STORYTELLING FOR GRADE X SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khairani Nur Adha And Rahmad Husein
Keyword(s):  
Research Finding ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
First Grade ◽  
First Year ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Oral Test ◽  
Fluency And Comprehension ◽  
Low Ability

The aim of this research was to find out the ability of the first year students in speaking by using storytelling at MAS. Al-Jam’iyatul Wasliyah. The design of this research was descriptive research. The population of this research was 20 students of XC class in the first grade at MAS. Al-Jam’iyatul Wasliyah. In selecting the sample the writer used random sampling technique. The total number of the sample was 12 students. The data was collected by using oral test. The researcher only measured the ability of students’ speaking in storytelling by considering five components of speaking: (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, and comprehension). And their speaking had been recorded by using phone recorder. From the result of analyzing the data, the researcher found that the students’ speaking ability by using storytelling was moderate. It proved by the fact that 4 students (33.33%) classified as high ability, 4 students (33.33%) classified as moderate ability, and 4 students (33.33%) classified as low ability. Based on the data, the students’ score were bigger in the high and moderate level than in the low ability level. Based on the research finding, the English teacher is suggested to consider the five components in scoring speaking ability (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, and comprehension). The students are suggested to do more practice in pronunciation and fluency, because they dominantly speak incorrect pronunciation and have pauses in the sentences. Students are also suggested to enrich their vocabulary by using storytelling.

Polish Ethnic Minority in Belarus and Lithuania: Politics, Institutions, and Identities

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė ◽  
Olga Sasunkevich ◽  
Kristina Šliavaitė
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Cross Case Analysis ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
State Schools

Abstract This article analyzes how institutions influence the process of identity formation within the Polish minority communities in Belarus and Lithuania. We focus on ways that the identities of people who consider themselves Poles in Belarus and Lithuania are targeted by institutions like the state, schools, and nongovernmental organizations. We aim to shed light on how these processes are shaped by institutional settings and broader political contexts. The authors take a bottom-up approach to institutions and look at how members of the Polish communities in the two neighboring countries conceptualize the role of various institutions—NGOs, schools, Karta Polaka (the Polish Card)—to shape their sense of ethnic belonging. The article is built on a cross-case analysis. Data for the Lithuanian and Belarusian cases, consisting of interviews and secondary sources, were collected independently and then reread in light of a common research question. Through our analysis, we show differences and similarities in how analogous institutions function on the two sides of the border and elaborate on the reasons why these differences occur and what role state policy and supranational regulations play in the process.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Pragmatic Presupposition in Maturity Episode on Golden Ways Show

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Maria Olivia Christina Sianipar
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Pragmatic Presupposition

Pragmatics is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by speaker or writer and interpreted by a listener or a reader. It has consequently more to do with the analysis of what people mean by their utterances. Describing the types of presupposition by the utterances in a talk show named Golden Ways is the objective of this research. The subject of this research is a talk show entitled maturity. The data are some utterances said by the speaker and heard by the hearer. Utterances between the host and the audiences from this show can show the presupposition. The writer analyzed the types of presupposition by Yule’s theory (1996) to find out what types are often used in this talk show. The data analysis is conducted by classifying and categorizing the data to find the inferences. The writer uses a descriptive method because it describes the presupposition in the talk show and it was suitable to the purpose of the study. As Monsen stated (2008: 5) the descriptive research often illustrates a relevant but non quantified topic involving a well-focused research question. It generates narrative data that describe words instead of numbers. The writer has found all six types of presupposition which applied in this talk show. This research shows that presupposition always exist in utterances.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Event Lovely Toraja Terhadap Ekonomi Masyarakat di Kabupaten Toraja Utara

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Yohanis Bara Lotim ◽  
Maya Damayanti
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Business Owner ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Street Vendor ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The People ◽  
Art Community ◽  
The Impact

North Toraja was the main tourism destination in South Sulawesi Province and Indonesia until economic crisis on 1997 and Bali bomb on 2002 hit Indonesia then decrease the number of visited tourists. The increase of the visited tourist since 2008 when this event initiated brings a research question How the impact of Lovely Toraja to the economic livelihood of the people in North Toraja Regency? This research aimed to analysis the impact of Lovely Toraja Event to the economic of community in Toraja Utara. Regarding its aim, this research can be classified as descriptive research with quantitative and qualitative approaches. Interview to the local government and cultural figures used as a tool of data collection to describe economic activities that growth within this event and then analyzed the results with exploration method. Questionnaires than spread to find labor absorption and change in the people income before the event, when there is no event occasion and when the event on occasion by tabulation method used as the analyzing tool. Results of the research showed that economic activities of the people that emerged of Lovely Toraja were accommodation, restaurants, tourist destination, travel agent, car rent, art community, sculpturer, crafter, webbing and weaving handicrafts, convection, and the home industry of food, street vendor, taxi bike, bentor, and Parkman. From the absorbance of labor known that the change about 46.64% and for the income of the business owner and the labor there isA significance increase about 92.12% and 69.20%. Thus, we can conclude that Lovely Toraja event brings significant impact to the economic of the community in North Toraja Regency.

COMPARISON OF FEMALE AND MALE YOUTH CHARACTERISTICS PRIOR TO ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM UGANDA

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (01) ◽  
pp. 1750004
Author(s):  
FREDDIE FESTO MAWANGA
Keyword(s):  
Training Programs ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Baseline Data ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Entrepreneurial Development ◽  
Gender Characteristics

All pre-entrepreneurial development training programs collect data on the participating individuals as baseline data. This paper’s research question is whether the baseline data of youths can be analyzed to establish comparative gender characteristics. The analysis, data compared gender characteristics to identify customized gender training programs and policies; and as a mechanism for monitoring these characteristics as individuals develop into entrepreneurs. Data from youths being trained after an insurgency in a developing country were used and analysis was conducted with the help of SPSS ver. 21. Findings were that male youths were significantly more interested than female youth in the training. Significant correlations of assosiated chararctertisitcs among the youths were found to be similar across gender, although some were gender related. ANOVA revealed a significant difference in education, meals eaten per day and savings with varying levels of effect among male and female youths, with male youths scoring higher than the females. Education mediated monthly income and savings among female youths; however, among male youth its mediation was on the number of dependents they had. Finally, a binary logit regression showed that both genders were predictable using their education, quality of house they reside in, number of dependents and amount of savings but with varying direction of likelihood and extent. Implications of the study are discussed in the paper.

scholarly journals High inventory levels: The raison d’être of township retailers

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Orpha Cilliers
Keyword(s):  
Business Performance ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Transport Costs ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analyses ◽  
The Status ◽  
High Level ◽  
Inventory Decision ◽  
Retail Grocery

Background: This study investigates the cardinal role of optimal inventory decision-making in the performance of small formal retailers in Soweto, constituting a projected, lucrative retail environment. Aim: The research question was how Soweto small retailers make inventory decisions to promote their income growth and age of the business. For this study, a descriptive research design was followed. Setting: The universe of the study comprised all the formal small, medium and microenterprises located in Soweto township. Methods: Using probability sampling, the sample size was set at 650 businesses. Of the 650 completed questionnaires, the responses of 297 respondents operating in the retail grocery and retail general stores sectors were analysed quantitatively using exploratory factor analyses, cluster analysis and cross-tabulation. Results: This study showed that being more inclined to proactively maintain a high level of inventory could result in positive business performance in terms of both growth in income and age. Younger businesses (less than 5 years) could grow if they decide to stock up on sale items, purchase more items for sale, provide for customers’ fluctuating demands and buy more stock to save on transport costs. Purchasing less or the exact amount of stock as what can be sold within a month could be detrimental to the performance of general and grocery retailers in Soweto. Conclusions: The results also show that if retailers want to grow and exist for 5 years and more, they should consider both proactively maintaining a high level of inventory and doing so with ease. In this study, the older (5 years and older) business groups were mostly owned by older people, who showed a tendency to establish themselves in stand-alone shops or smaller shopping centres. Older businesses also tend to buy stock daily or weekly, or when stock is low. These older businesses without income growth were mostly family businesses who displayed contentment with the status quo of business performance and seemed to lack entrepreneurial skills.

Factors Influencing the Breastfeeding Practices of Young Mothers Living in a Maternity Shelter: A Qualitative Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosann Edwards ◽  
Wendy E. Peterson ◽  
Joy Noel-Weiss ◽  
Cathryn Shearer Fortier
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Breastfeeding Duration ◽  
Young Mothers ◽  
Breastfeeding Practices ◽  
Lactation Consultants ◽  
Early Postpartum ◽  
Poor Outcomes

Background: Young mothers have the lowest breastfeeding rates in Canada. Young mothers and their infants who access maternity shelters are especially at risk for poor outcomes, some of which breastfeeding may help to mitigate, yet little is known of the breastfeeding practices of this population. Research aim: The purpose of this study was to answer the research question, “What factors influence the breastfeeding practices of young mothers who live or have lived in a maternity shelter?” Methods: The study was conducted using interpretive description methodology and inductive content analysis. Data were collected by means of one-on-one interviews, with the participants recruited from a maternity shelter in Ontario, Canada. Results: Nine young mothers ages 17 to 24 years, who had initiated breastfeeding and resided at a maternity shelter, were interviewed. The five themes that emerged from the data were as follows: (a) choice, (b) special, (c) importance of early postpartum support, (d) being part of the “in crowd,” and (e) importance of ongoing supports. The participants in this study took ownership of their choice to breastfeed. Hospital postpartum nurses and lactation consultants had a critical role in the establishment of early breastfeeding, and ongoing, accessible, and nonjudgmental peer, family, and community support were important to breastfeeding duration. Conclusion: A combination of emotional and practical supports from multiple trusted sources, including professional and peer supports on an ongoing basis, enabled young mothers to reach their breastfeeding goals.

Preparing elementary readers to be critical intercultural citizens through literacy education

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 532-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seonmin Huh ◽  
Young-Mee Suh
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Sixth Graders ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Teacher Pedagogy ◽  
Selection Of

The purpose of this study is to extend existing approaches to civic and English as a foreign language (EFL) literacy education to include critical intercultural citizenship. Students not only need to learn how to communicate, but should also develop their positions as citizens who exercise literacy skills to demonstrate connections to others in intercultural domains. The central research question explored how teacher pedagogy in the intercultural citizenship curriculum helped students to become more intercultural and caring citizens. A practitioner action study was conducted for two years with 10 fifth- and sixth-graders (11–12 years old) in Korea. All 40 one-hour video-taped class sessions containing eleven graphic novel discussions, as well as the artifacts students produced, were collected for analysis. Data analysis illustrates that critical citizenship literacy skills can be developed with teacher pedagogy that help students reflect on the cultural knowledge and practices that seem natural to them. The pedagogies of dialoguing, active consideration of missing perspectives and direct juxtaposition of students’ own and others’ social contexts are unpacked to suggest ways of incorporating intercultural citizenship education into literacy education. Educational implications are considered in terms of teacher engagement with learners, expanded position-taking of learners as intercultural citizens, and selection of discussion topics.

scholarly journals Competitive Intelligence as a Support to the Business Strategy in Micro and Small Companies: A Study in The Aerotropolis of Belo Horizonte

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-111
Author(s):  
Frederico Cesar Mafra Pereira ◽  
Ester Eliane Jeunon ◽  
Regiane Santos Barbosa ◽  
Leonora Da Cunha Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Significant Opportunity

The competitive context in which an enterprise operates can become even more impacting when there are environmental factors that bring massive scenario changes. The implementation of an Aerotropolis, which is an urban structure that has the airport as its center and, in its surroundings, activities related to it, requires an entrepreneurial and innovative positioning of enterprises, regardless their size. Based on this statement, the focus of this article was to analyze how the Competitive Intelligence is configured in Micro and Small Companies at the Aerotropolis of Belo Horizonte with a view to the elaboration of its Business Strategies. To achieve the study purpose, a descriptive research was performed, using a qualitative approach, from the triangulation method to collection and analysis data. Informality in the implementation of Competitive Intelligence and a disability to view growth possibilities were the most striking features on the results. There is a significant opportunity for improvement in the management processes of the companies surveyed, showing the importance of research conducted for the economic development of the region.

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