scholarly journals An analytical study on theme choices in the academic essays of Libyan EFL undergraduate students

2020 ◽  
pp. 8-32
Author(s):  
Zainab Khalifa Khalafallah Khalifa
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
Point Of Departure

Theme is the element which a speaker or writer chooses as a point of departure for a clause. Theme is of different types; each of which has a certain function in the overall discourse. Choosing the appropriate theme is important to deliver the intended message of the discourse. Many EFL students encounter problems in their theme choice which might decrease the quality of their written products. The current study investigated the frequency of the different types of themes to find out the most dominantly used theme types. For data collection, 15 academic essays written by advanced semesters' students were utilized to fulfill the purpose of the study. In analyzing the written texts, the Halladian Analysis System was followed to categorize the type of themes used in the students' writings. According to the study findings, the Topical Unmarked theme was highly dominant in the students' writing. The Textual themes occupied the second place in the frequency of use. Not surprisingly, the Interpersonal theme was very rare in the students' essays. The results of the study were interpreted and contextualized within the existing body of literature. Finally, the implications and limitations of the study were discussed.

On Translating Prepositions from English into Indonesian: A Case Study of Indonesian EFL Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Sependi Napitupulu
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Phrasal Verbs ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Correct Translation

This study attempts to investigate errors in translating prepositions from English into Indonesian language by Undergraduate students at the Methodist University Indonesia, Medan. A total of 20 students in the Department of English Literature, Faculty of English Letters were involved in this study. Forty sentences containing English prepositions were translated by the students. The translations were then compared with the Indonesian equivalence in order to find out the quality of their translation. In order to measure the quality of preposition translation, three categories were referred to, namely: correct translation, correct with revision translation, and incorrect translation. Having analyzed the data, it revealed that most of the students failed to translate complex prepositions such as phrasal verbs. However, most students successfully translated simple prepositions such as noun prepositions and adjective prepositions. From 100% correct translation expected of students, only 44.37% of the total correct translation of prepositions committed by students. While correct with revision, from 100% correct translation with revision expected of students, only 41.75% of the total correct translation that need revision is produced by students. In the meantime, 13.75% of the total incorrect translation is produced by students. It was concluded that students tend to face problems in translating prepositional verbs as they are rarely used by and unfamiliar to students.   

scholarly journals The Profile of the Participants of the Lectures Cycle GESPORTE

2021 ◽  
pp. 01-09
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Monthly Income ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Data Collection Instrument

This study aimed to characterize the profile of participant in the Technical Lectures of the Lectures Cycle GESPORTE. Thus, it is a descriptive research, which used a questionnaire as a data collection instrument, this questionnaire contained closed and open questions. Of the 967 participants in the technical lectures analyzed, 335 responded to the data collection instrument that contained questions about gender variables; age; study level; course; activity that exerts; personal monthly income; aspects of the event (access to the event venue; parking; auditorium; seating; restrooms; conducting the event (ceremonial); punctuality of the event; signage and information; importance of the event (theme); quality of the speakers). The results show that 60.6 are men; 85.7% are up to 24 years old; 64.6 has a monthly income of up to R $ 1,000.00 (one thousand reais); 90.4% are undergraduate students; and 88% are studying Physical Education. Therefore, the participants in the GESPORTE Lectures Cycle are men up to 24 years old, undergraduate students in Physical Education, with a monthly income of up to R $ 1,000.00 (one thousand reais).

scholarly journals A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of Cohesion and The Writing Quality of Saudi Female EFL Undergraduate Students

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khawater Fahad Alshalan
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Writing Assessment ◽  
Writing Quality ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis Software ◽  
Writing Scores

This study aims to investigate how frequently Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) cohesive devices were used as well as their relationship with the writing quality of 100 Saudi EFL undergraduate students in Al Imam Muhammed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It uses a mixed method approach, where the students’ essays were analyzed using systemic functional linguistics (SFL) in terms of the textual meta-function of cohesive devices. The five types of the cohesive devices are the following: lexical cohesion, reference, conjunction, substitutions, and ellipses. Moreover, each of their subcategories were analyzed in the students’ texts. The NVivo qualitative data analysis software and the corpus analysis (conducted using AntConc) were used to calculate the frequencies of each cohesive device found in the data. The IELTS writing assessment scale was also used to evaluate the students’ writing scores. The results show that the most frequently used device was lexical cohesion, specifically repetition. Saudi EFL undergraduate students tended to repeatedly stay focused on the central idea of the topic. Furthermore, Pearson’s correlation coefficient found a relationship between the students’ writing scores and length of their essays, the use of cohesive ties and the scores, and cohesive ties and the length of the students’ essays. This study recommends that EFL teachers provide Saudi EFL students several cohesive tools in order to help them improve their writing skills and connect their ideas smoothly.

scholarly journals English Language Error Analysis of the Written Texts Produced by Ukrainian Learners: Data Collection

2015 ◽  
pp. 389-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lessia Mykolayivna Kotsyuk
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Error Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Corpus Studies ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Different Types

English Language Error Analysis of the Written Texts Produced by Ukrainian Learners: Data CollectionRecently, the studies of second language acquisition have tended to focus on learners errors as they help to predict the difficulties involved in acquiring a second language. Thus, teachers can be made aware of the difficult areas to be encountered by the students and pay special attention and devote emphasis to them. The research goals of the article are to define what error analysis is and how it is important in L2 teaching process, to state the significance of corpus studies in identifying of different types of errors and mistakes, to provide the results of error analysis of the corpus of written texts produced by Ukrainian learners. In this article, major types of errors in English as a second language for Ukrainian students are mentioned.

scholarly journals The Quality of Listening Skill of the EFL Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Erawati Wiyono Putri ◽  
Umar Fauzan ◽  
Rostanti Toba
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
English Education ◽  
Critical Level ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Mastery Level ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Data Collection Technique

Listening is often view as receptive or passive skill that hard to be measured. Nevertheless, listening is one skill that play a big role in enhancing students’ proficiency in English. Therefore, improving students’ quality in listening is important. According to Al-Musalli, there are four sub-skills involved in listening: 1) literal level, it involves three main types of skill: phonological, syntactic, and lexical skills; 2) inferential level, it related to the comprehension of the text; 3) critical level includes: making an appropriate judgment about the message, the speaker personality, and the topic, and; 4) creative level includes handling verbal and non-verbal communication strategies and responding in the proper way. All of these sub-skills can be used as the criteria to view students’ mastery level of listening. This research only applies three level as a benchmark to know students’ quality of listening, they are: literal, inferential, and critical. The objective of this research is to know the students’ quality in listening skill based on mastery level of listening. The research design is descriptive. The subjects of study are five students who meet the researcher’s criteria. Data collection technique in this research is using test of listening, interview, observation and documentation. The data is analyzed using the model of Miles and Huberman. After being collected, the data is verified using triangulation by method and another researcher. The result of this research shows that students at fourth semester of English Education Department in IAIN Samarinda located in inferential level of mastery listening skill which means their quality in listening can be categorized as good.

scholarly journals The Effect of Using Conjunction as Cohesive Device on the Undergraduates’ Quality of Writing in Argumentative Essays of Jordanian EFL Learners

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rawhi Yousef Salman Al Shamalat ◽  
Che An Binti Abdul Ghani
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Writing Quality ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Argumentative Essays ◽  
Mu'tah University

The goal of this research was to investigate the effect of use conjunctions on the overall quality of argumentative writing of Jordanian English as foreign language (EFL) learners. This mixed-method research included sixty (n=60) undergraduate students at the Department. of English Language and Literature at Mu’tah University in Jordan. The participants of the research were selected using purposive sampling method. The data of the research were collected using written essays and interviews. The data was analyzed using SPSS. The data was collected using analytical scale Jacob et al., (1981) to measure the quality of argumentative essays. The result of this research showed that there was a weak negative but irrelevant correlation between writing quality and the frequency of conjunctions as cohesive devices. This correlation indicates that the frequent and general use of devices in the writing of Jordanian students did not contribute to the quality of the writing under any conditions. Also the finding revealed that there is an extremely negative but irrelevant correlation between the use of conjunctions devices by Jordanian EFL students and their writing quality. Therefore, the correlation was negative and insignificant for Jordanian EFL students. More specifically, the result shows that the frequencies of conjunctions were not found as an indicator of good writing quality for Jordanian EFL students. This research is significant for providing a considerable number of pedagogical implications for further research that will offer great contribution to the field of teaching writing in EFL setting in Jordan in particular and English as second language (ESL) context in general. Moreover, the research has shown a better understanding of cohesive devices / conjunctions by Jordanian EFL students at Mu’tah University.

Surgical modalities for the treatment of recto-vaginal deep infiltrating endometriosis: systematic review and meta-analysis

QJM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 114 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nesma Abdelhady Hassan Ibrahim ◽  
Mohamed Hamed Abdelaziz Salama ◽  
Ashraf Fawzy Nabhan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Surgical Techniques ◽  
Review Author ◽  
Deeply Infiltrating Endometriosis ◽  
Review Team ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Infiltrating Endometriosis

Abstract Background Deeply infiltrating endometriosis is a distinct type of endometriosis that is characterized by presence of endometrial nodes that penetrates >5 mm under the peritoneal surface. Surgery is the main method for relief of its associated pain and for improvement of quality of life. Objectives To assess effectiveness and safety of different laparoscopic surgical techniques in the treatment of deeply infiltrating endometriosis. Search methods We searched CENTRAL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, other data bases, and trial registries from inception till May 2020. The search strategy was developed by the review team. Some of the studies' authors were contacted for more clarification of information but we didn't get response. Selection criteria We included only randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that compare between the effectiveness and safety of different surgical techniques used in laparoscopic surgery to improve quality of life, treat pain, and improve sexual function in patients diagnosed with deeply infiltrating endometriosis Data collection and analysis Study selection, assessment of risk of bias of the included studies, and data collection were independently done by two of the review authors (Salama, M. and Ibrahim, N.). Any disagreement was resolved by discussion with the third review author (Nabhan, A.). We contacted investigators of some studies for more clarification of information and getting the primary data but we didn't get response. The quality of evidence was evaluated using GRADE methods. Results One RCT was included in the review. The study randomized 52 patients experiencing different types of pain and digestive symptoms, bad quality of life resulting from deeply infiltrating endometriosis. It compared laparoscopic versus open surgery in colorectal resection. The main limitations were unclear statement of allocation concealment, and lack of clearly described blinding beside the small number of participants. The study reported that there is no difference between the two approaches as regards to pain and symptomatic relief besides improving quality of life, but data are represented in median and range. The method of data presentation and absence of more studies in this comparison lead to the impossibility of doing meta-analysis. As for the other three comparisons we also found no studies that compared the surgical techniques together. Authors' conclusions There was insufficient evidence to conclude which surgical technique used during laparoscopy is the best regarding the relief of different types of pain associated with deeply infiltrating endometriosis and the improvement of quality of life of patients with such condition with the least adverse events. More research is needed in this field with very thorough consideration to the ethical dimensions of such trials in helping patients to get the best possible care according to their individual cases together with good design of the trial to enable the investigators to compare between different techniques.

scholarly journals Aspects of writing knowledge and EFL students' writing quality

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
Rofiqoh Rofiqoh ◽  
Yazid Basthomi ◽  
Utami Widiati ◽  
Yunita Puspitasari ◽  
Saiful Marhaban ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Choice Test ◽  
Writing Quality ◽  
Process Knowledge ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Process System ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Writing Knowledge

Writing knowledge pertaining to process, system, content, and genre plays an essential role to produce an intelligible composition. The purpose of the present study is twofold – to investigate the correlation between aspects of writing knowledge and quality of writing, and to investigate the contribution of the overall and individual aspects of writing knowledge to writing quality. The participants were 54 second-year ELT undergraduate students of a university in Indonesia. A writing test and multiple-choice test on writing knowledge were used as the instruments of data collection. The analysis employed Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions. The result revealed a significant positive correlation between writing knowledge and writing quality. As a unit, the knowledge of process, system, content, and genre, indicates a significant contribution to the writing quality. Individually, however, only process knowledge significantly contributes to the writing quality. It provides additional pieces of evidence that process knowledge be given special attention, thus writing instruction should allow students to learn writing knowledge explicitly and implicitly.

scholarly journals Students Studying Students: An Assessment of using Undergraduate Student Researchers in an Ethnographic Study of Library Use

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (109) ◽  
pp. 55-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allyson Washburn ◽  
Sheila C Bibb
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Peer Interaction ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Library Use ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Student Researchers

This paper reports on the use of undergraduate students enrolled in an Applied Anthropology course as researchers for a library use study at Brigham Young University's (BYU) Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL). This is a common practice at BYU, but has not been reported extensively in the literature. The study was carried out by the authors with the assistance of undergraduate students, the students being the researchers and was conducted in order that the HBLL could determine student ideas for reconfiguring some newly opened space in the Periodicals room. Using students assisted the library as well as met a curricular need in the Anthropology course. Ethnographic methods were the primary means used to gather the data. The paper asserts that the peer interaction during the data collection significantly enriched the quality of the data collected.

scholarly journals Comparison of Routine Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis in Arab and Lor Patients

2022 ◽  
Vol In Press (In Press) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmadreza Assareh ◽  
Bijan Helli ◽  
Hoda Mombeini ◽  
Marzie Zilaiee ◽  
Mahshad Shokuhi Nasab ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Food Frequency ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Sugar Levels ◽  
And Control

Background: The awareness of the risk factors of atherosclerosis and attempts to correct and control them can effectively reduce the risk of complications. Objectives: This study was performed to evaluate the risk factors for routine atherosclerosis in patients with symptoms of heart disease in the Arab race, compared to those of Lor patients. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 200 patients with symptoms of heart disease. A food frequency questionnaire was used for data collection. Results: Out of 200 patients, 101 (51.5%) and 99 (48.5%) participants were Lor and Arab, respectively. Significant differences were observed between the two races for cholesterol and fasting blood sugar levels (P < 0.05). Additionally, no significant difference was observed between different quarters of following dietary patterns and lipid-glucose factors (P > 0.05). Conclusions: Risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis, are multifactorial. Various factors can effectively affect the prevalence of this disease in each region, which necessitates the identification of risk factors to take steps to correct risk factors and improve the quality of patients’ life.

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