scholarly journals Vietnamese Learners’ Performance in The IELTS Writing Task 2

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-189
Author(s):  
Huu Nhon Nguyen ◽  
Duy Khoi Nguyen

IELTS is popular in Vietnam thanks to its reliability and applicability. Writing task 2 has been acknowledged to be the most challenging for IELTS learners. However, in Vietnam, not much research has attempted to investigate in an in-depth manner as to what are the problems, causes, and consequently the suggestions of such a notion. The research hence aims to investigate the phenomenon in a more thorough, empirical manner. To this end, the study employed the participation of 205 IELTS learners from two language centers in Ho Chi Minh city to provide their opinions regarding the problems, causes, and recommendations deemed the most pressing, acute, and beneficial, respectively. With convenience sampling and survey being the chosen research design, the research was quantitative in nature, producing numerical data as a result. Further analysis conducted via comparing the means of the items listed in the questionnaire yielded based on the IELTS band descriptors managed to discover a series of problems, causes, and suggestions considered the most relevant to the Vietnamese learners concerning IELTS writing task 2. The research thus served as the basis for teachers and learners of IELTS writing task 2 to identify the recurrent issues and provide relatable approaches.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 2919-2920

Organizational citizenship behaviour is a very important antecedent to ensuring organizational success. This study has focused on one of the major antecedent of OCB, which is altruism. The study has been conducted among the employees at L&T Construction, Chennai. The total population is 500 and a sample of 100 was taken based on convenience sampling. Exploratory research design was used. Data collection was done by means of questionnaire. The questionnaire focussed on measuring the altruistic behaviour of the employees and thereby figuring out the extent of satisfaction these employees enjoy, if there is a relationship between both. The result of the study indicated that altruism had a positive impact on satisfaction which in turn always has a positive effect on any job a person does. The findings of the study are important to impart motivation and further fuel altruistic behaviour


2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 408-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Maredi Mojapelo

Community libraries are crucial for people to have access to information to satisfy their multiple needs. As custodians of information and knowledge in diverse spheres, they play a role in the socio-economic development of nations. This article attempts to investigate challenges faced by libraries in three different settings in post-apartheid South Africa. The study adopted a qualitative research design. The users, librarians and a well-placed official of the relevant department were interviewed. Convenience sampling was used to select users and librarians while purposive sampling was used to select an official. Face-to-face interviews and observation and a checklist were used to collect data. Senior officials of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture need to study challenges revealed by the findings and to take action to remedy the situation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Arief Yanto ◽  
Muhammad Athfal Faroby ◽  
Tri Hartiti ◽  
Amin Samiasih

Stigma can be an obstacle in efforts to prevent, treat and treat COVID- 19 patients. Negative stigma can cause psychological problems for health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stigma is often associated with health problems including COVID-19 which is caused by fear and lack of knowledge. This study aims to determine the image of the community's stigma against health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study used a quantitative descriptive research design with a survey approach using a questionnaire filled out via google form. Sampling was done through convenience sampling. The sample of this study was 138 respondents who met the inclusion criteria. Most of the respondents did not give stigma labelling 82.6%, did not give stigma stereotype 81.9%, did not give stigma separation 89.9% and did not give stigma discrimination 77.5% to health workers. The results showed that the community did not give stigma of labelling, stereotype, separation and discrimination to health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is hoped that this research can be used as input to prevent the emergence of a negative stigma against health workers during a pandemic.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-213
Author(s):  
Mohan Kumar Tumbahang

This paper aims at looking into varieties of the Mundhum language and reasons for its intricacies to the Limbu natives. The study attempts to follow the qualitative research design which involves collecting non-numerical data especially the religious text or discourse for analysis and interpretation. After the related data were collected, the linguistic theory specifically linguistic typology is used to analyze, compare and interpret them. The findings ofthis study indicated that the Mundhum or the religious scripture of the Limbu community does have a specific language variety which emerges out from the diglossic situation. According to the diglossic situation, the Mundhum serves as the high variety. This high variety is employed in formal social functions and ritual performances. To the contrary, the ordinary languagevariety of Limbu is used in every day communicative purposes and this type of speech variety is considered to be low variety in the sociolinguistics' field. There are certain reasons which make it very complicated to the natives to comprehend the Mundhum. Inquisitive individual’s in the study of typological linguistics of the religious text are expected to get help from this study.


The revolution of information technology (IT) and communications has transformed the conduct of most of the businesses via electronic media & internet. Digital forms have become an important channel for customer communication in marketing along with conventional forms. Digital advertisement allows sellers to disseminate product information accurately and adequately to customers. This paper is carried out to analyze the customer’s attitude towards digital and conventional advertising. Customer’s attitudes have been observed with various determinants like credibility of customers, informative to customers, hedonic pleasure to customers, materialism and good for economy advertisements. Descriptive research design is carried out, 110 samples were selected using convenience sampling technique. Results indicate that digital advertising is creating a greater impact than conventional advertising. Digital advertisement is agreed as more informative than conventional advertisement while conventional advertisement is considered as credible in eliciting positive attitude towards advertisement


Author(s):  
Eric Santos Parilla

The study investigates the effects of the pandemic brought about by Covid-19 on Ilocos businesses and establishments. The study participants were the owners of micro, small and medium businesses in Ilocos Norte, and they were selected using a convenience sampling technique. The study employed a quantitative research design, and the entrepreneurs were asked about the perceived impact of Covid-19. Using descriptive statistics, the findings divulged that the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the businesses ranged from retrenchment of employees, disruption in the supply chain, and temporary to permanent shutdown. The impact of the pandemic includes uncertainties, the decline in productivity, demand, and sales. Implications, conclusions, and recommendations were also provided in the study.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Roan Mukherjee

Background: Reports show that mental wellbeing may be negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ragas of Indian classical music are believed to have therapeutic effects. This study was done to investigate the impact of an Indian raga on mental wellbeing during the COVID-19  pandemic. Materials and Methods: It was a one-group before-after design study. A total of 45 adult subjects of Kolkata, recruited online, using convenience sampling during the lockdown, underwent a pre-test via Google forms using Warwick-Edinburg Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) to evaluate mental wellbeing before the administration of music intervention. After two weeks of music intervention, that consisted of passively listening to raga Hamsadhwani, a post-test using the same scale and the same medium was done. Results: The results showed that the post-test mean of the total score 51.1 (SD = 3.9) of WEMWBS was significantly (p< 0.001) higher than the pre-test mean of the total score 30.9 (SD = 4.6). The same trend was reflected by the mean difference pertaining to all of the components of WEMWBS. Conclusion: It was concluded that raga Hamsadhwani may be effective in improving mental wellbeing in a pandemic situation. There is a need to do more work by improvising the research design employed in the present study. This will help to interpret more accurately and more meaningfully the effects of Indian raga music on mental wellbeing.


2013 ◽  
Vol 479-480 ◽  
pp. 795-799
Author(s):  
Huei Ming Shih ◽  
Shieh Liang Chen ◽  
Chih Hung Wang

This study aims to probe into causal relationship among serious leisure traits, leisure internal motivation, leisure benefits and sense of happiness and further examines the moderating roles of leisure internal motivation and leisure benefits. Research design is based on questionnaire survey. Bicyclists of 2009 Giant Cup, 2009 Mountain Tour and Sea Appreciation, Challenge 100 cycling in Miaoli and 2009 Taichung 100K Cycling Race are treated as the subjects. The researcher conducts investigation on the fields by convenience sampling and acquires 500 valid samples. According to research findings, serious leisure traits positively influence leisure internal motivation, leisure benefits and sense of happiness. Leisure internal motivation positively influences leisure benefits and sense of happiness. Leisure benefits positively influence sense of happiness. Leisure internal motivation and leisure benefits play partial moderating roles between serious leisure traits and sense of happiness. Overall explained power of serious leisure traits, leisure internal motivation and leisure benefits on sense of happiness is 88%. Research findings aim to serve as reference for governmental departments in the promotion of bicycle activities, private bicycle groups or firms strategies of bicycle activities and market expansion and future academic studies.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 06
Author(s):  
Yustinus Ericko Kelvianto

The purpose of this research is to understand the effect of perceived value, brand image, and trust to Customers' Loyalty. The research design is based on descriptive method and the data was collected through primary data with five Likert-Scales questionaire. The samples of this research are customer who use one of the LCC flight service at least 2 times in 3 months. Convenience sampling method was used in order to gather data. Out of 200 questioners, 167 questioners were computed with SPSS to give the results. This research about The Effect of Perceived Value, Brand Image, and Trust to Customers' Loyalty can be concluded that Customers' loyalty is affected positively by the perceived value, brand image, and trust. Thus, the company should improve their perceived value, brand image, and trust to maintain and increase their customer's loyalty.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Dhruba Kumar Budhathoki

This paper analyzes the perception of youth towards E-payment in Pokhara along with the consideration of gender, age, product attributes, psychological traits on the perception of youths towards e-payment gateway. This study has adopted a descriptive and causal research design. A total of 160 respondents were selected for study purposes using the convenience sampling method from Pokhara valley. The modified Likert scale questionnaire was used to gather data about the perception of youths towards e-payment. The results indicate that 70% of respondents prefer E-Sewa, moreover, gender, age, occupation do not affect the perception of youths towards e-payment but academic qualification affects the perception of youths towards e-payment. Similarly, trustworthiness and product safety do not affect the perception of youths.


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