Forecast of Transmedia Language Learning With a Chance of Meatballs

This chapter reflects on a Korean ESL college class transformation into a transmedia learning environment. Lee and Seo illustrates the importance of pop culture knowledge in language learning along with constructing a positive rapport between the instructor and the students. The movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was used as the text of the class through interactions with students. They began to build the transmedia story about the movie. Students researched through multiple platforms to construct the movie through their major knowledge, personal experience, and findings on the internet. Furthermore, students developed their language skills to apply English to the movie related content. This chapter will illustrate how the students engaged in such activity and what became the transmedia project.

Leveraging asynchronous speaking tasks to promote willingness and confidence to speak in Spanish: A qualitative study

This study describes the experiences of students in a flipped intermediate Spanish college class who used a video discussion digital tool to develop their confidence to speak in the foreign language. Students participated in a series of 10 speaking tasks designed based on the framework on technology-mediated tasks (Gonzalez-Lloret & Ortega, 2014) and the world-readiness standards for communicative performance of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (2015). Through semi-structured interviews and reflection journals, students shared their learning accomplishments, unveiled their inner fears in speaking skills and detailed their journey in gaining confidence to speak in Spanish. Their experiences showed that willingness to communicate and self-efficacy are driving forces that, fostered in a brave learning environment, enable students to take risks and be creative with the language. The study also presents pedagogical implications regarding the design of technology-mediated tasks and the conditions of the learning environment that can foster or hinder students’ language oral communicative skills. Implications for practice or policy: Technology-mediated tasks should be designed based on a learner-centred approach and the affordances of the tool to promote communicative competence in foreign and second language learning. Technology-mediated tasks can promote the development of confidence to use the foreign and second language more spontaneously, while allowing students to fail without being judged or penalised. Technology-mediated tasks can give students some control over their own learning process, facilitating opportunities for self-monitoring to gain confidence in speaking in the foreign or second language.

Pengembangan Model Untuk Prediksi Tingkat Kelulusan Mahasiswa Tepat Waktu dengan Metode Naïve Bayes

Many parameters affect the timeliness of student graduation, starting from the student's interest in certain majors, the type of class chosen, to the grades for each semester obtained. This is a determining factor in how students can graduate on time or not at the end of their education. So a model is needed to predict student graduation rates on time, using alumni data whose data is obtained from several universities in Palembang City. The model used is a Naïve Bayes algorithm which serves as a model for classification. The dataset used is alumni data that has been collected from several universities, while the attributes used are the Department, College, Class Type, Temporary IP Value from semester 1 to 4, graduation year, and college generation. Then from the attributes and models used, the researcher used the Python 3 programming language and the Jupyter Notebook tools to process the prepared dataset. Furthermore, the distribution of the dataset is divided by 70% for training data and 30% for testing data. To test the algorithmic process used by researchers using K-Fold Validation. The results of this study are the accuracy of the prediction model carried out, where the accuracy results obtained from the Python 3 programming language and the Naïve Bayes algorithm are 0.8103.

Perbandingan Konsep Linguistik Ferdinand De Saussure dan Abdul Qāhir al-Jurjānī: Kajian Konseptual

Previous scholars in linguistics study have focused only on theory proposed by European linguists, one of them is Ferdinand De Saussure from Swiss. However, long before Saussure’s concept has been popularized, in the fourth century Arab world has already had concept of linguistics initiated by Abdul Qāhir al-Jurjāni. Embarked upon a study on language construction of Al-Qur'an, he extended the concept to general context including Arabic literature. This current study compared Al-Jurjāni and Saussure theoretical concepts by employing library research. The main sources were taken from Dalailul i'jaz authored by Al-Jurjāni and Course in Gerenal Linguistics written by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehay taken from their notes in Saussure’s college class. The findings reveal the sameness of linguistics concept between Saussure and Al- Jurjāni namely langue-parole vs Lughah-Kalam, Significant-Signifier vs lafal-makna, and Syntagmatic-Paradigmatic vs an-nadzm- al-Ikhtiār.

USING PADLET AS A DIGITAL TOOL FOR ENHANCING EFL STUDENTS’ COLLABORATIVE WRITING

This study aims to know how Padlet as a digital tool could enhance EFL students’ collaborative writing. There were 52 members taking English Writing Subject in a state funded college in Indonesia engaged with the examination. The investigation was intended to improve language and relational abilities, increment inspiration, lower uneasiness and urge students to turn out to be more self-sufficient. A progression of errands was planned utilizing Padlet and brought out through the semester. Students’ posts and criticism as a survey were examined. The discoveries showed that Padlet could spur students to take part in class exercises, lower nervousness, empower collaboration among class individuals and lecturer, and improve language exactness through gaining from peers. Padlet could be viably utilized in a college class to work with communitarian composing among lower capability EFL students.

Forecast of Transmedia Language Learning With a Chance of Meatballs

This chapter reflects on a Korean ESL college class transformation into a transmedia learning environment. Lee and Seo illustrates the importance of pop culture knowledge in language learning along with constructing a positive rapport between the instructor and the students. The movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was used as the text of the class through interactions with students. They began to build the transmedia story about the movie. Students researched through multiple platforms to construct the movie through their major knowledge, personal experience, and findings on the internet. Furthermore, students developed their language skills to apply English to the movie related content. This chapter will illustrate how the students engaged in such activity and what became the transmedia project.

Engaging Older Adult Learners Through Intergenerational Learning Opportunities

The University of Rhode Island became a part of the AFU network in 2018, and much of our rationale for joining the network was based on our strengths and growing interest in intergenerational programs and learning. The URI Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) currently has over 1,300 members, and a large aspect of their strategic plan and current efforts are focused on increasing intergenerational learning opportunities due to interest and successes in these areas. Some of the successful strategies that have been used include an intergenerational classroom of OLLI member and university students designed within a traditional college class, a matching program where students are partnered with OLLI members, intergenerational service learning opportunities for students to engage with OLLI members in different ways, and question and answer sessions with OLLI members within college classes. This presentation will highlight these efforts, lessons learned, and efforts to track participation and outcomes.

Effects of Ratemyprofessors.com and University Student Evaluations of Teaching on Students’ Course Decision-Making and Self-Efficacy

This study investigated effects of Ratemyprofessors.com and university student evaluations of teaching on students’ course decision making and self-efficacy in an ethnically diverse undergraduate sample. It also investigated if these effects were impacted by evaluation positivity. Additionally, the study explored if attitudes toward Ratemyprofessors.com was related to student gender, college class, and age. Participants were 73 undergraduates who were exposed to positive and negative evaluations about fictitious professors; participants were informed that the evaluations originated from RMP or university student evaluations of teaching. Evaluation positivity but not type influenced students’ intention to enroll in the professor’s course, but not how seriously they would consider the feedback. Evaluation positivity also influenced self-efficacy. Beliefs about and use of Ratemyprofessors.com were not related to student gender, college class, or age. Implications for student course decision making and self-efficacy for university students, faculty, and administrators are discussed.