Variation in quality of maternal input and development of coda stops in English-speaking children in Singapore

This study examines the effects of input quality on early phonological acquisition by investigating whether interadult variation in specific phonetic properties in the input is reflected in the production of their children. We analysed the English coda stop release patterns in the spontaneous speech of fourteen mothers and compared them with the spontaneous production of their preschool children. The analysis revealed a very strong positive input–production relationship; mothers who released coda stops to a lesser degree also had children who tended to not release their stops, and the same was true for mothers who released their stops to a higher degree. The findings suggest that young children are sensitive to acoustic properties that are subphonemic, and these properties are also reflected in their production, showing the importance of considering input quality when investigating child production.

A BRIEF VIEW ON CULTIVATING STUDENTS' CREATIVE ABILITY IN COLLEGE CHINESE TEACHING

Chinese is one of the most important courses in China's educational subjects, a very important basic discipline. College Chinese language and literature, this course should be energetic, learning of college students' love and positive input. However, the innovation ability of Chinese teaching in China is still insufficient and lacks vitality. College Chinese teaching has not yet become a fortress that can provide talents for our country, and has not yet played a vanguard and exemplary role. This paper puts forward corresponding suggestions and suggestions on the problems existing in the current stage of cultivating students' innovative ability in college Chinese teaching classroom, so as to promote the better development of college Chinese education in China.

Pre-understanding: An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research

Pre-understanding – our presuppositions of reality – underlies all research. Many researchers probably also draw productively on their pre-understanding in their studies. However, very few rationales and methodological resources exist for how researchers can enrich their research by mobilizing their pre-understanding more actively and systematically. We elaborate and propose a framework for how researchers more actively, systematically and visibly can bring forward their pre-understanding and use it as a positive input in research, alongside formal data and theory. In particular, we show how researchers, in dialogue with data and theory, can mobilize their pre-understanding as an interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander throughout the research process, including stimulating imagination and idea generation, broadening the empirical base, and evaluating what empirical material and theoretical ideas are interesting and relevant to pursue.

Telehealth - an emerging health technology as a future model in Vietnam during Covid-19 pandemic: practical experience from Phutho General Hospital (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED Telehealth has been emerging as a model of modern technology for healthcare services in Vietnam during the Covid-19 pandemic. Actively preventing the outbreak of Covid-19 and national digital transformation program, Vietnamese Ministry of Health has launched the project 2628/QD-BYT that approved a scheme for remote medical examination and treatment for 2020-2025. The project is aiming to connect 1000 hospitals to strengthen the quality of medical services from central hospitals to rural areas via provincial hospitals. The Phutho Genral Hospital (PGH) is one of leading provincial hospitals that participating and appling early the telehealth systems in Vietnam. By telehealth systems, PGH can offer a valuable support to the doctor’s activity by streamlining and facilitating their work. Telehealth was demonstrated to be feasible, acceptable, and effective in PGH of Vietnam, and allowed for significant improvements in health care outcomes. As the achieved results, the Covid-19 pandemic represents a positive input for the acceleration and enhancement of Telehealth in Vietnam. The success of telehealth here may be a useful reference for other parts of the world.

Towards Asnafs' Islamic Self-Actualization Process Through Sustainable Balance Scorecard (BSC) Approach

Although the literature is adamant on performance assessment, sustainability, self-actualisation, and so on, understanding its ‘inter-role' in asnaf (zakat recipient) welfare and its implicative magnitudes is a positive input in augmenting the zakat spectrum. And though the goal is to have self-actualisation that depends on attaining sustainable measures in each derivation. In Islam, self-actualisation is suggestively dissimilar than the conventional wisdom because the so-called self-interest motive remains inopportunely missing in such Islamic set-ups since the importance of collective-notion simply overrides the self-goals, and in turn, human development and its dignity as well as the societal progression becomes paramount in such social orders. Hence, the ‘Islamic self-actualisation' is purely and necessarily based on a balanced social development (Maslahah ‘Ammah) through the correction of one-self (tazkiatun Nafs) while preserving the future generations' (hifzul nasl) welfare and so on. Henceforth, it is important to protect the honour of self and the society (ird) and maintaining intellect (aql) and wealth (maal) for improving the social cohesion (Ukhuwah or brotherhood) in communities. As the unswerving goal of a zakat recipient (Asnaf) is to have his faith, life, intellect, honour, and wealth well protected, it is expected that he or she can withstand the consequences of life but remain proactive in society. And in the end, the recipient may opt-out the spell of remaining as asking-basket-syndrome in the shortest time possible through the effective zakat initiatives and incentives to overcome pointless uncertain environmental or other perennial shocks and similar.

Code Mixing in EFL Classroom: Views from English Teachers Side

The objectives of this research were to find out the category of code mixing used by the English teacher and the code mixing category dominantly used by the English teacher in teaching EFL (English as a foreign language) classroom based on the category of code mixing according to Muysken (2000). This research employed descriptive qualitative research design to analyze the teacher’s code mixing in teaching EFL at SMK Negeri 1 Makassar. The participant of this research was one of all the English teacher of SMK Negeri 1 Makassar, this participant was taken by using purposive sampling technique. The instruments of this research were observation and audio recording.The result showed that (1) The English teacher of SMK Negeri 1 Makassar used all of the categories that categorized by Muysken (2000, cited in Liu, 2008: 6) in teaching EFL classroom, they were: Insertion, Alternation and Congruent Lexicalization. There were seventeen examples of Insertion category, two examples of Alternation category and there were also two examples of congruent lexicalization category used by the English teacher; (2) The category of code mixing dominantly used by the English teacher of SMK Negeri 1 Makassar was insertion category in teaching EFL classroom.Therefore, it can be a positive input of the English teachers to enrich their English vocabulary to avoid using code mixing in teaching EFL classroom.

DESIGN OF AGRICULTURAL MOTIVATION MEDIA AND AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERIOD

The agricultural sector is not only for the discourse of food sovereignty, but one of the foundations of the economic strategy. The erosion of agriculture by the opportunities of other sectors, refers to the focus of research in Bali's Celuk Buruan Village, by uncovering phenomena that occur in this region. The existence of regional development, the availability of access and public facilities, is a problem in the agricultural sector in this region. Changes in perspective or land-use change are inevitable, impacting agriculture and small businesses that have long worked with farmers to drive the village economy. Based on the phenomenon, an idea arose to revive the agricultural and industrial sectors in Celuk Buruan. During the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, the decline of Bali's tourism, with a qualitative approach, attempted to design, which could provide positive input to the situation. The design of media about agriculture is a preventive action, carried out in a structured, processed in the design of visual communication. In the end, communication media can produce to answer the problem and widely disseminated on the internet media.

Quo vadis, V4? What is the potential of the Czech Republic to promote its interests within the framework of the V4?

The original purpose of the Visegrad Group (VG or V4 – which includes Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) was primarily to support its member states’ accession to the EU and NATO, which it successfully achieved. However, the views on the current cooperation of four Central European countries differ. Some researchers believe that the V4 has transformed since 2004 into a viable project which has become even an inspirational model of cooperation for other regional groupings. According to them, and contrary to doubts about the continuation of the V4 project, membership of the EU has given the V4 a new impulse, and its agenda has been expanded into new areas of cooperation which included EU affairs. Therefore, the V4 operates now as a distinct regional grouping within the EU (i.e. positive input regarding their commitment in several Council presidencies). Others, however, suggest that V4 cooperation seems to be labelled as a defensive project, a coalition within the EU, which is against something (recently the prominent topics have revolved around migration issues) and that it could lead to the marginalisation of the group and thus reduce its importance at the EU level. While discussing the future role of the V4, the article will focus on the Czech Republic, and its potential to promote its interests within the framework of the V4, especially in the context of its current presidency (from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020).