Using Picture Series in Teaching Writing Skill for Students of Midwife Program

The aim of this research was to find out the using picture series in teaching writing skill for the fourth semester students of midwifery program in STIKES Bhakti Husada Mulia Madiun. This study was done on May 2020. The subjects were 32 students of the fourth semester students of midwifery program of STIKES Bhakti Husada Mulia Madiun in the academic year 2020/2021. The method used in this research was a qualitative descriptive research design. The techniques for collecting data were observation, interview, and documentation. During the research, the researcher acted as the teacher and observer during the implementation of picture series. The findings of observation show that there is good interaction between lecturer and students. The lecturer gives the task and assignment to make the students understand the material well. The finding of interview shows that by using picture series, the students can have the ideas how to start writing recount text well. They can arrange the picture series to help them in composing the writing. By using picture series the students can improve their writing based on the criteria asked by the lecturers. The criteria of the writing are vocabulary, content, language, mechanic and organization. The finding of documentation shows that the use of picture series in teaching writing recount text make the students interested. Thus, the learning process is supported that the students are better to write from their experiences to compose recount text. Then, the use of picture series is effectively used in helping students improve their performance in writing recount text. The future researcher can conduct the use of picture series in other skill of English such as on speaking skill. It is hoped can be used as the easy media to express the students’ creativity in their speaking. Furthermore, the researcher can do this study by using the other design such as the experimental research design in teaching English writing skill.

Exploring EFL Students’ Preferences in Extensive Reading

In the context of teaching language, a suitable teaching approach in the classroom affects teaching reading to language learners to be successful. The extensive reading can be used as an alternative approach to teach reading which provides many advantages for language learners specially to foster their reading skills. Many researchers have been conducted the extensive reading study, however, the majority of existing studies about the solution to teach language using extensive reading does not appear to be helpful to find students’ preference from the component of extensive reading. Therefore, this present qualitative study attempts to explore students’ preferences in the component of extensive reading. The findings present that the highest students' preference from the component of extensive reading is easy reading. Meanwhile, the smallest students’ preference from the component of extensive reading is about teacher orientation & guide. A future researcher is suggested to study extensive reading in other aspects besides exploring students' preference to increase the quality of next extensive reading implication to be better.

Exploring the use of films/dramas in giving awareness towards mental illness in society

This study was exploring the use of films/dramas in giving awareness towards mental illness among society. Objective of this study was to explore the use of films in giving awareness on mental illness to the community. The study used qualitative research design. There were 11 participants of this study which consisted of three stages of human development (adolescent, early and late adulthood). They also come from varies background such as different work setting, age, occupation as well as level of education. The varies background among participants were provided different answers of questions. The method of data collection was an interview with semi-structured questions. Analysis of data using Thematic Analysis. Findings showed few themes have been found from the interview such as personality of participants that lead them to watch this type of films/dramas, effect after they watched this type of films/dramas, perception of participants towards mental illness films/dramas, learning process and suggestion to improve this type of films/dramas in Malaysia. The implication of this study, participants gaining more awareness on mental illness after watching type of films/dramas. They also found this genre of films/dramas enable to educate them to be open with people who suffer from mental illness. In conclusion, future researcher can explore the effect of watching mental illness genre films/dramas towards self-development among society.

FANDOM EFFECT ON FANS PURCHASE DECISION TOWARDS BTS ALBUM: A CONCEPTUAL STUDY

Currently, South Korea is very popular for its pop music, which is Korean Pop or “K-Pop”. There are a lot of K-Pop groups and one of them is BTS. BTS’ albums are known to be one of the best-selling in K-Pop, with a total of more than 20 million albums sold in 2020. BTS also has a large number of fans, with Indonesia being one of the top 10 countries that have the highest number of BTS fans. Indonesia also has a BTS fan community that connects BTS fans in the country. However, Indonesia does not seem to contribute a high share in the selling of BTS’ albums, be it physical or digital. Therefore, this conceptual study intends to develop a research framework on the factor affecting purchase decisions on BTS albums. The literature that is used in this conceptual study is limited to literature that is published in 2010 or above. This study contributes to the future researcher to make further research regarding the effect of fan community towards its members’ purchase decision of BTS’ album.

Impact of Economic Liberalization in Nepal - A Case of Industrial Growth in the Operating Industries in Butwal

The economic liberalization can contribute in the economic growth of a country. So, Nepal has been following the policy of economic liberalization since the mid-1980s which was accelerated with the start of 1990s. The study was conducted to identify the impact of economic liberalization on economic growth of industries running in the Butwal area of Nepal. The study had selected 385 respondents from industry, trade and banking sectors. The simple random sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Statistical analysis was done to see the relationship between the respondents. The result shows that there was significant association between the respondents (industrialists, traders, and bankers) in effectiveness of economic liberalization because the p value was less than .05 significant levels. Some of the economic indicators were not changed significantly so future researcher can study on the challenges in effective implementation of economic liberalization in Nepal.

Avvai- An Epistemic Advantage

Tamil world always owe its tribute to Avvai for her scholarly contribution. Desire to do virtue is an iconic statement of this great personality who perceived to be an epistemic advantage. The purpose of this article is to examine her work as a children literary creator and to explore her cognitive success in terms of Educational Philosophy. Her literary contribution plays a major role in identifying the Tamil community as an epistemic community. The pattern of knowledge construction employed by Avvai enhances the individual to explore knowledge, to discover the ultimate truth and establishing virtue. This article is known for its analysis of the literary work and social dialogues chose to add Avvai’s commitment to establishing that education is a way to subdue the senses and achieve reality. This piece of research ignites a spark to future researcher to view Avvai as a social scientist rather than a Tamil scholar with reference to the normative principles established in her work.

Understanding the Value of Green Event: A Case Study of Event’s Company

This paper attempts to bring forward the idea of organizing a green event. A case study was conducted at AOS Convention and Events Sdn. Bhd. which is one of event’s company in Kuala Lumpur. Based on active participative observation and semi-structure interview it found that AOS Convention and Events Sdn. Bhd. is very committed to practice green during an event. It also found that the event’s attendees who attended the event were very satisfied with the organizing of event by the event’s organizer. Future researcher is suggested to explore more on the value of organizing a green event. Keywords: Green event; Salue; Sustainable event eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6iSI4.2920

Analisis Pengaruh Mental Blocking Terhadap Berpikir Analitis Dan Kritis Dalam Kegiatan Promosi

Failure in promotional activities if not well managed will make business people in some condition that is known as mental blocking. This research design is descriptive research into secondary data with cross sectional approach which was held to understand the impact of mental blocking toward analytical and critical thinking in micro and small enterprise promotion activities. This research location was in Padang by collecting 229 research questionnaires from micro and small business women from July 28th 2020 to August 7th 2020 with 5% error rate. We can conclude that there was negative relationship between mental blocking and analytical and critical thinking with R -0.62. On the same hand, this research finding is that mental blocking have no significant impact toward analytical and critical thinking where R2is 4 percent. This was due to majority in scoring distribution of mental blocking aspect were in low level while majority in scoring distribution of analytical and critical thinking in higher level. This study suggested that future researcher must simplified the research scale and deeper analysis in finding other variable.

A Study On The Policies And Procedures On Discretionary Trading Of Islamic Securities

Discretionary trading is an investment that a stockbroker executes using clients’ account which is done without getting specific approval from the client on decision whether to buy or sell the stock holding in the portfolio. The investment is conducted based on the experience and strategies made by the person in charge of the investment. The objective of this research is to study the existing policies and procedures of discretionary trading in the market, determine the shariah compliance of current practice of market discretionary trading, and formulate suitable shariah parameters for discretionary trading of Islamic securities. This research employs qualitative methodology. The finding related for this topic is limited as the researcher is the main findings. From the researcher findings, it is found that the respondents shared almost similar experience, but it is expressed in different ways. Besides, the priority of shariah compliant discretionary trading is highly important to the Muslim investors as it can be alternatives for them to grow their capital and the practice of discretionary trading in each stockbroker is different from the others due to the flexibility of the current guideline. It is anticipated that the findings of research will assist future researcher to develop and formulate better variables for Islamic discretionary trading.

Leadership Styles and Team Performance

This paper aims to study the relation between transformational leadership, transactional leadership and team performance. The researcher dependent on previous studies to conduct this research. The results refer to that transformational leadership has positive role on team performance however, transactional leadership has positive and negative role on team performance. Leaders have to strengthen the role of transformational leadership to improve and develop the team performance. For future, researcher recommended to conduct studies on transactional leadership and team performance.