REPOSITIONING CULTURE IN TEACHING TARGET LANGUAGE: LOCAL CULTURE OR TARGET CULTURE?

The role of culture in teaching target language is undeniable. This article belongs to a literature review. As such, it deals with the reviews of culture integration in English Language Teaching. The article provides the conflicting findings of teaching target language with local culture or target culture along with the reasonable reasons for each. The writers adopt the systematic way of doing literature review consisting of four steps namely designing the review, conducting the review, analyzing, and writing the review. Drawing from the review of the progress reports in the field, the writer recommends an intermediary for prospective English Language Teaching accommodating both local and target culture in question. Recommendations for future research studies are highlighted at the end.

Food Culture Integration in Menu Plan for a Sustainable Homestay Business

Other than providing overnight stays and local activities, the provision of food and beverage is an important aspect in the homestay business. The food and beverage aspect of a homestay has the potential of being a crucial contributing factor towards a guest’s experience whilst ensuring optimal monetary return to the homestay operators. This paper presents the findings on meal offerings provided by four homestay operators at Mantanani Island, an island off the Kota Belud coast of Sabah. This study also highlights the importance of food as an element of local culture and as an expression of the history, habits and traditions of a community. Discussions are pinned on rationalising the differences in meal offerings among operators and how this would implicate the operators’ profit margins, as well as how the local culture reflects the menu offered by the homestay participants. Finally, recommendations for improvement on meal plans are proposed to enhance the economic benefits of these operators without compromising guest experience

EKSPLORASI KONSEP MATEMATIKA PADA BATIK JETIS SIDOARJO UNTUK MENTRANSFORMASIKAN KONTEKS PEMBELAJARAN MATEMATIKA DI SEKOLAH DASAR

Abstract:. The background of this research is based on culture and experiences of the researcher when studying mathematics during became student. As Sidoarjo citizen, researcher never had experienced studying mathematics with local culture. Integration of culture and mathematics known as ethnomathematics. One of cultures in Sidoarjo is batik Jetis. The aim of this research is to exploration mathematics concept in primary school on batik Jetis Sidoarjo. The type of this research is qualitative transformative with writing as inquiry method, postmodern interview, and literature study.The results of this research show that on the steps of the the process batik Jetis Sidoarjo there are some concepts of mathematics. The concepts of the steps berofe production are whole number, the operations of whole number, measurement, and statistics. The concepts of the production process are ordinal number, time, and geometry as straight lines, zig-zag lines, parallel, rotational symmetry, curve, triangle, rhombus, circle, rectangle, oval, fold symmetry, and reflection. Meanwhile, The concepts of after production are measurement, money, and statistic. The results of this research ultimately had an impact on changing views of researcher and teacher who previously thought that culture and mathematics had absolutely not related, changed and understood that culture and mathematics are closly related.Keyword: Batik Jetis Sidoarjo, Ethnomathematics, Transformative Abstrak: Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh kultur peneliti dan pengalaman peneliti pada saat belajar matematika selama menjadi siswa. Peneliti sebagai orang Sidoarjo tidak pernah mengalami pembelajaran yang dikaitkan dengan budaya setempat terutama dalam pembelajaran matematika. Keterkaitan budaya dan matematika dikenal dengan istilah etnomatematika. Salah satu budaya yang dimiliki oleh Sidoarjo adalah batik jetis Sidoarjo. Adapun tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengeksplorasi konsep matematika di sekolah dasar pada batik Jetis Sidoarjo. Penelitian ini berjenis kualitatif transformatif dengan metode autoetnografi melalui writing as inquiry, wawancara semiterstruktur, dan studi literatur. Hasil eksplorasi menunjukkan bahwa pada tahapan pembuatan batik Jetis Sidoarjo terdapat konsep matematika. Pada tahap persiapan produksi terdapat konsep bilangan cacah, operasi bilangan bulat, satuan baku, dan penyajian data. Pada tahap proses produksi terdapat konsep bilangan ordinal, satuan waktu, geometri seperti garis lurus, garis zig-zag, garis sejajar, simetri putar, kurva, segitiga, belah ketupat, lingkaran, persegi panjang, oval, simetri lipat dan pencerminan. Sedangkan pada tahap pasca produksi terdapat konsep satuan panjang, mata uang, dan penyajian data mean, median, modus, grafik, dan tabel. Melalui penelitian ini dapat merubah pandangan dari peneliti dan guru di sekolah dasar yang sebelumnya matematika tidak memiliki hubungan dengan budaya, berubah bahwa matematika dan budaya memiliki kaitan yang erat.Kata Kunci: Batik Jetis Sidoarjo, Etnomatematika, Transformatif

Learning analytics stakeholders' expectations in higher education institutions: a literature review

PurposeThe objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive review of the literature on learning analytics (LA) stakeholders' expectations to reveal the status of ongoing research in this area and to highlight gaps in research.Design/methodology/approachConducting a literature review is a well-known method to establish knowledge and interpret the domain under examination (Snyder, 2019). In this paper, a descriptive approach was used to investigate the different research methods used to tackle LA stakeholders' expectations, which depends on summarising the studies' content and minimising the reviewer's interpretation.FindingsMost of the studies have used interviews and focus groups without testing isolated variables. Moreover, it was concluded that LA awareness and perception are affected by a lack of resources, technical skills, trustworthiness, data availability, accessibility, organisational culture, integration and lack of technology. 10;This paper sheds light on research on LA stakeholders' expectations and highlights the need for investigating developing countries' context in order to test the perception and impact of LA. The study has focussed mainly on papers published in journals, which may have led to missing some previous research papers.Originality/valueLiterature review studies provide an overview of the existing LA literature from general focus to analytical methods. As it is a broad topic, this paper focuses on reviewing studies about stakeholders, which will give a fuller understanding of how their expectations are being discussed beyond the currently assumed benefits of LA.

Primary Exploration on the Integration and Countermeasures of College Campus Culture and Corporate Culture

College should serve local economy closer, enterprise structure upgrading also improves requirements for personnel, so a collision and integration of college campus culture and corporate culture is accelerating. This paper starts from the relationship explication between the two cultures and the significance explication of their melange, in view of the problem of integration of this two culture, the paper propose five countermeasures: put the essence of enterprise culture into the "3-outlooks" and "3-styles" education, capture the key of two culture integration, establish the main line of integration, integrate college practice education resources, and promote undergraduate innovative and entrepreneurial ability.

Komunikasi Antar Budaya Madura dan Yogyakarta (Studi Etnografi Adaptasi Speech Code Mahasiswa Madura pada Masyarakat Yogyakarta)

This research discusses the adaptation of speech code among Madurese students in Yogyakarta. Speech code adaptation involves intercultural communication; perception, verbal communication, and non-verbal communication. A qualitative method is employed in this study, using ethnographic approach as well as participant observation and in-depth interview. Speech code adaptation among Madurese students in Yogyakarta could be seen from their intonation, accent, expression, and gesture. Different background of these students has contributed to their different perception and the way they construct the foundation for the process of adaptation with native citizen in Yogyakarta. It is found in this study that students from Madura who live in Yogyakarta adapt their speech code in such manners as; assimilation, separation, integration, and cultural hybridity. Assimilation is used among them to equate the two cultures in a way to maintain their Madurese culture and their attachment to the new culture in Yogyakarta. Separation is the way used by Madurese students to subsist in their own culture, to minimize the interaction, and to their way to cluster themselves in their own culture. Integration is one option among them to keep their own culture in regards to speech code, while it enables them to interact with Yogyakarta people. Cultural hybridity is a way that Madurese students carry out negotiation and adaptation process to gain positive perception within the host culture of Yogyakarta.[Penelitian ini membahas adaptasi logat di kalangan mahasiswa Madura di Yogyakarta. Adaptasi logat melibatkan komunikasi antar budaya yaitu persepsi, komunikasi verbal, dan komunikasi non-verbal. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan etnografi serta observasi partisipan dan wawancara yang intensif. Adaptasi logat di kalangan mahasiswa Madura di Yogyakarta dapat dilihat dari intonasi, akses, ekspresi dan gerak tubuh yang mereka gunakan. Latar belakang para mahasiswa yang berbeda turut membentuk persepsi mereka dan cara mereka dalam proses adaptasi dengan penduduk asli Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa mahasiswa yang berasal dari Madura di Yogyakarta mengadaptasi logat bicara dengan cara asimilasi, separasi, integrasi, dan hibrid budaya. Asimilasi dilakukan untuk menyamaratakan budaya yang berbeda dengan mempertahankan budaya Madura dan keterikatan mereka dengan budaya baru di Yogyakarta. Separasi adalah cara yang digunakan mahasiswa Madura ini untuk hidup dengan budaya mereka sendiri dan meminimalkan interaksi dengan cara mengelompokkan diri dengan teman sebudaya mereka sendiri. Integrasi adalah salah satu pilihan mereka untuk menjaga budaya mereka sendiri dalam hal logat dan memungkinkan mereka supaya dapat berinteraksi dengan masyarakat Yogyakarta. Hibrid budaya adalah cara mahasiswa Madura ini melakukan proses negoisasi dan adaptasi untuk memperoleh persepsi positif dalam kehidupan budaya tuan rumah yakni Yogyakarta.]

Spatial-temporal dynamics of a microbial cooperative behavior robust to cheating

Individuals living in dense populations control their behaviors by sensing, integrating and responding to many cues. How can these processes enable the evolution and stability of cooperative behaviors that could easily be exploited by cheaters? Here we shed light on how bacteria regulate cooperation by studying swarming in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a behavior requiring cooperative secretions of rhamnolipid surfactants to facilitate collective movement over surfaces. By combining fluorescent imaging and computational analyses we show, counterintuitively, that rhamnolipid expression peaks at swarming edges. We then show that the integration of competing diffusive cues—quorum sensing signals and growth-limiting nutrients—enables P. aeruginosa to communicate across centimeters and adopt expression patterns unseen in well-mixed liquid culture. Integration of multiple cues enables robustness against cheating even when we experimentally perturb the quorum sensing system. Taken together, these results illuminate how the integration of cues in spatially structured communities can stabilize cooperation.