ORIENTASI TAFSIR AL-FURQÂN TAFSIR AL-QUR’AN KARYA AHMAD HASSAN

This Article discusses the orientation of the interpretation of Al-Furqân by Ahmad Hassan. The purpose of this paper is to find out the socio-intellectual contect behind the birth of the work of Al-Furqân interpretation and to find out the orientatios in the interpretation. The method used in writing this article is a qualitative method based on library research studies and the main object is the interpretation of Al-Furqân. The results obtained are that the context in which the interpretation of Al-Furqân was written was due to the socio-intellectual conditions of the people at the time Ahmad Hassan lived at the beginning of the 20th century in general they still adhere to conservative beliefs and the study of interpretation is still centered on several interpretations. So that the birth of this Al-Furqân interpretation is a reflection of Ahmad Hassan’s spirit of renewal and the renewal movement promoted by him. Than the orientation of the interpretation of Al-Furqân from its vaious aspects is obtainned that the orientation of Ahmad Hassan’s trust is Ahlu Sunah wal Jama’ah; in the terms of the orientation of the madzhab Ahmad Hassan not only to one madzhab; the orientation of the pattern that dominates the interpretation is the language pattern; the orientasi of the general method used is the global method; and the finally, orientation of the sources used dominantly is the interpretation of bi ar-ra’yi.

Intelligent Conversational Agent for Enhancement of Online Communication in Universities: An Overview of Kenyatta University

University websites and online portals are the primary means through which potential students and other stakeholders find important information about an institution. University websites are essential to these organizations’ marketing and communication efforts. In this paper, focus has been put on the need to complement these websites with the use of an AI Chatbot (UniBot) in order to serve more efficiently. This study aims at performing an extensive literature survey on intelligent conversational agents and the feasibility of applying them in enhancing online communication in universities. The study utilizes an iterative – incremental methodology to aid in design and development of UniBot, using AIML (Artificial Intelligent Markup Language) Pattern matching algorithm on the Pandorabot (AIAAS) platform, to generate high quality training data, with which, the agents Natural Language Understanding (NLU) model is trained. The study also provides for training and testing the agent using data which is acquired from Online Communication, University Website department at Kenyatta University.

Needs analysis on English language use by homestay owners in Ubud Gianyar

This study aims to conduct a basic level needs analysis of the use of English by homestay owners in the village of Ubud, Gianyar, Bali. The analysis was carried out in three main areas, namely what the learners know in terms of language skills and language functions, what they do not know in terms of problems they encountered in in handling guests and what they want to know in terms of their expectation to increase their competencies in handling guests. This study used a mixed method research by exploratory design that focuses on a qualitative approach before measuring or testing it quantitatively. The results showed that in terms of language skills what they need the most are speaking and listening skills, whereas in terms of language functions they mostly need general conversation, providing information, providing services and answering question. In terms of problem they often face are guests who speak too fast, do not have enough vocabulary and the feeling of insecure communicating with guests. In terms of expectation on language use, homestay owners need a standard of language pattern which includes handling guests from checking in to checking out.

The Language of Creativity: Validating Linguistic Analysis to Assess Creative Scientists and Artists

The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to be among the first attempts to validate linguistic analysis as a method of creativity assessment and second, to differentiate between individuals in varying scientific and artistic creativity levels using personality language patterns. Creativity is most commonly assessed through methods such as questionnaires and specific tasks, the validity of which can be weakened by scorer or experimenter error, subjective and response biases, and self-knowledge constraints. Linguistic analysis may provide researchers with an automatic, objective method of assessing creativity, and free from human error and bias. The current study used 419 creativity text samples from a wide range of creative individuals mostly in science (and some in the arts and humanities) to investigate whether linguistic analysis can, in fact, distinguish between creativity levels and creativity domains using creativity dictionaries and personality dimension language patterns, from the linguistic inquiry and word count (LIWC) text analysis program. Creative individuals tended to use more words on the creativity keyword dictionaries as well as more introversion and openness to experience language pattern words than less creative individuals. Regarding creativity domains, eminent scientists used fewer introversion, and openness to experience language pattern words than eminent artists. Text analysis through LIWC was able to partially distinguish between the three creativity levels, in some cases, and the two creativity domains (science and art). These findings lend support to the use of linguistic analysis as a partially valid assessment of scientific and artistic creative achievement.

Representasi Multilingualisme Penanda Sarana Pariwisata di Kawasan Wisata Canggu

This paper, as part of the study of Landscape Liguistics, aims to reveal how the multilingualism is represented in the public space in this area. In addition, to find out how the structure of writing and language patterns used in public spaces in the area. To collect the data, the method used in this research is the documentation method, then the data was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results showed that there were 13 languages ??used in public spaces, especially on markers of existing tourism facilities. English is the most dominant language used, Latin writing is also used in almost all markers, and also the language pattern that uses 2 - 3 different languages ??has shown this area to be considered as an international region.

An Analysis Of Student’s Ability In Translating Thesis Abstract At Management Department In The Faculty Of Economy University Of Muhammadiyah Gresik

Non-English Department students in the end of the study will need to create an abstract in English. As the students who do not learn English extensively, they have difficulties in translating abstract from Indonesia to English. Therefore, in their thesis abstracts are usually found some errors. This research has an objective to find the common errors committed by the students in translating thesis abstract. In this research, there were three main steps to find the result, first, the researcher gathered the documents and listed the errors committed by the students, then compared the errors to find the common one and the last, analyzed the students translation to find the average ability of the students in translating thesis abstract. The result showed the common errors in translation were caused by the difference of language pattern of source language and target language.

Using Mind Mapping to Teach Speaking Skill to the Tenth Grade Students of MAN Palopo

The purpose of this research is to find out whether the students who are taught by using mind mapping have better achievement than the students who were taught by using a non-mapping strategy. This research used a quasi-experimental method. The population of this research consisted of tenth-grade students of MAN Palopo. The writer used purposive sampling, where there were two classes as the sample. They were; class X MIA I and X MIA II. Each class consisted of 30 students. The writer gave pretest and posttest to the students—three aspects of speaking skill assessed, namely accuracy, fluency, and comprehensibility. The result of this research shows that the students who were taught by using mind mapping did not have better achievement than the students who were taught by using non-mind mapping. The data showed that t-obtained was higher than t-table (t-o > t-table). The findings of t-obtained were 0.216, whereas the level of significance of 0.05 (5%) was 2.002. It means that 2.002 ≥ 0.216. The orienting number of significance shows that 0.830 > 0.05. Therefore, the Null Hypothesis (H0) accepted, and the Alternative Hypothesis (H1) rejected. Some problems found by the writer namely, the students switch code to speak up because they did not know the English meaning of the words, the students still read the text to speak because they did not memorize the language pattern that had been given. So, they had difficulties in speaking without reading the text. They felt hungry, tired, and bored in the class, and some of the students had meetings’ organization after they were an exam.

Investigating the influence of culture on language patterns: a contrastive corpus-based study

This paper aims to explore the intrinsic relationship between language and culture. It attempts to shed light on the underlying cultural associations embedded in collocational meaning across languages. The notion of culture adopted in this study is related to how individuals perceive the world and interpret reality around them. This paper brings together the principles of Corpus Linguistics and Intercultural Studies to investigate a corpus of travelers’ reviews (English/Portuguese) and interpret results within the framework of the model of cultural orientations in Walker et al. (2003). In a study of collocations with the word staff and their equivalents in Portuguese, we demonstrate how a language pattern can also represent a cultural pattern, thus showing that cultural orientations play a role in the identification of collocational meaning across languages.

Pagdihon: The Art and Language of Pottery Making in Bari, Sibalom, Antique

Pottery is seen as creation of ornamentals, cooking and storing materials. Yet, while economic gains are often considered from producing these materials, the artistic and linguistic aspects have been ignored. This study discusses the factors influencing the culture of pottery, the processes of pottery making, and seeks to uncover the language used in processes of pottery making in Bari, Sibalom, Antique. A qualitative research employing ethnographic study with participant observation and face to face interviews using photo documentation, video recording and open-ended questions in gathering the data was employed. There were five manugdihon, or potters, purposively selected as key informants of the study. The study revealed that environmental factors influenced the culture of pottery making in the barangay. There were seven main processes in pottery making. These included gathering and preparing of materials, mixing the needed materials, cleaning the mixed clay, forming of desired shape, detaching, drying, and polishing and varnishing. Further findings indicate that, together the other processes, the language used in poterry making was archaic Kinaray-a, the language of the province. This language pattern suggests a specialized pottery making. Ultimately, the study suggest that the manugdihon should continue their artistic talents so that the language may be preserved. The educational institutions of the province may provide ways to include pottery making in the curriculum so that the art and language of pottery making will be preserved and promoted.