DEVELOPING SPEAKING SECTION OF BUSINESS ENGLISH MATERIALS TO TEACH CULTURE IN INTEGRATED WAY

Teaching English Business skills does not merely teach the students to have administration and communication skills needed at the workplace for they will probably encounter and experience working together with people from different cultures and backgrounds as well. To minimize misunderstanding on those intercultural differences, they are expected not only to learn Business English skills but also gain basic knowledge of English culture through the course. This R&D research is a descriptive qualitative research which is intended to develop the Speaking Section of the existing teaching materials of Business English skills. Under the name of ESP I subject, they are taught to the 4th-semester students of Diploma Three in English Program of University of Merdeka Malang as a compulsory subject. In this study, the primary instruments are the researchers themselves and the preliminary questionnaires used serve as the secondary instrument. All the analyzed data are in the form of printed data (questionnaire’s results) and chosen videos taken from YouTube. The expected final results are in the form of written handouts consist of texts and links of selected videos appropriately related to the given topics. It is hoped that they are useful for the students as an alternative method to learn culture in an integrated way.

Literary Meaning of Anxiety reflected by the Servant found in ‘Appointment in Samarra’ by Somerset Maugham

This research was conducted to describe the semantics analysis of the literary meaning of anxiety in the story ‘Appointment in Samara’ written by Somerset Maugham. This research applied descriptive qualitative method. The instrument was the researcher himself, and supporting by the secondary instrument called the scripted text of the story examined. The data collection were taken from internet, it was the text of the story ‘Appointment in Samara’. To analyze all data, this study used the theory of literary meaning proposed by Lyons (1977). The data were indentified, then were classified, were displayed, and were described. The results of the study showed there were three kinds defense mechanism of reactions in anxiety namely: (1) regression, (2) repression, and (3) rationalization.

Courses for Secondary Instruments

The main purpose of this chapter is to synthesize the literature regarding courses for secondary instruments in the interest of making recommendations for promising practices. The chapter also is intended to “push boundaries from within the system” of music teacher education. That is, it is intended to be a resource for those who prepare preservice music teachers (PMTs) for the realities of P-12 school-based music education and who aspire to instill in these new colleagues a disposition toward change. The chapter is divided into six sections: importance of secondary instrument courses, characteristics and configurations of secondary instrument courses, focus and content of secondary instrument courses, peer teaching activities and field experiences within secondary instrument courses, recommendations for promising practices (including professional development beyond the preservice music education curriculum and an institutional model for secondary instrument courses), and future considerations.

UTILIZATION OF APPLICATION PROGRAM IN SUPPORTING ASSESSMENT OF ENGLISH PERFORMANCE

English has been taught in early years of school and become one of the main course in the school based on the need of global society while not every school is able to offer the course due to the lack of qualified teachers. The evaluation needed in the learning process face a difficulty in which due to the lack of qualified teachers, is only capable of doing test and not evaluation. Based on the phenomena, this research is conducted to find a new method of evaluating English course by using language tools software that can be used by non-English teacher in accurate and valid evaluation and projected to modernised evaluation process in English course and able to support distance learning. The research employs quantitative analysis in a series of four data collections and analyses involving four participants over the time of 3 months. This research is further supported by language analysis from language expert as a secondary instrument to validate the result of the analysis from the main instrument, P_LEX language tools. The result of the research shows that language tools is valid as a supporting device for evaluating language performance as the result of the language analysis is in parallel to the analysis of language expert.

THE ANALYSIS OF MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESS OF STUDENTS' ENGLISH UTTERANCES

The aim of this research is to know the kind of Morphological process that the students mostly use in their utterances. This research was qualitative research and the design was used is Phenomenology design and natural setting. The subject of the study was the fourth semester students who were taking Public Speaking subject in English Department of IKIP Mataram. This subject was limited only to fourth semester students in academic year 2017/ 2018. Object of the research was affixation in English lexical category based on students’ English utterances in Public Speaking class. There were 2 instruments that used; primary instrument and secondary instrument. The main instrument in this research was the researcher. Secondary instrument of this research were recording and note taking. Technique of data collection in research was direct observation with non-controlled observation. The technique of data analysis was descriptive analysis. The results were the kind of Morphological process that the students mostly used was Derivational, which was a major process that frequently showed up. Affixation that mostly used by the students was Suffixation.

Dual-Domain Calibration Transfer Using Orthogonal Projection

We report the use of dual-domain regression models, which were built utilizing a wavelet prism decomposition and paired with transfer by orthogonal projection, for the calibration transfer of near-infrared (NIR) spectra. The new method is based on obtaining specific frequency components for a spectrum via wavelet analysis, projecting the frequency components of the primary instrument onto the subspace orthogonal to the mean instrumental difference between spectra from the primary and the secondary instrument, and weighting each frequency component model according to the cross-validation error of the frequency components of the projected primary instrument’s spectra to generate a stacked ensemble model robust to contributions to the spectra from instrumental variations. The method, which does not require property values from the secondary data set, is tested on three NIR data sets, and is compared with orthogonal projection in the wavelength domain, orthogonal signal correction, and with model updating approaches. For the data sets we examined, we show that the prediction performance of the new method is competitive with orthogonal projections in the wavelength domain, as well as orthogonal signal correction and model updating approaches, both of which require property values for spectra from the secondary instrument. Examination of the spectral data reconstructed from the projected frequency components indicates that aspects of the data that may be attributable to instrumental or physical phenomena (i.e., instrumental baseline shifts or discretized intensity changes which may be attributed to scatter) are suppressed, but those associated with the chemical phenomena are retained. The benefits of orthogonal projection on each individual frequency component are further corroborated by the fact that the models based on frequency component projection generalize better to unseen instruments compared with the other methods.

The Development of a Highly Integrated Secondary Instrument

In order to simplify the design of secondary instrument, a highly integrated scheme based on MSP430F169 was put forward in the paper. On analysis of the functional requirement for process parameter measurement and control systems, signal conditioning circuits to deal with the thermal resistance, thermocouple, current and pulse input or output was designed to meet the demand of different field. The MCU on-chip resources were used in the design as far as possible. It mainly includes the use of A/D and pulse counter to acquire signal, D/A to output current and UART to construct communication. Furthermore the clock and EEPROM storage systems were designed to enlarge the universal property. Tests show that the platform can meet the hardware demand of the mainstream secondary instrument, and is with high performance cost ratio.

Designing and Realization of Differential Pressure Densimeter for Heavy Medium Coal Preparation Based on MCU

The density of heavy-medium coal slurry is a very important parameter and guideposts in coal preparation technique. According to heavy-medium coal preparation processing, the paper designs a differential pressure density meter. It introduces the design principle of the densimeter, the primary instrument and the hardware design of the secondary instrument. But else, it gives an experiences temperature compensation formula and calibration method.