TEACHING BY ALPHABET POEM IN ENHANCING STUDENT’S LEARNING STYLE

The aim of this paper is to determine the Alphabet Poem in teaching English. This paper investigates how Alphabet Poem knowledge can help to teach English in English Language Teaching (ELT). The author will conduct a literature review method. The purpose of this paper was to study how alphabet poem can enhancing student’s learning style. The method by using library research and a philosophical or pedagogical approach. The results showed that the role of alphabet poem in teaching English is suitable for learning styles (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic). English students will benefit from the knowledge of alphabet poems and how to teach teaching materials in three different learning styles. The applied linguistic content helps language learners better understand alphabet poems in ELT. The study draws the attention of teachers to be more concerned with the communication condition of students by the creative poem and to the fact that teachers cannot act as expected unless they are each of their learning styles. The teacher brings and teaches the alphabet poem to the students so the students who receive it will also imitate how to make the alphabet poem again so that through learning English it becomes a lesson that is liked by students and students can fluently in English.

The Effects of Work Motivation and Communication Condition on Elementary Teachers’ Performance

This research was aimed at exposing the contribution of working motivation and the communication condition towards the primary teachers’ working performance at Ampek Angkek sub-district of Agam Regency. This research employed quantitative research with correlation design. The population of this research wasprimary public servant teachers at Ampek Angkek sub-district of Agam Regency which were 231 people. The samples were 67 people that were taken through stratified proportional technique random sampling, by considering the strata levels education and working experiences. The instrument used to accumulate the data wastested to check the reliability. The result indicated that the working motivation contributed to the teachers working performance as 35%, communication conditioncontributed as 20,3% to teachers’ working perfomance, and both working motivation and communication condition assigned as 45,6% to teachers’ working performance. It can be concluded that working motivation and communication condition had influenced to primary teachers’ working perfomance at Ampek Angkek sub-district Agam Regency.

MULTI-AUV DYNAMIC MANEUVER DECISION-MAKING BASED ON INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY COUNTER-GAME AND FRACTIONAL-ORDER PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION

In this paper, a multi-AUV dynamic maneuver decision-making algorithm is studied based on intuitionistic fuzzy game and fractional-order Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Because of the weak communication condition and complex marine environment, a maneuver decision-making algorithm is usually hard to realize in real-time multi-AUV couter-game process. First, the weak communication condition is analyzed according to sonar and other equipment characteristics. Then, the multi-AUV maneuver attributes evaluation and maneuver decision-making modeling are investigated under the obtained weak communication constraints. Subsequently, a fractional-order PSO optimization method is proposed to solve the strategy optimization problem of multi-AUV maneuver decision-making process. At last, an example is presented to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the obtained algorithm.

Children understand communication intuitively but indirect communication makes them think twice – Evidence from pupillometry and looking patterns

Interpreting a speaker’s communicative acts is a challenge children are facing permanently in everyday live. In doing so, they seem to understand direct communicative acts more easily than indirect communicative acts. The present study investigated which step in the processing of communicative acts might cause difficulties in understanding indirect communication. To assess the developmental trajectory of this phenomenon, we tested 3- and 5-year-old children (N=105) using eyetracking and an object-choice task. The children watched videos that showed puppets during their every-day activities (e.g., pet care). For every activity, the puppets were asked which of two objects (e.g., rabbit or dog) they would rather have. The puppets responded either directly (“I want the rabbit”) or indirectly (“I have a carrot”). Results showed that children chose the object intended by the puppets more often in the direct- than in the indirect-communication condition, and 5-year-olds chose correctly more than 3-year-olds. However, even though we found that children’s pupil size increased while hearing the utterances, we found no effect for communication type before children had already decided on the correct object during object selection by looking at it. Only after this point, that is, only in children’s further fixation patterns and reaction times did differences for communication type occur. Thus, although children’s object-choice performance suggests that indirect communication is harder to understand than direct communication, the cognitive demands during processing both communication types seem similar. We discuss theoretical implications of these findings for developmental pragmatics in terms of a dual-process account of communication comprehension.

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY OF VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETER ON YUTU-2 ROVER BASED ON VISION MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY

The Chang'e-4 successfully landed on the far side of the moon in January 2019. By the 12th lunar day, its Yutu-2 rover had achieved a breakthrough travel distance of greater than 300 m. A visible and near-infrared imaging spectrometer (VNIS), consisting of a visible and near-infrared (VNIR) imaging spectrometer and a shortwave infrared (SWIR) spectrometer was used for detecting mineralogical compositions of lunar-surface materials. Because VNIS is fixed on the front of the rover, and the field-of-view (FOV) of VNIR and SWIR are small (8.5° and 3.6° respectively), approaching and accurately pointing at the specific science target depend completely on the precise control of the moving rover.In this paper, a successful method of VNIS target detection based on vision measurement is proposed. First, the accurate position of the target is calculated via navigation camera imaging. Then, the moving path is planned by considering the terrain environment, illumination, communication condition, and other constraints. After the rover moves to the designed position, the binocular imaging of the hazard-avoidance cameras are activated, the detection direction and forward distance are calculated according to the images, and the FOV trajectory of the VINS is predicted while moving. Finally, by choosing the required moving control parameters, the imaging field of the VINS accurately cover the detected targets visually.These methods have been verified many times, and the results show that they are effective and feasible. The research results based on the VNIS data have successfully revealed the material composition on the far side of the moon and have deepened human understanding of its formation and evolution.

TANTANGAN PERAN BIROKRASI SENTRALISTIK, INTEGRASI POLITIK PEMERINTAHAN DAERAH, PREDIKTOR SISTEM KOMUNIKASI NASIONAL BARU

Indonesia experiences changing from centralized governmental system to be localbased government through autonomy to manage each region. That changing will related to newnational communication system, that are communication condition within government(suprastructure of communication) and communication within society (infrastructure ofcommunication). Communication is understood in its state context with its value system –Pancasila and Constitution 1945, culture and the existing institutions. Within this frameworkbureaucracy communication which is centralistic will face challenge, that is how suprastructurand infrastructure communication can be maintained and operate in the balance way to achievenation-state integration.Keywords: Centralistic Bureaucracy, Regional Government, New National CommunicationSystem Abstrak: Indonesia mengalami perubahan dari sistem pemerintahan sentralisik menjadipemerintah berbasis lokal melalui otonomi untuk mengatur masing-masing daerah. Perubahantersebut akan berkaitan dengan sistem komunikasi nasional baru, yaitu suasana komunikasidalam pemerintahan (suprastruktur komunikasi) dan komunikasi dalam masyarakat(infrastruktur komunikasi). Komunikasi dipahami dalam konteks kenegaraan dengan sistemnilainya Pancasila dan UUD 1945, budaya serta berbagai lembaga yang ada. Dalam kerangkaini komunikasi birokrasi yang masih bersifat sentralistik akan menghadapi tantangan, yaitubagaimana suprastruktur dan infrastruktur komunikasi dapat dipertahankan dan berjalanseimbang untuk mencapai integrasi negara bangsa.Kata Kunci: Birokrasi Sentralistik, Pemerintah Daerah, Sistem Komunikasi Nasional Baru.

Effects of dyadic communication on race-based impressions and memory

In an experimental study, we examined the effects of dyadic communication and implicit racial attitudes on impressions formed of Black versus White individuals. Participants viewed a graduate application of a student depicted as a Black or White male and then had a conversation about the applicant with another student (or not) before individually rendering judgments of him. Subjective impressions were more favorable for the Black than White applicant among participants in the communication condition, conversations about Whites included more negations, and participants wrote longer narratives in which they were less likely to mention race when they had previously communicated than when they had not. Communication also disrupted the association between implicit racial attitudes and memory for the applicant’s Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores: Those with negative racial attitudes remembered the Black applicant as having lower GRE scores than the White applicant, but this effect was eliminated following communication. Findings are discussed with reference to audience tuning, shifting standards, and attitude–behavior consistency models.

Raising Students Awareness to Climate Change

Much energy and money is dedicated to increasing climate change awareness and pro-environmental behaviors. Mere communication campaigns, which are often alarmist, are widely used despite their uncertain effectiveness. We suggest that using binding communication strategies would prove more adequate. Binding communication consists in combining a persuasive message and a preparatory act linked to the persuasive message. This procedure is generally reported to be more efficient than a single persuasive message at influencing attitudes and behavior. This hypothesis was tested in a study in which students were presented with a classic climate change communication with/without a preparatory act (participant-proposed solutions). Results showed that although knowledge about climate change increased in both conditions, attitudes and behavior follow-through were positively affected only in the binding communication condition. Therefore, in addressing climate change and global warming behaviors, pairing a persuasive message with personal solution generation is a potentially valid and useful technique.