Analysing the Second Semester Students’ Ability in Toefl Listening Comprehension

The aim of this research is to find out the second semester students’ ability in TOEFL Listening Comprehension at Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing Cipto Hadi Pranoto. The method applied is the descriptive qualitative research. It revealed that the students’ ability to Longman Introductory Course Book by Deborah Phillips for TOEFL Test show the level of difficulties in Part A (short conversation) is 75 % comprising from 55 % moderate, in skill 1(restatement), skill 2 (expression of negative sentence), skill 3 (suggestion) and skill 6 (the expressions of agreement), 18 % easy in skill 5 (identifying occupation, location). However the problematic aspect in Part A is 2 % difficult to comprehend skill 4, passive statements, in Part B proves that the students’ comprehension of skill 7 (anticipating questions) is 20 % easy, and skill 8 (anticipating topics or main ideas) is 2 % moderate, in Part C shows that 11 % considered moderate to comprehend skill 11 (anticipating topics or main ideas), and 11 % easy to comprehend skill 10 (anticipating question). However, the problematic aspect in Part C is 2 % difficult to comprehend skill 12 (the order of the answer).

What Is a Desiring Man?

This article investigates Foucault’s account of desiring man by drawing upon History of Sexuality vol. 4, Confessions of the Flesh. In order to do so, the article focuses on Foucault’s diagnosis of the Christian elaboration of “the analytic of the subject of concupiscence” that closes Confessions of the Flesh. As the article shows, “the analytic of the subject of concupiscence” inspires Foucault’s account of desiring man. However, Foucault’s diagnosis of the Christian elaboration of “the analytic of concupiscence” proves to be debatable as it relies on a problematic interplay between Cassian’s and Saint Augustine’s account of concupiscence. The article exposes the problems that such interplay supposes by addressing the contrast between Cassian’s and Augustine’s perspective on both concupiscence and the human condition. Despite this problematic aspect of Foucault’s investigation of Christianity, the article argues that the publication of Confessions of the Flesh is central to understanding Foucault’s History of Sexuality. By providing new elements of analysis, the book reopens Foucault’s genealogical diagnosis of the formation of the medical account of sexuality and allows us to problematise new avenues for developing Foucault’s investigation in depth.

Academic honesty: current status and ways of improvement

Objective: The purpose of this article is to analyze the current status of academic honesty, improvement of its organizational and legal principles. Method: To achieve this goal, such methods as logical-legal and systematic, dialectical and dogmatic, formal-logical, comparative analysis, was used. The interrelated application of these methods led to the science-based conclusions and suggestions. Results: The issues of the essence and significance of academic honesty, the current status of these issues problematic aspect, as well as the ways of qualitative improvement of the legal and organizational principles of academic honesty have been researched. It has been argued that academic honesty is an integral part of both ensuring the quality of higher education and conducting research. The legislative and doctrinal definition of the concept of «academic honesty» has been provided; the types of responsibility for the violation of academic honesty have been defined. Issues related to the formation and functioning of an atmosphere of mutual respect among scholars have been considered both to their own scientific works, and to scientific works of their colleagues. Conclusions: Based on the results of the conducted study, propositions to improve the legal principles for ensuring academic honesty in Ukraine have been formulated.

DEFINITION OF GRAMMATICAL STATUS PARTICIPATIONS IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Communion as part of speech occupies a special place in the structure of the Russian language, since it represents a problematic aspect of grammar. Already when determining the grammatical status of participle, the first difficulties appear, which is associated with hybrid features of participle, since it combines the features of two independent parts of speech - the adjective and the verb. The works of linguists describe different approaches to determining the status of communion. At present, it is possible to state the existence in Russian grammar of several points of view on the definition of the nature of communion.

THE MAIN PROVISIONS OF THE THEORY OF FORMATION OF ASSETS OF THE ORGANIZATION

In modern conditions, effective formation, reasonable classification of the actions of each eco-nomic entity is a priority direction for the development of the strategy of each economic entity, which is achieved on the basis of interpretation of theoretical provisions taking into account the best foreign practice and the peculiarities of their functioning, determining the relevance and timeliness of research. The absence of a complete modern theory of the formation of an organization's assets indicates a problematic aspect of the problem. The purpose of the study is to develop a modern theory of the formation of assets of economic entities. In this study, the necessity of using the synthetic concept of «active resources» is substantiated; assets - resources are classified into traditional and non-traditional groups; the features of their functioning are highlighted; the author's definition of assets – resources is clarified, the effective full use of which allows to obtain an economic effect; the concepts of their formation are outlined. As a result, the theoretical provisions of the formation of the assets of the organization are developed.

PROBLEMATIC ASPECTS OF LITHUANIAN LEGAL REGULATION OF IMPEACHMENT PROCEDURE TO A MEMBER OF LOCAL MUNICIPAL COUNCIL

Although members and mayors of municipal councils are not included in the list of persons who may be subject of Impeachment proceedings under the Constitution, a peculiar variant of the institute of Impeachment is the procedure of premature loss of authority of a mayor or a member of the local municipal council, which is established in Article 25 (1) of the Law on Local Self‐ Government of the Republic of Lithuania. In a democratic system it is vitally important that every local politician who takes an oath takes full responsibility, regardless of whether he works in the majority or minority of the municipal council and/or to which political force he belongs. The problematic aspect is that it is very complicated to initiate the impeachment proceedings on a politician who belongs to the majority and has broken the oath, and there are almost no practical possibilities to complete it as such possibilities remain only theoretical and very poorly feasible. The main tasks of the research is to determine practical and theoretical possibilities to initiate Impeachment proceedings against politiciansin the majority;to revealthe essential problematic aspects of legal regulation of Impeachment procedure to a member (or a mayor) of municipal council and to draw some solutions related to these questions analysed for Lithuanian legislator in order to improve national legal regulation. The research was carried out by employing logical, comparative, system analysis, monitoring, linguistic, empirical, synthesis and generalization methods.

Det allmänna rättsmedvetandet och några svenska förarbeten på straffrättens område 2008-2018

This article focuses on what is often termed the general (or public) sense of justice, GSJ for short. It illustrates the influence that the GSJ has had on various preparatory works in Swedish criminal law during a recent decade. It is often claimed that the GSJ is used as an argument in political discourse and decision making in the area of criminal law, especially to motivate criminalisation and harsher penal sanctions. Political points can be scored and general elections won by deploying a tough stance on crime. A problematic aspect is that by appealing to the GSJ, legislators create a way to legitimise punitive measures with little or no empirical support in criminological research. Furthermore, the very concept of the GSJ is unclear, contentious, and characterised by a plethora of interpretations. This article provides background on the GSJ in the Nordic countries and thereby gives context to some recent legislative work in Sweden. The article concludes that legislators frequently reproduce phrases which, under closer inspection, appear quite hollow. The GSJ therefore seems to be more of a vague reference used for political purposes as opposed to a representation of actual popular values.

The Use of Information Technology by an Attorney in the Course of Legal Assistance in Court

This article expresses the results of a comprehensive scientific research: 1) classification of information tools used in arbitration and civil proceedings; 2) identified problematic aspects of the use of legal reference systems and automated information retrieval systems, identified the importance of use the automated systems within the lawyer’s request; 3) analyzed the features of the use of videoconferencing systems by a lawyer; 4) the problematic aspect of the preservation of attorney secrecy was found when using EDS within the SAS “Electronic Justice”. The study is based on doctrinal sources (russian and foreign), concepts of the Government of the Russian Federation, intra-judicial administrative acts and corporate norms of the intra-legal community.

Cohesive Devices Analysis: Mind Your Writing Texture!

Writing ability is one of the most important yet difficult skill to be mastered. It has many components to make the good writing. The problematic aspect is to deal with lexical cohesive devices in general. This issue is being concerned especially for those who are going to take an IELTS Academic test. This study aims to examine the most lexical cohesive devices used by Undergraduate students in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. There are some researchers who conducted research on this field, on the other hand, this phenomenon is not a common topic discussed in Indonesia. Document analysis was done and accompanied by the interview in conducting this research. The respondents of this research were 14 who were willing to do the IELTS writing task 2 and being interviewed. The document analysis was conducted for students’ writing of IELTS writing Task 2. The result indicated that the most undeniable difficulty by the test-takers in the use of lexical cohesive devices was repetition. The lack of vocabulary was the main reason for the respondents, especially for the academic words. All test-takers could repeat the same words as many as 602 times. Hence, the impact of this research would enlighten the readers and the tutors to pay more attention to the use of lexical devices in writing.