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A Study on Relationship among Health Status and Media Literacy among Elderly in Surin Province
Get PDFAmong this world of communications technology, medial literacy emerges as a necessity for effective filtering of the vast of information we consume. The aims of this descriptive study were to determine health status and media literacy and a relationship between health status and media literacy among elderly in Bakdi Subdistrict, Muang Surin. Sample were purposive samplings from elderly age more than 60 years old who living in Bakdi Subdistrict, Muang Surin which were simple random from lists of subdistrict of Surin province. There were 204 elderly with years of age were 61-80 (M = 68.28, SD. = 4.93) completed structured questionnaires. Descriptive statistics were utilized to describe the findings. The findings were as followed. Majority of samplings were female (60.8%), never attended school (83.8%), married (50.5%), stay with descendants (58.3%), they have income from premium of elderly only (89.7%), their descendants were caregivers (70.6%), and have chronic disease such as hypertension or diabetes mellitus (71.6%). However, elderly with disease rated their status not statistically difference than elderly without chronic disease (M = 7.36, SD. = .48; M = 7.40, SD. = .49, p=.64 respectively). All of them never used social media such as email, line, facebook, etc. There was only 16.7% ever computers at Elderly club for entertainments. Moreover, it was very little number of elderly who search for information about treatment, health care providers, and peer health group (2.9%, 4.9%, and 4.9%, respectively). They also rated media literacy at low score. They also have very low self-efficacy score on media literacy. They stated that they chose health care providers first if they want to have more health information. There was no statically significant relationship among health status and media literacy. The suggestions from this study are that any activities lunched in Elderly club should be integrated the promoting of media literacy. However, how to promote media literacy who never attends school is very challenging job for health care providers. Therefore, research and development for develop program enhancing media literacy among elderly should be conducted.
Interaction Strategies Used in an Online Learning Medium by Tertiary Level Students in English for Specific Purposes Course
Get PDFNegotiated interaction could be one crucial factor which can facilitate the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) learners to achieve their goals both academic and professional domains in the future. This study, therefore, aims to examine two major aspects: the negotiation for meaning strategies that ESP students used in the Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) interaction as well as to explore the ESP students’ perceptions toward using the CMC, whether it leads to their Macro and Micro skills perceptions or not. The data were collected from 25 Business Writing students who are Thai, majoring in English. The study was conducted by using Facebook (FB) group and FB messenger as a CMC medium for the communication; therefore, the comments from pictogram postings and chat logs from FB messenger interactions were used as the main sources in the data analysis process. The Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA) proposed by Herring (1996) was employed in the data analysis. Furthermore, coding framework was processed by applying the negotiation for meaning strategies taxonomy that obtained by Samani, Nordin, Mukundan, and Samad (2015). Additionally, the researchers also conducted a focus group interview in order to get the perceptions of students toward what they have encountered. Findings can be revealed into two main parts. Firstly, it revealed that there are nine strategies occurring in the CMC medium: elaboration, confirmation, elaboration request, reply elaboration, confirmation request, reply confirmation, clarification request, correction/self-correction, and reply clarification, respectively. Aside from nine strategies, paralinguistic features, appeal for help, vocabulary request, and reply vocabulary were also found as additional strategies. However, vocabulary check was not found in this study. Secondly, it was found that the ESP students perceived both Macro and Micro skills perceptions toward implementing CMC in the ESP teaching and learning. Therefore, to conclude, the negotiated meaning strategies were used by the students while they were interacting to each other via CMC interaction in order to achieve the discussion activities and also solve some difficulties in such conversations. Additionally, applying this medium could be able to facilitate the learners’ knowledge and increased the practical experiences which are professional domains in the future workplace.
Parental Awareness on Teenage Smoking Behavior in Yogyakarta and Bali
Get PDFSmoking or being healthy is not a suitable offers to young teenagers (ages 13-15 years), because they have not able to take responsibility for the negative impacts of their choices on smoking behaviors. In addition, they have not been well informed about cigarettes and their dangers. The data indicate that there was a high rate of smoking behavior for adolescents aged 13-15 years (55.71%), including trial smoking behavior. However, only 39% of parents are aware of their children smoking behavior. This study aims were determining the awareness of parents and its form on the smoking behavior of their teenage children after treatment. The design of this study was a pre-posttest experiment with control group design. Around 301 parents of 8th grade boy student from 7 junior high schools were considered respondents. The latter came from 2 locations namely Yogyakarta and Tabanan Bali. For determining the respondents, cluster random sampling was used. The respondents were grouped into 3 groups (X1 treatment group, X2 treatment group and control group). The treatment is to provide information about cigarettes and its danger. It was given once by health workers. The measured variable is the respondent awareness and its form that was obtained from the students using self- reported questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Kruskal Wallis and Chi-square test with 0.05 level of significant. The results showed that there was a significant increase the parental awareness after treatment (p value 0.0001). This can happen because the intervention strengthened the predisposing factor to realize the respondents’ caring behavior as well as the concept of behavioral determinant of LW Green. In the X2 treatment group (non-smoker respondents) showed a higher increase of parental awareness than X1 treatment group (smoker respondents) and control group. This happens because they get support from health workers and get healthy conditions as resulted from their behavior. They will continue to remain as nonsmokers and encourage their teenage children to look up to them in order to get a similar reward, as the law of effect theory by E.L Thorndike made it clear. The form of awareness that many parents chose is the message upholding the primary prevention. The conclusion of the research stresses on continuously fetching more knowledge about cigarettes and its dangers, as one of the best mechanisms that can increase the parental awareness against teenage smoking behavior.
Types of Written Corrective Feedback: Overview of Teachers’ Implementation in Indonesia
Get PDFThe present article aims to provide an overview of the written corrective feedback types. It also presents the review of previous studies on the written corrective feedback as well as its effectiveness, especially in Indonesian setting. Written corrective feedback has been provided by the teachers to help the students to improve their L2 writing for decades. The teacher provides the feedback in many ways which include crossing out the errors with or without providing the correct form, targeting the grammatical errors, providing grammatical description of an error, and so on. However, not all of types of corrective feedback offer the same effectiveness. There has been a claim that direct corrective feedback enhances the students’ writing accuracy, focused corrective feedback helps the students to acquire grammatical rules of targeted linguistic features, and metalinguistic corrective feedback assists the students to be aware of their errors in which turn to help them in revising their writing. Hence, this paper argues that the combination of direct, focused, metalinguistic corrective feedback can best benefit students’ learning. The paper further suggests that the teacher provides the appropriate feedback for the students. Appropriate combination of feedbacks is particularly suggested in this paper.
Images of Javanese Women in Patriarchal Culture Represented by Aisyah, a Character in Umar Kayam’s Para Priyayi
Get PDFThis study uses a gender perspective, a concept used to review the role between men and women constructed by culture. Culture that has been inherent in the society that is patriarchal culture resulted in the role of women always reside in the domestic territory. The patriarchal culture can be found in Javanese culture. This research uses descriptive analysis method. From the analysis, this research shows 1) the description of the role acted by Aishah figure as Javanese woman always in domestic area, 2) perspective of Aisyah figure as a wife in environment that embraces patriarchy culture shows his acceptance of 3 basic duties of Javanese women namely; Masak (Cooking), Macak (Dressing Up), and Manak (Giving a birth).
Phytochemicals, Quality and Glycemic Response Fern Red Herbal (Stenochlaena palustris)
Get PDFRed fern (Stenochlaena palustris) is an endemic plant that is widely present in open swamps and in tropical rainforests of Borneo. Fern is used as a vegetable by Dayak tribe and has potential for health. Therefore it is necessary to research the utilization of ferns as functional food with the addition of basil leaves as a natural flavor. The research method was performed using Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with a single factor with 6 treats of adding basil leaves of 5 g, 4 g, 3 g, 2 g, 1 g and as a 0 g control. The results of phytochemical analysis on fresh red fern positively contain alkaloids, flavonoids, hydroquinone phenols, steroids, and saponins. The addition of basil leaves has no significant effect on water content, ash content, hedonic and hedonic quality of color, hedonic and hedonic quality of aroma, hedonic and hedonic taste quality, color formation speed without stirring, color forming speed with stirring and color intensity. The best treatment is the addition of basil leaves as much as 5 g with water content of 16.37 ± 4.88%, ash content of 0.95 ± 0.004%, hedonic color like, hedonic quality of brownish red color, aroma rather like, hedonic quality basil-scented aroma, hedonic taste rather like, Hedonic taste very sweet, color formation speed without stirring 7.18 ± 0.75 minutes, color formation speed with stirring 24.85 ± 4.37 seconds, color intensity 0.76 ± 0.05. EC50 red fern herbal drink is 174,95 ppm. The healthy volunteers who drank a 150 ml red herbal fern drink with the addition of 10 g sugar had a lower glycemic response compared with a control drinking only 150 ml of water with 10 g of sugar added.
The Rising of Ojek Difa, Positioning Difabel as Subject in Providing Inclusive Public Transportation Service for Yogyakarta Indonesia
Get PDFTransportation sector plays a vital role in supporting society mobility. Therefore, the public transportation services must be accessible to all community levels without exception, including the people with disability or difabel. But the facts show that in Yogyakarta for the difabel it is still relatively difficult to access public transportation services. It is caused by several factors such as: the infrastructure is not accessible, the number of fleets are insufficient, and the affordability route problem. These conditions then ignited the difabel to create a difabel-friendly transportation mode, which now is popularly known as Ojek (motorcycle taxi) Difa. The name of Difa was adapted from the word of Difabel or differently abled. This transportation mode is provided, managed, and piloted by the difabel, even though the other society may also use this service. This research uses the qualitative type, descriptive approach, and interactive modeling of data analysis by Miles and Huberman. The data collection is done by in- depth interview, observation, documentation, and literature study. The researcher used this method because the principle objectives of this study aimed to describe and illustrate in a systematic, factual, and accurate statement of the fact and the relationship between phenomenons. The research results showed that Ojek Difa can open a job opportunity to difabel where they had difficult experience in getting work both formal and informal. Moreover, Ojek Difa also is able to improve the socio- economics welfare and establish confidence for their members. It is proved that difabel not only deserves to be object of public transportation services that are provided by the government or the private sector, but also capable of being the subjects who act as a service provider. The rising popularity of Ojek Difa is appropriate with the Javanese local wisdom – migunani tumraping liyan – which means is useful to others. They are not only give beneficial for difabel’s mobility, but also gives benefit to the whole Yogyakarta society in providing inclusive public transportation services.
The Study of Slip of Tongue in English Classroom Presentation Produced by Thai and Libyan Students at English Language and Letters Department
Get PDFThis study focussed on the study of slip of tongue which is under the umbrella of Psycholinguistics studies. Thus, the common speech error done by everyone in language production is slip of the tongue, which means what they say is actually not what they mean and what they want to say. In addition, this study aimed to observe the slips of tongue of Thai and Libyan students’ utterances in an English classroom presentation in English language and letters department, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, Indonesia. The writer used a descriptive qualitative approach since the data obtained were in the forms of words which were transcribed from the Thai and Libyan students’ utterances. In order to do the observations, the writer joined their classes. Thus, the writer collected the data using audio recording and note taking in order to get any information regarding to the observations. Then, transcribed the utterances into written forms and analysed it using some theories. Those theories were theory proposed by Fromkin (1973) about eight types of slip of the tongue, and Clark (1977) about the factors which influenced the slips of the tongue. The writer found almost all kinds of slips if tongue were produced by Libyan student and Thai students in their presentation. Those were anticipations, preservations, blends/haplologies, misderivations/shifts, substitutions, additions, and deletions. Whereas there was one type of slip of tongue which did not occur in their utterances, that was reversals/exchange. In addition, the most type of slip of the tongue was deletion which occurred eleven times. Further, there were several factors which might influence slips of tongue; cognitive difficulty, situational anxiety, social factor. Thus, in this study, the writer found that all factors influenced all the speakers’ performances or utterances in English classroom presentation. Somehow, the most influenced factor was cognitive difficulty. Even though almost all kinds of slips of tongue occurred in their presentations or utterances, but the audience understood about the subjects being told by all the speakers. Therefore, their presentations were still understandable. From all the findings about kinds and possible factors which might influence slips of tongue above, the writer found some possible strategies to overcome it. Due to the fact that the most kind of slips of tongue was deletion and the most factor which influenced it was cognitive difficulty, so it meant that all speakers were less in practices before doing the presentation or they were in hurry when they did the presentations. Therefore, in this case, the speakers should practice more and be calm in presenting their thoughts and understanding concerning with the subject or material being presented in the classroom.
A Comparative Study of Green Technology in Cement Industry
Get PDFThe insufficiency of infrastructure is the main bottlenecks in Indonesian society that prevent higher economic growth, as it weakens connectivity hence increasing logistics costs, making businesses less competitive, and also initiating social problems. Then the Indonesian government has given more attention to infrastructure development in order to enhance the economic growth. Cement industry is one of the industries that are very important in supporting the development of infrastructure and property. However, a large number of demonstrations against the operation of a cement factory have been arising from some protest and communities (Civil Society Organization/LSM) due to the environmental issues. In general, every ton of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) that is manufactured releases on a similar amount of CO2 into the atmosphere, or for roughly 6% of all human-generated greenhouse gas emissions. A developed production method that minimizes or eliminates CO2 emissions from cement manufacturing process is essential. Innovation on green or environmentally technology in cement industry with the focus on green energy (use of renewable energy sources or alternative fuel and higher energy efficiency), green products (use of an industrial waste as raw material), and green processes (reducing waste generation and conserving water, hence improving operational efficiency and lowering costs) become the global trends. In this study, the latest developments in eco-friendly technologies of the mining/quarrying operations and cement manufacturing that will be operated in Rembang by PT Semen Indonesia will be described and compared with the other countries. Existing technologies in the European cement industry has made significant progress in reducing the environmental impact of the industry. It is including the rehabilitation of the quarry to protect and promote biodiversity, more efficient clinker and cement production processes that reduce greenhouse emissions, provide waste utilization, and produce innovative concrete which can reduce the energy consumption of buildings and roads. Cement factory that will be operated in Rembang by PT Semen Indonesia is applying a modern environmentally friendly plant with the latest technology and a higher efficiency than another cement factory in Asia (more efficient use of water, chemicals, fuel and electricity). Quarrying methods will be used a Zero Run Off concepts, in which the ground water is carefully managed to prevent the discharge from the mine area, then the amount of ground water is increased. In addition to the utilization of renewable energy biomass as an alternative fuel, they also developed technology that converts the hot exhaust gasses into electrical energy through the Waste Heat Recovery Power Generation (WHRPG) project. Then, these technologies will become a pioneer and a standard for the construction of a new cement industry in Indonesia. Direct effect of the cement factory operation to the local communities will also be discussed.
The Impacts of Abusive Environment on Psychological Development of Children Depicted in Sheila, a Character from Torey Hayden’s ‘One Child’ (A Study Case of Psychosocial by Erik Erikson)
Get PDFPersonality is the dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person that influences his or her cognitions, motivations, and behaviors in various situations. Personality development is influenced by external factors such as family, friends and society. The personality development influenced by external factors is reflected in Sheila, a main character from One Child novel written by Torey Hayden. The main concern in this study is the process of Sheila’s personality development and her struggle in altering her personality to gain psychosocial virtues. Finding out whether it is possible for her to get positive changes in her personality with her new social environment with the help of Hayden as her teacher and her new friends. This study reveals in the result findings how Sheila’s personality development is influenced by her social environment, especially by the people around her. Because of Hayden’s and her new friends’ help in the special class, Sheila is able to gain the virtue of hope, determination, purpose and competency to prove that personality can be altered by the good and supportive social environment.