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DEVELOPING SOFT SKILLS THROUGH GAMIFIED ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES (ZOMBIE CHALLENGE SERIES)
Get PDFThe goal of this study was to explore the effects of gamification on a short course that aimed to develop soft skills among students of a vocational school in Sabah. English language was used as the medium of instruction during the task and four target grammatical forms were integrated into the gamified context: sequence connectors, conditionals, modal verbs and sentence construction. The gamified context consisted of four levels where the students were expected to solve the challenge before moving to the next level. The gamified activities were named “Zombie Challenge Series” since its narrative derived from the popularity of zombie in the entertainment and technology industry. There were several game elements that were incorporated into the task. The students were interviewed in order to elicit their perception related to the gamified activities. The findings showed that the students became more aware of the linguistic features that they were expected to use and the cognitive skills needed to solve the challenges. They became more motivated to learn and they were able to develop their soft skills better
A STUDY ON FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION IN INDIA
Get PDFThe prediction of the neoclassical theory of HR suggests that increase in women’s education and literacy levels should generally result in a rise in the female labor force participation. As per the report of census in 2010, an inversely proportional relationship is been seen between them. This is also known as the U-shaped relationship that exists between the female literacy levels and workforce participation rates. In India, the Female Labor Force Participation (FLFP) rate remains extremely low at around 27% in comparison with the male labor force participation rate, which is around 79.9%. In the recent years, India has seen this trend of vanishing women workforce, which was opposite from what was predicted due to the increase in female literacy level. According to an IMF (International Monetary Fund) research it is predicted that the Indian economy can be boosted by 27%, if the participation of women in the workforce is increased to that of the level of men. India is still a patriarchal society, and even if the women are working, they are still expected to contribute to their household chores and duties. This creates a demotivating factor and lack of enthusiasm to overtake more responsibilities in their workplace. In spite of providing flexible work hours, the employees effectiveness in Indian working scenario is still judged on the basis of long working hours, the tendency to travel for work, which is not that much feasible for any middle class working female. The objective of this study is to identify certain cultural and structural factors that has contributed in this inversely proportional relationship
WOMEN, ART & POLITICS IN PAKISTAN: RETHINKING FEMINISM THROUGH FEMINIST ART
Get PDFThis paper looks into the contemporary art practice in Pakistan and tries to cognize feminist art and feminist aesthetics in local context with a belief that feminist aesthetics ultimately answers the issues of feminism itself. In its broader scope the study looks at the works of selected women artists, most of them actively involved with the Women Action Forum (WAF), in order to theorize feminist aesthetics which must re-define feminism and feminist’s concerns in the present day Pakistan where like elsewhere women affairs have become a pertinent issue. The paper negates the popular notion that feminist art must address the controversial issues of ‘social morality’ and/or it is all about agendas of the leftists against any established cultural norms. Feminist art in Pakistan exhibits a flavor of its own which is somewhat different than the Western notions.  
21ST CENTURY TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCES ON PEDAGOGY AND LEARNING STYLES’ RESEARCH
Get PDFTwenty-first education learning and teaching must include application of research that meets the needs of all students with different diverse learning styles. Historically, instructors understand and implement instructional strategies that are connected to the current research about learning styles. Additionally, all instructors must now point to the current educational technology and how this new technology must be included in developing and application of activities/lessons that also address these diverse learning style. In addition, it is important to also provide this specific type of pedagogy to expand typical teaching strategies in order to make additional modes of learning available to all students. This interactive article will address the ways that learnings styles research can be connected in practical ways with 21st century contemporary technology to assure academic success for all
CELL PHONES KEEP YOU IN CELL
Get PDFThe objective of the paper is to expose the effect of the overuse of mobile phones in the family and it also reveals how it affects the relationship among the family members. As the writer of this paper is from a typical Tamil culture in India where relationships are valued, this issue has been taken. At present, the overuse of mobile phones strangles the relationship within the family in our community and which reflects the degradation in the family and the society. It has been explained how the extended family is shattered and how it terrifically affects the young generation. The paper also explores how the family and the society are spoiled. It tends to create awareness in the young minds towards the proper use of mobile phones and to safeguard the values and virtues of our community in the family, a minor unit of society
IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL SIGNATURE FOR RESEARCH PAPER LEGALIZATION, AUTHENTICATION AND RATIFICATION CASE STUDY: TRAINING CENTER FOR NATIONAL CYBER AND CRYPTO AGENCY
Get PDFAt The Training Center for The National Cyber and Crypto Agency, at the end of every course programs, the students are given a task to write scientific papers. Then those papers must be ratified by the seminar committee using their wet signatures as a sign of ratification of documents. But the drawback of using wet signatures is that often difficult to get committee signatures as they are not always in the office. To overcome this problem, we'll discuss the uses of digital signature for student's papers ratification. This research begins by describing a digital signature and how it can replace a wet signature. Then we present the design of a scheme for implementing a digital signature that can be applied for papers authentication and ratification. Retrieval of the research data is done through in-depth observations in the process of ratifying student's scientific papers at The Training Center for The National Cyber and Crypto Agency. The result of this study is the application of digital signatures as a substitute solution for wet signatures on student’s scientific papers ratification
MORPHOSYNTACTIC FEATURES OF ADVERBIAL CLAUSES IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES -CONSEQUENCES OF LANGUAGE CONTACT OR LATIN INHERITANCE?-
Get PDFThe starting point of the present paper is a simple question: To what extent do linguistic facts encountered in Romanian exist in other Romance varieties? In order to answer this question, I put forward a cross-linguistic study of the Romance languages that aims at an interdisciplinary effort, a perspective that is going to add new and useful information to the literature, especially at the international level, that lacks, in many cases, examples from Romanian. On the basis of an original media discourse corpus, collected from three Romance varieties (Romanian, Italian and French), I advance a comparative perspective, focused on the connectors of the complex sentences. Since the aim of this paper is neither to defend/to contradict some linguistic theory of the syntactic variation, nor to develop a new grammatical theory, the focus will be on the description of the identified linguistic data, and on the motivation of their existence/absence in the three related languages
HOW THE PROHIBITION OF HATE SPEECH AND DEFAMATION’S SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT BE ENFORCED IN INDONESIA
Get PDFLegal Aspect of the Freedom of expression was fundamental human rights which was now a concern with the action Monitoring and screening access to information and heavy surveillance application that eventually break the privacy rights of the netizens by government apparatus, whether those acts are done by law or against the law. Freedom of expression was a state authority and its enactment needs to be using Pancasila values in accordance with the law of Law No.11 of 2008 on Information and Electronic Transactions. While ensuring to access information, any citizen could use actualize themselves and express opinions without hatred towards society. This legal research was made using the juridic-normative approach with the secondary data by legal literature study with analyzing between legislation applicable to legal theories and important practices of positive law which will be discussed. This legal research to find out about the regulation of freedom of expression on social media according to law and regulation and the application in Indonesia. This study needs to be developed and discussed in more detail the freedom of expression in social media. The right to freedom of expression was one of the important features of a democratic country that upholds the high sovereignty of the people to realize the implementation of that state well, and the state has jurisdiction to determine, apply, and judge upon anyone who damages Pancasila. Freedom of expression through social media was a fundamental human right that must be protected. However, in the case of the fulfilment of rights, there will also be an obligation to respect the rights of others, the exercise of those rights may be decided by law. Various cases of freedom of expression through social media become a process of enforcing this Human Rights. Prevention by education from government and private sectors were needed in other to decrease the hate speech and defamation’s content in social media
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR IMPROVING THE MONTHLY SANITATION EXERCISE IN KANO METROPOLIS
Get PDFThe Paper discusses some observable environmental problems resulting from man’s continuous interaction with the environment in kano metropolis. It was found necessary to use environmental education as an instrument to educate the people for better improvement of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in the state. The monthly environmental sanitation exercise is carried out in the state at the end of every month in the last Saturday of the month. The exercise usually last for 3 hours starting from 7:00a.m to 10:00am with the hope of cleaning and keeping the environment tidy. Field observation and questionnaire were used to generate data for the study. The simple random sampling technique was used to select samples needed for the study. Tables and percentages were used to analyze the date. The study found that many people in the city usually seat at their homes within the said hours without cleaning or doing anything during the exercise. It was also found that the exercise is not properly monitored or supervised in the metropolis, except in some major roads and high ways leading to the city. The study recommends that environmental education is an important instrument that can be used to improve the monthly sanitation exercise in the metropolis. Social media and GSM text messages can equally be used to disseminate information to the general public on the exercise for effective participation in the city. Civildefense, Kano Road Traffic Agency (karota) and Kano state Hisbah Board (Hisba) personals should be involved in the exercise for more proper participation and effectiveness
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION PROGRAMS TEACHERS AND MTB MLE IMPLEMENTATION IN THE PHILIPPINES
Get PDFAccording to the new The K to 12 Basic Education Program implemented in the Philippines in 2013, modifications in pre-service education for aspiring teachers shall be applied to conform to the requirements of both K to 12 and its auxiliary program for the first three levels called Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) that mandates the utility of students’ mother tongue(s) as medium of instruction. The agencies in charge for these modifications are the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education. Their task involves ensuring that the Teacher Education curriculum offered in different higher education institutions in the Philippines will meet the necessary quality standards for new teachers. However, since the implementation of MTB-MLE as a national policy in the School Year 2012-2013, no national guideline has been issued to higher education institutions regarding the said modifications.This paper locates voices of tertiary instructors employed in elementary education programs in four selected universities across the Philippines during the implementation of the MTB-MLE policy. This study specifically sought to determine the interventions applied by university administrations to their elementary education programs to ensure that their adult learners’ knowledge and skills are aligned with the national policies even without direct guidelines from any macro agents. Central to this paper are the perceptions of the informants regarding the interventions applied by their university administrations to their elementary education programs