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Assessing Thai Nursing College Students’ Speaking Ability Through The Perspectives of Their Indonesian Counterparts
Get PDFAbstractAssessing Thai Nursing College Students’ Speaking Ability Through The Perspectives of Their Indonesian Counterparts The need for improving speaking skills is inevitable in some areas of majors. Nursing students are expected to have a good command of English due to the available opportunities to work abroad. The existence of an academic exchange program could be viewed as one of the alternative learning activities that may fit the needs of the learning experience for EFL students. This study was a qualitative research that aimed at finding communication problems encountered by Indonesian nursing students in their interactions with their counterparts during the academic exchange program held in a nursing college in Thailand. The results of the study showed that the communication problems encountered by Indonesian nursing students due to Thai students speaking ability were in terms of mispronunciations, incorrect word choices, and grammatical errors. Subsequently, it was also found that Thai nursing students used several strategies to cope with their speaking problems by asking for assistance, miming, and making repetition. This research eventually suggests a number of recommendations for students to 1). avoid using their first language even though they communicate with their own friends in the group. 2). share as much information as possible to activate their speaking strategies. 3). have self-confidence in all interactions with TNS. 4). avoid unnecessary jokes, mocking TNS due to different cultural values. Subsequently, a number of activities prior to the academic exchange should also be conducted in terms of 1). practices in formulating questions, 2.) introduction to Thai culture, 3). Introduction to Thai spoken English
THE EFFECT OF USING HOT POTATOES APPLICATION IN TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
Get PDFHot Potatoes application is one of educational software that contains exercises. The teacher can make the exercise by his own. It consists of JCloze, JQuiz, JCross, JMatch, JMix, and The Masher. Each of them has their own features. The researcher had two statements of the problem. First, he focused on how to create the teaching material using hot potatoes application. Second, he focused on how to apply the hot potatoes application in teaching descriptive text. Next, the subject of this research was the seventh grade students in one of private schools in Surabaya. The research design was descriptive qualitative. The research was conducted in three meetings. Every meeting, the students got different descriptive textApplikasi Hot Potatoes adalah salah satu applikasi pendidikan yang berisi latihan-latihan. Guru bisa membuat latihan-latihan tersebut sendiri. Hot Potatoes berisi JCloze, JQuiz, JCross, JMatch, JMix, dan The Masher. Setiap fitur tersebut mempunyai karakter tersendiri. Peneliti mempunyai dua rumusan masalah. Pertama, dia focus bagaimana membuat materi pelajaran dengan menggunakan applikasi Hot Potatoes. Kedua, dia focus bagaimana menerapkan applikasi dalam mengajar teks deksriptif. Kemudian, subjek penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas 7 di sekolah swasta di Surabaya. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deksriptif qualitative. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan selama 3x pertemuan. Setiap pertemuan, para siswa mendapatkan teks deksriptif yang berbeda-bed
PENGARUH TERAPI AUDIOVISUAL (FILM KARTUN) TERHADAP TINGKAT STRES PADA ANAK USIA SEKOLAH YANG MENJALANI PHYSICAL DISTANCING DI RW 01 DESA WAGE KECAMATAN TAMAN KABUPATEN SIDOARJO: The effect of audiovisual therapy (cartoon film) on the level of stress in school-age children undergoing physical distancing
Get PDFPendahuluan : Physical distancing adalah salah satu cara untuk mencegah penularan dan memutus rantai penyebaran Covid-19. Saat ini seluruh kegiatan anak usia sekolah harus berada di dalam rumah, sehingga mereka mengeluh bosan karena tidak bisa bermain dengan temannya hal ini juga bisa mengakibatkan anak mengalami stres. Salah satu cara untuk mengurangi stres yaitu terapi audiovisual. Tujuan: Untuk meneliti pengaruh terapi audiovisual terhadap tingkat stres pada anak usia sekolah yang menjalani physical distancing di RW 01 Desa Wage Kecamatan Taman Sidoarjo. Metode: Desain penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian Quasy-Eksperimental dengan metode pre-test - post test control group. Sampel penelitian ini berjumlah 50 anak, yang dibagi menjadi 25 anak pada kelompok intervensi dan 25 responden pada kelompok kontrol dengan menggunakan teknik Simple Random Sampling. Alat ukur yang digunakan adalah kuesioner melalui googleform. Analisa data menggunakan Wilcoxon Signed Rank dan uji Mann-Whitney (??0.05). Hasil: Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada pengaruh terapi audiovisual (film kartun) terhadap tingkat stres pada anak usia sekolah yang menjalani physical distancing dengan derajat signifikan ??0,05. Kesimpulan: Implikasi penelitian ini adalah untuk menurunkan stres pada anak usia sekolah yang menjalani physical distancing dengan melakukan terapi setiap hari selama satu episode film kartun
The Pragmatic Awareness of Indonesian Nurses in Their Interactions with Foreign In-Patients
Get PDFIn hospitals, most nurses are responsible not only for caring but also building interpersonal relationships with their patients. Joint Commission International (JCI), nurses encounter foreign in-patients. This study investigated the ability of local nurses to communicate with English speaking patients in the hospital. Pragmatic awareness is the issue that becomes the focus to obtain better understanding on the nurses' communicative aspects. It discussed how the nurses achieved successful or unsuccessful interactions in using therapeutic principles Audio recording, observations and interviews were used to see how their pragmatic awareness were applied in terms of of pragmatic principles and speech acts. The study also looked after the strategies used when unsuccessful communication with English speaking patients was solved. Some findings showed that the participants of the study could apply 11 out of 16 therapeutic communication techniques during their interactions with foreign in-patients. Meanwhile. 7 (seven) therapeutic techniques were not frequently used. In many cases the nurses avoid to apply some techniques because they were not confident their communication would be successful. A few techniques were reported to have difficulties and led to some misunderstandings. Most of the problems experienced by these nurses was triggered by languagebarrier, or their inability to formulate utterances that suited the constructions of therapeutic communication techniques. Pragmatic awareness was seen to be the major issue. It was indicated by some misunderstandings or pragmatic failure that the nurses made signalled by unexpected perlocutionary force by their foreign in-patients. Recommendations can be made in terms of language training concerning the strategies to formulate utterances in line with therapeutic communication techniques. Furthermore. nurses' pragmatic awareness needs to be raised by improving language knowledge, especially the one dealing with pragmatic aspects. Subsequently it is recommended that the hospital allow language instructors to assist and monitor the nurses in case misunderstanding and other forms of communication problems occur. It is also important that every nurse is provided with a guide book that allows them to use it as a reference when unexpected miscommunication take place during the caring processes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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