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THE MANIFESTATION OF CRITICAL THINKING ELEMENTS IN EFL STUDENTS’ ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING
No full textThis qualitative study aims at investigating patterns of argumentative structure manifested in the students’ argumentative paragraphs. The result of this study showed that the six elements of critical thinking proposed by Stapleton were represented in the students’ argumentative writing. Arguments were used by all the 30 students (100%), reasons were 21 students (70%), evidences were 20students (66,7%), refuse of opposition (ROP) were 10 students (33,3%), conclusion were 15 students (50%), and then fallacies were used by 25 students (83,3%). Based on the result of this study it can be concluded that all the critical thinking elements proposed by Stapleton were manifested in the third grade students’ argumentative writing. However, not all the students put all the six elements in their writing except argument. Most of the students overwhelmed in highlighted the refutation point of view in whole their argumentative essay and then in drawing the conclusion. Indeed, most of students produced many fallacies which made their argument weak. Based on the numbers of students who put those elements, the total of each criteria existence also counted. The dominant presence of those criteria were fallacies, which impacted by the lack of putting logical reasons, evidences and illogical conclusion as could be the effect of students’ reading habit. The weakest numbers of ROP indicated the students made the readers difficult to decide whether pro or contra to their standing positions
The Rhetorical Moves in the Students’ Introduction Parts of Theses Writing
No full textThis study aims to discover the rhetorical moves used by students in the English Language Education Study Program at UNIKA Santu Paulus Ruteng when writing the introductory part of their theses, using the Create A Research Space (CARS) Model. A qualitative method was employed to describe and interpret the data. The data source for this research consisted of the introductions of ten students’ theses, collected through stratified random sampling. A checklist was used as the main instrument for data collection. In analyzing the data, the researcher followed specific steps, such as identifying sentences and expressions that indicate each move, interpreting the data, and drawing conclusions based on the results. The findings revealed that the students used various rhetorical moves in their thesis introductions. Most students applied nearly all the moves, although one thesis did not include move 2 at all. Additionally, it was found that some steps in move 2, particularly steps 2a (counter-claiming) and 2b (indicating a gap), were often skipped by the students. Step 2b was never applied in any of the theses. Keywords: Create a Research Space (CARS) Model, Rhetorical Moves, Thesis Introductio
Video-Based Tasks in Strengthening Speaking Skills of EFL College Students
Get PDFAll teachers, including speaking instructors, should be able to select the proper interactive media for students' speaking practice. Video-assisted learning tasks in the speaking class have not been explored extensively, despite the reality that video-based tasks are an appropriate choice for students to enhance their speaking ability. This study sought to examine the Effect of video-based tasks on students' speaking skills. In this study, a quasi-experimental design was employed, and the speaking scoring rubric served as the research instrument. Both the experimental group and the control group were comprised of participants. Researchers gave pre-and post-tests to identify the impact of the video-based tasks technique on students' speaking skills. Using a simple random sampling technique, 56 students from the English study program in the first grade at Universitas Katolik Indonesia Santu Paulus Ruteng comprised the research sample; then, the data were analyzed by using a t-test with the assistance of the SPSS 24.0 program. The data analysis of the average student score in the experimental and control groups revealed that the experimental group's average score (80,29) was higher than the control group's average score (67,57). This result demonstrates the significant effects of video-based tasks in teaching speaking. The researchers concluded that video-based tasks were helpful for teaching speaking skills. Moreover, video-based tasks significantly impact students' ICT skills, learning independence, and self-evaluation development. The logical implication of this study's findings is that EFL teachers should use videos to teach English, particularly speaking skills, because it has been demonstrated to have a favorable effect on the respondents' speaking ability
Pelatihan Learning Management System (LMS) bagi Para Guru Sekolah Menengah Pertama di Kabupaten Manggarai Timur: Learning Management System (LMS) Training for Junior High School Teachers in East Manggarai Regency
No full textThere is no greater power to encourage teachers to integrate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the learning process until the Covid-19 pandemic occurs. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the learning process in schools in the outermost, remote, and disadvantaged (3T) areas such as East Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT). The implementation of Distance Learning (PJJ) has just begun to be introduced to teachers to ensure that students receive appropriate educational services. Unfortunately, this PJJ did not run well or optimally. This is because the teachers do not have the experience and knowledge of Learning Management Systems (LMS) available for free such as Canvas. Therefore, the Community Service (PkM) team conducted strengthening training to increase knowledge and use of ICT for teachers at the State Junior High School (SMPN) 5 Borong, East Manggarai Regency. This activity uses presentation, demonstration (practice), and evaluation methods. This PkM activity shows that all of the participating teachers think that Canvas-based LMS training activities are beneficial and are committed to using Canvas LMS in their learning activities at school with students
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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