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PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHERS' PERCEPTION OF THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE ENGLISH TESTS IN LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
Full text linkThe main objective of this research is to obtain an overview of pre-service English teachers' perceptions regarding the use of digital technology in making English language tests in the language assessment process. This research uses a mixed-method research model that combines qualitative research models and quantitative models to obtain more comprehensive and in-depth data regarding pre-service English teachers' perceptions on the use of digital technology in creating English tests. The research data source will be selected purposively, namely, pre-service teachers who have completed the Language Assessment course in the English Language Education study program, Faculty of Language and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar. In the data collection process, researchers used interviews, questionnaires, and document reviews. Qualitative data will be analyzed based on the stages of data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions or verification. Meanwhile, to analyze quantitative data, researchers will use descriptive statistical analysis. The result of this study reveals that the pre-service English teachers portrayed a positive attitude toward the use of digital technology to create English tests in language assessmen
Collaborative Learning as an Alternative Model to Enhance German Writing Skills in Higher Education
Full text linkThis study investigates the efficacy of collaborative learning as an alternative pedagogical model to enhance German writing skills in higher education. A quasi-experimental design was employed, involving two groups: an experimental group utilizing the collaborative learning model, and a control group receiving traditional instructional methods. Data were gathered through writing assessments and questionnaires designed to evaluate both writing proficiency and student engagement. The findings reveal a substantial improvement in the writing abilities of the experimental group, with an average score increase of 21.25%, compared to a more modest 12.13% improvement in the control group. Additionally, the majority of students in the experimental group (85%) reported greater confidence and higher levels of engagement in the learning process following peer feedback. These results indicate that collaborative learning is a highly effective approach for improving writing skills, as well as for fostering student motivation and engagement in German language education. Consequently, collaborative learning presents a promising alternative model for enhancing writing proficiency in higher educatio
L1 Usage in English Teaching: Students’ Perspective
Full text linkThis study aims to explore the usage of L1 in teaching English based on the students’ perspectives. The study employed questionnaire and interview to obtain the data about the students’ perspectives on the usage of L1 in EFL classroom, the proper contexts where the lecturer must use L1, and whether there are differences from the low and high achiever students’ perspectives. There are 163 participants from English education students contribute to this study and 37 of them are interviewed. The results suggest that the students have positive attitude toward the using of Bahasa Indonesia as the students first language (L1) in their English classroom, particularly when the lecturers explaining difficult linguistic concept and clarifying their instructions. There is no different opinion between the low and high achiever students toward the using of L1 in the teaching and learning process. They all agree that Bahasa Indonesia as the students’ first language still holds an important role in the process of learning foreign languages
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Development of Interactive Digital Learning Media To Improve Science Literacy and Learning outcomes of Elementary School Students In Natural And Social Sciences (IPAS) In Enrekang Regency
No full textThis study aimed to develop an interactive digital learning medium based on Articulate Storyline that is valid, practical, and effective in improving scientific literacy and learning outcomes of fifth-grade elementary students in Enrekang Regency. The research employed a Research and Development design using the ADDIE model, which includes analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation stages. Research subjects consisted of teachers and fifth-grade students from several elementary schools representing different geographical conditions. Data were collected through expert validation, practicality questionnaires, and learning achievement tests, then analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, including paired sample t-tests and N-Gain analysis. The results show that the developed learning media achieved high validity according to expert assessments, demonstrated good practicality in classroom implementation, and effectively improved students’ scientific literacy and learning outcomes. Thus, the interactive digital learning medium serves as an innovative instructional tool aligned with the Merdeka Curriculum, promoting active and meaningful science learning experiences for elementar
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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