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No full text In a globalized world, English proficiency is essential for academic and professional success, significantly influencing educational and economic opportunities. Speaking skills are pivotal in language learning, serving various cultural and social functions in daily life. This study investigates the impact and factors influencing the effectiveness of Task-Based Speaking Activities in enhancing English speaking skills among MTS Al Ittihad students. Utilizing a quantitative research approach, this quasi-experimental design examined learners' speaking proficiency before and after implementing Task-Based Speaking Activities. Results indicate a marked improvement in students' speaking skills, with mean scores rising from 50.54 (pre-test) to 74.46 (post-test). Hypothesis testing further supports this finding, revealing a significant value of 0.00 (p < 0.05), demonstrating the effectiveness of Task-Based Speaking Activities on learners' proficiency. Initial assessments highlighted challenges in vocabulary, grammar, fluency, and pronunciation, emphasizing the need for innovative teaching strategies. The observed improvements underscore the activities' success in engaging students and enhancing their language comprehension and communication abilities.Bahasa Inggris menjadi semakin penting di dunia global saat ini, sehingga penguasaan bahasa Inggris sangat penting. Kemahiran bahasa Inggris tingkat lanjut telah berpotensi menentukan peluang kehidupan pendidikan dan ekonomi banyak orang di seluruh dunia dan dapat diprediksi akan tetap menonjol sepanjang abad kedua puluh satu. Keterampilan berbicara sangat penting dalam pembelajaran bahasa. Ini juga sangat penting dalam kehidupan kita sehari-hari di mana kita harus menggunakan keterampilan berbicara untuk, secara budaya dan sosial, melakukan berbagai tugas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dampak dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi efektivitas kegiatan berbicara berbasis tugas dalam meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara bahasa Inggris di kalangan siswa MTS Al Ittihad. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian kuantitatif dan analisis data menggunakan aplikasi statistik. Dampak kegiatan berbicara berbasis tugas pada siswa MTS Al Ittihad adalah, keterampilan berbicara siswa dikembangkan lebih baik dari sebelumnya Berbasis Tugas yang Dilakukan. Kemampuan siswa meningkat karena terbiasa dengan aktivitas sehari-hari menggunakan bahasa Inggris, percakapan sederhana antar siswa, dan belajar tata bahasa sederhana meningkatkan kemampuan siswa untuk berbicara bahasa Inggris
Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery by Using Crossword Puzzle Technique
No full textMany high school students face several challenges in mastering vocabulary. Students need help to improve their English vocabulary mastery and need more self-confidence. The crossword puzzle technique was used in this study to enhance students' vocabulary mastery at SMKS Tarbiyatul Qurro. This study employed Classroom Action Research with 20 students in second grade. Observation and tests were used as instruments for data collection. This study shows that applying the crossword puzzle technique can improve students' vocabulary mastery. The student's vocabulary mastery showed significant improvement, as evidenced by the increasing average scores from 55.25 in the pre-test to 67.75 in the post-test cycle 1 and 77 in the second cycle 2. On the other hand, in cycle 1, teacher observation results were 50%, which increased to 81.25% in cycle 2. This means that the teacher performed the crossword puzzle technique more frequently from cycle 1 to cycle 2. Similarly, student observation results improved from 56.25% in cycle 1 to 78.125% in cycle 2. This means that the students followed the crossword puzzle procedures more frequently from cycle 1 to cycle 2. In conclusion, the students' vocabulary mastery showed significant improvement through the application of the crossword puzzle technique
Contrastive Analysis of Phonology (Sounds, Speech, Stress, and Intonation) of Arabic and Indonesian Languages
Full text linkPhonology has a crucial role in the early stages of learning both native and foreign languages. This research aimed to analyze the phonological differences between Arabic and Indonesian, focusing on aspects such as sound systems, pronunciation, stress, and intonation. This study was classified as a literature review. The method employed was a descriptive contrastive analysis, comparing contrasting differences in Arabic and Indonesian through a pedagogical linguistic approach. The results showed that the vowel sounds in Arabic consist of fathah, fathah thowilah, kasrah, kasrah thowilah, dhommah, dhommah and thowilah which significantly impact the meaning of the language. On the other hand, Indonesian vowel sounds /i/, /u/, /e/, /ә/, /o/, and /a/ did not influence meaning and tended to remain consistent in their speech functions. Regarding stress and intonation, Indonesian utilized these elements to differentiate meaning when spoken with flat, high, and low tones in delivering news or interrogative sentences. In contrast, Arabic stress and intonation patterns were based on the position of consonants, syllables, and the length of vowels
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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