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Misunderstanding and Offense in the Digital World as Impacts of Community Low Level of Language Literacy and Communication Skills
Full text linkAbstractCommunication is part of social interaction that acts as a means of exchanging information, meeting individual needs and development. However, such social interaction activities may fail and create interaction problems, including misunderstanding and offense. Misunderstanding occurs when the listener thinks he or she has understood or misinterpreted what the speaker meant while offense occurs when the listener is unable to accept, is annoyed and disturbed by what the speaker is saying. Since entering the digital era which began about 10 years ago, misunderstandings and offenses have become increasingly common. The rapid flow of information exchange where everyone is almost free to speak and respond to speech makes these two issues even more unstoppable. Responding to these, as the main concern of this paper, the author invites the readers to discuss about misunderstanding and offense as results of individual low level of literacy and communication skills.Keywords: Misunderstanding and Offense, Communication, Language Literac
An Investigation on Students’ Interaction in English outside the School
Full text linkThis research highlights the students’ interaction in English outside the school area. This research is focused on exploring the students’ the most and the least frequent interaction and perception about interaction in English outside the school area to their English improvement. This study was conducted in 2017 with 103 respondents of senior high school students. Mixed method was used as the method of this study. The data were collected through questionnaire, interview, and observation. The quantitative data was analyzed by using SPSS and the qualitative data was analyzed by using Miles and Huberman interactive model.The findings of questionnaire revealed that the students frequently interacted with listening (54.85%) and least frequently interacted with writing (40.61%) in a day. In a week, listening was rated as the most frequent interaction (61.65%) and the least frequent was reading (43.20%). The result of the interview indicated that the students’ interaction in English outside the school area were affected their English improvement in terms of English understanding, language skills, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Technology also played an important role as the media of the students’ English improvement outside the school area.
Keywords: Students’ interaction, outside school area, the most, the least, frequent, improvement, technolog
WHAT NON-ENGLISH STUDENTS SAY ABOUT GRAMMAR TRANSLATION METHOD (A STUDY AT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM)
Full text linkThis research attempts to show the effect of Grammar Translation Method (GTM) on non-English students at scholarship program. Open response questionnaire become the main instrument to collect the research data which involving 29 students from Arabic and Islamic Education at 4th semester. The data of the research are analyzed using textual analysis to give brief description of the students’ response. This research concludes that the GTM is beneficial for the students’ basic English knowledge and motivation as well as their English improvement in writing and reading, however the method is fail to improve the students’ communicative skills due to the lack of communicative focus in GTM
Integrating AI in Language Teaching: Challenges and Opportunities for Novice Efl Teachers
Full text linkThis research explored the challenges and opportunities that novice EFL teachers face in integrating AI into their teaching practices. Using a mixed-method approach, the study combined quantitative data from a survey of 30 novice EFL teachers with qualitative insights from interviews with seven participants selected from the survey group. The survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, while the interview responses underwent thematic analysis. The findings revealed that the challenges were limited understanding of how to use AI tools in a more advanced or contextually appropriate way, infrastructure limitations that affect access to AI tools, limited digital literacy in using AI for novice EFL teachers. The opportunities were improved lesson planning, increased creativity, time efficiency, enhanced engagement, and innovative assessment practices. The study suggested that targeted training programs, institutional support, and initiatives aimed at fostering ethical AI literacy can assist novice teachers in overcoming challenges and maximizing the potential of AI in language education. These findings contribute to the expanding discourse on AI-assisted teaching and underscore the necessity for sustainable strategies to effectively integrate AI within EFL classrooms
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
Polite Questioning in Students' WhatsApp Group Discussion (A Research on Discourse and Communication)
Full text linkThis research is under the discipline of Discourse Analysis. It focused to investigate the politeness used by students in social media, especially WhatsApp application. This research was consist of 20 students in one class at the Graduate Program of State University of Makassar. To collect the data, the researchers transcribed students' chat and discussion from the students' WhatsApp group discussion. This researcher was analyzed by using discourse analysis approach based on the politeness theory by Brown and Levinson (1987). The result of this research showed that students only use positive politeness in questioning to show closeness and respect to the other students in the WhatsApp group discussion
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