63 research outputs found

    What every student is saying about written corrective feedback (WCF): EFL learners' voice

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    Abstract: While recent research on writing has highlighted the importance of feedback for students’ improvement, little research has investigated the students’ affective engagement with written corrective feedback in EFL writing classes. To address this gap, data drawn from a qualitative case study were analyzed to investigate what learner affective engagement with WCF. This study has explored how 22 Indonesian learners engaged affectively with teacher WCF in EFL writing. It examines data collected from students’ draft, teacher written corrective feedback, students’ reflective journal and semi-structured interviews. The study has found that while the participants’ affective engagement was relatively positive, but due to its practical, situational, and emotional attachment between teacher and students, several students were aware that there was an absence of cognitive and communication factor trigger them to perceive negatively on WCF. Keywords: affective engagement, feedbacks, WCF. Title: What every student is saying about written corrective feedback (WCF): EFL learners’ voice Author: Titin Rahmiatin Rahim, Muhammad Tedi, Citra Prasiska P, Tohamba International Journal of Novel Research in Education and Learning ISSN 2394-9686 Vol. 10, Issue 2, March 2023 - April 2023 Page No: 1-7 Novelty Journals Website: www.noveltyjournals.com Published Date: 04-March-2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7697819 Paper Download Link (Source) https://www.noveltyjournals.com/upload/paper/What%20every%20student%20is%20saying%20about-04032023-1.pdfInternational Journal of Novel Research in Education and Learning, ISSN 2394-9686, Novelty Journals, Website: www.noveltyjournals.co

    Aesthetic-Receptive and Critical-Creative in Appreciative Reading

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    Reading is a process of aesthetically appreciative receptive to emphasize critical-creative reading activities. Metacognitively students understand, address any and explore the idea of the author in the text. Students responded, criticize, and evaluate the author's ideas in the text. At this stage, students can construct their post read text into other forms (new text). The aim of this strategy equips students to understand the meaning of the story, explore ideas, responding critically, and creatively pouring backstory idea. Reading strategies aesthetically-critical-creative receptive grabbed cognitive, effective, and psychomotor toward literacy critical reading and creative writing. Read appreciative included into the activities of reading comprehension. This activity involves the sensitivity and ability to process aesthetically-receptive reading and critical-creative. Readers imagination roam the author to obtain meaningful understanding and experience of reading. Some models of reading comprehension proposed experts covering the steps before reading, when reading, and after reading. At that stage to enable students after reading thinking abilities. Activities that can be done at this stage, for example, examine the back story, retell, make drawings, diagrams, or maps the concept of reading, as well as making a road map that describes the event. Other activities that can be done is to transform our student's text stories through reinforcement form illustrated stories into comic book form, for example (transliteration)

    Autoantibody profile and clinical characteristics in a cohort of Chinese adult myasthenia gravis patients

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    Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disorder with heterogeneity. Antibodies against acetylcholine receptor (AChR), muscle-specific kinase (MuSK), titin and ryanodine receptor (RyR) were examined in 437 adult Chinese MG patients. The AChR, MuSK, titin and RyR antibodies were found in 82.2%, 2.3%, 28.4% and 23.8% of all patients. Autoantibody profiles vary among different MG subgroups. Thymoma MG patients had high frequencies of AChR (99.2%), titin (50.8%) and RyR antibodies (46.9%).The titin and RyR antibodies also showed high frequencies in late onset patients (54.4% and 33.3%, respectively). These two antibodies may indicate an underlying thymoma when combined. The patients with titin and RyR antibodies tend to have more severe disease and worse outcome, and may need more active immunosuppressive treatment. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Torbjorg Hauges' Legacy; National Natural Science Foundation of China [81070963]; Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [ZR2010HM019]SCI(E)[email protected]

    Implementasi Pendekatan Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) Pada Pembelajaran Fisika Untuk Meningkatkan Motivasi Belajar Peserta Didik: Anggi Larasati, Titin Sunarti, Budiwati

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    This research is motivated by the low motivation of students to learn physics at SMA Negeri 1 Wonoayu. Based on the preliminary study conducted by the author in Class XI-3, it shows that 51.2% of students have low motivation to learn physics. Learning that is solely based on textbooks and not connected to the students' conditions, including their past experiences and their social and cultural backgrounds, can lead to low student participation and motivation. Therefore, efforts are needed from teachers to make physics learning more engaging, one of which is by implementing the Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) approach. CRT is a teaching approach that utilizes students' cultural references as a means to learn a subject matter. This research is a collaborative classroom action research conducted in two cycles. Data related to student motivation was obtained through a motivation questionnaire, while student learning outcomes in the knowledge domain were obtained through written tests. The research results show a significant improvement in physics learning motivation, starting from the initial observation, Cycle 1, and ending in Cycle 2, which are 48.8%, 70.5%, and 82.9%, respectively. Additionally, student learning outcomes also improved from Cycle 1 to Cycle 2, increasing from 61.1% to 94.4%. This indicates that the implementation of the CRT approach in physics learning is effective in enhancing student motivation and learning outcomes.Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh rendahnya motivasi belajar fisika peserta didik di SMA Negeri 1 Wonoayu. Berdasarkan hasil studi pendahuluan yang dilakukan penulis di Kelas XI-3, menunjukkan bahwa 51,2% peserta didik memiliki motivasi yang rendah untuk belajar fisika. Pembelajaran yang hanya berpacu pada buku teks dan tidak dikaitkan dengan kondisi peserta didik, baik dikaitkan dengan pengalaman yang pernah dilalui maupun keadaan lingkungan, sosial, dan budayanya dapat menyebabkan tingkat partisipasi dan motivasi peserta didik menjadi rendah. Untuk itu, diperlukan suatu upaya dari guru agar dapat mengemas pembelajaran fisika menjadi lebih menarik, salah satunya dengan menerapkan pendekatan Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT). CRT ini merupakan suatu pendekatan pembelajaran yang mengangkat referensi budaya peserta didik untuk dijadikan sebagai media dalam mempelajari suatu materi pelajaran. Penelitian ini merupakan jenis penelitian tindakan kelas kolaboratif yang dilaksanakan dalam dua siklus. Data terkait motivasi belajar peserta didik didapatkan melalui angket motivasi belajar, sedangkan hasil belajar peserta didik pada ranah pengetahuan didapatkan melalui tes tertulis. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Adapun hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terjadi peningkatan motivasi belajar fisika yang cukup signifikan, mulai dari observasi awal, siklus 1 hingga akhir siklus 2, yakni masing-masing sebesar 48,8%, 70,5% dan 82,9%. Selain itu, hasil belajar peserta didik juga mengalami peningkatan ketuntasan dari siklus 1 dan siklus 2, yakni dari 61,1% menjadi 94,4%. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa implementasi pendekatan CRT pada pembelajaran fisika efektif dapat meningkatkan motivasi dan hasil belajar peserta didik. Pembelajaran fisika dengan pendekatan Culturally Responsive Teaching merupakan pembelajaran inovatif yang dapat diterapkan guru guna meningkatkan motivasi belajar peserta didik

    Digenic inheritance involving a muscle-specific protein kinase and the giant titin protein causes a skeletal muscle myopathy

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    \ua9 The Author(s) 2024.In digenic inheritance, pathogenic variants in two genes must be inherited together to cause disease. Only very few examples of digenic inheritance have been described in the neuromuscular disease field. Here we show that predicted deleterious variants in SRPK3, encoding the X-linked serine/argenine protein kinase 3, lead to a progressive early onset skeletal muscle myopathy only when in combination with heterozygous variants in the TTN gene. The co-occurrence of predicted deleterious SRPK3/TTN variants was not seen among 76,702 healthy male individuals, and statistical modeling strongly supported digenic inheritance as the best-fitting model. Furthermore, double-mutant zebrafish (srpk3−/−; ttn.1+/−) replicated the myopathic phenotype and showed myofibrillar disorganization. Transcriptome data suggest that the interaction of srpk3 and ttn.1 in zebrafish occurs at a post-transcriptional level. We propose that digenic inheritance of deleterious changes impacting both the protein kinase SRPK3 and the giant muscle protein titin causes a skeletal myopathy and might serve as a model for other genetic diseases

    Characterization of circular RNAs in human, mouse and rat hearts

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    AbstractDeep sequencing techniques and advanced data analysis methods recently enabled the characterization of thousands of circular RNA isoforms (circRNAs) from a number of tissues and organisms. There is emerging evidence that some circRNAs may have important biological functions or serve as diagnostic biomarkers in disease conditions.In order to analyze circRNA expression in the heart and its changes in different conditions we performed RNA-Seq analysis of ribosome-depleted libraries from rats (neonatal and adult), mice (sham or after transverse aortic constriction, TAC) and humans (failing, non-failing). All samples were sequenced after treatment with exonuclease RNase R or a mock treatment and >9000 candidate circRNAs were detected for each species.Additionally, we performed separate isolation of nuclear and cytoplasmic RNA and co-immunoprecipitated RNA interacting with endogenous argonaute 2 (Ago2) in primary cardiac myocytes. We found circRNAs to be significantly enriched in the cytoplasm compared to linear transcripts and to have a similar level of association with Ago2.Notably in all three species we observed dozens of circRNAs arising from the titin (Ttn) gene, which is known to undergo highly complex alternative splicing during heart maturation. Correspondingly we observed extensive differential regulation of Ttn circRNAs between neonatal and adult rat hearts, suggesting that circRNA formation could be involved in the regulation of titin splicing.We expect that our inventory of cardiac circRNAs, as well as the information on their conservation and differential expression will provide an important basis for further studies addressing their function and suitability as biomarkers
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