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Improving Students’ Grammar Mastery in Reading by Using Aralish Contrastive Analysis; A Classroom Action Research at of MA Qudsiyyah Kudus 2013-2014
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Muh. Shofiyuddin. S891202039. Improving Students’ Grammar Mastery in Reading by Using Aralish Contrastive Analysis; A Classroom Action Research at of MA Qudsiyyah Kudus 2013-2014. First Consultant: Dr. Abdul Asib, M.Pd.; Second Consultant: Dra. Diah Kristina, MA., Ph. D. Thesis. English Education of Graduate School of Teacher Training and Educational Faculty of Sebelas Maret University 2013.
This Classroom Action Research is intended to improve the grammar mastery of the eleventh grade students of MA Qudsiyyah Kudus in the academic year of 2013-2014 by using Aralish Contrastive Analysis. The fact that the students are not good in mastering English grammar becomes the spirit of this research. The subject of the research is the eleventh grade students in the academic year of 2013-2014. They are not able to understand and use the forms and the uses of simple present and simple past tense well. In addition, the students are not interested in studying English.
I use Aralish Contrastive Analysis in order to help the students improve their grammar mastery in reading. “Aralish” is a blend deriving from Arabic and English. It is then used to name a teaching method combining the characteristics of Arabic and English languages in learning English as foreign language.
The method of this research is Classroom Action Research consisting of three cycles. Each cycle has four meetings. The writer analyzes the quantitative data to find out the mean score of the pretest and the posttest to prove the improvement in each cycle. The percentage of the students’ activities in the learning process and responses toward Aralish can also be the indicators of the improvement.
The research finding is that Aralish contrastive analysis can improve the grammar mastery of the eleventh grade students of MA Qudsiyyah Kudus in the academic year 2013-2014. The students could understand the forms and uses of simple present and simple past in positive, negative and interrogative of verbal and nominal sentence and passive forms after being taught by using Aralish contrastive analysis. It can be seen from the students’ mean score, 43.5 in the preliminary research increased into 69.9 after the whole cycles. Besides, the students’ who are active in the learning process also increased to 42.7% during the action. In addition, the students who used to say that English is “difficult” turn to show a significant decrease to 42.3% of the students. It implies that the learning activities were improved more after the third cycle.
The difficulties in applying Aralish contrastive analysis in teaching English is the students have to master Arabic grammar before being taught by using Aralish contrastive analysis. Then, I suggest or recommend that English teacher can teach grammar to the students by using Aralish contrastive analysis technique as an interesting and easier technique, especially in Islamic senior high school.
Key words: grammar mastery, reading skills, Aralish contrastive analysis, classroom action research
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT IN ELEMENTAL:FORCES OF NATURE (2023) MOVIE SCRIPT
No full textPragmatic is a branch of linguistics which concentrates on language use. Speech acts are one of the learning domains under pragmatics. In this research, the researcher will find out the speech acts contained in the movie of Elemental:Forces of Nature. This research focus on the types of illocutionary acts that found in the utterances spoken by the film actors, namely declarative act, expressive act, directive act, commissive act and assertive act. The descriptive qualitative method was employed in this research. Data sources were obtained through observation and documentation. Researchers obtained data through watching the movie, reading the script, taking note of the utterances, classifying and identifying the types of illocutionary acts based on the data display. Researchers found there were 213 utterances that were included in the illocutionary types. The results found by the researchers were declaration types with 3%, expressive acts with 29%, directive acts with 34%, commissive acts with 7% and assertive acts with 27%. The dominant speect act in this movie is the directive act with a percentage of 34% and the least is the declarative act with 3%.
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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