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Analyzing Reading Strategies of The Second Semester Students at English Literature Study Program
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One of the skills that students should always work to develop is reading. The success of students’ academic careers depends on their ability to gain information from reading passages. This study is based on a study that was conducted on the second semester students at the English Literature Study Program, Universitas Kristen Indonesia. It is to analyze their reading strategies. The design of this study was descriptive qualitative which was conducted through analyzing the questionnaire that distributed to the students. The participants engage in this study are six students in the second semester of English Literature UKI of regular afternoon students from employee and transfer classes program. Because most students in the afternoon regular class are workers who are also students, it is not as large as the morning regular class. Findings suggest that most of the students aware of the importance of reading strategies and already familiar with some of them. It is hoped that the study can help the students get better understanding their current knowledge about reading strategies and they can take action to improve their reading skill. The result also may help the lecturer determine the appropriate reading strategies to implemented in class.
Keywords: reading strategies, KWL, previewing, story mapping, skimming and scanning
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Membaca merupakan salah satu keterampilan yang selalu perlu ditingkatkan oleh siswa. Keberhasilan akademik siswa tergantung pada kemampuan mereka untuk mendapatkan informasi dari bacaan. Penelitian ini didasarkan pada mahasiswa semester dua di Program Studi Sastra Inggris, Universitas Kristen Indonesia. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menganalisis strategi membaca mereka. Rancangan penelitian ini menggunakan deskriptif kualitatif yang dilakukan melalui analisis terhadap angket yang dibagikan kepada pada mahasiswa. Partisipan yang terlibat dalam penelitian ini adalah enam mahasiswa semester dua UKI Sastra Inggris mahasiswa reguler sore dari kelas karyawan dan alih program. Karena sebagian besar siswa kelas reguler siang adalah pekerja yang juga mahasiswa, maka jumlahnya tidak sebesar kelas reguler pagi. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa sebagian besar siswa menyadari pentingnya strategi membaca dan sudah terbiasa dengan beberapa strategi membaca. Diharapkan penelitian ini dapat membantu siswa untuk lebih memahami pengetahuan mereka saat ini tentang strategi membaca dan dapat mengambil tindakan untuk meningkatkan keterampilan membacanya. Hasil penelitian ini juga dapat membantu dosen menentukan strategi membaca yang tepat untuk diimplementasikan di dalam kelas.
Kata kunci: strategi membaca, KWL, pratinjau, pemetaan cerita, skimming dan scannin
AN INVESTIGATION OF ENGLISH DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG LEARNERS AT STAR KIDS PRESCHOOL
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Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui perkembangan bahasa Inggris pelajar muda di prasekolah Star Kids. Ini adalah studi kasus. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui observasi dan wawancara semi terstruktur. Sumber data diambil dari guru, orang tua, dan kepala sekolah sebagai perwakilan manajemen sekolah di TK Star Kids. Analisis data menunjukkan bahwa guru di prasekolah Star Kids membantu pelajar muda mengembangkan bahasa Inggris mereka, tetapi pengetahuan tentang pelajar muda masih kurang. Orang tua dan kepala sekolah puas dengan guru karena mereka menjaga komunikasi yang baik. Temuan data menunjukkan bahwa para guru membutuhkan lebih banyak seminar, lokakarya, atau kursus dalam mengajar pelajar muda dengan benar.
Kata kunci: investigasi, pengembangan, siswa TK
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the English development of young learners at Star Kids preschool. It is a case study. The data were collected through observations and semi-structured interviews. The data sources were taken from the teachers, the parents, and the headmaster as the school management representative in Star Kids preschool. The data analysis indicated that the teachers in Star Kids preschool help young learners develop their English language, but the knowledge about young learners is still insufficient. The parents and the headmaster satisfy with the teachers since they maintain good communication. The data findings suggest that the teachers need more seminars, workshops, or courses in teaching young learners properly.
Keywords: investigation, development, young learner
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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