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The Students’ Perception of Apprehending, Synthesizing, Analyzing, and Responding (ASAR) Speaking Process-Based Instructional Materials
No full textThis study was based on the students’ problems regarding English teaching, especially English materials of speaking skills. The students have poor English speaking ability because the lecturer did not have instructional materials related to their department. The media and method was not attractive and the instructional facilities were not enough to facilitate a good learning process. The objective of the research was to develop Englishspeaking materials by integrating Apprehending, Synthesizing, Analyzing, and Responding (ASAR) based material. The sample of the study was Biological students of Muhammadiyah University of Parepare, Indonesia. The method used in this research was developmental research which attempts to develop English-speaking materials based on the modified ADDIE approach (Analyze, Design, and Development). The result of the study was an authentic English-speaking materials for Biological students of Muhammadiyah University of Parepare. The instructional materials focused on input, process, and output. After the materials were given the student’s perception changed into very good value. It means that English-speaking instructions for the Biology department have good quality in the form of course map, lesson plan, lecturer's manual, topic, video clips, materials, students' worksheets, learning activities, and assessment
Enhancing EFL Students’ Oral Proficiency: The ChatGPT-Assisted Debate Clinic Method
No full textThe low level of students’ English oral proficiency was caused by inappropriate learning methods and the lack of a conducive English learning environment created by lecturers. Therefore, this study aims to determine the effectiveness of implementing the ChatGPT-assisted debate clinic approach to enhance students’ oral proficiency in English. This study was conducted using a quantitative approach with a true-experimental design (pretest–posttest control group design). The population involved in this study consisted of third-semester students from the Islamic Religious Education Study Program at STAI DDI Pinrang, Indonesia. The total population was 45 students, and the study sample was 29 students, selected using a total sampling technique. The statistical test results show that the significance values (Asymp. Sig. and Exact Sig.) are very small (0.000), indicating high statistical significance (p < 0.05). This means that there is a significant difference between the post-test data of the two groups. Therefore, teaching English through the ChatGPT-assisted debate clinic method can effectively enhance students’ oral proficiency
Designing English Instructional Model: An Integrated Technology in ESP for Biological Students
Full text linkThis study was based on the students’ needs regarding the instructional model of English teaching at the Biology Department. The objective of this study was to design English materials by combining YouTube and ABA (American and British Academy) Applications based on the students' needs analysis. The study was mixed-method research with the subject of the research was Biological students of Muhammadiyah University of Parepare, Indonesia. The result of the study was the instructional model focused on input, process, and output. In the input, there are goals and skills; in the process, there are learning activities and venues and in the output there is learning outcomes. The skills are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Every skill consists of five activities. Listening skill consisted of five activities, namely hearing, understanding, remembering, responding, and evaluating. Speaking skill consisted of apprehending, synthesizing, analyzing, and evaluating. Reading skill consisted of reading, generating, comprehending, discussing, and evaluating. Writing consisted of pre-writing, composing, feedbacking, revising, and evaluating. There were two venues of the model. They were indoor and outdoor. Besides, the learning outcomes focused on cognitive, affective, and psychomoto
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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