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The Use of Talking Chips Technique in Students\u27 Impromptu Speaking
No full textThe purpose of learning language is to communicate with people. It means that speaking is one important skill in learning language. Based on pre-observation, students encountered many problems, such as lack of vocabularies, grammar, fluency and pronunciation. Therefore, the writer wanted to solve those problems by using Talking Chips technique in teaching speaking. The aims of the study were to find out the data of the use of Talking Chips technique affects students or not, and to find out the students\u27 responses about Talking Chips technique in speaking class. The subject of this study was the First Year in University in Cirebon. The total sample was fourty students. This study used quasi experimental design with control class. In experimental class, the class which used Talking Chips technique in teaching speaking, it was conducted in three steps, such as pre-test, treatments, and post-test. The findings of this study were that Talking Chips technique is effective to students\u27 speaking ability, especially in impromptu speaking. By comparing the mean score of experimental and control class, it was found that the Talking Chips technique is effective in teaching speaking. From the data, it can be concluded that many students spoke in English very often therefore the students got higher scores. It was supported by the data of questionnaire of students\u27 responses. Those responses said that Talking Chips gives many benefits to foster students\u27 speaking ability
A Multiple Case Study that Looks at the Implementation of character Education in English Classroom
No full textThis research observed and analyzed the implementation of character education in English classrooms. It sought to find out how English teachers develop and select materials and strategies for implementing character education in their classroom, how the English teachers implement and integrate character education in their classroom, and what factors the teachers found to be the inhibiting and supporting system for implementing character education in their school. Three teachers from three schools – a public vocational school, a public senior high school, and a religious-based public high school – participated in this research as the respondents. The purpose of involving three different type of schools was that this research needed to observe the implementation of character education in three different settings. By implementing multiple case study, this research gathered data through interview and observation. This research found that teachers in the two schools – vocational and senior high school – begun the implementation of character education by developing a plan consisted of what character they need to develop and what materials that triggered students’ interest. Moreover, this research also found that the two schools share similar strategies in implementing character education as follows: using authentic materials, verbal instructions, and cultural approach. Meanwhile, in the religious-based senior high school, the teacher did not specifically develop and select materials intended to implement character education since the school had already subjects and extracurricular programs in religion teaching and intended to develop students’ character. Lastly, this research found that the three schools share similar supporting and inhibiting factors in implementing character education namely lack of good examples in school, family, and community, lack of partnership between school, parents, and community member, and lack of commitment among the school community members to support the character education in school. And the supporting system they had were that the schools had already developed code of conducts, rules, and extracurricular programs intended to develop students’ character
A Multiple Case Study that Looks at the Implementation of character Education in English Classroom
No full textThis research observed and analyzed the implementation of character education in English classrooms. It sought to find out how English teachers develop and select materials and strategies for implementing character education in their classroom, how the English teachers implement and integrate character education in their classroom, and what factors the teachers found to be the inhibiting and supporting system for implementing character education in their school. Three teachers from three schools – a public vocational school, a public senior high school, and a religious-based public high school – participated in this research as the respondents. The purpose of involving three different type of schools was that this research needed to observe the implementation of character education in three different settings. By implementing multiple case study, this research gathered data through interview and observation. This research found that teachers in the two schools – vocational and senior high school – begun the implementation of character education by developing a plan consisted of what character they need to develop and what materials that triggered students’ interest. Moreover, this research also found that the two schools share similar strategies in implementing character education as follows: using authentic materials, verbal instructions, and cultural approach. Meanwhile, in the religious-based senior high school, the teacher did not specifically develop and select materials intended to implement character education since the school had already subjects and extracurricular programs in religion teaching and intended to develop students’ character. Lastly, this research found that the three schools share similar supporting and inhibiting factors in implementing character education namely lack of good examples in school, family, and community, lack of partnership between school, parents, and community member, and lack of commitment among the school community members to support the character education in school. And the supporting system they had were that the schools had already developed code of conducts, rules, and extracurricular programs intended to develop students’ character
The Use of Talking Chips Technique in Students' Impromptu Speaking
No full textThe purpose of learning language is to communicate with people. It means that speaking is one important skill in learning language. Based on pre-observation, students encountered many problems, such as lack of vocabularies, grammar, fluency and pronunciation. Therefore, the writer wanted to solve those problems by using Talking Chips technique in teaching speaking. The aims of the study were to find out the data of the use of Talking Chips technique affects students or not, and to find out the students' responses about Talking Chips technique in speaking class. The subject of this study was the First Year in University in Cirebon. The total sample was fourty students. This study used quasi experimental design with control class. In experimental class, the class which used Talking Chips technique in teaching speaking, it was conducted in three steps, such as pre-test, treatments, and post-test. The findings of this study were that Talking Chips technique is effective to students' speaking ability, especially in impromptu speaking. By comparing the mean score of experimental and control class, it was found that the Talking Chips technique is effective in teaching speaking. From the data, it can be concluded that many students spoke in English very often therefore the students got higher scores. It was supported by the data of questionnaire of students' responses. Those responses said that Talking Chips gives many benefits to foster students' speaking ability
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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