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Lesson Exemplars Using Original Cebuano Stories in Teaching Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE)
Cristie Ann Jaca,
Geraldine Gregorio Soledad
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022
Pages:
1-8
Received:
27 September 2021
Accepted:
16 October 2021
Published:
8 January 2022
Abstract: The implementation of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) as a subject and as a Medium of Instruction (MOI) for Grades 1, 2 and 3 gave rise to language issues in teaching and learning. This study presents the lesson exemplars using new original Cebuano stories to facilitate the teaching of MTB-MLE subject among Grade one students. This study used the quasi-experimental research design that employed the control group and the experimental group of Grade 1 students that investigated the effects of using Cebuano stories and exercises in MTB-MLE class. A researcher-made, expert-validated pretest instrument was used to gather baseline data on participants’ performance in MTB–MLE of both groups. Results showed that there is a significant difference between students’ MTB–MLE performance and participation before and after. During their MTBMLE classes, the experimental group was more motivated to listen and learn new words through Cebuano stories told in class than simply unlocking unfamiliar words in the control group. The lesson exemplars using Cebuano stories served as an effective means of reinforcing lessons in the MTB-MLE subject. Thus, lesson exemplars were proposed to promote the teaching and learning in MTB-MLE subject, enhancing the students’ performance and participation in class.
Abstract: The implementation of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) as a subject and as a Medium of Instruction (MOI) for Grades 1, 2 and 3 gave rise to language issues in teaching and learning. This study presents the lesson exemplars using new original Cebuano stories to facilitate the teaching of MTB-MLE subject among Grade one studen...
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Analysis on the Examination of Single Basketball Recruit for Sports Training Majors in Chinese Colleges
Yufeng Yang,
Xiaoying Tan,
Wenxuan Fang
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022
Pages:
9-16
Received:
29 December 2021
Accepted:
12 January 2022
Published:
21 January 2022
Abstract: The major of sports training basketball single recruitment system has been developed for more than 30 years. It is an important path for my country to screen and cultivate outstanding sports talents of senior high school and a powerful measure for the integration of sports and education in my country. This article takes the 2018-2020 basketball single recruit students of the three colleges of sport in the East China examination area as the entry point. Through research, it is found that the following problems exist in the current basketball particular test: 1. The evaluation is singleness, which cannot fully demonstrate the students' exceptional sports quality; 2. The particular technical items are not well-targeted; 3. The match time is short, the random team formation leads to the imbalance of the lineups of both sides of the competition, and the scoring standards are generalized. The suggestions are as follows: 1. Using the scoring standards to measure the absolute and relative height to scientifically evaluate the special qualities of the candidates; 2. The particular technical part establishes a targeted assessment system based on the inside and outside players; 3. The shooting test is based on each position requirements of the player position appropriately extend the shooting distance; 4. Properly extend the match time, reasonably allocate the lineup configuration of the two sides of the game, and at the same time refine the scoring standards, establish a combination of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods.
Abstract: The major of sports training basketball single recruitment system has been developed for more than 30 years. It is an important path for my country to screen and cultivate outstanding sports talents of senior high school and a powerful measure for the integration of sports and education in my country. This article takes the 2018-2020 basketball sin...
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Oral Tradition Cacap-Cacapan: Directive Action in Wedding Events Lubuklinggau-Indonesia
Hartati Ratna Juita,
Sumiyadi,
Iskandarwassid,
Tedi Permadi
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022
Pages:
17-20
Received:
2 February 2021
Accepted:
26 March 2021
Published:
25 January 2022
Abstract: Lubuklinggau is a city in South Sumatra province that still maintains cultural traditions and customs, one of which is tadition in marriages which are usually called event cacap-cacapan, as traditional traditions of the Lubuklinggau community. The tradition of stabbing in marriages is carried out after the procession of marriage. The purpose of this study is to describe the types of directive speech acts based on those contained in the speech program of handicapped marriage. The method used is descriptive analytic with the technique of taking the samples needed in a specific research purpose (purposive sampling). Based on the analysis in the research, it was found that all speech acts use Indonesian, namely speech of the master of event cacapan as the host of the event in a traditional, which has been chosen by the bride and groom and includes rhymes, as well as Indonesian which is of course different from daily language of people in Lubuklinggau that use Pelembang language which is still included in the Malay family. The types of directive speech acts delivered at traditional event for cacap-cacapan, are a) inviting, b) reminding, c) advising, d) stating something, as a greeting and, e) being grateful. Each type of directive utterance has a different and descriptive meaning.
Abstract: Lubuklinggau is a city in South Sumatra province that still maintains cultural traditions and customs, one of which is tadition in marriages which are usually called event cacap-cacapan, as traditional traditions of the Lubuklinggau community. The tradition of stabbing in marriages is carried out after the procession of marriage. The purpose of thi...
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Effects of Curriculum in Pakistan at Primary Level
Abdul Malik,
Tayyab Farooq Bhatti
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022
Pages:
21-26
Received:
29 May 2021
Accepted:
27 July 2021
Published:
25 January 2022
Abstract: The study is aimed at the effects of the curriculum in Pakistan at the primary level. Following were the main objectives of this study, to recognize the central problems of the primary education system in Pakistan. This study is descriptive in nature of district Lahore. Methods and procedures research methodology. This research study attempts to explore the main causes of the problems of the primary education system in Pakistan. 4 District Punjab. Sampling, the entire 100 students were as a sample of the study. Data will be collected and tabulated, interpreted, and analyzed in terms of the percentage. So, the conclusion will be drawn recommendations will for further research on this topic. The questionnaire was personally curriculum at the primary level by the researchers to all the respondents included in the sample. Because of this study, researchers would like to make the following findings. An understanding of the need for communication and transport as essential elements in development strongly agreed 90%, Agreed 60%, neutral 10% strongly disagreed 05% and disagree 07%. In light of the analysis of data and findings of the study, the following conclusions are drawn. To promote intellectual development of the child which includes literacy in languages, numeracy in Mathematics, inquiry in Science, problem-solving in Social Studies and inculcating values in Islamite strongly agreed 60%, Agreed 90%, neutral 20% strongly disagreed 10% and disagree 10%. Because of the findings and conclusions of this study, researchers would like to make the following recommendations. Every teacher possesses a vision. The same may be encouraged and promoted.
Abstract: The study is aimed at the effects of the curriculum in Pakistan at the primary level. Following were the main objectives of this study, to recognize the central problems of the primary education system in Pakistan. This study is descriptive in nature of district Lahore. Methods and procedures research methodology. This research study attempts to ex...
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Cultural Quality Education in Chinese Universities: Rise, Rationales and Approaches
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022
Pages:
27-32
Received:
11 January 2022
Accepted:
24 January 2022
Published:
9 February 2022
Abstract: The development of Chinese higher education over the past 30 years cannot be separated from the reform of cultural quality education. The rise of the reform was under the background of emancipating the mind in the whole society and strengthening education reform in educational field. The purpose was to break through the disadvantages of narrow professional education and promote university students’ comprehensive quality. Theoretically, it insists that true education is both cultural education and quality education, through which building human's cultural life and improving human’s comprehensive quality. It advocates educating man rather than manufacturing tools. It takes culture as an integrity, not being separated apart. It insists on educating man with holistic and integrated culture, not separated culture, or prejudiced, narrow-minded culture. The approaches stress on both heritage and innovation, such as integrating humanistic education and science education, emphasizing national culture education, promoting poetry education, and meeting the needs of the modern, the world, and the future. It tries hard to enlarge and thicken university students’ knowledge foundations, to broaden their specialty, to widen their visons, to cultivate their rational principle and thinking ability. On the whole, cultural quality education reform is Chinese innovation of educational theory and practice. It is effective in practice and has improved the quality of higher education in China.
Abstract: The development of Chinese higher education over the past 30 years cannot be separated from the reform of cultural quality education. The rise of the reform was under the background of emancipating the mind in the whole society and strengthening education reform in educational field. The purpose was to break through the disadvantages of narrow prof...
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Learning Proper VOT of English Velar Stops by Kuwaiti Undergraduate Students from VOT and Optimality Theory Perspectives
Sultan Melfi Aldaihani,
Shorouq Khalid Al-Houti,
Yousef Masad Alenezi
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022
Pages:
33-41
Received:
2 January 2022
Accepted:
6 February 2022
Published:
16 February 2022
Abstract: An important issue in the recent L2 literature is whether adult learners can perceive a gradient phonetic difference between L1 and the corresponding L2 phonemes. This leads us to further judge whether such learners can acquire allophonic contrast in L2. The same issue has been addressed in the current study with reference to Kuwaiti adult learners of English. The aim of this study is to analyze velar stops /k, g/ as perceived and produced by Kuwaiti Arabic (KA) learners of English. In this study, comprehension is measured by a perception test, and pronunciation is measured by obtaining readings of voice onset time (VOT) in Praat software. The velar stops will also be analyzed using the framework of the classic version of optimality theory (OT). OT became one of the major generative frameworks in the field of generative phonology. OT is a constraint-based theory of phonology advanced by Prince and Smolensky. In the perception test, participants were asked to listen to words containing target sounds, which were “keys,” “skis,” and “geese,” and note on paper which English word they had heard. In the discrimination task, these words were presented in pairs, and the participants were asked to say whether they had heard a single word twice or two words together. In the production test, they read from a list of words, including “keys,” “skis,” and “geese,” and their productions were recorded. A large group of Kuwaiti English learners perceived and produced these velar stops of English. Their discrimination of voiced and voiceless velar stops was excellent, but their identification of [g] was weak. Their identification of the voiceless velar stop /k/ was also native-like. In production, they were native-like in aspirated [kh]. In the production of the unaspirated voiceless velar stop [k], they were not native-like, but they had developed an understanding of this allophone of English. In [g], some students were native-like, some were still learning, and some had only relied on L1 transfer.
Abstract: An important issue in the recent L2 literature is whether adult learners can perceive a gradient phonetic difference between L1 and the corresponding L2 phonemes. This leads us to further judge whether such learners can acquire allophonic contrast in L2. The same issue has been addressed in the current study with reference to Kuwaiti adult learners...
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A Historical Review on Theories of Sequential Learning in Music and Related Documents for Textbooks from Late Qing Dynasty to 1970’s Reform in China
Feiqun Shu,
Panya Roongruang,
Sakchai Hirunrak
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022
Pages:
42-51
Received:
16 January 2022
Accepted:
27 January 2022
Published:
16 February 2022
Abstract: It has been an appealing topic in the academic and practical fields pertaining music education that music learning should obey a proper sequence in regard of contents and skills so that children will be allowed to learn music in the way suitable to their mental and physical growth without abrupt encounters causing frustration and extra difficulty. This means that sequential learning in music involves two facets, requiring music educators to be careful when dealing with curriculum and textbooks. One is to pay attention to the general logic of music to be learned as a school subject – from the easy to the difficult, from the near to the remote, from the surface to the inner sophisticated, from the sensational experiences to the intellectual understanding or abstract thinking, etc. Since early ages of human endeavors, educators have been expressing opinions about this issue; some were concerned with general orientations while others provided specific strategies which might be applied to the learning of school subjects. Among these giant people, Confucius expressed his conclusions about the former, and with latter pertaining to music, the learning sequence seemed to be cared in two lines. One was practical exploration in real setting doing curriculum design for schooling, while the theoretical construction was carried out systematically by a few scholars among whom Edwin Gordon stood out as the most eminent. This article touched these two lines of work by tracing back from ancient Chinese classics to the “Great Didactic” established by Comenius, the founder of modern theory for school teaching. All these men contributed significantly to the ideas and conceptions for a proper order or sequence for learning, including learning in music to certain extend. In addition to the early ideas and modern theories on this topic, this article found that from late Qing dynasty (1904) to early Reform time (1979) in China, a practical endeavor pursuing sequential learning in music was consistently carried out and written by generations of music educators in more than a dozen of official education documents in the forms of national standards or syllabus for school music. Because sequential learning is a strong factor which inevitably influences the logical layout of music textbooks and the way of teaching and learning thereafter, a historical review seems necessary to run through these education documents to depict some experiences and lessons for the national curriculum design and textbook development of today.
Abstract: It has been an appealing topic in the academic and practical fields pertaining music education that music learning should obey a proper sequence in regard of contents and skills so that children will be allowed to learn music in the way suitable to their mental and physical growth without abrupt encounters causing frustration and extra difficulty. ...
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Crisis as Opportunity to Try Something New: Student-Centered Pedagogy During the Onset of COVID-19
David Nurenberg,
Liana Tuller
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022
Pages:
52-62
Received:
21 February 2022
Published:
25 February 2022
Abstract: The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Spring of 2020 forced a sudden and unexpected disruption of the usual modes of schooling around the world. In the United States, lack of federal, state and district leadership left most teachers to negotiate the chaotic early months of the pandemic on their own. This study attempted to discover to what extent some US teachers used this crisis as an opportunity to jettison traditional teaching methods in favor of more engaging, student-centered practices, and examined whether teacher self-efficacy and facility with technology were related to that decision. Analysis of survey data from PK-12 teachers (n=178) found a near-universal reduction in use of student-centered teaching methods (SCMs) during the onset of COVID-19, especially among teachers who reported higher self-efficacy before the crisis (age and experience were insulating factors). On average, greater self-confidence before COVID-19 was associated with a greater decrease in the use of SCMs during the crisis. While TSE during the crisis was positively correlated with use of student-centered methods, the direction of the influence between those two variables could not be determined. In our analysis, the data seem to better support the theory that use of SCMs builds a sense of efficacy, rather than the traditional understanding that it is high TSE that empowers a teacher to use innovative pedagogy, but more study is needed to strengthen that theory. Technology versatility was correlated weakly with TSE in the COVID Onset Period, but we found no evidence of any correlation between technology versatility and SCM usage. The authors recommend further exploration through surveying a wider population and adding data sources beyond teacher self-reports.
Abstract: The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Spring of 2020 forced a sudden and unexpected disruption of the usual modes of schooling around the world. In the United States, lack of federal, state and district leadership left most teachers to negotiate the chaotic early months of the pandemic on their own. This study attempted to discover to what exte...
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Influence of Entrepreneurship Ecosystem at Sultan Qaboos University on Preparing Entrepreneurs
Ahmed Al Rabaani,
Huda Al Dayri
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022
Pages:
63-71
Received:
16 December 2021
Accepted:
6 January 2022
Published:
28 February 2022
Abstract: This study investigates the influence of an entrepreneurship ecosystem at Sultan Qaboos University on preparing entrepreneurs. A Likert-type questionnaire consisted of (45) items divided into seven sections: the students’ attendance or participation in activities related, reasons to start their own business, obstacles to start their own business, estimation of the influence of program courses on development their entrepreneurial skills, estimation of the influence of academic staff on the development of their entrepreneurial skills, estimation of the influence of graduation and theses projects on the development of their entrepreneurial skills and estimation of the influence of university activities on development their entrepreneurial skills. The questionnaire was administered to 590 male (n = 231) and female (n = 359) students from nine colleges of the university. The results showed that the majority of study sample students do not attend any programs, courses, workshops, conferences, or symposiums related to entrepreneurship. It also found that that these students lack entrepreneurship knowledge, lack ability to discover opportunities, lack confidence, lack management skills and fear of risk-taking, and that this influences their intention and views of obstacles to starting their own business. The results also showed that the students moderately benefited from their program courses, academic staff, and graduation projects in developing their entrepreneurship. The findings also found that students highly benefited from university activities and attending exhibitions for students entrepreneurs in the field of development of their entrepreneurship. Student’s gender and colleges influence their views of entrepreneurship ecosystems.
Abstract: This study investigates the influence of an entrepreneurship ecosystem at Sultan Qaboos University on preparing entrepreneurs. A Likert-type questionnaire consisted of (45) items divided into seven sections: the students’ attendance or participation in activities related, reasons to start their own business, obstacles to start their own business, e...
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