Archive for year: 2022

Reading is important because it’s a way to get messages or information, and through reading, we can
understand it and use it in the future. This paper used a descriptive research design and content
analysis to determine oral reading miscues of Grade 11 senior high school students in Sta. Margarita,
Samar, Philippines. Findings disclosed that 11th graders’ English performance is considered
satisfactory but does not reflect oral communication and modern literature competence. Students
from Electrical Installation and Maintenance have the most oral mistakes. They are not particular
about academics, especially reading, because they prefer technical-vocational skills. Since their track
is not meticulous about vowel and consonant sounds, they self-correct their mispronounced words.
The EIM class has trouble recognizing and understanding content words, and verbs are the hardest
for them to read. Errors in reading verbs may have affected their understanding of the text because
they change sentence meaning. They had trouble recognizing personal pronouns in the text, unlike
academically inclined GA students. Oral reading miscues committed by Grade 11 students have no
significant effect on their academic performance in Oral Communication and are not the direct cause
of low grades in the subject. As oral communication performance activities are required to pass the
subject, anxiety must have affected their performance. Oral reading fluency is not required to
understand literature texts, so their oral reading miscues are not the direct cause of their low grades
in 21st Century Literature. Results also disclosed that oral reading miscues committed by the students
have no significant impact on their overall academic performance in English, but differences in
learners’ learning styles do. Researchers recommend that students and English teachers provide
intensive oral and silent reading exercises in the classroom to improve academic performance in Oral
Communication and 21st Century Literature, especially those TVL-EIM students.

To the world, New Zealand has always been conceived as a safe and peaceful country, however has
pronounced its two sequential massive terrorism attacks of mosque shooting in Christchurch, during
Friday prayer, on March 15th, 2019. The attack started at the Al Noor Mosque at 1:40pm which
followed by the second attempt at the Linwood Islamic Centre 15 minutes subsequently. A 28-yearold Australian-citizen gunman has live streamed the attack via his Facebook account – the tragedy
has claimed the lives of 51 and injured 49 others. Evidently, numbers of politicians and world leaders
criticized the attacks, and as the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern in her standing
ovation at Christchurch Memorial deemed saying that the attack witnessed as ‘one of New Zealand
darkest days’ and ‘the role of combatting terrorism attacks, condemnation of violence turn now to a
collective response, not the government alone’. This paper aims to emphasizes on the conceptual and
practical understanding on the concept of collective response through public engagement – it is fairly
a new term and practice that comprises of various ways to assemble people together as a mean of
putting the public concerns forward. In this context of crisis, the government has constantly
encouraged open communication with the citizens, the affected family members, in particular, by
involving interaction, and listening. With the goal of generating mutual resolution, these efforts are
considered as a compliment to a practicing democratic country as direct involvement of ordinary
people in a crisis resolution is significantly noticeable. The main contribution of this paper lies at the
government efforts at repairing the damage and securing the well-being of nations. This paper
approaches literature review as a research methodology by putting the perspectives on government
relations alongside with public engagement as a mean of enhancing understanding on how these two
entities reciprocate each other, at times. For future research, the emphasis of analysis can be given
onto the roles of media at reporting the government efforts at combatting such social or racial crisis.

This study takes the “Village Tourism Regional Development Planning Model with the aim of
providing knowledge about the preparation of development planning in Sesaot Village based on field
findings during observations in Sesaot Village. Village planners have difficulty in preparing
development plans. Planning activities make decisions because Sesaot Village has a variety of wellknown tourist objects. The approach used is the SWOT Analysis Model because the preparation
process is relatively simple, participatory, qualitative types of information are needed in the
preparation, and can be applied to various sectors / fields, — generic in nature, such as economic,
socio-cultural, and environmental.
The purpose of writing is to provide an understanding and simulation of the use of SWOT analysis,
as well as the resulting document to be used as a guide in the preparation of village development
program planning. The targets were the RKPdes Drafting Team, also known as Team 11, and several
sub-village heads representing 15 participants. The methods used were lectures, discussions and
questions and answers, and filling out questionnaires before the presentation of the material (PreTest) and after the materialization ended (Post-Test), and simulation of the preparation of the
RKPdes in the tourism sector.
The activity includes 2 (two) stages, namely presenting material and simulation. At the simulation
stage, the steps taken in the preparation of the plan are:
(1) Identify ; (a) 3 types of existing tourism objects, (b) strengths/strengths of each tourist attraction
(Strength), (c) weaknesses of each tourist attraction (Weakness), (d) possible
opportunities/opportunities that will arise – profitable, from each tourism object (Opportunity), and
(e) the possible threats that will arise – which is detrimental, from each tourism object (Threat). (2)
Determine the class interval. (3) Calculating the mean (mean) of SWOT.
(4) Finding the SWOT score index. (5) Develop the Grand Strategy Matrix. (6) Formulating a
tourism development strategy.
Through these stages, the magnitude of the SWOT weight index is S = 2.493627; W = 0.902665;
O = 2.161821; and T = 0.730721. Thus, the coordinates of the points in the Grand Strategy Matrix
can be known, namely from S – W = 1.590962 for the abscissa axis, and O – T = 1.4311 ordinate
axis, so that they are in the first quadrant. So the strategy needed for tourism development is an
‘aggressive’ strategy (growth oriented strategy).

During the era of digital technology, the implementation of digital marketing is considered the right
innovation in understanding consumer behaviour and forming brand loyalty. This study aims to
analyse the effect of digital marketing implementation on brand loyalty moderated by buying interest
in the coffee shop business. The study was conducted in the Greater Jakarta area including 136 coffee
shops. The research sample amounted to 154 people determined by convenience sampling. The data
collection method used a closed questionnaire with a Likert scale of 1-5. Questionnaires were
distributed to respondents electronically via Google Forms. The research questionnaire has passed
the validity and reliability tests. Data analysis using the Structural Equation Modeling method
assisted by Partial Least Square (SEM PLS) software version 3.0. The results showed the effect of
digital marketing implementation on brand loyalty was moderate and significant, while the effect on
buying interest was weak and significant. While the influence of buying interest on brand loyalty is
also weak. Another research finding is that the relationship between digital marketing
implementation with purchase intention and brand loyalty is positive.

Effective curriculum implementation can be challenging in an environment where other factors are
competing for the learner’s attention, one of such factors is gambling. The purpose of this study is to
examine the effect of gambling on the academic performance of secondary school students in
educational district V of Lagos state, Nigeria. One research question and one hypothesis were raised
to guide the study. The null hypothesis was rejected and the alternate hypothesis which says that there
is significant relationship between gambling, student motivation and their academic performance
among secondary school students in educational district V of Lagos State, Nigeria (F(7, 386) = 7.129, p <
0.05). Based on the findings, the study recommended that State and Civil Society can help to curb and
instill measure to reduce the rate of student participation.