Videoblog Based on Citizens Journalism as Media Learning of News Text Construction

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Technological developments make teachers have to continue to adapt learning with current developments. The existence of technology in the form of the internet allows teacher to find and use the media from there. On learning in constructing news texts, teachers can use media in the form of video blogs based on citizen journalism that can be easily accessed using Internet. This study aims to describe the results of the application of videoblog based on citizen journalism as a medium of learning to construct news texts. The approach used in this research is descriptive qualitative. Analysis the function, structure, and language of the news text become the scalpel of this research. The results of this study indicate that citizen journalism-based videoblogs can help students in constructing news texts.

The Impact of Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Peer Review Activities on Students’ Academic Writing Skills

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Peer review activities have a positive effect on improving the students’ writing skills. This paper ims to investigate the impacts of online peer review activities which were conducted synchronously and asynchronously. Pre-test was administered before the training to determine their level of academic writing skills before the treatment. Then, to get the data a total of 70 students were divided into two groups. 35 students were trained to do online peer review activities synchronously, while the other thirty students practiced to do the asynchronous online peer review. After having peer review exercises, they were given a test on how to do the peer review to measure whether the participants had the skills to do the peer review. The students were asked to review their peers’ essays in the next step. Before, they were given a post-test on writing an essay on the topic. The pre-test and post-test results were compared to know the impact of the peer review activities. The finding shows that students’ academic writing skills have improved. However, those who practiced the synchronous online peer review activities had better scores in their academic writing than those who conducted asynchronous online peer review activities. Thus, it can be concluded that online peer review activities positively improved the students’ writing skills.

A Study on the Regional Differences of Lexical Richness in High School English Writing

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The cornerstone of studying and writing English is lexicon. For lexical evaluation and writing evaluation, lexical richness is a crucial factor. This paper aim to examine the differences in lexical richness among 284 similar writing essays from Jiangsu, Sichuan, and Yunnan using Treetagger, PowerConc, and Range32 from four dimensions: lexical density, lexical diversity, lexical complexity, and lexical error. According to the research, Jiangsu province has a somewhat higher level of lexical diversity and complexity than Sichuan and Yunnan regions, but both have slightly lower lexical density and error rates. This study makes recommendations for vocabulary teaching based on this.

Actions Under the Law in Agreements Through the Internet Media

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The development of the technology information has encougaded the existance of many activities performed by society through the sophisticated information technology, in this chase is internet. One of activities in the cyberg discussed in this term is electronic commerce. The usage of internet in humans activities causes a borderless world circumstance. There are a lot of people all over the world can take adventages of internet for their daily lives, but there are also some disadventages or bad impacts of internet itself,especially in online business activities, as it is wellkown as E-Commerce. In the electronic commerce it self, it may create the existance of many breaking law actions. Therefore, it is essential to think the solutionof these problems in the form of law in actions, given to some tort in the electronic commerce in internet. As the consequency, such cases can be solved in law order and there will not be any vacuum of law that finally may cause a greater lost. This research was carried out based on Law Number 16 Year 2016 on Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE Law), the Code of Civil (Civil Code). The results of this study this time in the business actors or the public at large so as to better understand the buying and selling transactions (e-commerce) and the extent to which these transactions (e-commerce) umbrella law, namely Law No. 16 Year 2016 on Information and Electronic Transactions (UU ITE), the Code of Civil (Civil Code). Legal actions experience their development through jurisprudence both in the Netherlands and in Indonesia, which expands the meaning of legal actions not only violating laws, but also violating decency and decency that live and apply in society.

Voices of Teachers and Pupils on School-Based Alcohol Abuse Preventive Strategies in Selected Schools of Lusaka, Zambia

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The study explored teachers’ and pupils’ views on school-based alcohol abuse preventive strategies in selected schools of Lusaka, Zambia. The study involved 30 participants and used descriptive research design to collect data. Purposive sampling procedure were used to select teachers, pupils, head teachers, parents and mental health education officers. Focus Group Discussion were used among pupils as a ‘friendship group.’ Interview guides were used to collect data from teachers, pupils, head teachers and mental health officers. Thematic analysis was used to analyze data with major themes drawn from interviews. From the findings, it was evident that some pupils abused alcohol in school premises. The findings revealed that peer pressure, stress, ignorance, curiosity, lack of sensitization on the dangers of alcohol abuse were the main factors influencing the pupils to abuse alcohol in schools. The findings showed that sensitization and awareness were rarely conducted to prevent pupils from abusing alcohol. The study recommended inter alia that school based strategies should be more interactive and should involve plays, games, life skills training in order to contribute positively to behavioural change. Teachers, head teachers and parents should be involved in the prevention of alcohol abuse and should undergo short in-house training in alcohol prevention in schools.

Common English Written Errors Made by English Majored Sophomores at Tay Do University, Viet Nam

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Writing is seen as one of the four central skills of English that contributes to the success of language learners. Hence, to improve the writing skill, English majored students have to face some difficulties in the learning process. As a result, this research titled “Common English written errors made by English majored sophomores at Tay Do University” is conducted to identify sophomores’ writing problems in English learning and to suggest ways of solving those problems. The study is conducted at Tay Do University. The research method used is the descriptive research method. A sample of 90 English language sophomores (from 3 English classes 14A, 14B, 14C) is selected using a simple random sampling procedure. They will be asked to fill in a questionnaire. The aim is to identify the problems and mistakes that students can get in English writing. The findings of the research will be analyzed to figure out some ubiquitous errors in writing related to vocabulary, grammatical structures, and background knowledge.

A Survey on Difficulties in Learning Listening Skill of English Majored Students at Tay Do University, Viet Nam

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Though listening ability is one of the important skills in foreign language learning, there has been relatively little research in this specific area. The present study attempts to investigate the listening problems encountered by 50 students from Bachelor of English class at Tay Do University. In study process, questionnaire is used as an instruments to collect the data. The results of the research will point out some listening problems that students usually face in their learning process. The expected outcomes will be relevant the students in recognizing their listening problems.

The Comprehension of Verbal Passives in Najdi Arabic

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The acquisition of passive constructions has been the focus of considerable theoretical and empirical interest. Passive constructions are often considered late-acquired structures, not fully acquired for at least six years. This longitudinal study provides evidence that passive sentences emerge early in Najdi Arabic, around the age of three. It argues that the acquisition of passives is readily observed when the language lacks the morphological ambiguity of passives and accurate measures are used in the test administration. This paper concludes that theories of passive acquisition must account for these issues.

The Impact of Frequency on Words’ Mental Storage: A Study on Arab Speakers of English as a Second Language

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The presented study investigates the effect of frequency on the mental lexicon representation of English words. The study targets Arabic native speakers, who speak English as a second language. To test the hypothesized relation of frequency and words’ storage, a questionnaire was developed and distributed to ten Arabs speaking English as a second language. The questionnaire was designed for the participants to rate how two pairs of words, complex words and their roots, are related in meaning. The words were divided into two groups, frequent and infrequent words. The findings revealed a significant difference in the responses between the two groups of words. This difference was in favor of the frequent words, which can be used as an indicator that users’ mental lexicon stores frequent words of their second language as complex word forms, not separate morphemes.

Implementation of the Parliamentary Threshold in Elections for the People’s Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia According to the 1945 Constitution

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The implementation of a democratic parliamentary threshold in Indonesia will always grow and develop in line with the growth and development of society. General elections which are a means to realize people’s sovereignty must carry out political ideas in its implementation, so that democratic elections do not only determine who sits in parliament but represent people’s sovereignty. The problem is whether the parliamentary threshold of the people’s votes represented through political parties as participants in the 4% parliamentary threshold election can still be called people’s sovereignty. The research method used is doctrinal research, namely research that is conceptualized and developed on the basis of the doctrine espoused in concept or development. The results of the study explain that the implementation of the Parliamentary Threshold is aimed at simplifying the party system and creating a strong presidential system with effective representative institutions, and guaranteeing people’s sovereignty. Parliamentary Threshold is considered to be more effective in finding political parties that are serious about fighting for people’s aspirations.