Entries by Admin Ijssers

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

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 […]

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

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, […]

Actions Under the Law in Agreements Through the Internet Media

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

The Comprehension of Verbal Passives in Najdi Arabic

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]