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International Conference On Language And Culture, University For Business And Technology - Ubt

UBT International Conference

UBT Annual International Conference is the 9th international interdisciplinary peer reviewed conference which publishes works of the scientists as well as practitioners in the area where UBT is active in Education, Research and Development. The UBT aims to implement an integrated strategy to establish itself as an internationally competitive, research-intensive university, committed to the transfer of knowledge and the provision of a world-class education to the most talented students from all background. The main perspective of the conference is to connect the scientists and practitioners from different disciplines in the same place and make them be aware of the recent …

International Conference On Education And Development, University For Business And Technology - Ubt

UBT International Conference

UBT Annual International Conference is the 9th international interdisciplinary peer reviewed conference which publishes works of the scientists as well as practitioners in the area where UBT is active in Education, Research and Development. The UBT aims to implement an integrated strategy to establish itself as an internationally competitive, research-intensive university, committed to the transfer of knowledge and the provision of a world-class education to the most talented students from all background. The main perspective of the conference is to connect the scientists and practitioners from different disciplines in the same place and make them be aware of the recent …

International Conference On Education And Development, University For Business And Technology - Ubt

UBT International Conference

UBT Annual International Conference is the 8th international interdisciplinary peer reviewed conference which publishes works of the scientists as well as practitioners in the area where UBT is active in Education, Research and Development. The UBT aims to implement an integrated strategy to establish itself as an internationally competitive, research-intensive university, committed to the transfer of knowledge and the provision of a world-class education to the most talented students from all background. The main perspective of the conference is to connect the scientists and practitioners from different disciplines in the same place and make them be aware of the recent …

Implementation Of The Public Schools’ Disaster Risk Reduction Management Program And Level Of Capabilities To Respond, Roselene Tabilon Tizon, Sheena Mae Trestiza Comighud

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This study assessed the status of implementation of the public schools’ disaster risk reduction management (DRRM) program as to the four (4) DRRM thematic areas and the level of capability of the respondents to respond during hazards to prevent disaster in all public schools of Bayawan City Division, Negros Oriental for S.Y. 2018-2019. A total of ninety-six (96) public elementary and secondary school heads were selected as research respondents representing the different 10 districts of Bayawan City Division. The study used the adopted survey questionnaires from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (NDRRM) Plan and the Hyogo Framework of …

Utilization Of Information And Communication Technology (Ict) Resources, Mary Jane O. Gelacio

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This research used the descriptive method to determine the level of utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Resources in District 4 Public Elementary Schools of Bayawan City Division, Negros Oriental, Philippines for SY 2019-2020. The quantitative data were gathered from 73 research respondents comprised of school heads, ICT Coordinators, and teachers. Also, the researcher conducted a survey questionnaire. Descriptive method was used in this study. The statistical tools used in the analysis of the data were percentage, mean, and weighted mean. The study found out that the level of utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Resources in the …

Implementation Of Intercultural Education In The Republic Of North Macedonia, Natka Jankova

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The intense nature of intercultural processes in today's society alters communication at a fundamental level - both in practice and in behavior. Modern socio and psycholinguistic theories call for intercultural discourse to be the key in interpreting social interactions among people in global society. At the same time, it is normal to change the requirements of individual competence, understood as a complex of knowledge, skills and attitudes, allowing the individual to deal effectively with situations that are increasingly determined by cultural differences. This paper points out that the learning process should extend from the teaching individual grammatical structures and theoretical …

Instructional Supervision And Educational Administration. Goal Setting, Monitoring And Feedbacking Practices As Performance Management Mechanisms., Sheena Mae T. Comighud

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Performance management is important for an organization. In a top-down perspective, it emphasizes the strategic alignment of the agency's thrusts with the day-to-day operation. Also, from a bottom-up approach, it aligns and optimizes individual performance with the common goal of the group. This paper examined the extent of school heads’ implementation of the Results-based Performance Management System (RPMS) as performance management mechanism in the Department of Education (DepEd). It focused on the 61 school heads and 271 teaching personnel of Bayawan City Division, Negros Oriental, Philippines for SY 2018-2019. It utilized the descriptive, comparative, and correlational methods of research in …

Dr. Faust, By Christopher Marlowe, An Everlasting Story Of The Greed Of The Human Mind And Spirit Throughout History, Vlera Ejupi, Halil Bashota

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Dr. Faust was written during the period of Humanism and Renaissance, with an everlasting value throughout history. It describes the never ceasing desire of the human soul and mind to try to lurk for things beyond the grasp of the human ratio. The author, Christopher Marlowe gave the seal of eternity to this book, by characterizing his main character with all the possible wishes that one can dream of. That is why Faust has got the PhD on law, medicine, theology and logics. Further on he met Mephistopheles, the main devil that reminds him of the seven deadly sins trying …

Challenges Of Translating Diplomatic Discourse, Terminology And Proverbs From English To Albanian Language, Redi Papa

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This paper aims to closely elaborate the comprehensive linguistic and stylistic features, aspects of equivalency regarding proverbs diplomatic terminology in order to carry out a comparison with Albanian equivalents. The language of diplomacy and terminology has been broadly extended particularly during the last three decades. The sphere of this style is closely related to activities concerned with meetings, conferences, congresses. Indeed it is worth emphasizing that the whole range of these activities isn’t devoid of proverbs and terminology which renders specific peculiarities. Contrary to other fields the purpose of diplomatic texts, utterances and proverbs it’s not that of merely conveying …

Imagist Poetry Of Twentieth Century American Poets Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell And Hilda Doolittle, Halil Bashota, Vlera Ejupi

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This article elaborates key aspects of the imagist poetry of twentieth century American poets E. Pound, A. Lowell and H. Doolittle. Twentieth century Imagism belongs to a literary movement in American modern era that is characterized by a tendency to break from the past of traditional literary styles, to a movement that reflects the simplicity, clarity and precision of reflective images. It covers a period from imagism to symbolism, a period of free expression, direct topics as well as images as an exact description. The study remains with highest relevance, despite that there is a wide range of articles, papers, …

Factors Influencing Student Persistence In Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Kunchon Jeotee

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This survey research aimed to 1) study correlations between some factors on student persistence, 2) study influences of some factors on student persistence, and 3) create regression equation for predicting student persistence in Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University. The sample were 787 graduated students of Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University which were selected by accidental sampling. Questionnaires were used to collect the data and analyze the data; percentage, correlation, coefficient of determination, and multiple regression analysis. The results were:

1) There were some correlations between each factor on student persistence; master degree program had the highest correlation = .76, 4-year bachelor degree …

The Attitudes Of Albanian Teachers Towards Multicultural Education In Kosovo, Feride Lohaj

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This is a survey study that determines the Albanian teachers' attitudes toward multicultural education and the participants of the study were 50 teachers who are teaching different subjects in various grades and schools in region of Ferizaj. The data for this study was collected through a 5-point Likert scale called "Teachers' Multicultural Attitude Scale". According to findings, it is determined that teachers have positive attitudes towards multicultural education. Their attitudes differ in a statistically significant way according to their gender, age, and professional seniority. Art and Sports teachers were found to have more positive attitudes than class teachers, but history …

Professional Identity Of Esl Teachers And The Missing Links In Kosovo Schools, Syzane Merovci

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Understanding the process of identity construction, its dynamics, influencing factors, and the roles teachers adhere to while exercising their profession, has become a challenge many researchers are trying to overcome. In the Kosovo context, this field of study result utterly un-researched. Therefore, this study aims to understand the identity perception of the novice and experienced EFL teachers involving the following features; gender, role, qualification, teaching experience, methodology, teaching curriculum. The study took place in public and private elementary schools in Pristina region, Kosovo. A group of 32 EFL (English as Foreign Language) teachers engaged in urban and rural areas and …

Project-Based Learning Assessing: Peer Assessment On Travel Business Management, Kanlaya Swangkong

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This paper is a case study to study the project-based learning method in the course “Travel Business Management”. This course focuses on the business model and problems in operation. The main objectives of this course were to teach students to understand the principles of operation and to be able to organize trips to the public. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the successfulness of the project-based learning method by peer assessment technique. Students were assigned to set up their own mock-up tour company and arranging the full tour program. The instructor has established assessment form for the assessment …

Maxim De Winter’S Perception Of The Female World In Du Maurier’S Rebecca, Silvishah Miftari Goodspeed

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Rebecca is a novel written by Daphne Du Maurier, in which the main characters are women. This paper focuses on the only male point of view in the novel, Maxim de Winter’s. He was Rebecca’s husband and he is the spouse of the current Mrs. de Winter. He is also Mrs. Danver’s landlord, Beatrice’s brother, and Mrs. Van Hopper’s acquaintance. He is the lynchpin uniting the female characters, whose decisive leadership motivates the novel’s action. In the past, critics have often analyzed the plot’s female points of view, mentioning Mr. de Winter mainly as an opposite entity to these ladies. …

Computers’ Impact On Students’ Writing Skills, Alisa Sadiku, Ardian Krasniqi

UBT International Conference

Nowadays, technology has become one of the most dominant factors that assist second language learning and teaching process. Thus, its use has become widely spread in classroom settings as it provides a stimulant, interactive and creative learning environment. Particularly, the expansion of technology has brought significant improvements in students’ writing skills. Hence, the main aim of this paper is to explain computers’ impact on students writing, that is to say, how computers assist students in creating more concise and qualitative texts. In order to prove my hypothesis, an experiment was carried out with two groups of first year students, at …

Evolution Of A Course: Instructional Design Elements And Impacts, Michele Gibney, Anita Mirijamdotter, Mary M. Somerville, Patrik Elm, Krenare Pireva Nuci

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During the 2017 spring semester, international educators from the United States and Sweden collaborated on an Information Systems, Analysis, Design and Modeling course at the University of Business and Technology (UBT) in Kosovo for graduate students. In the spring of 2018, the collaboration and course were repeated with both graduate and undergraduate students. In the initial course, student work was focused on the conceptual design of a UBT Knowledge Center through the lenses of soft systems methodology and co- design activities. The Spring 2018 course built upon and expanded this work with additional stakeholder input from a mixed group of …

The Cosmopolitan Echo Of Maya Angelou In Her Novel ``I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings``, Vlera Ejupi, Halil Bashota

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A whole portrayal of the most brilliant echoes against the unbearable shown racist feelings on the black population, is without any doubt pretty well present in the American novel `I know why the caged bird sings` by Maya Angelou. The sad echoes of extreme loneliness, the feeling of being under evaluated, of not being even noticed as human beings, are depicted in a marvellous way in this novel. Maya did not have a pleasant childhood at all. She was the sister of Bailey whose parents were divorced. They were sent to St. Louis. From this moment, the very realistic feelings …

Translation Aspects Of Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales And Comparison To Translation Between English And Albanian Version, Redi Papa, Halil Bashota

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The main aim of this paper is to provide an in depth analysis regarding some of the underlying translation aspects of Brother Grimm Fairy Tales. The paper will closely elaborate and make comparison to translation between the English and Albanian version. Due to the fact that translation in itself is a multidisciplinary field of study, its reasonable tackling and profoundly analyzing some of the core stylistic features of this genre as well as carry out an elaboration of lexical components will a special emphasis on synonymy, phraseology and metaphors. Undoubtedly, the paper also incorporates and interweaves methods of translation, aspects …

An Investigation Of The Effect Of Bilingual Education On Language Achievement Of Kosovar Teenagers, Marigona Sefedini

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The present study investigated the effect of bilingual education on language achievement of Kosovar EFL learners. It used bilingual education as an important factor on language achievement, its effect on a third language, and also in the cognitive development. To have a clearer image of the issue, the topic was researched through 40 bilingual learners and 40 monolingual learners. The bilingual learners were chosen according to their background of study. The bilinguals were students who were part of a private secondary school operating a bilingual program, which means every subject of the program was taught in two languages, English and …

Developing English Writing Skills For Students With Specific Learning Difficulties, Alma Lama

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In a context of learning, writing as a valuable tool, helps students think critically and demonstrate what they know. But, for students with specific learning difficulties, the writing process can bring different challenges as it can be much harder and slower. As a result, they may struggle academically and can fall behind the school work; they can get discouraged and avoid writing assignments. When it comes to developing English writing skills in students with specific learning difficulties, this can double the challenges and can lead students to feeling frustrated about their academic achievements. Also, it can lower students’ self-esteem and …

Examining Student Engagement In The Learning Process, Marigona Sefedini

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Becoming skilled readers, writers, speakers, listeners, and thinkers requires ample opportunity for practice, authentic reasons for communicating, and effective instructional support (Marzano, 1992). To achieve competence in literacy, students must be motivated to engage with literacy tasks and to improve their proficiency as readers and writers. Instruction and practice then provide the coaching and feedback necessary to gain competence. Increased competence inspires continued motivation to engage (Irvin, 2007). This paper researches three levels on student engagement and how those levels can be enhanced. It first discovers behavioral engagement from students to reveal if behaviors have an influence in the learning …

Organization Of Cognitive Constructionist Memory (Occm) In Using Adverbial Subordinators As Cohesive Devices In Essay Writing In English, Florim Ajdini

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In Psychology, the cognitive approach studies the mental processes of people; the organization of memory is a major area of research within this perspective. There are many theories of organization and memory originated from a study performed by Bousefield (1953). All these claim that organization in categories is the natural way to process information in long term memory involving Cognitive Processes as memory call propellers. Modeled after Bousefield’s study, the aim of this study is to examine the effects of words’ organization on the ability of recalling from memory, when they are stored. It is supposed to give a learning …

Quality As A Subject Of Study In The Field Of Management And Education, Gkarnara Rodoula-Stavroula

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This article attempts to discuss the term of quality both in Management and Education field in order to present the similarities and the differences of the term. The concept of quality was introduced in the 1950s and 1960s, when the Japanese faced serious problems with the export and sale of their products. Then, many scientists have dealt with this concept, which has begun to grow in the field of Management and Business. The delimitation of quality has proven to be a complex process, which even today is a controversial issue because of the subjective nature that is given to it. …

Creating And Curating New Knowledge: A North American University Case Study, Niraj Chaudhary, Michele Gibney

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In the Fall of 2017, a cross disciplinary team at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, USA worked together to identify ways of creating new knowledge for an undergraduate engineering course titled Building Information Modeling. The team included faculty from the School of Engineering and Computer Science and technical staff from the Cube, a digital makerspace in the library. Students were tasked to design and model a one-story building to house the University of the Pacific Garden Program on campus. The cross disciplinary team had the students explore an immersive way of seeing the building model by using a …

Civic Education Program Motivates Psycho Pedagogic Interaction, Denis Çelçima, Votim Hanoli

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The proper method of psychological treatment of the problem of academic formation and student citizenship, which may be recommended for all levels of guidance and teaching in our school, orientates the use of three practical tips for an accepted and more mature change. Quick change will take more time to absorb. Big mistakes cannot be repaired easily. In a wider context, many of the various analyzes that have been carried out so far in the state of the education system, we must admit that a delicate and distinctive feature emerges in this delicate and important field of life in the …

Aspects Of Translation Theory, And Comparison To Translation English-Albanian From The Author G. R. Berridge, Diplomacy Theory And Practice And Albanian Version G. R. Berridge Teoria Dhe Praktika, Redi Papa, Halil Bashota

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The main aim of this topic is to provide a full-fledged analysis of the terminology used in the diplomatic field and to achieve this an in-depth analysis of two chapters from two books is elaborated, one is in Albanian Language and the other in English Language. The author of the book is the renowned scholar of diplomacy G. R. Berridge, Diplomacy Theory and Practice and the version in Albanian “Diplomacia, Teoria dhe Praktika”. To achieve a comparison of translation between the Albanian and English version it was necessary to carefully scrutinize and carry out a detailed analysis of translation aspects …

The Effect Of A Professor’S Attitude On University Students’ Learning Motivation. Case Study: English Department, Mirsad Suhodolli

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Dealing with students from different backgrounds is a very difficult job for University professors. This is seen in many instances when teaching them. The article in question gives a deeper insight into a very sensitive and a very detailed aspect of teaching: the effect of a professor’s attitude on students’ learning motivation. It is based, though, on the experience of the professors who use only English in the classroom. Special emphasis was given to the students from the Department of English which is a part of the International Business College located in Mitrovica (a town North of Kosovo). Despite being …

The Importance Of Differentiated Instruction In Efl Learning, Laura Naka

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Differentiated instructions in learning is based in the appropriate methods for learning but in fact this is the way how teachers exploit the teaching opportunities in order to provide better learning environment within their instruction. English as a foreign language learning in Kosovo has been overwhelming and in addition to the importance of English Language Learning, is also the importance of increasing the interest in more effective teaching. The most difficult challenge, that EFL teachers consider to overcome, is teaching in mixed ability classes. Mixed ability EFL classes are a composition of students with different English language level proficiency in …

The Role Of English Language – Connection For All Ethnicities In Kosovo, Feride Lohaj

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English Language in Kosovo has expanded from its previous function as a sign of prestige and necessity for people who want to get educated or work abroad, to the main tool of communication between the two ethnicities, Albanian and Serb, still distanced from each other. In this study, the results determine students’ preferences, their level of interculturalism and English language proficiency. This study also proves hypothesis that all students from particular communities have low level of intercultural competence, they have similar preferences, but focusing on their ethnicity, furthermore, their level of English language proficiency is similar. This study covers high …