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A Case Study: Relationship Between Students' Reading Habits And Their Academic Performance In Government Post Graduate College Nowshera At Bachelor Of Sciences (Bs) Level, Muhammad Yaqoob

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Those who read more books, have more chances of mental development and better opportunities of success. Hence, this paper is an attempt to find out relationship between students’ reading habits and their academic performance in Government Post Graduate College Nowshera, Pakistan at Bachelor of Sciences (BS) level. To collect the relevant data, a questionnaire was designed and distributed among 420 (270 males and 150 females) students studying at BS level. The questionnaire investigated students’ reading habit and their attitudes towards reading. Students’ academic performances were recorded through the transcripts of their examination in the previous semester. The collected data were …

Preferred Methods Of Providing Critique To Students And Teachers In The English Language Classroom, R. Purba, A. Hassan, T. Mulyadi, R. R. Fatubun, S. Syanurdin, S. Suantoko, Y. R. Sari, H. Herianah, N. Saputra

Information Sciences Letters

The basic objective of English language instruction is to help students achieve language competency for communicative purposes while making as few errors as feasible. Corrective feedback is essential because of how well it improves students English language skills. The connection between language learners and teachers views on the forms, methods, and timing of corrective feedback has not yet received the attention it deserves from educational researchers. Examining the perspectives of both teachers and students in higher education, this study seeks to better understand the effects of constructive criticism. Quantitative and qualitative approaches were used by using a survey questionnaire the …

Students’ Emotional Experiences, And English As A Foreign Language Learning: Efl Teachers’ Perspectives, E. S. Bosaad

Information Sciences Letters

The primary goal of this study is to examine how Saudi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructors view the factors that impact the educational journey of EFL students, particularly female college students in Saudi Arabia. The study is mainly interested in exploring these factors in depth, focusing on their influence on the EFL learning process. To frame this investigation, the study draws upon the concept of perezhivanie," which Vygotsky (1932) defines as the emotional experience in learning. Despite an extensive literature review, there is a noticeable gap in research that applies Vygotskys concept of emotional experience to EFL instruction …

Sentiment Analysis And Classifying Hashtags In Social Media Using Data Mining Techniques, G. Kassem, E. Asfoura, B. Alhuthaifi, J. J. C. Gallego, F. Balhaj

Information Sciences Letters

Big data is one of the important topics which is still open for a wide range of applications for extracting useful information and knowledge for supporting organizations by planning and decision-making. Social media as a technology is an important resource of data, especially because it has been widely used in the last years. A Hashtag is recently one of the most popular features provided by Social media and is used by most social media users to express, share, and retrieve opinions and feelings regarding a specific theme. Hashtag features in social media are used more and more in recent years …

Using Chatgpt And Other Llms In Professional Environments, S. Alaswad, T. Kalganova, W. S. Awad

Information Sciences Letters

Large language models like ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Microsoft’s new Bing, to name a few, are developing rapidly in recent years, becoming very popular in different environments, and supporting a wide range of tasks. A deep look into their outcomes reveals several limitations and challenges that can be further improved. The main challenge of these models is the possibility of generating biased or inaccurate results, since these models rely on large amounts of data with no access to unpublic information. Moreover, these language models need to be properly monitored and trained to prevent generating inappropriate or offensive content and to …

Educational Practices Within High Schools And Their Relationship To Developing Students Innovation Skills In Saudi Arabia, A. A. Al-Harthy

Information Sciences Letters

The current study focused on the Relationship between educational practices and the development of students innovative thinking skills within high schools in Saudi Arabia. One of the most important contributions added by current research in the field of science is to enrich theoretical frameworks in the field of development of innovation among high school students and to learn about the most important practices applied by secondary teachers to develop innovative thinking skills and to learn about the relationship between educational practices within secondary schools and the development of innovative thinking skills of students. (62) Another teacher and questionnaire to measure …

The Degree Of Jordanian Universities’ Impact On The Arabic Proficiency And Holy Quran Recitation Of Non-Native Speakers Of Arabic: Malaysian & Indonesian Students As A Model, Mahmoud A. Mustafa

Information Sciences Letters

This research aims to highlight the extent of impact of Jordanian universities on the development of the Arabic language and Holy Quran recitation skills for non-native speakers of Arabic (NSA) studying at universities in Jordan. The research sample included (107) Malaysian and Indonesian male and female students studying at several universities in the 2022/2023 academic year. A 22-item questionnaire was drawn up for the purposes of the research. For data collection, the research employed the descriptive analytical approach. The research revealed that, from the perspective of Malaysian and Indonesian students, the contribution of Jordanian universities to NSA’s proficiency in the …

The Perspectives Of Recovered Drug Addicts On The Causes Of Addictions And The Stigma Surrounding Addicts In The Uae, Maha Salim Saif Alketbi, Fakir Al-Gharaibeh

Information Sciences Letters

This study aims to identify the causes of drug use and the forms of social stigma surrounding drug addiction from the point of view of recovered drug addicts. Adopting a descriptive approach, the researchers based their conclusions on the results of a questionnaire that was responded to by 200 recovered drug addicts who have attended rehabilitation centres in the Sharjah. The study revealed that that main reasons for drug use were peer influence, followed by curiosity and the desire to experiment with drugs. Meanwhile, the majority of the respondents (approximately 44.0%) reported that they first used drugs due to peer …

Preschool Education And Its Impact On The Scientific And Research Potential Of Rising Schoolchildren: In Favor Or Against?, Aliya Mambetalina, Aigul Karkulova, Marina Lebedeva, Lilya Sabirova

Information Sciences Letters

This study examines the correlation between preschool education and the development of scientific thinking in rising schoolchildren. The research involved testing 84 first graders aged 6.5-8 years in two schools in Kazakhstan. The results showed that 52% of the children who attended kindergarten regularly had a high level of scientific thinking, while those with poor scientific skills had less than 20% of kindergarten attendance. The study confirms the interdependence between kindergarten attendance and research potential development. These findings can inform the preparation of rising schoolchildren for scientific activities and further research on preschool educations impact on self- realization in other …

Trust The Masked Stranger: Unveiling The African Stokvel's Blockchain Enticement, Norwell Zhakata, Ntombovuyo Wayi-Mgwebi

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

Blockchain technologies offer platforming services on which African stokvels can be implemented. stokvels emerged as cooperative and self-help schemes for marginalized communities in South Africa. stokvel members contributing to a blockchain-managed common fund do not have to worry about trusting their peers because transactions on a blockchain are claimed to be transparent and irrefutable. Blockchain technology’s consensus mechanism and its decentralized architecture ensure that authority is shared amongst peers, and none has monopolistic powers over the common fund. The blockchain is thus, at face value, seen as espousing the true spirit of cooperative and participative decision-making akin to African Ubuntu …

Ships In Houston, Nadia Villafuerte, Julie Ann Ward

Undiscovered Americas

Ships in Houston by Nadia Villafuerte, translated by Julie Ann Ward, is a harrowing and heartrending collection of fifteen stories that bring to life characters who, though they exist independently from one another, inhabit the same world: Mexico’s southern border. Using acute attention to language, such as various dialects and slang, to create a nuanced and varied mood and setting, Villafuerte’s stories track exotic dancers, sex workers, truck drivers, drug dealers, immigration officials, and even a mayor’s daughter to create compelling fictions rooted in the harsh realities of borderlands that many choose to overlook. While the US’s southern border with …

Methodological And Practical Considerations For Cross-Cultural Focus Groups On Sensitive Topics Within Criminal Justice And Criminology, Hillary Mellinger, Belén Lowrey-Kinberg, Maya Pagni Barak

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

Cross-cultural focus groups offer several advantages over other qualitative methods, particularly when the research goal is to better understand individual and collective perceptions, opinions, or conceptualizations of issues salient to marginalized groups. However, cross-cultural focus groups also pose several unique challenges despite their advantages. Therefore, more scholarly attention needs to address how to overcome these challenges. In this article, we tackle three issues related to cross-cultural focus groups: (1) defining homogenous regarding focus group formation; (2) incorporating intersectionality into cross-cultural focus groups while maintaining homogeneity in crucial aspects of participants’ identities; and (3) overcoming unexpected practical challenges that may appear …

When Words Weave Wings: Just Beyond The Bars, Barbara Bethea

Expressive Therapies Dissertations

Narrative and storytelling creates a formidable foundation for individuals to convey their lived experiences. Utilizing indigenous arts-based research (ABR), poetics as an inquiring and exploratory tool, and an ABR interviewing technique called poetic emergence by the researcher, this study asked two essential questions: What are the lived experiences of individuals in and outside of carceral states? Will these experiences reflect certain aspects of an individual’s life journey? The purpose of this study was to explore the embodied voices and lived experiences of adult Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), diagnosed with mental health issues who were formerly incarcerated (n=3) …

Leadership And Service: Kenyan Teachers Bringing Community Cultural Wealth Into Practice, Peter Njagi Mwangi

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

This study explores the complex leadership tasks high school Kenyan teachers provide in their communities, giving a detailed look at how these educators balance their responsibilities as both classroom teachers and community leaders. Historically, Kenyan communities are frequently viewed through a deficit lens, and this study sets out how the cultural wealth of the dynamic teacher and learner communities cross the boundaries between local communities and educational institutions. To enable a new type of bridging school and the community, this study reveals the interconnectedness of school and community through the interplay of teachers moving fluidly in both spaces and influencing …

Objectives Of Sharia In Spreading Peace And Rejecting Extremism And Its Impact On Societal Peace, Raghad Hassan Ali Al-Saraj

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research problem is summed up in the reality in which we live, as it is full of the phenomena of extremism and extremism, and it is not hidden from everyone what Muslims have gone through in recent years because of that, and what is more dangerous than that is the attribution of these matters to the true Islamic religion and Islam is innocent of that. All that we have seen and see of these negative manifestations and others is caused by ignorance of the blessed Sharia of Islam, which as soon as a person clings to it takes him …

A Comparative Study Of Male And Female Students In Fine Arts Institutes Of Wassit Governorate, Abeer Nasser Abbas

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Males and females differences in language use are a subject which should be given more attention. Hence the present research highlights the gendered differences in language use in academic settings. Consequently, this study attempts to investigate the differences in language use between males and females students in Fine Arts Institutes of Wassit Governorate. It attempts to achieve the following aims: 1) finding out the differences in language use between males and females students in terms of formal and informal language, nonverbal cues and interruption; 2) pinpointing the differences in language use between males and females students in terms of politeness …

Cognitive Lesson From Linguistics To Humanities, Sourour Hachicha

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

In this paper we provide a synthetic reading of the reality of what we might call Arabic linguistics. We focus on the characteristics of the psycholinguistic lesson with its generative and cognitive parts. This lesson has yielded cognitive and methodological results that-in our estimation-have enabled it to serve as a link from which Arab social and human sciences cross into the cognitive paradigm as a universal scientific project. We're dealing with some prominent instances in which research is intersected between cognitive linguistics and humanities such as the conceptual metaphor theory. We adopt the Lakoff model of using the principles of …

Acculturation Of Linguistics And Awareness Of It In The Light Of Heritage: A Study In The Efforts Of Dr. Adel Fakhoury, Khaled Khaleel Hadi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The paper presents a reading for the linguistic efforts of Dr. Adel Fakhoury (1939-2017) in his books and researches that he worked on for almost forty years. Although he is a specialist in philosophy and mathematical logic, Fakhoury has important disregarded linguistic writings and researches. The researcher presents linguistic visions where philosophy, logic and linguistics merge altogether. It can be argued that these writings are at the core of language philosophy investigation which aims to approach language from a philosophical and logical point of view. The author attempted to trace most of the linguistic streams that approached language, especially those …

Widening In The Crowds Of The Few With The Crowds Of The Many In The Quranic Text, Batool Farhan Younis

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Among the linguistic phenomena that came in the Qur’anic expression, which most linguists considered a departure from the usual manners of saying and patterns of speech, The presence of the plurals of the few are distinguished, explained, or described by the plurals of the many. Linguists and commentators were hesitant to judge it, except in a few places. Some of them took it out of grammatical analogy and linguistic rules, and some of them referred it to interpretation and assessment. To be in line with their rules and linguistic laws, and it is not hidden that what is in this …

The Level Of Creative Speaking Skills Among Middle School Students, Mahmoud Helal Abdelbaset Abdelkader

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The current study aimed to reveal the level of creative speaking skills among middle school students. To achieve this goal, research materials and tools were prepared, which consisted of: a list of creative speaking skills suitable for second grade intermediate students, testing creative speaking skills, then ensuring the stability and validity of these tools, then selecting a research sample from second grade intermediate students in Abha city schools, then Applying the study tool, then statistical analysis, interpreting the results, and presenting recommendations and proposals. The results showed: The level of creative speaking skills among second-grade intermediate students came to an …

A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Of Nasa's Instagram Account, Danica Lynn Tomber

Dissertations and Theses

In an increasingly interconnected society where science and technology are advancing at a rapid pace, knowledge dissemination, specifically in terms of public engagement and popularization, must be both encouraged and critically evaluated. As an internationally recognized government agency that is dedicated to the advancement of space exploration and present on several social media platforms, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) provides a useful lens from which to analyze large-scale messaging of multimodal scientific information. Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research into political and government-based messaging in social media, there is not much literature on the …

The Indiana Statesman, September 14, 2023, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Speaker series kicked off with Emily St. John Mandel; College track coach accused of sex trafficking; Baltimore minor arrested in shooting

Despedidas Con Mariachis: Examining Covid-19'S Impact On Mexican Americans In Southern California, Jessie M. Vallejo, Latin American And Iberian Institute

LAII Events

Although the trope of silenced mariachis was common in early COVID-19 news stories about Los Angeles County, many mariachis were actively performing and supporting community wellbeing between 2020 and 2022. This talk discusses pre-existing sociopolitical challenges and reflects on the pandemic's traumatic impact on Mexican Americans in the region.

Dr. Vallejo's research areas focus on mariachi, music education, and Indigenous cultural-linguistic revitalization. She co-produced Smithsonian Folkways’ 2013 release ¡Así Kotama!: The Flutes of Otavalo, Ecuador. She has also published in Smithsonian Folklife Magazine, Ethnomusicology Forum, Sonocordia, and The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook vol.2. Jessie is a founding member of ICTM's …

What Did Adam Smith Mean? The Semantics Of The Opening Key Principles In The Wealth Of Nations, Bart J. Wilson, Gian Marco Farese

ESI Publications

We present a semantic and textual analysis of the first two chapters of the Wealth of Nations to elucidate the meaning of several of Adam Smith’s key ideas. Using the methodology of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, we produce semantic explications of some of Adam Smith’s fundamental principles of economics phrased in simple and cross-translatable words. The extracts from the original text function as textual evidence and conceptual reference for the explications we present. We demonstrate that: (i) by reducing the principles as conceived by Smith to their core meanings, it is possible to resolve some interpretive ambiguities for general readers …

Non-Native English Speaking Patients: Emergent Themes To Patient Care In Athletic Training, Lacey Bracken, Matthew Kutz

Journal of Sports Medicine and Allied Health Sciences: Official Journal of the Ohio Athletic Trainers Association

Purpose: When seeking services from healthcare providers language barrier challenges are experienced by patients and clinicians. To purpose of this study was to investigate AT’s experience with Non-native English Speaking (NNES) patient care. Method: Level of agreement to question in four themed areas was measured using The Athletic Trainers Non-Native English Speaking Survey (ATNNESS). Data of agreement were organized by other languages spoken, setting of practice, years of experience, and interaction frequency with NNES patients. Results: The ATNESS yielded satisfactory internal consistency and validity (α = 0.79). Paired sample t-test indicated significant difference in bilingual and monolingual presence of …

Social And Cultural Values In Alaskan Subsistence Management: Rurality And The Meaning Of “Meaningful” Natural Resource Management, Jarred Haynes

Capstone Collection

In Alaska, subsistence is a way of life for some communities. The Federal Subsistence Board (FSB) oversees the Federal Subsistence Management Program. One of its responsibilities is to determine areas as subsistence or non-subsistence areas. This decision, in part, is based on whether subsistence is a “principal characteristic of the economy, culture, and way of life”. (James A. Fall, Division of Subsistence, 2018). The federal policy grants these communities priority in the taking of wild resources (Title VIII of the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act). Interviews revealed factors of vulnerability and resilience, specifically in the context of subsistence. Scoones …

Meaning Making, Labeling, And Self In Symbolic Interactionism: Teacher Identity And Everyday Life, Melissa Brooks-Yip

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

Symbolic interactionism helps explain the meaning of labels in education and how this impacts teacher identity and professionalism. This article will explore elements of the symbolic interactionism theoretical framework: everyday life actions and interactions, meaning-making, language, labeling and symbols, identity, and teachers' self. Implications will follow.

Transhuman Bodies: A Survey Of Three Avenues Of Societal Critique From Literature With Cyborg, Android, And Clone Subjects, Wesley Sanders

Student Theses and Dissertations

This thesis seeks to explore three different avenues of societal critique using works in Science Fiction which have as their subjects cyborgs, androids, or clones. In the thesis, I begin by addressing the unique way SF literature comments on gender politics through the use of objectified cyborgs and androids, typically with male creators and would be male masters. Following this, I explore the concept of a semiotic liminality surrounding cyborgs and androids and illustrate how that liminality complicates conceptions of what constitutes a living creature. Finally, the thesis shifts to the commodification of the cyborg where I attempt to illustrate …

The Parthenon, September 13, 2023, Evan Green, Conner Woodruff, Matt Schaffer, Chayce Matheny, Victoria Ware, Shauntelle Thompson, Rafael Alfonso, Scott Price

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

Tracing The Dynamics Of Teacher Assessment Identity (Tai) Through Web-Based Audio Diaries, Masoomeh Estaji, Farhad Ghiasvand

The Qualitative Report

Teacher assessment identity (TAI) as a vital element of teacher professionalism has recently flourished in educational assessment. However, unpacking its developmental trajectories has been left uncharted. Against this gap, this study scrutinized the dynamism of TAI under the influence of audio diaries. In so doing, 22 novice and experienced Iranian EFL teachers uploaded their audio-diaries on a website for two months. They did so once a week and ultimately 176 audio diaries were gleaned. Moreover, to explore the participants’ perceptions of TAI considering audio diary, a semi-structured interview was held with ten teachers. The results of content and thematic analysis …