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Cooperative Language Learning In Teaching Proficiency Through Reading And Storytelling, Jing Gao

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) is becoming widely recognized and implemented in K-12 language classrooms across the nation. Cooperative language learning structures interactive group work for learners’ language development. In communicative language classrooms, cooperative learning can be implemented in TPRS to encourage students’ interaction and communication in collaborative tasks. This article explores the application of cooperative language learning in the TPRS Chinese classroom. Specific teaching methods are discussed in each step of TPRS, including establishing meaning, story asking, and story reading. Cooperative language learning in TPRS increases students’ engagement and motivation in language learning and promotes their language …

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Pelaksanaan Hak Dprd Dalam Mengajukan Rancangan Peraturan Daerah Inisiatif Di Dprd Kota Serang - Provinsi Banten, Afriman Oktavianus

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

Submission of draft regulations may be proposed by the head of the area and can also be proposed by legislators as proposed initiative DPRD. Formulation of the problem: How does the implementation of filing draft from DPRD to draft legislation that comes from the head of the region from 2016 till 2019 in Serang City? How is the economic impact of the implementation of the draft submission from the DPRD and the draft coming from mayor of Serang City? What are the obstacles and barriers of Serang City DPRD initiative in submission the right proposal draft? What are the efforts …

The Impact Of Unscheduled Maintenance To An Airline’S On Time Performance, Augusto Dalazen, Beatriz Barbi, Beatriz Ponzoni, Giovanna Simões, Lucas Kamalakian

Student Works

Unscheduled maintenance events have a significant impact on airlines performance and network operations. Some events can have its consequences minimized by simple actions due to its simplicity and lack of influence in the safe conduction of a flight.

This study aimed on collecting data regarding the cost and consequences of ground turn back events in the Airbus A320 family. The study suggested that after the implementation of proper supporting regulation on Crew Applied MEL, money would be saved as well as network disruption consequences could be avoided.

The data presented in this study reflects current Brazilian legislation, and data from …

Pre-Check Security Processes In Selected Brazil Airports- Changes And Gains, Camila Miliani, Fabio Sanches, Jonatta Haniere, Rodrigo Cortes, Tais Gargano, Vanessa Reis

Student Works

The recommendation of this Research Project is to implement the precheck program at 10 Airports in Brazil with more than 5 million passengers a year. The passengers’ satisfaction, security improvement and OPEX savings would be a reality.

The expectation of OPEX savings at these 10 Airports are R$ 3.360.000,00 per year, (US$ 634.000,00) due to the possibility of using the current infrastructure and yet, reduce one Protection Agent per inspection module, per airport.

The research topic was to understand the feasibility of implementing the precheck security process in Brazil Airports. Using the U.S. benchmark, and the current Brazilian legislation, GYN …

Book Review: Developing Digital Detectives: Essential Lessons For Discerning Fact From Fiction In The ‘Fake News’ Era, Ashley Cooksey

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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Book Review: Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education For A Digital Age, Faith Rogow

Journal of Media Literacy Education

No abstract provided.

Analyzing The Distinction Between Protectionism And Empowerment As Perspectives On Media Literacy Education, W. James Potter

Journal of Media Literacy Education

It has become a common practice to categorize the different perspectives on media education as following either a protectionist approach or an empowerment approach. However, the way scholars write about these two categories can be confusing and sometimes misleading. A critical analysis is presented where these writings are examined along 10 analytical dimensions that include how authors conceptualize the power differential between the media and audiences, purpose of media education, nature of instruction (scope, stance, extent, and content), role of the instructor, and outcome assessment (type of measures, timing, and indicators of success). The findings from this critical analysis indicate …

Vlog Virtual Tour: A Critical Framing Perspective, Qinghua Chen

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The Vlogs on YouTube have been excellent sources to satisfy craving for mystical and enigmatic distant land detached of our immediate surroundings. Despite the benefits of free world tours in high definition videos, many of the vloggers' framing of the distant land and culture for the purpose of crafting interesting and attractive travelling stories has, in fact, intensified misconceptions of those cultures and societies. Using frame analysis and four resources model, this study examines two examples of such vlog productions. This study also suggests critical principles towards vlogging and presenting a lesson sample for raising such criticality in schools.

Screencasting Information Literacy. Insights In Pre-Service Teachers’ Conception Of Online Searching, Luca Botturi, Chiara Beretta

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Information Literacy (IL) has been named a key competence for the twenty-first century and is being progressively introduced in many compulsory school curricula. Nonetheless, the actual implementation of effective IL education cannot be carried out without the sound preparation of teachers. This study explores the naïve, pre-instruction conceptions of online information searching of pre-service pre-primary and primary teachers through the structured qualitative analysis of participant-produced screencasts. The results indicate that teachers have a mainly technical view of IL, leading them to focus on basic computer literacy skills (e.g., how to use a search engine) and to overlook mental processes (e.g., …

Assessing Media Literacy Competences: Reflections And Recommendations From A Quantitative Study, Sara Pereira, Pedro Moura

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The assessment of media literacy is a complex task, which might attempt to reconcile a research field traditionally developed within a critical paradigm with the task of evaluating and quantifying media literacy competences through essentially quantitative methods. Despite the lack of consensus regarding how to evaluate and measure media literacy, this goal is increasingly sought by political and regulatory stakeholders, as well as studied within the academic world. Based on one of such attempts, a study on the media literacy competences of 679 Portuguese teenagers, this paper presents a review and a reflection on the specific challenges posed by the …

Digital Curation And Complex Decision Making: A School District’S Literacy Initiative, Sue Ann Sharma, Mark Edward Deschaine

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Schools are in the process of incorporating professional development activities to prepare technology-proficient educators to utilize information and communication tools to meet the pedagogical needs of 21st-century students and learners. This research addresses the challenges of and preservation possibilities for the digital work of learning communities across instructional domains and levels. The digital curation efforts that support a school district’s literacy and curriculum initiatives are examined. We conclude with suggestions for future research, professional development, and practice.

Making In Media Education: An Activity-Oriented Approach To Digital Literacy, Thomas Knaus

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Why is maker education a suitable approach for giving learners the 21st century skills they need to cope with the digital transformation? This article provides an answer and represents a defense of maker education in the field of educational science. Taking a human-media-machine interaction model as the basis for discussion, this article highlights the growing importance of digital technology as well as technological principles for human communication and interaction. Communication technology and the influence of technology on culture and society require a broad understanding of media literacy in the sense of digital literacy. By broadening the theoretical basis of media …

Popular Music Media Literacy: A Pilot Study, Chrysalis L. Wright, Reilly Branch, Lesley-Anne Ey, K. Megan Hopper, Wayne Warburton

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The current study pilot tested a popular music media literacy website that was developed based on the final report of the APA Division 46 Task Force on the Sexualization of Popular Music (2018). The study hypothesized that popular music media literacy education would produce significant differences between the baseline assessment and post-literacy assessment for outcomes related to music reflecting real life, viewing the self as similar to music portrayals, music skepticism, level of engagement with music, and self-reported self-esteem. It was also hypothesized that participants would report favorable attitudes regarding the popular music media literacy website being tested. Participants included …

College Students’ Perspectives Of Bias In Their News Consumption Habits, Jolie C. Matthews

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This article builds off prior work on news consumption habits and perception of bias in the news by focusing on college students’ self-generated definitions of bias, and the strategies they employ to guard against how their personal bias potentially affects what news they choose to believe and consume. Through interviews with undergraduate students, findings show that while participants acknowledged they had personal bias to a degree, the majority still defined bias as an external issue imposed on them by others than as an internal issue shaping their thoughts about the sources they consumed. Some students attempted to mitigate any perceived …

Domesticating Space: Media Production Pedagogy For The Empowerment Of Marginalized Youth, Maarit Jaakkola, Linda Sternö, Elias Fryk

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This article investigates the role of space in media and information literacy (MIL), especially when supporting learners’ production skills. The MIL framework is to a great extent focused on deconstruction of messages in a private position of reception, while the theoretical, didactic and ethical components of the production pedagogy are less developed. This multiple-case study analyses the situated agency of young people in a vulnerable position with regard to the spaces where agency is sustained. We develop the concept of production context into a more specific concept of production space and apply it to the film club in a suburb …

Discerning (Dis)Information: Teacher Perceptions Of Critical Media Literacy, Jennifer K. Allen, Robert A. Griffin, Diana Mindrila

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Critical media literacy (CML) is vital for students to navigate the current proliferation of misinformation and disinformation. Despite what is known about the influence of teacher beliefs on classroom practice, little research to date has looked at what teachers perceive about the importance of CML. The researchers administered a survey to teachers throughout the U.S. (N = 362) on their perceptions of the importance of teaching CML as part of their instruction. Using quantitative methods, the researchers found CML as the primary factor underlying the survey data and a strong awareness of the importance of teaching CML to students. While …

Iterative Image Generation Via Voice Interaction With An Image Generation Model, Sarvjeet Singh, Bertrand Damiba

Defensive Publications Series

Image generation models enable users to generate images by providing instructions. However, such models cannot be invoked with voice commands and are also unable to update a prior image based on the user instruction. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to obtain and refine images by iteratively interacting with an image generation model in real time, e.g., via voice commands to a virtual assistant. Implementation of the techniques can enable users to use their voice and imagination for artistic visual expression. The techniques can be provided via a virtual assistant available via a smart speaker, smartphone, or other device. …

Named Entities In Conversation Fingerprinting For Knowledge Dissemination Detection, Sébastien Warichet, Emmanuel Helbert, Nadir Debbagh

Defensive Publications Series

The overall context is about how to evaluate the interactions between employees in an organization and their ability to disseminate the knowledge throughout the different departments and teams. This is highly relevant for Human Resources Department in order to identify the skills in the organization, the bottleneck in communication between teams and the optimization of resources in the case of the same skill or knowledge appear in different places in the organization.

Identification Of Faulty Software Binaries From End-To-End Tests, Shubham Sharma, Varun Puri, Babu Prasad Elumalai

Defensive Publications Series

Software products are built from a number of interacting binaries that are rolled out asynchronously, at differing schedules and paces. When there is a problem with a software product such as a failure or sub-par performance, identifying the binaries that are the source of a product failure or sub-par performance is difficult with end-to-end tests. Additionally, an apparently failing test can be a false positive that does require any code changes to fix, yet that demands human attention. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically determine, from end-to-end tests of a software product, code binaries that are at the root of …

Comparison Of Supine And Vertical Bioimpedance Measurements In Young Adults, Jeremy B. Ducharme, Chloe Clark, Jonathan M. Houck, Holly Hall, Avadney Gerard-Osbourne, Ann Gibson

Topics in Exercise Science and Kinesiology

Topics in Exercise Science and Kinesiology Volume 3: Issue 1, Article 11, 2022. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) methods estimate health parameters such as phase angle (PhA) and body fat percentage (%BF) from various positional and electrode configurations. PhA and %BF are known biological markers of cellular and physical health, respectively, and can be used to predict various health-related conditions and therefore require accurate assessment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of body position during BIA by investigating the difference and agreement between PhA and %BF using RJL (supine) and InBody (vertical) analyzers. Thirty-eight young adults (23.4 …

Influence Of Environmental Factors On Surface Activity Of Paruroctonus Marksi (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) In The Mojave Desert, Zia Nisani, Destiny Frederick, Alejandro Garcia-Plascencia, Daian Lopez, Robert Miller, Linhsan Trinh-Nguyen

Euscorpius

Many environmental factors may influence the activity pattern of scorpions in arid ecosystems. We investigated the seasonal variations of Paruroctonus marksi scorpion activity in the Mojave Desert (California, USA). Black light surveys were carried out within two 100 ×100 m plots from August 2017 to September 2018. The majority (85%) of scorpions were found in open areas compared with being in vegetation. The presence of P. marksi was positively correlated with both water vapor pressure and soil temperature, while moon illumination had no significant effect on P. marksi foraging behavior. Scorpions might be using humidity as an indicator of prey …

A Case For The Use Of Arabic Dialect In The Translation Of English Commercials, Abdel Karim Daragmeh, Aya Srouji

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study makes a case for the use of dialectical Arabic in translating brands and blends from English commercials. We examine the translations of two KitKat and Snickers commercials which contained word blends and slogan statements. As we do so, we compare the dialectical translations with the Modern Standard Arabic choices to demonstrate that dialectical translation better fits into the genre of commercials as a popular culture text due to three main reasons. These include the informal nature of dialectical uses, the greater variation in the linguistic patterns, and the greater flexibility in accommodating new blends.

Evaluate The Performance Of The Banks For The Efficiency Of Managing Financing Risks According To The Return On Equity Model (Dupont) (Palestinian Islamic Banks Case Study), Azmi Awad

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The study aims at evaluating the performance of Palestinian Islamic banks for the efficiency of managing financing risks and linking them with the quality of investment portfolios according to the modified return on equity model (DuPont) and bank financial ratios, also to identify the types of risks of Islamic financing instruments, And the volume of investments using Islamic financing formulas, To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the descriptive and analytical comparative approach to the case study, The sample of the study consisted of the Palestinian Islamic Bank and the Arab Islamic Bank since they are the …

The Effectiveness Of A Counseling Program Based On Violence Alternatives In Reducing The Psychopathic Tendency Among The Adolescents In The Old City Of Hebron, Nabil Jondi, Manar Abu Snaineh

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed to investigate the effect of a program based on violence alternatives in reducing the psychopathic tendency among a sample of adolescents in the Old City of Hebron, and to identify the effect of the academic average, gender, and economic level on the psychopathic tendency. The population consists of all adolescents in the Old City (1238) adolescents. (100) adolescents who were randomly divided into (50) for the experimental group and (50) for the control group participated in the study. The Levenson Scale for Psychopathy Tendency, and the alternatives of violence program was applied to the experimental group. The …

Spatial Analysis Of Land Uses In The City Of Bait Lahiya By Using The Geographic Information Systems, Saleh Abu Amra

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aims to define and analyze patterns of the current land use in the city of Beit Lahia, the percentage occupied by each use, the extent of their conformity with the planning standards, and the detection of factors directed to land use, The study used the functional, analytical, descriptive, and historical methodology, The study addressed the first topic of Study methodology, then the second topic of population and their geographical, and the third topic included the factors that target the use of the land, the last topic reviewed the uses of land and identity The functionality of the city, …

The Synergistic Effect Of A Proposed Sport And Nutrition Suggested Program On Some Physiological And Physical Variables In Diabetic (Type Ii), Mosab Rashed, Ismail Zakarneh

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The study aimed to identify the effect of sport and nutrition program on some physiological and physical variables among new patients with Type II diabetes. To achieve this aim, the researcher followed the experimental approach. The study sample consisted of 60 patients selected following the purposive sampling approach who were then divided into three groups. The first group was an experimental group of 20 individuals on whom the sport and nutrition program was applied. The second group was an experimental group of 20 individuals on whom the nutrition program was applied. The third group was the control group, which consisted …

The Principle Of The Common Heritage Of Humanity In The Light Of The Rules Of Public International Law, Ola Abbasi

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The aim of this study was to shed light on the principle of the common heritage of humanity in the law of the sea, and an attempt to highlight many issues that still need to be clarified, including the economic importance of the international region on the high seas and oceans, and the mineral and oil wealth they contain, and what This may be accompanied by political differences, which require the imperative to interfere in creating a legal system for the exploitation of that region, and to supervise it, with the participation of all countries, and this prompted the researcher …

Degree Of Applying Kaizen Approach For Continuous Improving In Arab Schools In Green Line Ways For Improvement, Niveen Abu-Backer, Nawaf Alshatnawy

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed to examine the implementation degree of Kaizen's approach of continuous improvement in Arab schools within the Green Line. Also, it aimed to examine whether the demography variables (gender, seniority and educational degree according to the new reform) influence the implementation degree of Kaizen's approach. A random sample of 1026 teachers participated in the study. The research used a questionnaire consisted of 39 item. The items measure three related domains: The school management strategy, the deming cycle, and 'just in time-JIT' strategy. Results showed that Kaizen's approach is highly available according to participating teachers, where the mean score …

Perlindungan Hukum Dalam Lingkup Pengetahuan Tradisional Dan Ekspresi Budaya Tradisional Atas Soto Sebagai Indikasi Geografis Dan Makanan Khas Nusantara, Agus Setiawan

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

Soto is a food that is a typical Indonesian traditional dish that is consumed by almost all Indonesian people. In Law No. 5 of 2017 concerning the Advancement of Culture, it is explained that it is necessary to make strategic efforts in protecting, exploiting, and fostering in order to realize an Indonesian society that is politically sovereign, economically independent, and has a cultural personality, which is an element of communal intellectual property belonging to the Indonesian nation. . One of the objects of Indonesian traditional culture cannot be separated from food and drinks which are typical Indonesian dishes, one of …