scholarly journals ESP in a Saudi Context: Where Does It Stand?

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1109
Author(s):  
Muhammad Al-Roomy
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
New Research

English for specific purposes (ESP) gains more status in Saudi Arabia due to the continuing and sustainable growth in the development of various fields for academic and professional purposes. Using English as a means of communication in teaching and learning is one of them. The aim of this study is to critically review the previous research carried out in a Saudi context in the area of teaching and practicing English at specific schools, universities, and colleges for specific or special purposes (ESP) in the last ten years, in order to identify the current developments and to suggest new research directions. The investigation of the research body is based on an examination of the researched topics, with reference to the three research components, i.e., research approaches, research designs, and research methods (Creswell 2014). The results revealed that many research topics were examined, such as students’ attitudes and motivation to learn, needs analysis, program or course development, and the evaluation and teaching of language skills. However, it was unclear how researchers, who were all ESP teachers, related their findings to the ESP context in terms of students’ specific needs. It also showed that the majority of studies carried out were quantitative in nature, and thus, led themselves to utilizing mainly a questionnaire as a research tool. The study concluded with some recommendations and pedagogical implications, which hopefully, will reverberate with other studies for further research.

scholarly journals Applying Ecomusicology to Foreign Language Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-65
Author(s):  
Theresa Summer
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
New Research ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

      This paper examines ecomusicology from the perspective of foreign language education. As a relatively new field of research, ecomusicology can generally be described as an interdisciplinary field of study focusing on topics related to the environment, music, and culture. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, it offers new research directions for foreign language education, mostly within the fields of eco-pedagogy and global education. To identify points of application, the variety of thematic foci examined by scholars investigating ecomusicology are identified and subsequently applied to foreign language education. The focus thereby is on four major ecomusicological publications. The outcome of the analysis of these publications is a conceptual model of ecomusicology applied to foreign language education on four domains: 1) musicians, 2) music artefacts, 3) music in action, and 4) the environment. Given the current lack of research into the potential of ecomusicology for foreign language education, this paper therefore aims to fill a research gap. Reasons for integrating theoretical considerations in ecomusicology are discussed from the perspective of foreign language teaching and learning and thus conceptualised for a practical application. An example that focuses on the analysis of eco-songs through a categorised list of questions based on the four ecomusicological domains illustrates how the conceptual model can be applied in practice and serve as a pool of ideas for teaching activities.

A Survey of Music Visualization Techniques

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Hugo B. Lima ◽  
Carlos G. R. Dos Santos ◽  
Bianchi S. Meiguins
Keyword(s):  
Research Topics ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Information Research ◽  
Music Visualization ◽  
New Research ◽  
Music Information ◽  
Visualization Techniques

Music Information Research (MIR) comprises all the research topics involved in modeling and understanding music. Visualizations are frequently adopted to convey better understandings about music pieces, and the association of music with visual elements has been practiced historically and extensively. We investigated papers related to music visualization and organized the proposals into categories according to their most prominent aspects: their input features, the aspects visualized, the InfoVis technique(s) used, if interaction was provided, and users’ evaluations. The MIR and the InfoVis community can benefit by identifying trends and possible new research directions within the music visualization topic.

scholarly journals Students’ Attitudes towards the Use of Slovene as L1 in Teaching and Learning of Business English at Tertiary Level

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-112
Author(s):  
Nataša Gajšt
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Business English ◽  
English Only ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Learning English

Over the past decades, the monolingual (English-only) approach to English language teaching and learning has prevailed. In recent years, however, the trend of using students’ first language (L1) in teaching and learning English as a foreign language has re-emerged. However, the research on the use of L1 in teaching English for specific purposes is far from extensive. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of Slovene as the students’ L1 in teaching and learning Business English at tertiary level. The specific objectives were to determine the students’ attitudes towards the teachers’ and the students’ use of Slovene during Business English lessons and the students’ use of Slovene in learning Business English. The present study was quantitative, with data gathered via a questionnaire. The results show that, on the one hand, there is some inclination towards the use of L1 both in class and during their study of Business English. On the other hand, the preference towards the use of predominantly (or exclusively) English in class is also present and is positively correlated with the level of students’ knowledge of English. The results are of value to English language teachers as they suggest the contexts in which students’ L1 could be used in the process of teaching and learning English for specific purposes.

scholarly journals PEMBELAJARAN MENULIS ESAI DALAM DISERTASI: KAJIAN METAKOGNITIF

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
Teguh Budiharso
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Writing Strategies ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
New Research ◽  
And Linguistics

  Four dissertations on writing subject are analyzed in this study implementing metacognitive analyses.  The analysis focused on the overall aspects of how research procedures are employed and how the findings of those dissertations are modified for the purpose of a new research on similar concerns.  The study reveals that prospective research topics in writing are available.  Both approaches and topics of writing are offered from which research designs vary.  Quantitative approaches using experimental study may be focused on the testing of teaching methods in writing, writing strategies, the writing process, and techniques of writing.  Rhetoric and linguistics aspects of writing are topics from which researchers can develop with various objectives.  Specifically, assessment on writing is a prospective field that is recently required in relation to the performance assessment. In addition, developing teaching materials on the writing of which Research and Development (R&D) design is applicable is also demanding.  

scholarly journals Identifying relationships between imaging phenotypes and lung cancer-related mutation status: EGFR and KRAS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gil Pinheiro ◽  
Tania Pereira ◽  
Catarina Dias ◽  
Cláudia Freitas ◽  
Venceslau Hespanhol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Traditional Method ◽  
Ct Scans ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Data Visualisation ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Mutation Status ◽  
Active Research ◽  
New Research

ABSTRACTEGFR and KRAS are the most frequently mutated genes in lung cancer, being active research topics in targeted therapy. Biopsy is the traditional method to genetically characterise a tumour. However, it is a risky procedure, painful for the patient, and, occasionally, the tumour might be inaccessible. This work aims to study and debate the nature of the relationships between imaging phenotypes and lung cancer-related mutation status. Until now, the literature has failed to point to new research directions, mainly consisting of results-oriented works in a field where there is still not enough available data to train clinically viable models. We intend to open a discussion about critical points and to present new possibilities for future radiogenomics studies. We conducted high-dimensional data visualisation and developed classifiers, which allowed us to analyse the results for EGFR and KRAS biological markers according to different combinations of input features. We show that EGFR mutation status might be correlated to CT scans imaging phenotypes, however, the same does not seem to hold true for KRAS mutation status. Also, the experiments suggest that the best way to approach this problem is by combining nodule-related features with features from other lung structures.

INNOVATION CAPABILITY, ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND SMES PERFORMANCE IN PAKISTAN: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF BUSINESS STRATEGY

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (Number 2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zulqarnain Arshad ◽  
Darwina Arshad
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
And Performance ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Crucial Part

The small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial part in county’s economic growth and a key contributor in country’s GDP. In Pakistan SMEs hold about 90 percent of the total businesses. The performance of SMEs depends upon many factors. The main aim for the research is to examine the relationship between Innovation Capability, Absorptive Capacity and Performance of SMEs in Pakistan. This conceptual paper also extends to the vague revelation on Business Strategy in which act as a moderator between Innovation Capability, Absorptive Capacity and SMEs Performance. Conclusively, this study proposes a new research directions and hypotheses development to examine the relationship among the variables in Pakistan’s SMEs context.

MATERIAL HANDLING MACHINES AND SYSTEMS – UMI-TWINN PROJECT CONTRIBUTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Péter Telek ◽  
Béla Illés ◽  
Christian Landschützer ◽  
Fabian Schenk ◽  
Flavien Massi
Keyword(s):  
Material Handling ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Flow Process ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Scientific Excellence ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
New Research ◽  
Eu Project ◽  
The University

Nowadays, the Industry 4.0 concept affects every area of the industrial, economic, social and personal sectors. The most significant changings are the automation and the digitalization. This is also true for the material handling processes, where the handling systems use more and more automated machines; planning, operation and optimization of different logistic processes are based on many digital data collected from the material flow process. However, new methods and devices require new solutions which define new research directions. In this paper we describe the state of the art of the material handling researches and draw the role of the UMi-TWINN partner institutes in these fields. As a result of this H2020 EU project, scientific excellence of the University of Miskolc can be increased and new research activities will be started.

IMPROVE THE INTERETATION OF STUDY SUBJECTS PANCASILA AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION BY APPLYING KONSTEXTUAL LEARNING MODEL BERBASIS A TASK IN CLASS INFORMATICS XI SMK BINA ECLECTUS ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016

EDUKASI ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasanudin S. Usman
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Applied Learning ◽  
Know How ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academic Year

The purpose of this research is to know how to incerease the students’ learning achievement that has been applied learning contextual task-based learning model and to know the influence of contextual learning in  the task-based teaching model to improve achievemen and motivation to learn the material pe civis lesson.   This research is an action research by theree rounds. Each round consists of four phases. Design activities are observation, and revesion. The subject of the research is XI grade students of Bina Informatika Ternate accademic year 2015/2016. Data obtained in the form of a formative test results, observation sheet teaching and learning activities. The results of the research showed that students’ achivement increased from round I to III that the round 1, (70.00 % ), (92,50 %)  3 cycles, conclusions of this research is the method of cooperatif learning can be a positive influence on students motivation and achievement in material udaya politics in Indonesia. It means that this model can be used as one of the alternative learning for Pkn.            Kata  kunci: PKn, cooperative learning method

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