scholarly journals THE USE OF REQUEST STRATEGIES OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Yoga Prihatin ◽  
Nur Aflahatun
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Industrial Engineering ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Request Strategies ◽  
Tone Of Voice ◽  
Testing Instruments ◽  
Selection Of

The aim of this study is to investigate the types of the request strategy used by Industrial Engineering students as EFL learners. Using qualitative data, this study discusses the use of request strategy in case-based teaching of foreign languages. The participants of the study are 37 Industrial engineering students who learnt English in the second semester. The testing instruments used were discourse completion task. For this aim, a discourse completion test was used to generate data related to the request strategies by each group. Selection of request situation in discourse completion test was based on three social factors of relative social distance, power, and rank of imposition. The participants� responses were analyzed according to the classifications of request strategy by Blum-Kulka & Olshtain. The case study findings indicate that 57% of Industrial Engineering students� responses mostly use conventional indirect strategies, 29.2 % responses are direct strategies, and 13 % responses belong to non-conventional indirect strategies. 49.7 % responses belong to query preparatory.� 17.8 %� responses� are identified as explicit performatives, 10.3 %� responses categorized as want statements, 9.2 % responses classified as strong hints, 6.5 % responses grouped as mild hints, 4.9 % responses recognized as suggestive formulas, and 1.6 % responses indicated as mood derivable. The indirectness is greatly influenced by students� cultural background, which belong to high-context culture. People in high context culture refer to the value cultures placing on indirect communication. A message is understood with a great deal of gesture, facial expressions, tone of voice, eye contact, body language, posture, and other ways people can communicate without using language. The findings of this study may set pedagogical implications for teachers, and learners of EFL therefore conducting a further field investigation is recommended to have in depth exploration�� about request strategies made by EFL Learners.

scholarly journals Influence of the Aggregate-Pouring Sequence on the Efficiency of Plugging Inundated Tunnels through Drilling Ground Boreholes

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 2698
Author(s):  
Xiangming Jiang ◽  
Shuang Hui ◽  
Wanghua Sui ◽  
Zhiyuan Shi ◽  
Jiahao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Coarse Aggregate ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Fine Aggregate ◽  
Flowing Water ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Selection Of

This paper presents an experimental and field investigation on the efficiency of plugging by pouring aggregate in different sequences through multiple boreholes in a tunnel with flowing water. There have been controversies surrounding the selection of the pouring order for different particle sizes of aggregates and the order in different boreholes. A visualized experimental setup is used to investigate the influence of the pouring orders on the efficiency of plugging through multiple boreholes under the flowing-water condition. A case study of the salvage of a flooded mine using ground directional boreholes was investigated and compared with the experimental results. The water-pressure difference at the aggregate-capping moment, when fine aggregate was poured first and coarse aggregate later, was relatively small, compared to that when fine aggregate was poured upstream and coarse aggregate, downstream. The result implies that the efficiency of plugging with the order of pouring fine aggregate first and coarse aggregate later in different boreholes is better than that with the order of pouring fine aggregate upstream and coarse aggregate downstream. When the poured aggregate is about to be capped, increasing the pouring intensity with the same or a larger particle size is more conducive to capping. The case study shows that pouring fine materials in the early stage reduced the cross-sectional area; in the later stage, the aggregate particle size was gradually increased, which can be helpful in forming an effective water-barrier section in the tunnel. The pouring of aggregate provided a base for cement grouting to form a water-plug section with a length of 106 m, resulting in a sealing efficiency of 100% for the case.

scholarly journals Chinese EFL Learners’ Cross-cultural Pragmatic Competence: The Appropriateness of Request

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 20-41
Author(s):  
Joyce Yeboah
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Chinese Learners ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Request Strategies ◽  
Analyse Data

The speech act of requesting has attracted a lot of attention in recent research.  Previous studies reveal that conventionally indirect request strategies are commonly used by second language (L2) learners. This study is relevant because the findings would improve the requests strategies and its responses between Chinese EFL learners and foreigners. The study also examines the role of cross-cultural pragmatic competence in Chinese students in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) by considering the appropriateness of requests. It aims to find out the effects of knowledge of L1 culture on L2 pragmatic competence and how requests and its responses would contribute to pragmatic failure. The researcher used both quantitative and qualitative approach to analyse data. The data were collected through a discourse completion test (DCT) from 72 undergraduates and postgraduate students. The modified DCT was composed of two parts. The first was mainly concerned with the demographic information of the participants and second was composed of 12 simulated situations eliciting the appropriateness of requests in various communication settings.  The findings of present study revealed that Chinese learners do not differ markedly from native speakers in their use of strategies, but do differ significantly in the formulaic expressions they employ for making the requests. Unclear request strategies and responses were identified as contributing factors to pragmatic failures. However, the study recommended that instructors should engage learners of English as a second language in a lot of appropriate request strategies to build learners’ competence and ability to understand situations in different environments.

scholarly journals Integration of Environmental Management in an industrial and logistic engineer course in Morocco

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAFIA LAMRANI
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Technical Aspect ◽  
Industrial Engineering ◽  
Real Case ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
The University

This work describes a real case study of integration of Environmental Management in the training of State engineers in Industrial and Logistics Engineering, from the National Superior School of Electricity and Mechanics (ENSEM) in Casablanca to Morocco. The study focused on the particular aspect of waste management within the university institution. The principle adopted is mainly that of 3R (Reduction; Reuse; Recycling). The project approach was adopted. In addition to the technical aspect, the acquisition, by the engineering students, of managerial and communication skills was made possible thanks to this approach. A multitude of tools inspired by industrial engineering and logistics techniques have been deployed in response to the problems encountered in the field.

scholarly journals The Investigation of Request Strategies By EFL Learners of The International Institute of Tourism and Business Denpasar

HUMANIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Gede Eka Wahyu ◽  
Ni Putu Evi Wahyu Citrawati
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
English Proficiency ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Intermediate Level ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Request Strategies

Communicative competence has been the goal teaching of a second or foreign language. In acquiring the language, speakers of language also acquire the rules of knowledge and choose the speech acts when communicating with others. This study aimed to investigate the act of request strategies and request perspectives produced by the student of The International Institute of Tourism and Business Denpasar. There are fifty students’ involved in the study with intermediate level in their English proficiency. The data is collected with a written Discourse Completion Test (DCT) which has ten request situations. Soshana Blum Kulka and Olshtain’s (1984) theory is used to categorize the speech acts produce in analyzing data. The result of the project showed that most of the students use internal modification and the number of students external modification in their speech acts.

scholarly journals A study of Apology Strategies in English: A case study on Jordanian and Asian Undergraduate Students at Zarqa University

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Ibrahim Fathi Huwari
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Cultural Training ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Culture Difference ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Similarities And Differences

This study investigates the similarities and differences of the speech act of apology in English between Jordanian EFL learners (English as a Foreign Learners) and Asian undergraduate students at Zarqa University (ZU). It aims to understand the culture difference between Jordanian and the Asian speech communities that both learners utilize when confronting apology situations. The researcher used an interview technique to gather the data. Data collected using a modified version of the Discourse Completion Test (DCT) developed by Sugimoto (1997). Subjects of the study included six Jordanian undergraduate students and six Asian undergraduate students. There were 10 situations used in the study developed by Sugimoto's (1997). The findings in this study introduced the similarities and differences of the apologizing strategies used by Jordanian undergraduate students and Asian undergraduate students. It found that the most frequently apology strategies used among the Jordanian and the Asian participants were account, and compensation. It shows also gratitude is less used among Asian participants when apologize by equal and lower status person. In regarding to that, the findings of this study are expected to be used in intercultural comparisons studies. This research hopes that tutors should be aware of their own culture and the cultures of their students to make this cultural training more successful. Learners should learn apologizing strategies in such a way to capture their semantics meaning as well as pragmatic use in order to employ them appropriately.

Application of Ethics Criteria to Engineering Profession: Case Study of Engineering Students at the UAE University

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Y. E. Selim ◽  
Mohamed A. Al-Bayywomi
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Engineering Ethics ◽  
Time Behavior ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Engineering Discipline ◽  
Ethical Response ◽  
The University ◽  
Graduating Students ◽  
Selection Of

An investigation has been carried out to examine the level of engineering ethics for senior engineering graduating students. The ethical response to some educational and engineering dilemmas for the graduating students has been collected with a questionnaire designed for this purpose. Dilemmas included educational ones that students see every day in their educational life and professional situations that they are to face upon graduation. Educational dilemmas included many situations such as: their behavior at the university, their selection of the engineering discipline, exam time behavior and honesty with colleagues and instructors. Professional dilemmas included their behavior with their colleagues, behavior with their manager, with customers, with deadlines, with free and paid consultations, with life long learning, with efforts-salary relation and with indirect bribery. Students’ response with respect to all dilemmas and on projection to the professional standards are presented and analyzed. It has been shown that exposing students to such dilemmas could be a useful learning tool for engineering ethics.

Use of A3 Report by Industrial Engineering Students As a Tool to Analyze and Interpret a Case Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anabela C. Alves
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Industrial Engineering ◽  
Lean Thinking ◽  
Final Grade ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Bloom Taxonomy ◽  
Team Assignment ◽  
Do So

Abstract Lean Thinking is a philosophy which principles were redesigned from Toyota Production System (TPS) by Womack and Jones of MIT. Currently, Lean Thinking principles are taught in the academy and are applied in all sectors, from production to services. Services is what is provided to students in a university. Teachers provide a service to them, and they are the clients of this service. As so, teachers want to provide the best service, adding value to the “client” product. In order to do so, they search for new methods that create flow in the way students learn what they need to learn. Lean Thinking have been providing tools to the classroom to obtain such flow. This paper intends to present a tool, an A3 report, which was used by engineering students to analyze, interpret and report a published case study. This was a team assignment task among others. This task was assessed as a component for the final grade of a course of third year of Master Integrated of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM). The presentations, A3 reports and discussions results were analyzed and compared using Bloom taxonomy levels and 3H taxonomy to infer about students learning. Main findings obtained were very positive.

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