Beginning Students Research Articles

AR Graphic Representation of Musical Notes for Self-Learning on Guitar

Despite being one of the most commonly self-taught instruments, and despite the ready availability of significant amounts of didactic material, the guitar is a challenging instrument to learn. This paper proposes an application based on augmented reality (AR) that is designed to teach beginner students basic musical chords on the guitar, and provides details of the experimental study performed to determine whether the AR methodology produced faster results than traditional one-on-one training with a music teacher. Participants were divided into two groups of the same size. Group 1 consisted of 32 participants who used the AR app to teach themselves guitar, while Group 2, with a further 32 participants, received formal instruction from a music teacher. Results found no differences in learning times between the two groups based on the variables of method and gender. However, participant feedback suggested that there are advantages to the self-taught approach using AR that are worth considering. A system usability scale (SUS) questionnaire was used to measure the usability of the application, obtaining a score of 82.5, which was higher than the average of 68 that indicates an application to be good from a user experience point of view, and satisfied the purpose for which the application was created.

FUN PIANO LESSON FOR YOUNG BEGINNERS STUDENTS IN SURABAYA INDONESIA

Learning piano is not an easy thing, moreover for young beginner learners. The teacher of course not only giving materials to students but also considering the approach given to the young beginner students. The teacher is also needed to be creative, and always developing the ability in techniques and approach to children. This study tried to discuss how to make piano lessons fun. This research method uses grounded research with a focus on theoretical studies on piano learning through the views of piano experts, including Dalcroze, Suzuki, Schulwerk, and Kodaly. After that, the data is analyzed using content analysis. The results of the study showed that by exploring the viewpoint of Dalcroze, Suzuki, Schulwerk, and Kodaly piano learning, art learning must be set pleasantly by the teacher. The role of the teacher and student must also have a good relationship because, in pleasant learning, an effective correlation between learning materials, teachers, and students is needed.DOI: doi.org/10.24071/ijiet.2019.030204

الصعوبات الصوتية لدى الجاويين المبتدئين في تعلم الللغة العربية وطرق علاجها

The purpose of this research is to know the acoustic difficulties of Javanese beginner students in learning Arabic language and it’s resolved methods. In this research the writer used the analytical descriptive method, where the writer explained the sounds of Arabic and Javanese language then described the acoustic difficulties of the Javanese people in learning Arabic and how to resolve it. The results from this research stated the acoustic difficulties for the Javanese are divided into two, difficulties related to the Arabic vocal sounds which are difficulties in telling apart the long vocals and short vocals, and acoustic difficulties that are related to consonant sounds found in the 17 phonemes in Arabic language, which are the sounds of the letter ب، ج، ت، د، ر، ث، ح، خ، ذ، ش، ص، ظ، ط، ض، ع، غ، ق . Ways to resolve this problem can be done in many different ways. One of them is using the three methods of sound exercises that are sound identification, sound distinguishing, and abstract sound identification (identifying sounds from sentences), and also by language games, by adjusting our self in speaking and listening to Arabic Language that is correct, by tahsin Al Quran with a professional supervisor, and by good Arabic songs.

Algotaurus: an educational computer programming game for beginners

ABSTRACT An educational computer game is presented, used for beginner students to introduce some basic concepts of code execution and code writing. In this mini-language microworld game, a code should be written with which a robot can escape from a procedurally generated labyrinth. The game uses a simple language and utilizes a virtual environment, where code execution could be tracked easily. One essential advantage of the software is that after a very short training, students can start experimenting, and they can understand many basic properties of code writing and execution. Based on several pilot teaching classes in both primary schools and universities, the game is an efficient tool to introduce the bases of computer programming, which bases might be harder to demonstrate with other educational tools.

PEMANFAATAN MEDIA WORD SQUARE DALAM PENGEMBANGAN LEMBAR KERJA SISWA (LKS) KOMPETENSI MENULIS PENUTUR ASING

Teaching materials is a thing that is needed by learners, especially foreign speakers who learn Indonesian. Teaching materials can also be used by Indonesian teachers to facilitate learning Indonesian language for foreign speakers. Teaching materials developed by researchers to facilitate the process of foreign speakers is LKS Bahasa Indonesia One of the teaching materials developed by researchers to facilitate the process of foreign speakers is LKS Indonesian Language people Foreign. LKS developed by researchers through this paper is LKS Writing Competency for Beginner BIPA Students. LKS developed by researchers based on word square learning model. Word square learning model is one of the contextual learning models that use media box answers. The problem in this research is how the needs of BIPA Beginner students and teachers in writing lessons that serve as learning materials development. The subject of this research is all BIPA students of Bina Darma University.

Greek-Chinese Interlinear of the New Testament Gospels and its Applications

This article describes a Greek-Chinese interlinear glossed text consisting of the four gospels in the New Testament. Each word in the original Koine Greek text is annotated with several layers of linguistic information, including its Chinese gloss; word alignments to its Chinese counterparts in the Revised Chinese Union Version, a modern Chinese translation of the Bible; and its morphological and syntactic information, adapted from the PROIEL project. We evaluate the precision and consistency of the Chinese gloss. We report a pilot study on using this interlinear to teach Greek to beginner students, illustrating how it can facilitate data-driven learning for aspects of grammar and lexical usage.

A smooth path to plot hydrogen atom via Monte Carlo method

Abstract In this paper, we show how to build a basic computer program using the Monte Carlo method to display the hydrogen atomic orbitals. For this, in a heuristic way, we applied a von Neumann acceptance-rejection method in simple problems of potential wells, and we end with the hydrogen orbitals representation. In this technique, we spread points uniformly on the 1D and 2D charts of probability density distributions, then we filtered points under these “curves or surfaces”, and we extended this logic to 3D cases. Throughout the work, we also made some comments to help beginner students better understand the term “wave function” present in the Schrodinger equation. Also, we made all source code available at a third-party platform, for any purpose under the MIT license.

Teaching linguistic argumentation through a writing-intensive approach

We present the results of a study on whether writing-intensive learning techniques can assist beginner students in learning linguistic argumentation. The analysis is based on student submissions (eighty submissions from twenty students, 22,328 words) from a typical Introduction to Linguistics course, which were analyzed with the Coh-Metrix tool (McNamara et al. 2014), a suite of tests that measures cohesion of the linguistic formulation of the text and coherence of the mental representation. The essays show improvement in descriptive measures (lexical diversity, use of content words) and greater simplicity in terms of readability, suggesting a growth in the sophistication of the students' argumentation and disciplinary knowledge.

Gamification for Teaching and Learning Java Programming for Beginner Students — A Review

Gamification for Teaching and Learning Java Programming for Beginner Students — A Review

O exame nacional de desempenho dos estudantes de Química: análise comparativa entre iniciantes e concluintes

Este artigo faz uma classificação e análise das questões objetivas de formação geral do ENADE-2014 com base na taxonomia do pensamento crítico. A partir desta classificação, trabalhou-se com a variável de desempenho, correspondente às notas obtidas pelos estudantes nas questões, relacionando-a com outras três variáveis independentes: i) curso (bacharelado e licenciatura, considerando estudantes ingressantes e concluintes); ii) instituição (pública ou privada) e iii) escola (pública ou privada). Na análise destes pares empregou-se o teste de qui-quadrado a fim de identificar qual variável é mais relevante para o desempenho dos estudantes em questões que possivelmente demandam capacidades do pensamento crítico. Verificou-se que as questões de formação geral objetivas demandam capacidades do pensamento crítico para a sua resolução e que na variável curso, os estudantes concluintes de ambos cursos apresentam desempenho superior, na variável instituição, quando os estudantes são pertencentes a IES privadas, os estudantes concluintes da licenciatura apresentam um desempenho superior, já quando os estudantes são de IES públicas, os ingressantes apresentam um maior destaque no desempenho. Na variável escola, os estudantes de escolas públicas demonstram melhor desempenho quando são concluintes. Os estudantes que vieram de escolas privadas apresentam um desempenho superior quando são ingressantes.

The development of creative instructional program for architecture studio course

This purpose of this research to develop Creative Instructional Program for Architectural Studio Course. It focused on developing an efficient and effective instructional program that students enable to think in creative, clear and independent manner. Borg and Galls Research & Development method was chosen for this research, whereas M. Atwi Suparmans Instructional Development Program was applied on the overall program. Data collected from observations, interviews, documentations, and questionnaires was used to analyze the effectiveness and feasibility of this creative instructional program. This program has been implemented under instructional modules and tested in a formative evaluation to prove its effectiveness by comparing pre-test and post test results. The results of this research are the new Creative Instructional Program for Architectural Studio, five individual modules as instructional material, the Architecture Design Process Modification and the Creative Thinking Formulation to transform an idea into an architectural work for the beginner students.

Semi-leptonic decays of a particle to three bodies

Is presented the dynamics and kinematics of the semi-leptonic decays with interaction V-A calculating the decay width and the fraction of decay for each process using spectator model. The results are compared with the experimental data of the table particle data group, which show that the model prediction for this type of decay can be considered as a first approximation. This type of analysis is particularly important because it allows one hand, introduce to the beginner students to the study of particle physics and on the other gives the possibility to use strategies to address topics modern in physics courses at university level.

Jugando con la Teoría de Grupos: rompecabezas, puzzles y otros entretenimientos matemáticos

<p>En el presente trabajo mostramos cómo modelizar y analizar la resolubilidad de<br />algunos puzzles, rompecabezas y juegos matemáticos, haciendo uso de conceptos básicos de la teoría de grupos y del sistema algebraico computacional GAP (Groups, Algorithms and Programming). Se trata de motivar al alumnado que se inicia en esta teoría algebraica y al mismo tiempo mostrar su aplicabilidad de una forma lúdica para aquellos estudiantes ya iniciados en este campo.</p>

I Wish, I Wonder, and Everything I Like: Living Stories of Piano Teaching and Learning With Young Children

The purpose of my inquiry is to learn more about how young children learn to play the piano through examining my own teaching practice. By using autoethnography as a creative nonfictional form of storytelling, I illustrate my learning journey in search for joyful and meaningful ways of exploring music and piano playing with young beginner students. In writing stories about my learning experiences as a piano teacher, I discuss the importance, value, and need for piano teachers’ autoethnographies.

Faktor-faktor Kebolehan al-Mubtada berupa Isim Nakirah dalam Kajian Ilmu Nahwu

One of the subjects in the study of Nahwu Knowledge is al-Mubtada. AlMubtada is one of the important elements in a sentence. One cause of imperfect sentence is due to unfamiliarity with al-Mubtada’ and the absence of al-Mubtada’. Beginner students in studying Nahwu only understand that al-Mubtada has to be in a form of Ism Ma’rifah and not in a form of Ism Nakirah. However, if it is further analyzed, al-Mubtada in a form of Ism Nakirah can be found. Therefore, the author of this paper attempted to explain about “Conditions on al-Mubtada in a form of Ism Nakirah in the study of Nahwu knowledge”. Before explaining further on this subject, the author previously mentioned definitions of al-Mubtada, kinds of al-Mubtada, and the grammar of al-Mubtada. Therefore, the readers may achieve comprehensive understanding of al-Mubtada in the study of Nahwu Knowledge. This paper is analyzed by applying literature method.

Responding to the critics: Implementation of TBLT in Japan

This paper outlines a qualitative study of 10 in-service teachers in Japan who use a task-based language teaching (TBLT) approach in their language classrooms. The study investigates the reasons why these teachers began using TBLT, their beliefs about the advantages and disadvantages of implementing TBLT, and whether or not they agree with common criticisms levelled at TBLT for use in foreign language classrooms in Japan and Asia in general. Critics argue that TBLT is not suitable for many language learning situations, explaining that students are used to more ‘traditional’ teacher-centered language classes and that they prefer more ‘passive’ approaches. Such criticisms also hold that TBLT is not able to adequately prepare students for the high-stakes tests that are used for secondary school and university entrance purposes. The results from interviews with these 10 teachers suggest that they reject many of these criticisms, and are in fact successfully using TBLT to develop both language ability and motivation in their students. At the same time, the teachers noted that there may be a need to use a ‘weaker’ form of TBLT with beginner students, or with those used to more passive styles of learning. They also highlighted the importance of heavily scaffolding tasks in such cases. Finally, a number of the teachers discussed the need for the development of more TBLT related materials, both for students and teachers.

دراسة تقابولية بين اللغة العربية واللغة الإندونيسية على مستوى النعت والاستفادة منها في تعليم اللغة العربية للمبتدئين الإندونيسيين

This study is aimed to know the adjectives between the Arabic language and Indonesian language in order to determine the similarities and differences among them in terms of morphology, syntax, and semantics, and then to predict the difficulties that will be faced by Indonesian students during the teaching activities, and then to propose a method of teaching based on the result of the contrastive study to teach Arabic language at the level of adjectives for beginner Students of Indonesian. This study uses the methodology of descriptive analysis to identify the characteristics of adjectives in Arabic and Indonesian, and then using the method of comparative analysis to compare Arabic and Indonesian language at the level of adjectives in order to obtain the similarities and differences between these both languages. The results of this research are: the first is there are similarities and differences of adjectives in Arabic and Indonesian in terms of morphology, syntax, and semantics, and the second is by this research can be used in preparing lessons and methods for teaching the Arabic language at the level of adjectives for the beginner students of Indonesian.

Stepping into others’ shoes

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine possible uses of translation in language teaching in the beginner-level language classroom. In particular, it analyses students’ performance in the translation of e-mails of refusal from Japanese to English before and after a series of five study sessions. The results show a significant change in students’ performance before and after the sessions. Before the study sessions, students largely focused on the transfer of the referential meanings of words and syntactic structure. In contrast, after the sessions, students took into consideration a range of the factors at stake in translation, including the relationship between the writer and reader, the nature of e-mails, and the writer’s intentions/feelings. Based on these results, this paper argues that (1) translation activities enable beginner students to act as cultural mediators between the writer of the source text and the reader of the target text, by mitigating potentially offensive acts to the reader; and (2) they encourage students to be more conscious of their choice of words and of the consequences of those choices.

“MADARIJ AL-DURUUS AL-‘ARABIYAH” KARYA KH BASORI ALWI : ANALISIS BUKU DAN PEMANFAATANNYA DI PONDOK PESANTREN

The book "Madarij al-Duruus al-'Arabiyah" compiled by KH Basori Alwi, Head of Pesantren Ilmu al-Qur'an (PIQ) Singosari Malang is one of the most popular textbooks in Indonesia, especially in the seventies to the nineties. Analysis of the book written by the archipelago is very necessary to know the characteristics of textbooks based on local wisdom. The results of this study: from the content aspect, the entire core component of the textbook content has been fulfilled by this book. There is a preface in each volume as a proof of validation of the contents of the book. All validators gave a positive appreciation of the publication of the book "Madarij al-Duruus al-'Arabiyah". The main purpose of this book is the mastery of reading skills (qiraah), talking (muhadatsah), and writing (insya '). Only skill to hear is not visible in the teaching materials. But, hearing skills have been represented in the Qur'an-Tajwid lesson. From the aspect of the foundation of the preparation of teaching materials, the book "Madarij al-Duruus al-'Arabiyah" meets 3 (three) principles of textbook development, namely: (1) socio-cultural; (2) psychological; (3) language-education. From the method aspect, this book uses an eclectic method that combines various strategies. However, the prioritized method is the method of reading (qiraah), the grammar method and the translation method (qawaid wa tarjamah). These three methods include traditional methods because they still rely on the role of teacher (teacher centris). According to the authors of this book, the position of the teacher remains important for beginner students studying Arabic. What's more, there is the phrase: “Methods are more important than teaching materials. However, professional teachers are far more important than teaching methods and materials”.

Effectiveness of Teaching Economics in Higher Secondary School Level, Nepal

Teaching economics to students in a clear and unbiased manner supports beginner students, master the essential principles of understanding the economizing problem, specific economic issues, help the student to understand and apply economics in a precise and empirical manner on economic issues and promote a lasting student interest in issue of economics.The objective of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness of teaching economics in higher secondary school level. Two hundred four teachers and equal students’ number have been selected for questionnaire survey. The survey data were collected from different training centers of the training and workshop interval. Psychometric scale, was designed for data collection. For the data analysis, SEM is used, including simultaneously complete tests of model fit, together with simultaneously overall tests of model fit, specific parameter estimates, compare simultaneously, OLS coefficients, Means and Variances. The finding is based on the assumption that is; default model is correct, the probability of getting a discrepancy as significant as 73.59 is 0.00 of students' understanding of economics in their classroom. Maximum likelihood estimates at all the parameter estimates are highly significant. If EFET positive change by 1, T_EFET_2 also positively change by 0.88. The regression weights to estimate, 0.88, has a standard error of about 0.06. Dividing the regression weight estimate by the estimate of its standard error gives z = 0.88/0.06 = 14.91. The variables of student understanding are significantly different from 0 except S_QOAT_4. As ATME positive changes by 1, S_ATME_2 also positively change 0.57. The regression weights to estimate, 0.57, has a standard error of about 0.04. Students they agreed with 8A and 9A statement. This is recommended that teach the teachers as a workshop style and training in improving economics instruction in Higher Secondary Schools Level. The experimental program helps teachers to gain an understanding of economic concepts and improve pedagogy. Improved classroom environment, the latest text materials might be the encouraging to economics subject to the student.Economic Journal of Development Issues Vol. 21 & 22 No. 1-2 (2016) Combined Issue, Page:99-126