MA Students Research Articles

Pengaruh Strategi Pembelajaran berbasis E-Learning dan Motivasi Belajar terhadap Prestasi Mata Pelajaran Sejarah Kebudayaan Islam (SKI)

The purposes of this study are 1) to determine the effect of e-learning learning strategies on the achievement of SKI subjects; 2) to determine the effect of learning motivation on the achievement of SKI subjects; 3) to determine the effect of e-learning based learning strategies and learning motivation on the achievement of SKI subjects. The study used a quantitative approach with a population of 78 students. Data were taken through a questionnaire with validity and reliability tests. Multiple regression techniques analyzed the research data. The research object is MA NU Gesi Sragen students academic year 2020/2021. The results showed that e-learning-based learning strategies and learning motivation positively influenced student achievement in SKI subjects for MA NU Gesi Sragen students in the academic year 2020/2021.

Literary Theorist to Union Organizer: An Interview with Robin Sowards

Literary Theorist to Union Organizer:An Interview with Robin Sowards Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) Robin Sowards is an organizer and researcher for the United Steelworkers (USW), focusing on higher education. Founded in 1942, USW is a quintessential American labor union, first centering on the steel industry, with headquarters in Pittsburgh. But it has also organized in other workplaces, including healthcare and education, especially after the decline of US industry. Sowards has had a hand in the successful organization efforts at Point Park University and Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, a thwarted attempt at Duquesne University, and the recent successful vote to form a faculty union at the University of Pittsburgh. Himself an adjunct, Sowards was a spokesperson for adjuncts at Duquesne in 2012, and from 2013 to 2021 he served as vice-president of the New Faculty Majority, the leading organization of contingent faculty, established in 2010. Sowards started out on an academic path, doing graduate work in English, linguistics, and German at Cornell University, with a dissertation on "The Metaphysics of Syntax in Nineteenth-Century Lyric" (PhD, 2006). He has published several scholarly articles, including one on John Keats in Stylistics (2007) and one on Christina Rosetti's "Goblin Market" in Modern Philology (2012). He also published review essays on theorists such as Walter Benn Michaels and Stanley Fish in Minnesota Review, as well as "Why Everyone Should Study Linguistics" (Minnesota Review 68 [2007]), taking to task the lack of knowledge about current linguistics among literary critics and arguing for his syntactic approach. Despite his qualifications, he experienced roadblocks in attaining a tenure-track position. After engaging in the union effort at Duquesne, he went to work for USW in 2012, first as a part-time researcher, moving up to a full-time position as organizer and researcher. Born in 1976, Sowards grew up in Oregon, moving east for college at NYU (BA, 1998). After college he worked as a legal assistant in New York for two years before returning to school at Cornell. Upon receiving his PhD, he taught as a non-tenure-track assistant professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges until 2010, when he moved to Pittsburgh to be [End Page 453] with his partner. He taught at Duquesne until 2015, and teaches linguistics as a part-time adjunct at Chatham University. This interview took place on February 24, 2022, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was conducted by Jeffrey J. Williams and transcribed by Skyllarr Trusty, an MA student in the Literary and Cultural Studies Program at Carnegie Mellon University. jeffrey j. williams: While you were trained as a literary critic, you've been an organizer and researcher for USW for a decade now. Why do we need unions? robin sowards: The purpose of forming a union is for you and your colleagues to negotiate with your employer as an equal. Fundamentally, if you are an employee, you are always in the position of negotiating your terms and conditions of employment—how much you get paid, what working conditions are like, benefits, all that. But we aren't usually active participants in the process, because we're negotiating as an individual with our employer. For example, all by yourself, you, Jeff Williams, are negotiating with the entire institution, Carnegie Mellon. That puts you in a fundamentally unequal bargaining situation. But if you join together with your colleagues and negotiate collectively, then you meet as equals across the negotiating table, and as a result, you can get better terms and conditions of employment for everybody. It's a difference between being in the position of pleading as a subordinate for improvements to your work life versus being able to negotiate as an equal. jjw: You recently worked on the Pitt campaign, which was very successful, with a large majority voting to unionize this past fall. One thing that I thought was striking was that the union encompasses faculty as well as adjuncts and graduate students. rs: Faculty and grads are in separate bargaining units, and some of the campaigns are still in process, but the one that we won in late 2021 was the main faculty bargaining unit. It didn't include faculty in the School of Medicine...

The Impact of Online Learning on the Female MA TESOL Students’ Academic Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This study investigates the impact of online learning on postgraduate students’ academic performance, which is reflected in their GPA. A survey questionnaire was used to gather quantitative data from 36 participants. The quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS. The results show that there is a statistically significant difference between face-to-face and online learning, which has an impact on the MA TESOL students’ academic performance in the Saudi EFL context. Based on the results, the study puts forward recommendations and directions for future research.

ПРОБЛЕМЫ ОБУЧЕНИЯ АРАБСКИХ СТУДЕНТОВ В РОССИЙСКИХ ВУЗАХ

Recent growth of international contacts, expanding globalization in all spheres of life and education, constant increasing number of students from different countries (Arab), the necessity to promote cross-cultural understanding conditions for better adaptation in Russian educational environment make the study relevant. The research aims to identify major socio-cultural, psychological, educational, and language challenges, which Arab students might encounter in Russian tertiary educational environment. The study was conducted among 12 international MA (Philology) students. It employed Hofstede's cultural dimensions’ theory as the leading theoretical framework via qualitative research with the data obtained from the interviews, classroom observations, and a survey. The research examined pivotal issues related to the differences and certain peculiarities of language learning in Iraq as compared to Russia. The gained experience and the data obtained during the three-year study have shown that Iraqi students lack critical thinking skills and analytical abilities due to the dominant deductive approach in language teaching in the home country. The research helped to classify major challenges with regard to expectations and requirements of the Arab students who study in Russian national research university (SUSU).

Teaching MA Students Professional Communication in a Foreign Language: Problems and Solutions

Teaching MA Students Professional Communication in a Foreign Language: Problems and Solutions

Understanding Chinese Ma Students' Interpersonal Stance of Anticipatory it Patterns: Using Corpus Results to Guide the Questionnaire and Discourse-Based Interview

Understanding Chinese Ma Students' Interpersonal Stance of Anticipatory it Patterns: Using Corpus Results to Guide the Questionnaire and Discourse-Based Interview

Psycholinguistic Aspects of the Development of Students’ Critical Approach to the Solution of Terminological Problems in Online Translation Learning

The research is aimed at exploring the approaches to increase the efficiency of the development of the future translators’ critical approach to the solution of terminological problems, as well as the specialized bilingual (English and Ukrainian) terminology acquisition, in online teaching and learning. The method of research is based on the assumption that the said increase can be achieved through the intensification of the students’ analytical and thinking activity in their independent work by means of post-editing the machine-translated target texts combined with the simultaneous written explanation of the reasons for the respective corrections. This assumption was tested in the pilot experimental online teaching of specialised (in the domain of Psychology) translation to the first-year MA students majoring in Translation. The participants’ performance assessment took into account the amount of the independent work done by them, the level of their critical approach, as well as the specialised terminology usage accuracy in the final translation test. The results of the analysis proved the apparent dependence of the participants’ critical approach to the solution of terminological problems and the efficiency of specialised terminology acquisition on the intensity of their analytical and thinking activity in their independent work. The advantage of the participants with the highest level of the said intensity over those with the average one amounted to 16%, and 40% – over those with the lowest intensity. The efficiency of the development of students’ critical approach to the solution of terminological problems and the specialised terminology acquisition in online translation teaching and learning may be increased by intensification of their analytical and thinking activity in the process of meaningful post-editing of machine-translated target texts.

Wakaf Literation to Appear An Interference in Mentify for Milenial: Implementation for Students in Madrasah Aliyah State 4 Bantul

Community service is carried out by conducting endowment socialization for high school / MA students in order to foster social awareness through endowments, bearing in mind that the community's understanding of endowment is only synonymous with parents and those who have wealth. Through waqf literacy with waqf tests strategies aimed at assessing students' understanding of waqf, fostering interest in waqf among students or the community itself, creating students and communities who are socially aware through waqf. This method of socialization uses the method of direct teaching patterns, questions and answers, and assignments or tests. The socialization participants consisted of 33 students from class XI IPS MAN 4 Bantul. The total number of pre-test and post-test questions is 10 questions that are true or false. Where each question has 10 points. From the results of the pre-test evaluation, an average value of 59.39 was obtained with a vulnerable value of 30-70 and the results of the post-test evaluation obtained an average value of 81.21 with a vulnerable value of 70-100. The results of the overall evaluation there was a significant increase in value of 21.82, the results showed the method was considered quite useful in terms of grades and enthusiasm of the students. Apart from that, there are a number of questions that show that students are truly enthusiastic about endowments.Keywords: waqf literacy, readability, waqf

Wakaf Literation to Appear An Interference in Mentify for Milenial: Implementation for Students in Madrasah Aliyah State 4 Bantul

Community service is carried out by conducting endowment socialization for high school / MA students in order to foster social awareness through endowments, bearing in mind that the community's understanding of endowment is only synonymous with parents and those who have wealth. Through waqf literacy with waqf tests strategies aimed at assessing students' understanding of waqf, fostering interest in waqf among students or the community itself, creating students and communities who are socially aware through waqf. This method of socialization uses the method of direct teaching patterns, questions and answers, and assignments or tests. The socialization participants consisted of 33 students from class XI IPS MAN 4 Bantul. The total number of pre-test and post-test questions is 10 questions that are true or false. Where each question has 10 points. From the results of the pre-test evaluation, an average value of 59.39 was obtained with a vulnerable value of 30-70 and the results of the post-test evaluation obtained an average value of 81.21 with a vulnerable value of 70-100. The results of the overall evaluation there was a significant increase in value of 21.82, the results showed the method was considered quite useful in terms of grades and enthusiasm of the students. Apart from that, there are a number of questions that show that students are truly enthusiastic about endowments.Keywords: waqf literacy, readability, waqf

Exploring Online Teaching and Learning. A Case Study

Abstract The present paper focuses on the practices of tertiary level students with digital learning and teaching and their views on the strategies employed in both situations, as many of them also work as or have some experience as teachers. Since the development of digital competencies is no longer optional, our study proposed to take a closer look at the specific learning/teaching strategies and to map any changes of attitude, or practice towards teaching/learning in a digital format, for a particular group of students in the field of humanities. Since many of the students train to become teachers and by the end of this academic year will have conducted more than half of the their BA programme through online classes, and the MA students will most likely only meet their colleagues face to face for the first time at their graduation ceremony, their expertise with the use of digital resources, particular learning strategies and the identified “glitches” in what concerns teaching, prove a very important source for re-shaping and debugging this medium of instruction to ensure effectiveness of outcome.

Minat Belajar Bahasa Arab Melalui Penggunaan Media WhatsApp Siswa Kelas XI MA Ma'arif Lasepang Kab. Bantaeng

This research is a descriptive quantitative study that aims to determine the high or low interest in learning Arabic for class XI students of MA Ma'arif Lasepang Kab. Bantaeng through the use of WhatsApp media. The independent variable in this study is WhatsApp media and the dependent variable is students' interest in learning. The population in this study were all students of class XI MA Ma'arif Lasepang, and the samples were class XI MIPA 1 with 16 students and XI IPS 1 with 18 students. The research data were obtained by giving a Likert scale about students' learning interest in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The data analysis technique in this study used the percentage technique. Based on the results of data analysis regarding interest in learning Arabic through the use of WhatsApp media for class XI MA Ma'arif Lasepang students, it is known that of the 34 students who became the sample, none of the students with very high interest, there are 3 students with high interest (8.8%), there are 13 students with moderate interest (38.3%), 18 students with low interest (52.9%), and none of the students with very low interest. Keywords: interest in learning, WhatsApp, learning media, Arabic Language

ОБЖИВАНИЕ ДАЛЬНИХ МИРОВ

Alexander Ilichevsky is a writer and poet, author of the novels “Ai-Petri” (2007), “Matisse” (2007), “Persian” (2010), “Mathematician” (2011), “Newton’s Drawing” (2020). Winner of the “Kazakov Award” (2005), winner of the “Russian Booker” (2007) and the “Big Book” (2010 and 2020). In the P&I issue dedicated to distance, Alexander Ilichevsky talks about astronauts and airships, looks at Jerusalem from the height of the twentieth floor and tries to reconcile physics with metaphysics. Interview by Ekaterina Maksimova. MA students of the programme “Literature in cross-cultural perspective” A. Alentyeva, A. Drozhzhina, F. Lazarev, A. Leshchinskaya, N. Minnikova, D. Pikalova, N. Chibrikov contributed with the questions for the interview.

Literasi Media Tangkal Hoax: Pendampingan Dan Penyuluhan Pada Siswa MA Miftahul Huda Pecalukan Untuk Menangkal Informasi Hoax Dalam Bermedia Sosial

The spread of hoaxes is part of the impact of the very rapid development of information over the last few years. The development of information technology has led to the emergence of a new public space, namely social media. Social media can have both positive and negative impacts. The negative impact, the spread of hoaxes has become uncontrollable so that it has the potential to trigger disruption of social order. Media literacy is education that teaches media audiences to have the ability to analyze media messages, to be responsible and to respond correctly when getting information. The target audience in this community service is MA Miftahul Huda Pecalukan student. Because MA students are students who are very vulnerable to the influence of Hoaxes that have the potential to trigger disturbances in society. This service is carried out to provide understanding to MA Miftahul Huda students about media literacy and they can also become agents of the media literacy movement in order to ward off hoaxes. The method used in community service is through seminars, discussions and workshops. With this method, it is hoped that two-way communication will occur, both between the resource person and the participants and among the participants themselves

Investigating pre-service EFL teachers’ and teacher educators’ experience and attitudes towards online interaction tools

This study investigated pre-service English language teachers’ and their instructors’ experience with using online interaction tools, their views of the effectiveness of interaction tools in language development, their attitudes to implementing the tools, and the challenges they face in online interaction. The participants were 100 MA students of TEFL and 7 teacher educators at Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST). The data collection instruments included four questionnaires on experience, knowledge, attitudes, and challenges of using online interaction tools in English language classes. A semi-structured interview was also conducted to examine teacher educators’ views of online interaction. The results revealed that pre-service teachers were not aware of all online interaction tools and their effectiveness in language development; they had a positive frame of mind regarding implementing interaction tools in language classes; and their most frequent challenges included lack of adequate technical infrastructure, knowledge, and collaboration. The results also showed that teacher educators held the view that interaction tools can foster interaction according to the nature and content of a course and that they are effective for online classes, traditional classes, and outside classroom activities to enhance language learning. Some barriers, such as technical issues, inadequate pedagogical and technological knowledge, learners’ anxiety, and limited online participation were also emphasized. To construct a successful online learning community, teacher educators are recommended to enhance pre-service teachers’ awareness of online interaction tools and their implementation in English language classes.

Creating a positive learning environment in the online classroom with Flipgrid

The pandemic has made more clear than ever that health issues impact education and that schools play a key role in supporting the wellbeing of learners. As emotion and cognition are interconnected, educators should use educational strategies that generate positive emotions so that learning is associated with pleasure. The aim of this study was to investigate if a warm-up activity with Flipgrid could contribute to creating a positive learning environment in the online classroom in Covid-19 time. Flipgrid is a free platform that allows video-based asynchronous discussion. It fosters educator-student contact, cooperation among learners, active-learning techniques and student engagement. A total of 37 MA students participated in the study. Informants were selected by non-probabilistic sampling. The data collection strategies were observation during the Flipgrid warm-up activity, a Moodle survey, and the institution student satisfaction survey. Students’ engagement was high and participants’ attitude on their responses was mostly positive or neutral. The warmer was highly rated in terms of creating a positive learning environment by the participants, and informants wrote positive remarks about their experience using the platform. The results suggest that a warm-up activity with Flipgrid is an effective educational strategy to generate positive emotions during the pandemic. Finally, the limitations of the study are addressed, and some directions for future research are proposed.

A genre analysis of master dissertation abstracts written by English native speakers and Tunisian EFL learners: Pedagogical considerations

Despite the growing interest in genre analysis, on the one hand, and the continuous concern with academic writing, on the other, very little has been done on the move structure of abstracts in Linguistics Master dissertations written by native speakers and non-native speakers of English (Al-Khasawneh, 2017). In the same vein, no single cross-linguistic study has investigated variations in the move structure of abstracts in dissertations written by English native speakers and Tunisian EFL learners. This paper is a response to this need. It purports to analyze the move structure of abstracts in Linguistics MA dissertations written by English native speakers and Tunisian EFL learners, within the theoretical framework of Hyland’s five-move model (2000). Twelve abstracts were selected for this study: Six abstracts were written by Tunisian EFL MA students at the Institut Supérieur des Langues à Tunis (ISLT, Tunisia) and six abstracts were written by English native speakers. The native speakers’ abstracts were randomly chosen from the Brigham Young University website for Linguistics Theses and Dissertations. The EFL learners’ abstracts were randomly chosen from the ISLT library. The findings suggest that the Purpose move, the Method use and the Product move are frequent in both corpora. However, only one English abstract in 6 contains the Conclusion move, whereas 4 EFL abstracts in 6 contain the Conclusion move. Both corpora contain the Introduction move, with equal frequency (4 in 6 for both corpora). Pedagogical considerations are highlighted for EFL teachers in order to ensure an efficient abstract teaching. It is argued that this study represents a contribution to the field of academic writing and genre analysis.

PENGEMBANGAN METODE PEMBELAJARAN KETERAMPILAN MENYIMAK BAHASA ARAB BERBASIS KOOPERATIF TIPE JIGSAW

This research is motivated by the attitudes of class X SMA / MA students who are still adjusting to the new learning environment and not many students have studied Arabic so that students experience learning difficulties, especially in learning Arabic listening skills. This causes some students to lack a sense of responsibility for the learning material so that students do not pay attention to the teacher's explanation. Therefore, the development of learning methods for Arabic listening skills based on cooperative jigsaw type for class X SMA / MA students is needed so that students can have a sense of responsibility for their learning and that of others so that the learning objectives will be achieved properly. This study uses a type of qualitative research with a research and development design (Research and Development). The results of this study are as follows. First, teachers and students want the development of a jigsaw-type cooperative method for Arabic listening skills for class X SMA / MA. Second, the prototype of this method contains the background, assumptions, characteristics of the method, KI, KD, and indicators of Arabic listening skills for class X SMA / MA odd semester, learning steps, evaluation, and assessment criteria. Third, the assessment on the feasibility aspect of the presentation got a value of 44.5, the audio feasibility aspect got a value of 12.75, and the aspect of the feasibility of the method got a value of 30.75. The overall value of the aspects of this learning method is 88 in the very feasible category so that it can be used for learning Arabic listening skills for class X SMA / MA.

Post-Editing as the Means to Activate Students’ Thinking and Analytical Process: Psycholinguistic Aspects

The aim of the research is looking for the ways to intensify the future translators’ analytical and thinking activity during their independent work in online teaching. The author strives to achieve it through the combination of post-editing machine-translated texts and the Think-aloud protocol procedure. It is also assumed that this combination reduces the students’ dependence on the MT target text structure, as well as improves their competence in translating specialized texts.
 The methodology of research involved experimental post-editing-based online teaching (28 contact hours and 92 hours of independent work) of an elective university course ‘Specifics of translating English-language discourse in the domain of Psychology’ to the first-year MA students (majoring in English and Translation) whose command of English ranged from C1 to C2 levels in the CEFR classification. The parameters of analysis included the percentage of the students’ uploaded home tasks, the degree of the subjects’ post-editing intensity in their weekly homework, the students’ independence in the interim and final tests, as well as the marks in the Final test. 
 The results of the analysis demonstrated a substantial difference between various groups of the subjects by all indicators. The amount of home tasks uploaded by the subjects in groups A and B (with more intensive analytical and thinking activity) exceeds the similar parameter in groups C and D (with less intensive activity) more than twofold. There is a considerable advantage of the groups A and B (and even C) subjects’ post-editing intensity in their weekly homework as compared to group D. The intensity of the students’ analytical and thinking activity decreased from the highest (group A) to moderately high (group B) to average (group C) and to low (group D). The degree of the students’ independence in the interim and final tests decreased from 85.0% (group A) to 35.0% in group D, with the remaining groups’ indicators in between – 59.0% (group B) and 46.0% (group C). These indicators clearly correlate with the average marks in the final test, which amounted to 93.80, 63 and 53 points (out of 100) in groups А, В, C and D respectively. 
 Conclusions. Post-editing, in combination with the modified TAP procedure, contributes to the efficient development of the specialized texts translation competence due to the intensification of the students’ analytical and thinking activity, reduces their dependence on the MT target text structure and correlates with the improvement of the overall quality of their translation.

COVID-19, Stress and Behavioral Aspects Among Students of the University of Georgia

BackgroundPandemics, state of emergency, restrictions and new regulations, new ways of thinking, teaching, learning, working and communicating. Transforming social environment, Covid-19 pandemics has greatly affected lifestyle of all people around the globe. In this matter, students are not an exception. The aim of the study was to describe self-reported stress and behaviors of students at the University of Georgia during Covid-19 pandemics.MethodsIn frame of online survey design, self-administrative semi-structured Questionnaires (Geo/Eng) were disseminated via UG's intranet. Target population was BA, MA and One-Cycle Program students with active status (6545). Questionnaires were available during two weeks.ResultsIn result, 446 (CL = 95%; CI = 5) students participated in online survey. Students reported physiological, emotional, and cognitive symptoms they never noticed before moving to online learning due to Covid-19 pandemics. Both, local and foreign students reported headaches (30%) and Feeling of being depressed (25%). Fatigue (25%) and irritation (28%) was marked by local students, nearly 20% of foreign students marked hardness of dealing with the life problems. Changing of sleep and physical activity patterns were highlighted by both local and international students. In average, 55% students evaluated their sleep as deteriorated or very deteriorated. 60% of students could recall only 3 days or less when they walked for at least 10 minutes without break. 35% noticed increase or significant increase of body weight. Nearly 30% of students evaluated their stress level as 8; 9; or 10 at ten-point scale (0=no stress; 10=high stress level).ConclusionsStudy hasn't shown significant differences between local and international students. Negative changes were reported in physical and emotional level, physical activity and sleep patterns. Study results underlined importance of Further research and strengthening of supportive services for students during pandemics.Key messages Creating/strengthening of supportive services for students during pandemics.Integrate physical activity training into online lectures.

COVID-19 and e-Learning: The skills and abilities required for e-learners in higher education during the coronavirus era.

The purpose of this research was to identify the skills and abilities that learners need in a digital learning environment during the Corona crisis. The research approach has been applied in terms of objective and the data collected by mixed methods approach. In the first part, using a qualitative approach and a document search method, 33 components (about the skills and abilities of e-learners) were identified, and then19 components of them with the highest frequency were selected. The targeted population for this study has consisted of all MA students of the University of Tehran that were studied in an online learning environment, then 374 persons were selected as a sample by using the random sampling method. In the second part, using a quantitative approach and a descriptive-analytical research method, the questionnaire developed by the researcher relies on 19 components identified in the previous step. The validity of the questionnaire was proved by the expert's opinion, moreover, its reliability was obtained in 0.94 by the Cronbach alpha. The data have been analyzed by SPSS and LISREL and the results of the data analysis demonstrate that the proposed model is a good fit, among the 19 components surveyed, all are above average. Finally, the results indicated that the most important components from e-learners’ view which more important in digital learning were effective communication, use of the computer, active learning, learning skills, resilience, motivation toward e-learning, emotional intelligence, interaction with e-learning system, self-direct learning, time management, flexibility and adaptability, critical thinking, creativity/, asking someone for help, leadership skills, stress management, self-organized, cognitive skills and self-assessment.