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The Impact of Training Program Based on Kagan Structures in Improving the Instructional Competencies Among Non-Native Arabic Language Teachers in Jordan

Objective: This study aimed to reveal the effectiveness of the training program based on Kagan's structures in improving the teaching competencies of Arabic language teachers for non-native speakers. Theoretical Framework: Through the work of researchers in the field of teaching Arabic for other speakers, they have noted the weakness of Arabic language teachers for other speakers in teaching skills. This requires the design of a training programme to improve teaching skills among teachers and the inclusion of teachers in the atmosphere of successful teaching. Kagan structures are of great importance. They give teachers confidence in language education and communication with others, including learners, and increase their motivation towards the teaching profession. Method: The study sample consisted of (30) male and female teachers from the eTurn Institute and the Qased Center for Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers in Amman. The two centers were chosen intentionally and the sample was distributed into two groups: an experimental group consisting of (15) male and female teachers who received training based on Kagan's structures, and a control group consisting of (15) male and female teachers who did not receive training based on Kagan's structures. To achieve the study objectives, the researchers prepared the training program based on Kagan's structures, a trainee's guide, and a list of teaching competencies and indicators indicating them. The scale was applied to the two groups before and after training. The researchers used the quasi-experimental approach to achieve the study objectives. Results and Discussion: The results of the statistical analysis showed that there were statistically significant differences at the significance level (α=0.05) between the experimental and control groups in the scale of teaching competencies, except for planning competencies, which are attributed to the training program based on Kagan's structures. Research Implications: The researchers recommended paying attention to improving the competencies of Arabic language teachers for non-native speakers in the field of planning for Arabic language teachers for non-native speakers, and improving the competencies of formative evaluation for Arabic language teachers for non-native speakers Originality/Value: Arabic has a high place among languages. It is a long-standing language with deep roots, rooted in history. Its sons strive to spread Arabic throughout the world in terms of language learning and teaching. The Arabic language attracts non-speaking learners from all over the world for public or private purposes. Some of them study Arabic for communication, military, or political purposes. Some of them study Arabic for informational and economic purposes. This has raised the importance of teaching Arabic among the world's languages.

Review of: "Nano Tubes in interaction For Communication Purposes Nano by Nano Particle"

Review of: "Nano Tubes in interaction For Communication Purposes Nano by Nano Particle"

Review of: "The Process of Simulating Nanotubes in interaction For Nano Communication Purposes by (Electrical Nanoparticles)"

Review of: "The Process of Simulating Nanotubes in interaction For Nano Communication Purposes by (Electrical Nanoparticles)"

Challenging the Wisdom of Proverbs in Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages

Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages: Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices authored by Anna T. Litovkina and her colleagues, is the latest contribution to the academic discourse on the intriguing topic of anti-proverbs. Taking an interlinguistic, comparative approach, this work promises a more comprehensive perspective on how people make use of such unconventional means of communication, as English, German, French, Russian, and Hungarian examples comprise the rich subject of investigation. In addition to providing a plethora of vivid examples, such a work is also expected to offer an explanation for the communicative purpose of anti-proverbial constructions. When do people use anti-proverbs? How do people use anti-proverbs? And most importantly, why do people use anti-proverbs? This review assesses whether and to what extent the book provides answers to these questions. The structure of the review does not chronologically follow the structure of the book; instead, it endeavors to reflect on the content of the work according to the major topics it immerses in.

Perceived Impact of Social Media on Students’ Health Conditions in Pokhara Valley

The pervasive use of social media (SM) technology has brought both negative and positive impacts on health conditions among college students. This study attempts to analyse the impacts of SM on the students’ physical and mental health in Pokhara valley. Descriptive statistical tools as well as multiple regression models were applied to analyse the impacts. It showed that majority of students used Facebook, YouTube and Instagram as SM platforms for various communication and entertainment purposes. On average, the SM usage time that includes all the media types was about eight hours per day, and there was a significant difference of mean usage time between male and female students. There was a significant difference among different student groups regarding the rating on eating habit disorder due to SM. The findings suggested that the severity of impacts on the physical and mental health were significantly positively related with the SM usage time, implying that the more the students engage on SM the worse the impacts on their health conditions. However, the study also pointed out that there were positive mental health benefits in terms of SM’s role to make the social connectedness better and make them feel good about finding the right information on SM. The overall finding of the study was that the SM usage time, especially for entertainment purpose, needs to be checked for reducing the negative health impacts. However, the usefulness of SM in terms of enhanced social connectedness and finding useful information on the SM sites cannot be underestimated.

Linguistic variation beyond the Indo-European web

Abstract A register, defined as a text variety with specific situational characteristics and a communicative purpose (Biber & Conrad 2019), is also recognized as a cultural construct (Biber & Egbert 2023). Registers merit thorough investigation due to their pivotal role in reflecting linguistic and cultural landscapes. However, existing studies predominantly focus on Indo-European languages. This study investigates Turkish web registers through the introduction of the Turkish Corpus of Online Registers (TurCORE). Comprising 2,780 web texts, TurCORE was manually annotated using a register taxonomy targeting the entire unrestricted web and identifying 24 web register categories. By employing Text Dispersion Keyword Analysis (Egbert & Biber 2019), the research examines the register characteristics with a specific focus on news reports, interactive discussions, and recipes, drawing comparisons with their English equivalents. Results reveal parallels between Turkish and English news reports while Turkish interactive discussions and recipes exhibit distinctive language- and culture specific features.

Русский и киргизский языки в виртуальном пространстве и социальных сетях Кыргызстана

The Kyrgyz sector of the Internet relies both on Russian and Kyrgyz. The research objective was to identify the roles of Russian and Kyrgyz in the Kyrgyz Internet space, including social networks. Although the Russian language remains the main meta-language of digital communication support in Kyrgyzstan, it serves as an engine of promoting Kyrgyz as a state language. The study revealed the major problem in the use of the Kyrgyz language in the digital space: it simply has no linguistic resources to describe this sphere of life. Most Kyrgyz citizens are bilingual, and they prefer to use Russian in the sphere of social services and social networks due to the weak development and poor implementation of digital Kyrgyz-language platforms. The state is currently trying to introduce Kyrgyz into various digital products. These imperative measures take into account neither the actual needs of Kyrgyz citizens nor the actual potential of the state language. The best practice belongs to the countries that choose not to put an unbearable burden on their own languages in certain social spheres and turn to those that are more effective for this or that particular purpose of social communication.

Generative AI in Education: Assessing Usability, Ethical Implications, and Communication Effectiveness

The rapid expansion of generative artificial intelligence tools for textual production, such as ChatGPT, has been accompanied by a proliferation of similar tools used for creating images, audiovisual content, and motion graphics. These tools, valued for their creativity, are increasingly employed in the fields of art, education, and entertainment to enhance content creation, particularly on social media, while also reducing production costs. However, their use is not without controversy, as they raise significant ethical concerns, including the potential for generating fake news and disinformation. This paper presents an analysis of higher education students’ perspectives on the use of generative artificial intelligence tools within the context of a university course. The research was conducted through semi-structured interviews with 10 fourth-year students from the Department of Communication and Digital Media at the University of Western Macedonia. The study aims to provide an initial understanding of the impact of these tools in both education and communication, focusing on students who are future professionals in the communication field. The interviews explored the potential benefits of these technologies, which were valued highly, and the challenges presented such as privacy and credibility issues, which concerned the participants. Misinformation and deception were cited as the most significant risks, while these tools were evaluated positively in terms of communicative purposes, but still maintaining skepticism.

PERANCANGAN SISTEM PAKAR BERBASIS WEB UNTUK MENDETEKSI KERUSAKAN HANDPHONE DENGAN METODE FORWARD CHAINING

handphone or cell phones are electronic telecommunication devices that have capabilities and functions resembling computers. Almost all society own and use mobile phones for communication and business purposes, so that smartphones are a mandatory item for their users. Like other electronic goods, if used too often, cellphones are susceptible to damage due to various triggers such as exposure to liquids, falls, or improper use in everyday life. Not many people understand the types of cell phone damage. With the rise of irresponsible service agents who take advantage of people's ignorance in detecting damage to cellphones, a web-based expert system was designed to detect damage to damaged cellphones. With the creation of this system, ordinary people can also get an idea of ​​cell phone damage, often with the help of experts in the field. This system uses PHP as the backend, MYSQL as the database, and uses forward chaining.

Verbal and Non-verbal Realizations of Persuasive Strategies in Video Resumes

With the rapid shift from print to digital modes of communication, new genres have emerged. One example is the video resume (VR). This novel professional digital genre enables job seekers to enhance their visibility and connect with broader audiences through various semiotic modes. The VR has a clear communicative aim based on a strong persuasive component: to secure a job by convincing the audience of their qualities. The premise of this paper is that VRs are not only informative but also inherently persuasive. Accordingly, the study aim is to explore the use of multimodal semiotic modes as a way of realizing persuasive strategies (i.e. attention-getting, anticipation and control of responses, rapport, emphasis and processing aids). The methodological approach uses video-based analysis and computer-aided multimodal discourse analysis (MDA) to analyze a dataset of 8 VRs from the online platform YouTube, considering the following criteria: limited duration, impact, year uploaded and editing. The results suggest that verbal and non-verbal realizations of persuasive strategies are present in the fragments analyzed, and such strategies are encoded by heterogeneous combinations of semiotic modes. Although the strategies and modes are not always consistent, they contribute to achieving the communicative purpose of the genre. As for pedagogical implications, this genre and its features can be incorporated into English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching materials, enhancing learners’ persuasive strategies and developing their multimodal communicative competence.

Moin Moin is schon Gesabbel: constructing Northern German identity in commercial Instagram posts

Abstract This paper shows how commercial Instagrammers construct a shared Northern German identity by employing the regional language Low German and other (visual) means. In today’s mobile and globalised societies, the use and functions of regional or minority languages are changing. Besides communicative purposes and the construction of regional identities in multilingual societies, these languages are commodified as signs of authenticity and regionality. Challenged by High German and other dominant languages, Low German is still spoken in the domestic domain and by older generations. It has recently gained significance in marketing and as a marker of regional identity. The question of how commercial Instagrammers construct regional identity is answered using a multimodal corpus of 1,157 Instagram posts and a discourse analysis based, qualitative and quantitative data analysis. The findings suggest that the Instagrammers express regional identity through three strategies: 1) Using well-known Low German words and short texts; 2) portraying character traits and humour as key features of Northern Germanness, and 3) a clear distinction between an out-group and an in-group through meta-linguistic commentary. Together, these strategies construct a collective, generalised regional identity, reinforcing the Instagrammers’ “Northern Germanness” and allowing consumers to express their regional identities through this content and products.

The role of mascots in branding and consumer engagement: Insights from Indian advertising

This crucial role of mascots contributes not only to the successful capture of audience attention but also to an enduring development of brand awareness that prevails over time. With deep exploration, this study takes heed of the great influence on the connectivity between the brand and audience and the cultivation of a meaningful brand recognition among its consumers. A qualitative study was conducted in order to effectively demonstrate the ability that mascots possess to signify meaning in a clear-cut and impactful manner, particularly regarding the simplicity of their designing elements. This study makes a deep dive into the influential and significant role of mascots in shaping brand image as well as consumer behavior through a thorough and comprehensive review of the literature. It emphasizes their remarkable efficacy specifically in low-involvement product categories, and also emphasizes their ability to effectively foster brand affinity, especially among children who are often particularly receptive to these characters. The literature strongly underlines the vital importance of mascots in the process of humanizing brands, which helps to forge intimate and personal connections with consumers, as well as facilitating essential brand differentiation in a competitive market. It, drawing upon case studies like Amul Girl-the iconically well-known one as well as the endearing Vodafone pug and Nirma girl, aptly conveys how strategically and deliberately these mascots are applied for the purposes of communication about a brand and significantly towards an audience's participation with that brand. Conclusively, the study makes proposals toward innovative and innovative approaches toward marketing but importantly accords high priority on integrating those mascots in such wholesome, complete, and complete strategies towards a brand that has, in its aim to further and promote the establishment of more significant brand equity while securing enduring brand loyalty through customers.

Augmenting Adherence: Improving Medication Compliance and Patient Education in Anti-Retroviral Therapy through Graphical Representation.

Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) is a fundamental principle in the management of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, significantly improving the quality of life for individuals living with the virus. However, the success of ART crucially depends on patient adherence to complex medication regimens that come with the therapy. Patients must meticulously adhere to their prescribed treatment plans to maintain viral suppression and prevent the progression of HIV. Medication adherence, a multifaceted challenge in healthcare, becomes particularly entangled within the realm of ART. Patients are often prescribed a combination of antiretroviral medications, each with unique dosing schedules and dietary requirements as instructed by the physician. For individuals with varying levels of health literacy, language proficiency, and cultural backgrounds, comprehending and adhering to these regimens can be overwhelming and challenging. Non-adherence to these medications can result in treatment failure, drug resistance, and compromised health outcomes that burden the healthcare systems. In that perspective, the role of pictograms as visual aids emerges as part and parcel of patient education and counseling within healthcare systems. Pictograms are graphical representations of concepts or actions designed to transcend linguistic and literacy barriers. When used in conjunction with ART, they simplify complex medication instructions, empower patients with knowledge, and improve adherence. Generally, the role of pictograms in supporting medication adherence and patient counseling in antiretroviral therapy is a powerful testament that serves a purpose in bridging communication and literacy gaps within the healthcare systems. By simplifying complex medication regimens, empowering patients with knowledge, and fostering adherence, pictograms contribute to better health outcomes and the overall success of ART. As healthcare providers and systems continue to harness the potential of pictograms, patient education and adherence in the management of HIV and other chronic conditions stand to be greatly enhanced.

„What shall I wish you...” Values in Zofia Kossak’s acts of wishing well addressed to children and grandchildren

Wishes, which create an aura of friendliness and closeness, belong to the basic repertoire of polite forms common to various cultures. These acts are a manifestation of the personality of their sender. By creating the wishes, the sender externalises their inner self, and at the same time, construes a certain image of the recipient. The sender wishes for a particular good acknowledged in the axiosphere –or more broadly in (socially) entrenched value systems – shared by them and the recipient. The senderof the wishes may shape them stereotypically, in which case they rely on a register of universalvalues (health, happiness, good fortune). Alternatively, the sender may follow a more idiosyncratictrajectory, taking into account the actual needs of the recipient, which they are familiar with asthey know the recipient and have an insight into the universe of their experience. Zofia Kossak’swishes analysed in this article, targeted at immediate family members, are by and large creativetexts. A characteristic feature of her acts of wishing well to her children and grandchildren is theirsaturation with religious values and their association with acts of blessing. In the hierarchy of values recognised and intentionally conveyed by the mother and grandmother, sacred values (“absolutely sacred” and “humanly sacred”) take first place, while spiritual-moral, perfectionist, then life-related and other ethical values also rank high. On the other hand, hedonistic and utilitarian values receive a low rank. Kossak’s acts of wishing well unveil her personal profiling of axiological notions (e.g. happiness) as well as their (re)definition she found expedient for her communicative purposes.

Realtime Multilingual Sign Language Translation App

In a globalized world, effective communication is a necessity. As we live in rapidly changing world, communication enables individuals to adapt to new circumstances, innovate, and seize opportunities. It an important aspect which focuses on building relationships facilitates the exchange of ideas, thoughts, feedback, and feelings with others. Thus, hearing people breakdown and smash those barriers encountered by the Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities. The main barrier is communication. Sign language is just like any other language used for communication purpose. Addressing this challenge, the development of a Multilingual Sign Language App is proposed. This app aims to bridge the communication gap by offering a comprehensive platform for learning and using sign languages from around the world and is designed to be a versatile and inclusive tool that caters to the unique linguistic and cultural aspects of different sign languages. The app includes features such as sign language dictionaries with video demonstrations, interactive learning modules, translation tools, customizable learning experiences, and a vibrant user community. Users can access content in various sign languages. The app promotes not only language acquisition but also cultural understanding. By addressing linguistic diversity and cultural nuances, this app stands as a vital resource for both Deaf and hearing communities, fostering a more inclusive and understanding world

Visualising communication ethics in the 2024 fourth vice-presidential debate

There appears to be a generational gap between generations during the 4th vice-presidential candidate debate, which has the potential to be in the public spotlight during the 2024 election due to the instances of unethical communication of the candidate pairs. Three important points to be answered: First, explaining the dynamics of the debate in various perspectives between generations both visually and verbally (body language and diction used during rhetoric); Second, explaining the substance of the debate on communication ethics and verbal politeness in the context of the vice-presidential debate; Third, exploring the visual elements of both the visible and underlying aspects of the vice-presidential debate. A qualitative explanatory approach was employed in this research with data collection of YouTube video documentation categorised based on the concept of verbal politeness and the visual world according to the content analysis of the debate event video. The findings of the data display are associated with verbal politeness, ethics, and visual communication in the visual world (performance consisting of visible and invisible visual structures), which are based on the social culture and political reality of the vice-presidential candidates who have an important role in filling the gap between generations as a representation of the prospective leader of the nation. In conclusion, the communication process of debating requires ethics, self-control, represented in the polite attitudes and words of the three prospective leaders with the principles of mutual understanding, knowledge, self-control, humility, and wisdom. However, different generations do not need to underestimate or bring each other down. It is mandatory to have the principle of upholding equal human dignity so that the purpose of communication as information, persuasion, and education achieves the content of the message as a quality debate.

Sign Speak

The project is to enable people who are not versedin sign language or people from the deaf or hard- of-hearing community to communicate by using a system that translates their American Sign Language (ASL) gestures into text, which could then be converted into speech. Computer vision and machine learning algorithms allow the system to “read” the sign language as accurately as possible, and then translate into a native text. Text is transcribed to speech using Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities The proposed calibration can be applied to real-time applications serving purpose for accessible and decent spoken communication among different individuals with hearing loss which applies the natural co-articulation constraints in various social or professional environments.

English Loanword in Rantau Panjang Language

This research is crucial to understand the connection between language and past communities' cultures. This research used a qualitative approach based on descriptive methods. The researcher employed an unstructured interview as the instrument for gathering data. In this interview, the researcher selected key informants who were both native residents and the older generation in the Rantau Panjang area. The interview results indicated that people in Rantau Panjang have been using English loanwords for several years. Historically, English loanwords were utilised for communication and trading purposes.

A Radio Technosignature Search of TRAPPIST-1 with the Allen Telescope Array

Planet–planet occultations (PPOs) occur when one exoplanet occults another exoplanet in the same system, as seen from the Earth’s vantage point. PPOs may provide a unique opportunity to observe radio “spillover” from extraterrestrial intelligences’ radio transmissions or radar being transmitted from the farther exoplanet toward the nearer one for the purposes of communication or scientific exploration. Planetary systems with many tightly packed, low-inclination planets, such as TRAPPIST-1, are predicted to have frequent PPOs. Here, the narrowband technosignature search code turboSETI was used in combination with the newly developed NbeamAnalysis filtering pipeline to analyze 28 hr of beamformed data taken with the Allen Telescope Array during 2022 late October and early November, from 0.9 to 9.3 GHz, targeting TRAPPIST-1. During this observing window, seven possible PPO events were predicted using the NbodyGradient code. The filtering pipeline reduced the original list of 25 million candidate signals down to 6 million by rejecting signals that were not sky-localized and, from these, identified a final list of 11,127 candidate signals above a power-law cutoff designed to segregate signals by their attenuation and morphological similarity between beams. All signals were plotted for visual inspection, 2264 of which were found to occur during PPO windows. We report no detections of signals of nonhuman origin, with upper limits calculated for each PPO event exceeding equivalent isotropic radiated powers of 2.17–13.3 TW for minimally drifting signals and 40.8–421 TW in the maximally drifting case. This work constitutes the longest single-target radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence of TRAPPIST-1 to date.

Circumstantial and tactic augmentation

Abstract The present study attempts to unveil patterns in interactive information structure of clause enhancement that conventionalize the actual representation of circumstantial elements which add information about time, place, manner, means, and reason/cause through circumstantial augmentation, tactic augmentation, or connectives in method sections of research articles (RAs). The dataset consisted of 120 method sections of randomly selected empirical RAs from ISI-indexed Q1-ranked applied linguistic journals published between 2020 and 2022. The results of the study point to a significant distinction in hypotactic augmentation to register circumstantial information in comparison to other choices available to authors. Moreover, the most striking observation to emerge from the data is that a logical information structure of circumstantial meaning is mostly facilitated through hypotactic non-finite enhancement rather than its finite counterpart. This viable preference lies in elliptical, evincing, and expressive functions of hypotactic clauses that make comprehension more attainable to the readers and assist authors in fulfilling the generic conventions and communicative purposes of academic writing and managing interactive information structures. A major theoretical implication of the current research entails the significance of the interactive functions of the options available to authors which can impose priorities on the system of choices within the context of information.