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This study delves into foreign language teaching anxiety (FLTA), a notable concern among non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs), employing the Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety Scale (TFLTAS) to assess anxiety levels in 146 college English teachers from language universities in Chongqing and Xi’an....

This linguistic-based educational research was conducted to identify the relation between semantic understanding and student’s syntax comprehension in learning English as foreign language. This observational research was managed by giving English humor (joke, pun, wit, etc.) to thirty students of English...

In actual construction ,there existing a big error in GPS, the geophones embedded non-vertical ,azimuth has some deviation.However ,the position information of shot point and receiver point ,and the azimuthal angle information of 3D3C geophones determine the accuracy of seismic exploration final interpretation...

Looking for the shortest path to a place is very necessary, especially when there is damage that requires immediate repair. This paper shows the design and development of an application of the shortest path search for Base Transceiver Station (BTS) using the A* algorithm. It has been designed an application...

Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) has been mandated in the 2013 Curriculum in Indonesia. Despite a growing number of studies on how HOTS and the 2013 Curriculum are interrelated, only a few studies on how students particularly in a lower level of education have reported their classroom experience with...

Worldwide, traffic accidents result in fatalities, injuries, and financial losses. Accurate models for predicting accident severity are essential for transportation systems. This study focuses on constructing injury severity classification models using key variables and various machine learning techniques....

The study, from the perspective of Structure Building Framework by Gensbacher, provides the basis interpretation of story-reading comprehension processing for L2 learners. The findings of two experiments, conducted with the aid of E-Prime Programming, revealed that (1) learners activate suppression mechanism...

Being the controversial issues leads written corrective feedback into two different arguments that written corrective feedback is plausible for ESL and EFL learners or it does not bring significantly for ESL and EFL learners. Through the debate, there are two queries revealing; what to do and where to...

The research aims to know how phonetics transcriptions based on IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) avoid EFL students from any mispronunciation, so that their pronunciation performance is being improved. The researcher gives students drilling practices using an Oxford pocket dictionary as a tool to...

The continuation task, a reading-to-write task that requires students to make the given plot a complete story, is gradually gaining prominence in the National Matriculation English Test in China. Previous empirical studies revealed that alignment effect existed in the continuation task and as students...

This paper reports a six-month survey on final year students from English Department Faculty of Cultural Sciences Hasanuddin University. The purpose of this survey was to reveal the extent to which narrative text could induce metacognitive strategies of the students. Using MARSI questionnaire to investigate...

The main training model of Chinese EFL student teachers is the cultivation of English pragmatic integrating competence with EFT method learning. This paper provides an alternative model for training EFL student teachers’ teaching competence in Intensive English course utilizing action research in a teaching...

From the perspective of speech act theory, based on the self-constructed composite corpora, this paper analyzes the English translation of modal verbs commonly used in Chinese legislative texts. The results show that: the top three modal verbs used in legislative texts of Mainland China are “yingdang...

In this paper, we discuss how to use cloud services to provide seed data for data compression algorithm on mobile device. Seed data can remove redundant information from GPS data. Then, through the shift encoding algorithm, we provide a more simple and effective data compression method for real-time...

At the beginning of COVID-19 there is no cure or vaccine and it became more dangerous as the virus symptoms were kept concealed. The only way to get cure of this virus is self-isolation and maintain social distancing. Because of the COVID-19 rate of death and COVID-19 cases are increases day by day....

This study examines the implementation pathways of large language model (LLM)-based agent for English error management in EFL education, comparing two LLM-based agent systems: a plugin-augmented agent (EEM_PA) and a structured workflow-driven agent (EEM_WF). Both systems were developed using the DeepSeek...

Questioning the existence of culture within EFL pedagogy has been an issue of identity of the Indonesian pedagogical practitioner. The chaotic perception upon the choice of implementing English culture or the local culture raises plenitude of dialogues among these pedagogical practitioner as well as...

In order to settle the problem of time and frequency synchronization of Mobile Multistatic Radar System (MMSRS), an algorithm that combines pseudo-noise (PN) code ranging and dynamic fine phase shift capability of Digital Clock Manager (DCM) module in FPGA is proposed to realize accurate synchronized...

Integrated navigation system has become an important navigation system. On the basis of previous research about the federal Kalman filter, this paper mainly studied the key technologies of low-cost SINS/GPS/Magnetic compass integrated navigation system, an adaptive federal filter method of vector-form...

Writing is said as the most difficult skill to be taught. Teachers often simply conducted free writing activity and ask students to produce paragraphs of writing piece. Therefore, writing activity is often unachievable for Indonesian elementary school students as beginner English learners. This paper...

The present study aims to investigate types of presuppositions employed in dialogues of the Pathway to English textbook designed for 12th grade of Senior High School students. This research used qualitative descriptive method with content analysis design. The data were analyzed by using the theory proposed...

Given the rapid increase in computerized classrooms at universities across the nation and the increasing number of courses which rely on distance learning, the use of the computer in performing peer review is becoming a crucial tool for the teaching of ESL writing. This paper tries to review briefly...

In order to finding a convenient way of acquiring chlorophyll spatial distribution in different growth stage, the canopy reflectance of corn seedling and the relationship between the spectral reflectance of corn seeding and growth were analyzed. The results indicated that the spatial variability of the...

The integration of GPS/ INS based on Artificial Intelligence is presented.The data from GPS and Inertial Navigation System (INS) are used to construct a structured knowledge base consisting of behavior of INS in some special scenarios of vehicle motion. With the same data, the proposed fuzzy system is...

The production-oriented approach is concerned with learning output and the attainment of learning objectives. The combined style of classroom-teaching and the online education-assisted platform is gaining popularity among instructors and students. It maintains the benefits of traditional teaching methods....

English class is very potential space to build students who are spiritually, intellectually, emotionally matured. Teaching is still seen as mechanical activity where the teacher is busy giving assignments, correcting and assessing. It also focuses on the surface learning not holistic/deep learning which...

The advent and advance of ubiquitous computing technologies can be seen to have considerable implications for education, and the teacher-student relationship is influenced by the deployment of technologies. It's shown that enabling technologies create equity and freedom of access to digital resources...

Despite the crucial role of EFL teachers in enhancing EFL learners’ academic writing, addressing EFL teacher classroom stress still stand as significant challenge in education. This study describes two newly developed sets of peer assessment (PA) rubrics on English academic writing of EFL learners. The...

By analyzing the specific examples from the textbooks of College English, this paper discusses the basic theories of pragmatics: deixis, presupposition, the cooperative principle, the politeness principle, investigates the applications of the theories in College English teaching, and points out the significance...

Anchored from Byram’s model (1997; 2000) of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) namely knowledge, attitudes, skills of interpreting and relating, skills of discovery and interaction, and critical cultural awareness, this study explores the relevance of the conversation analytic perspective for...

In the single-phase grounding fault location system for distribution network based on the phase method, the concentrator bears the main task of the centralized transmission data, and it is an important part of online fault location system. This paper designed a general concentrator. The concentrator...

This paper is a summary of my development in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teaching as a reflective practitioner. Within 8 years' EFL teaching experience at Yunnan Agricultural University, I came across some problems that many EFL teachers in China are trying to work out such as large class teaching...

In the process of daily electricity production, the data of geo-information resources of power grid equipment is basically collected by the field site staff. Currently, the main problem is how to use advanced information communication measurement technology to support and improve the accuracy and efficiency...

Technology is getting advance day by day and it is providing the better life-style to human-beings. But when it comes to the safety and security of the people, the advancement of technology seems lacking. So as per the security and safety concern, the Global Positioning System (GPS) is a real innovation...

This paper seeks to explore gender discrimination in the school EFL textbooks. With the awakening of gender equality awareness, gender bias in education has been widely concerned. As a tool in the teaching process, the textbook is one of the essential parts of education, which influences teachers’ teaching...

With the accelerated development of world multi-polarization and economic globalization, the learning needs of English as a global language are constantly increasing. Compared to the international community, and influenced by traditional educational concepts and cross-cultural differences, the shortcomings...

Although many studies have documented EFL teachers’ engagement in research as a part of professional learning mode, very few of them explore factors that demotivate teachers’ engagement in classroom action research (CAR), which is a type of teacher research form promoted among Indonesian teachers by...

While recent research has foregrounded language learners’ metaphor production in second language writing, little research has explored such behavior in relation to public speaking, a discourse type inextricably linked with metaphorical expression. To fill the gap, this contrastive study explored how...

India is totally beaten by diverse range of artificial and natural disasters. It couldn’t be controversial which contempt their natural and splendid beauty. By these devastations the country suffers through the government sets an interference and mitigation idea set in mitigation and interference plans,...

Metacognitive reading strategies are essential strategies needed by readers in comprehending texts. This study aimed at investigating the correlation between metacognitive reading strategies and reading comprehension among the first year EFL students at a public university in West Java. Data were collected...

Authentic reading materials can be widely obtained from the internet nowadays. Exposing students with many real-life reading materials is necessary, but it cannot be denied that the use of such materials gives challenges to the students in comprehending them. This study attempted to explore the challenges...

Several research studies have been conducted in recent years to investigate teacher talk and student talk in a classroom setting, with a focus on teachers’ teaching and students’ learning of a second or foreign language. The present research aimed to investigate the interaction of teacher and student...

In heavy equipment sales, mainly by credit payment, leasing company or owner gives customer the trust to use heavy equipment or machines and pay off the credit by the project income they are working on. Agreement between the two parties is generally implemented as a contract involving day-to-day working...

The current study investigates learners’ levels of engagement in online courses delivered via a designated school platform in the context of Indonesia. The Student Course Engagement Questionnaire served as a reliable measure in the study (SCEQ). As a result, a survey was conducted in a high school in...

At present, the related data information with GPS positioning, road condition, traffic operation and video surveillance is gradually increasing in the construction process of intelligent transportation around all the cities of our country, and the produced data amount every day nearly has reached PB...

Online learning is a growing movement of the twenty first century as well as the development of ICT (Information and Communication Technology). The online learning also has been used in second language learning, especially English. Several studies have been implemented concerning how the online learning...

The atmospheric duct has great scientific significance and great value for propagations of radio waves and functions of surveillance equipments. Based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) sounding data during the South China Sea (SCS) Monsoon Experiment (SCSMEX) in 1998, the characteristics of the...

Literature is used as an authentic material to teach English reading and accelerate the language acquisition in Chinese EFL context. This paper provides an detailed analysis on the reader-response approach which is based on reader-response theory to demonstrate that by putting the relation between reader...

This study investigated students’ perceptions of their interactions in peer review groups in an ESL (English as a Second Language) business writing course supported by network platforms: QQ, Tencent Classroom and Tencent Meeting. To eliminate the reluctance in commenting on peers’ writing under Asian...

A novel fusion algorithm, termed as the multi-state model fusion filter (MSMF), was established for the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) navigation. Firstly, a new state space model was presented by adopting the polynomial predictive idea and state dimension expansion. It was established without...