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Selecting and presenting materials in a listening classroom especially in coping with the difficulties in catching the meaning and the information and the limitation of the materials produced by the native speakers become the problems in teaching listening in EFL context. The way how the materials presented...

The rapid dissemination of information through the printing press has shifted in the 21st century as the digital text has become so widespread. In this century, the text comes from various modalities, ranging from traditional texts to technology-based texts. Students are expected to develop a high level...

An unmanned aerial vehicle is used in this paper to demonstrate a disaster response scheme (UAV). Once the natural disasters like flooding or major quakes occur, rapid injury evaluation and continuous data collection are critical to develop a response plan for damage mitigation on behalf of disaster....

Students have different motivation in learning particularly in the context of learning English as a foreign language. One that motivates students in learning the target language is their self-efficacy. To optimize the English learning process, this study aims to find out the level of second-grade senior...

It has been broadly asserted that the getting used to the activity of listening to English songs is a recommended method to enrich students’ vocabulary. However, further empirical studies are still needed to relate that with adult EFL learners. Therefore, this study examines the correlation between regular...

Digital Storytelling is not newly discussed by scholars in EFL teaching contexts. However, studies focusing on how Digital Story is employed to develop literacy in ‘meaning-making’ the text among students are still very few. Thus, this study is an endeavor to investigate how Digital Storytelling is carried...

For analyzing the effect of GEO(geostationary orbit satellite-GEO) Satellite Motion on Signal Performance in TWSTFT(Two-Way Satellite Time Frequency Transfer), the observation data of TWSTFT and GPS PPP(GPS Precise Point Positioning) which have the similar accuracy between the NTSC (National Time Service...

This phenomenological study investigated EFL students’ perception of Graded Readers (GRs) as reading materials based on their extensive reading classroom experience. In-depth interviews were employed as a primary data source. Meanwhile, students’ reading log, portfolio, and reflective essay were utilized...

The focus of teaching English Foreign Language (EFL) writing has undergone a great change in the past few years, from writing products to writing processes, due to the complexity of skills involved in writing. This paradigm requires writing instructors to be able to make writing processes become a meaningful...

Learning to learn, originally developed in the European context, is considered as a key goal in the 21st-century curriculum. It requires metacognitive strategies to be included into the learning so as to allow learners to think about how they learn, in addition to what they learn. Unfortunately, in the...

This study explores tertiary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ perceptions of the practical use, benefits, and challenges of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in academic writing, focusing on users’ agency in the Makassar, Indonesia context. Grounded in the uses determinism,...

Lately, technology has demonstrated its existence in every aspect of life, and inventive gadgets are helping people in every field. In particular, artificial intelligence has taken the lead and outperformed the other trades. This paper introduces a cost-effective and technologically advanced assistive...

It is widely accepted that thinking is closely related to language and that the development of thinking can occur in the process of language learning. Therefore it becomes one of researchers' top concerns to cultivate a robust disposition towards critical thinking among students. This study aims to explore...

With the development and widespread of online courses in English as Foreign Language (EFL) classes and the outbreak of COVID-19, the learning motivation of online courses plays a significant role in second language learning. Since the 1990s, researchers have done plenty of studies of learning motivation...

Recent years have witnessed the surge of the number of students who partake in various study abroad programs. As a result, more students are exposed to international and intercultural experiences, leading to increased intercultural competence. This exposure is especially significant for language teachers...

The utilization of internationally published textbooks may pose problems in English language teaching in Indonesia context within Curriculum 2013. It is problematic because both have different goals in leading the process of teaching. Taking places at two private schools in Bandung, using multiple case...

Pre-service teachers’ beliefs resulting from their experiences can predict how they will approach their professional teaching practice in the future. Being future teachers, pre-service teachers hold a unique position of viewing experiences from the perspectives of both teachers and learners. The current...

This paper set out to probe into the learning strategies that help promote Chinese college students' noticing and memory retention of targeted language through the mental process of input into intake. Three experimental groups-Group A, the control group (without note taking and task repetition), Group...

As a critical component in electromagnetic exploration device, there are many issues in frequency domain electromagnetic transmitter to be addressed in the aspect of cover range of frequency points, operation efficiency under wild condition and high precision synchronization transmission as well as other...

The teaching and learning strategies in the context of ICT implementation in EFL Class are considered as the important aspect to encourage the improvement of students English performance. The current research aims to investigate the teaching and learning strategies on Genre Based Approach in Indonesian...

Semantic prosody is the research focus in the field of second language acquisition. Corpus-based language learning is considered as an access to the improvement of second language acquisition and the reflection of lexical items along with particular connotations habitually. This paper is based on semantic...

The basic problems of blind persons in doing independent activities from one place to another are the mapping of trips to go and home navigation. The use of the conventional, electronic stick or previous research is still lacking. The results of research on localization of positions and mapping for inside...

Many students of EFL find it difficult to deliver their ideas in front of audiences, eventhough they have capabilities to do that. It is found that the commonest problem comes from the students themselves, such as lack of confidence and fright of making mistakes. Therefore, students’ anxieties to speak...

Recent various crimes and lost stuff and the like are recognized as a social problem. And users may be the subject of such crimes. To address this, the demand about location information transmission is a situation that is increasing. Therefore various institutions are providing location information service...

Mao Zedong’s “Speech at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art” in 1942 and Xi Jinping’s “Speech at the Forum on Literature and Art” (hereinafter referred to as the two “Speeches”) in 2014 are two glorious Marxist literature and art theoretical guidance documents. Under the illumination of the spirit...

For many years, bilingual program continues to receive criticism. Many experts believed that it could affect intellectual development. A number of opinions on bilingualism are often based on myths and misinterpretations, but less on scientific findings. There are numbers of myths about bilingualism and...

Approximately 60% of people kept or have kept pets, and a significant problem is the loss of pets. Thus, our group decided to design a product with a localization function such as a smart pet collar to address the pet loss issue. In order to verify whether such a product is feasible in the Chinese market,...

Growing up in multilingual settings, Indonesian EFL learners are blessed with their linguistic richness. However, being multilingual foreign language learners sometimes entails having limited time of using the target language. This paper portrays daily language use by Indonesian EFL students. Research...

When using GPS carrier phase differential technique for dynamic positioning, the traditional LAMBDA (Least-squares AMBiguity Decorrelation Adjustment) has shortcomings in the existence of iteration, long solving time and large amount of calculation for decorrelation processing. Based on the rapid ambiguity...

Opportunistic Networks develops rapidly in recent years. With the popularity of GPS (Global Positioning System), velocity or position prediction plays an important role in opportunistic network routing. In this paper, a new opportunistic routing protocol named LSMPSF (Least Squares Method Prediction-based...

Currently, 4.0 learning trends have been issued among English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers through selecting innovative learning strategies to fulfil 21st century goals, preparing students to be creative, collaborative, critical, and communicative as demanded in industrial revolution. One of the...

With the popularity of the Internet, digital game-based tools have been dramatically used in nowadays language learning process. Its great value of applying in EFL learners’ study has also become significant. Most researchers discovered that game studies are more effective in learning and student achievements...

Rapid urbanization has escalated the problem of road safety in general and has also led to the concentration of these challenges in certain areas, particularly those that are manpower- and infrastructure- deficient. In such places, expensive systems such as CCTV, ANPR, and red-light detectors cannot...

The fast development of economy and technology in recent years presents new opportunities as well as challenges for English teaching in China. On one hand, there are higher demands on college English learners' mastery of English. After years of being passive learners and fed with chunks of bite-sized...

Interaction between teacher and students is one of crucial point in learning process especially at language class in order to make learning process active, effective, and efficient. Regarding to the classroom interaction, of course there will be different condition and situation of each class. One of...

This study aims to design the program and instruction of an English course that stimulates adult learners' engagement in language learning and English communicative competence development in the continuing education. The authors have discussed the principles and approaches of adult education to the course...

Nowadays, Indonesia has been a part of the ASEAN Economic Community so that it requires human resources that are able to compete in the working world. Accordingly, it is expected that vocational high school students must have literacy skills in order to increase students’ competitiveness. However, the...

The following paper is a synthesized paper on the topics of Early (emergent bilinguals) literacy, with an overview of how early literacy is applied in the North American countries. Having to study the body of knowledge in early literacy topics, this paper also attempts to explore some possible practices...

The objective of the paper is mainly about the analysis of the lexical errors caused by negative transfer of the native language that occur in Chinese EFL writing. Lexical errors in the paper mainly refer to the conceptual or semantic errors in lexis where the subjects use the forms that exist in a target...

This paper studies the Compass Positioning and WI-FI positioning etc. for single point positioning and measurement of distance between two points in the error range. As a reference, GPS measurement data with accurate positioning is shown else. On this basis, calculation rules of the area measurement...

The purpose of this research is to develop a critical literacy assessment in online context for EFL learners through designed based research. The assessment was developed through multiple iterative cycles of development, pilot testing, and refinement. The first phase, the development process, include...

Design a speed bicycle mileage meter, the system with MCU as the core processor, through the hall sensor acquisition bicycle riding speed, and with the GPS positioning module, through the MCU signal processing, speed, latitude and longitude of the display on the LCD. The experimental results show that...

Referring to the new policy on National Curriculum of 2013, in which one of its objectives is to empower teachers to develop the potential of the region, and answering the gap between the curriculum demand on the local content development and the lack of local content development on the provided materials...

In order to remotely maintain the robots for high voltage power transmission lines in field application, a remote robot maintenance system is built up based on CDMA network. Network connection between the robot and remote maintenance center is established through intranet within CDMA network. During...

Merdeka Belajar demands that the learning process be carried out in hybrid learning because several students attended lectures from outside the campus. Conditions like this occurred in the English Language Education Study Program, Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang, where not all courses were converted,...

With the development of information technology, under the blessing of cloud computing, big data and 3 s (GIS, GPS, RS) technology, city has entered a stage of wisdom development through the construction and development of informatization, digitization and artificial intelligence period, wisdom city has...

This essay aims to investigate and further scrutinize Lenneberg's crucial era hypothesis theory (1967). This research presents the findings of an investigation of CPH's work on foreign language acquisition rather than looking into its efforts to learn a second language. The objective is to...

Nowadays, EFL teachers continually strive to improve their efforts to provide learners with multimodal resources in the classroom due to the rapid development of the digital era in the language learning environment. Digital Multimodal Composing (DMC) has been proposed to be an engaging tool in language...

The rise of 3G/4G mobile communications, WiFi hotspots and other wireless communication technology has a serious of advantages including low radiation, wide broadband, long communication distance, low power consumption and etc. Then here comes a question, whether can we achieve a new generation RTK positioning...

Social media can help learning English because the basic principles of social media are in line with language theory which emphasizes collaboration and social interaction in the construction of knowledge. The aims of this study were to find out whether pre-service EFL teachers get the effects of social...