THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GAMES AND SONGS IN TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY TO THE FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SDN 1 BATURETNO WONOGIRI

Woro Widiastuti. 2008. The Effectiveness of Games and Songs in Teaching English Vocabulary to the Fourth Grade Students of SDN 1 Baturetno, Wonogiri. English Diploma Program, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret University. This Final Project report was written based on the job training done at SDN 1 Baturetno, Wonogiri for a month. The writer took the fourth grade students as the objects to be observed and focused in the teaching of English vocabulary. The objectives of this Final Project report are 1.) to describe the process of teaching vocabulary for students by using games and songs, and 2.) to describe how effective, entertaining, and fun in teaching English vocabulary by using games and songs. To find out the conclusion of the objectives, the writer did an observation and teaching activity. In the English teaching and learning activity, the writer used some procedures in order to make the English teaching and learning activities run well. The procedures are Greeting, BKOF, Modeling of Text, Join Construction and Individual Construction, and Closing. Games itself was held in Join Construction and Individual Construction. Meanwhile, songs applied in the last step to end the lesson. By playing games, the writer can attract the students’ attention and persuade them to love English and enjoy the learning process. The games also help the students to memorize the vocabulary they have learned. Meanwhile, the use of songs to end the lesson can refresh the students’ mind after learning process. Besides, songs help to create a fun and friendly situation and become a fun and attractive way to learn vocabulary. Finally, both games and songs can be an alternative way to make the learning process fun and effective

TEACHING VOCABULARY BY USING PLAYDOUGH FOR SPECIAL NEED STUDENTS

This research aims to develop a playdough game as a medium for learning English Vocabulary. This research used Classroom Action Research with qualitative methods. This research was carried out in a special school in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan. The purpose of this research is to facilitate the learning process in the classroom for students with special needs. Playdough media can help students remember vocabulary more easily and train fine motor skills in students, and not only that, playdough can also overcome tantrums and increase students’ focus on learning. Therefore, learning by using playdough can make it easier for students to remember vocabulary, increase focus on learning, and can overcome tantrums in students when studying in class

Vocabulary Transfer for Medical Texts

Vocabulary transfer is a transfer learning subtask in which language models fine-tune with the corpus-specific tokenization instead of the default one, which is being used during pretraining. This usually improves the resulting performance of the model, and in the paper, we demonstrate that vocabulary transfer is especially beneficial for medical text processing. Using three different medical natural language processing datasets, we show vocabulary transfer to provide up to ten extra percentage points for the downstream classifier accuracy

Learning Object-Language Alignments for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

Existing object detection methods are bounded in a fixed-set vocabulary by costly labeled data. When dealing with novel categories, the model has to be retrained with more bounding box annotations. Natural language supervision is an attractive alternative for its annotation-free attributes and broader object concepts. However, learning open-vocabulary object detection from language is challenging since image-text pairs do not contain fine-grained object-language alignments. Previous solutions rely on either expensive grounding annotations or distilling classification-oriented vision models. In this paper, we propose a novel open-vocabulary object detection framework directly learning from image-text pair data. We formulate object-language alignment as a set matching problem between a set of image region features and a set of word embeddings. It enables us to train an open-vocabulary object detector on image-text pairs in a much simple and effective way. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets, COCO and LVIS, demonstrate our superior performance over the competing approaches on novel categories, e.g. achieving 32.0% mAP on COCO and 21.7% mask mAP on LVIS. Code is available at: https://github.com/clin1223/VLDet.Comment: Technical Repor

Visual-spatial sequence learning and memory in trained musicians

Previous research has shown that musicians have enhanced visual-spatial abilities and sensorymotor skills. As a result of their long-term musical training and their experience-dependent activities, musicians may learn to associate sensory information with fine motor movements. Playing a musical instrument requires musicians to rapidly translate musical symbols into specific sensory-motor actions while also simultaneously monitoring the auditory signals produced by their instrument. In this study, we assessed the visual-spatial sequence learning and memory abilities of long-term musicians. We recruited 24 highly trained musicians and 24 nonmusicians, individuals with little or no musical training experience. Participants completed a visual-spatial sequence learning task as well as receptive vocabulary, nonverbal reasoning, and short-term memory tasks. Results revealed that musicians have enhanced visual-spatial sequence learning abilities relative to nonmusicians. Musicians also performed better than nonmusicians on the vocabulary and nonverbal reasoning measures. Additional analyses revealed that the large group difference observed on the visualspatial sequencing task between musicians and nonmusicians remained even after controlling for vocabulary, nonverbal reasoning, and short-term memory abilities. Musicians' improved visualspatial sequence learning may stem from basic underlying differences in visual-spatial and sensorymotor skills resulting from long-term experience and activities associated with playing a musical instrument

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE MOTIVATIONS OF LEARNING ENGLISH AND THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF MTs DARUN NA’IM SIMPANG KUBU KAMPAR DISTRICT OF KAMPAR REGENCY

The research is entitled “The Correlation Between the Motivation of Learning English and the English Vocabulary Achievement of the First Year Students of MTs Darun Na’im Simpang Kubu Kampar district of Kampar regency”. Most of the students at the First Year Students of MTs Darun Na’im Simpang Kubu Kampar district of Kampar regency still face difficulties to know the meaning or to fine the equivalent of English words in their own language. The object of this research is the correlation between motivation of learning English through picture cards and English vocabulary achievement. and subject of this research the first year students of MTs Darun Na’im Simpang Kubu. In this research, the writer collected the data by using questioner in order to find out the motivation in learning English through picture cards, and written test to find out about the students vocabulary achievement. Hence, To analyze the data, the writer used SPPS 15.0 for Windows—statistical software. The writer found that the coefficient correlation (r) is 0,603, Sig.(2- tailed) is 0,000 and N is 32. The result is 0,449 0,349. In the other word r o > rt, it means that we have to ACCEPT Ha, Sig.(1-Tailed) < α, (0,000 < 0,05) we accept Ha, it means there is a significant correlation between The motivation in learning English through picture cards and the English vocabulary achievement of the First Year Students of MTs Darun Na’im Simpang Kub

THE USE OF SONGS TO INCREASE ENGLISH VOCABULARY TO THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF SDN TUGU JEBRES NO.120 SURAKARTA

This report is written based on the job training activities done by the writer as an English Teacher in SDN Tugu Jebres No.120 Surakarta. The purpose of this report is to describe the use of songs to improve English vocabulary to the first grade student. Using songs can be good alternation to teach English to young learners because children like songs. In many cultures, songs are used to introduce or practice mother tongue to young children. By implementing the songs, the students are easier in understanding the meaning of the words and memorizing the vocabulary. It happened because first, songs are consisted of special rhythm that stimulates the brain to catch the lyrics. Second, there are many word repetitions in songs that is very helpful for young learners to memorize the new vocabulary. Third, singing is a happy and stress-free activity that brings different atmosphere in theclassroom so that the students feel more interested in learning English vocabulary. Songs are a motivating and enjoyable aid to learn language. Singing many English songs could add the students’ vocabularies. As the result, the scores of English is increasing well. Songs increase English vocabulary students

TEACHING VOCABULARY TO THE 4TH GRADE STUDENTS IN SDN PURWOSUMAN 5 SIDOHARJO SRAGEN

ARI SULISTYOWATI. 2009. TEACHING VOCABULARY TO THE 4TH GRADE STUDENTS IN SDN PURWOSUMAN 5 SIDOHARJO SRAGEN. English Diploma Program, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret University. The writer writes the final project report based on doing the job training. The final project report discussed teaching vocabulary to the 4th grade students in SDN Purwosuman 5 Sidoharjo Sragen. In writing final project report the writer also collected the data by interviewing the teacher and the students, observing class, and teaching directly in the classroom. In doing the job training, the writer gave the material from the LKS and followed what the teacher said to the writer. The writer also gave the material such as concrete words (animal, fruit, shape, etc) because their level is the Elementary School. The final project report also discussed problems and solutions faced by the writer when teaching vocabulary to the 4th grade students in SDN Purwosuman 5 Sidoharjo Sragen