Classroom Techniques Used In Vocabulary Development Activities In English Classroom: A Naturalistic Study At Mts Negeri Surakarta 2 In 2015/2016 Academic Year

This study is carried out to describe classroom techniques used in vocabulary activities in English classroom at MTs Negeri Surakarta 2. The aims of this research are: (1) to describe the kinds of classroom techniques used in vocabulary activities, (2) the purpose of using each classroom technique, (3) the teacher’s roles, (4) the student’s roles, and (5) instructional materials used by the English teachers at MTs Negeri Surakarta 2. The kind of this research is descriptive qualitative research especially naturalistic study in analyzing the data. The methods of collecting data in this research are observation, interview and document. The finding of the study shows that there are some classroom techniques used by English teachers at MTs Negeri Surakarta 2 such as: memorization (vocabulary card system), synonym, selfdefining context, picture and drawing, antonym, and reading aloud. The teacher have roles as model, instructor, consultant, group organizer, evaluator, and facilitator. The student have roles as participant, demonstrate their knowledge and understanding, engage actively in learning, dialog and interaction with teacher, learner member group and learn by interacting with other, tutor for other learner, and shows respect. There are some materials used by English teachers, such as textbook, work book, dictionary, photocopy exercises, and powerpoint on LCD. The conclusion of this research is that English teacher at MTs Negeri Surakarta 2 used various classroom techniques which can improve the students’ ability. Various techniques can make the student interested in English teaching-learning process. It does not make the class monotonous. The students become more active and creative. Based on the result, apparently, classroom techniques used by the teacher have important role in the teaching-learning process

A Descriptive Study On The Implementation Of The 2013 Curriculum In Teaching English At The Seventh Grade Of SMP Negeri 5 Sragen In 2014 / 2015 Academic Year

The objective of this study is to describethe procedure in teaching English and to describe the evaluation system in teaching English using the 2013 Curriculum at the seventh grade of SMP Negeri 5 Sragen in 2014 / 2015 academic year. This research is descriptive research. The method of collecting data is direct observation, interview, and document. In technique for analyzing data is reducing the data, displaying the data, and drawing conclusion and proposing suggestion. The result shows that: (1) there are three teaching objectives in teaching English using the 2013 Curriculum, namely: the learners are able to use the English language orally and written in daily behavior, the teacher introduces English lesson as a foreign language that is important in the future, and the learners can develop their competency in English language that covers attitude (spiritual attitude and social attitude), knowledge, and skill; (2) The syllabus that is used by the teacher as reference in making lesson plan is designed by the government; (3) the teacher makes the lesson plan before teaching her students. One lesson plan can be used for one or more meetings. The teacher has an authority to develop the lesson plan that is suitable with the material and the learner’s characteristic; (4) the teacher holds eleven roles. Those roles are the teacher as the monitor, motivator, controller, instructor, director, transformative agent, and constructor of knowledge, actor, model, innovator, and evaluator; (5) the learners hold six roles. Those roles are the learners as the subject and object of learning, planner, communicator, performer, resource of learning, and evaluator; (6) the teacher uses the textbook that is produced by the government. Besides, the teacher also uses dialogue, realia, teacher’s knowledge, dictionary, the learner’s information, and internet as the learning resources. The teacher uses dialogue as the media for teaching her students; (7) the classroom activities, the teacher adopts the scientific approach that consists of five steps, namely: observing, questioning, collecting information, associating, and communicating; (8) the method of teaching is inquiry-based learning; (9) the classroom activities are suitable with the lesson plan; (10) the evaluation system, the teacher uses authentic assessment to evaluate the learners. The teacher gives an evaluation in three aspects. Those aspects are attitude (spiritual and social), knowledge, and skill

Event-based Access to Historical Italian War Memoirs

The progressive digitization of historical archives provides new, often domain specific, textual resources that report on facts and events which have happened in the past; among these, memoirs are a very common type of primary source. In this paper, we present an approach for extracting information from Italian historical war memoirs and turning it into structured knowledge. This is based on the semantic notions of events, participants and roles. We evaluate quantitatively each of the key-steps of our approach and provide a graph-based representation of the extracted knowledge, which allows to move between a Close and a Distant Reading of the collection.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figure

Healthcare Event and Activity Logging.

The health of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can change frequently and inexplicably. Crucial events and activities responsible for these changes often go unnoticed. This paper introduces healthcare event and action logging (HEAL) which automatically and unobtrusively monitors and reports on events and activities that occur in a medical ICU room. HEAL uses a multimodal distributed camera network to monitor and identify ICU activities and estimate sanitation-event qualifiers. At the core is a novel approach to infer person roles based on semantic interactions, a critical requirement in many healthcare settings where individuals' identities must not be identified. The proposed approach for activity representation identifies contextual aspects basis and estimates aspect weights for proper action representation and reconstruction. The flexibility of the proposed algorithms enables the identification of people roles by associating them with inferred interactions and detected activities. A fully working prototype system is developed, tested in a mock ICU room and then deployed in two ICU rooms at a community hospital, thus offering unique capabilities for data gathering and analytics. The proposed method achieves a role identification accuracy of 84% and a backtracking role identification of 79% for obscured roles using interaction and appearance features on real ICU data. Detailed experimental results are provided in the context of four event-sanitation qualifiers: clean, transmission, contamination, and unclean

Natural language understanding: instructions for (Present and Future) use

In this paper I look at Natural Language Understanding, an area of Natural Language Processing aimed at making sense of text, through the lens of a visionary future: what do we expect a machine should be able to understand? and what are the key dimensions that require the attention of researchers to make this dream come true

EN-BIRTH Data Collector Training - Handbook and Manual

The EN-BIRTH study aims to validate selected newborn and maternal indicators for routine facility-based tracking of coverage and quality of care for use at district, national and global levels. The item contains the EN-BIRTH_Trainer's Manual (14 June 2017) and EN-BIRTH_Training Handbook (23 May 2017)

Lexical typology : a programmatic sketch

The present paper is an attempt to lay the foundation for Lexical Typology as a new kind of linguistic typology.1 The goal of Lexical Typology is to investigate crosslinguistically significant patterns of interaction between lexicon and grammar