IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING FLUENCY THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TRIVIA-BASED ACTIVITY IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

This article describes a classroom action research held in speaking class through the implementation of trivia-based activity to improve the University students’ speaking fluency and improve the classroom situation. The method used in the reasearch is collaborative classroom action research which was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle included four stages namely planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. The data that were obtained qualitatively and quantitatively show that through trivia-based activity could improve: (1) students’ speaking fluency; (2) speaking classroom situation. Keyword: Classroom action research, speaking fluency, trivia-based activit

Representasi Polity Dan Trivia Dalam Agenda Media (Studi Agenda Media Sk Ibukota)

This content analysis research deals with the representation of ‘polity and trivia\u27 issues in media agenda from capital city newspapers. This issue is from the emergence phenomenon of trivia issue in media agenda, incidentally,it should ideally appear through the nature of the polity issues. This research seeks to discover ‘how\u27 the representation of polity and trivia issue in media agenda from capital city newspapers. Based on the research results, through the method of content analysis, it concluded that the representation of media agenda ‘polity and trivia issue\u27 in newspaper, can beexpressed in agenda setting theory throught the concept of agenda. Regarding the emergence of the trivia issue, in the dominance of media polity in issues agenda, other than to justify the truth of agenda setting theory; this also indicates the truth of catharsis hypothesis, that with scheduled trivia issue, editorial media organization will have a positive effect, also for the audience. In the future, for the development of the agenda media theory, researchers should develop his/hers analysis, such doing a trial ‘difference\u27 test between samples, related to media agenda. And also ‘performs a deepening\u27 related to the agenda in the trivia issues agenda relationship

The Official Student Newspaper of UAS

UAS Answers: Everybody's got one... -- Trivia Pub Night -- Register Now! -- That was a thing! -- Send us your stuff, UAS! -- A Week of Holidays -- Deviled Eggs -- Suddenly, College: In Sickness and in School -- Pick a Door, Any Door -- I'm Twitterpated and I Know It -- Norwegian Nazi-Zombies: The Movie -- Loneliness -- Campus Calenda

A barrier or bridge? Serious problems revealed in the UK citizenship test

Thom Brooks has examined the UK citizenship test and finds that it is highly irrelevant to living in this society, has many inconsistencies, and suffers from serious gender imbalance. To make matters worse, changes to the test this year have transformed it from being a practical trivia quiz to being purely trivial. Greater care needs to be taken to ensure balance and consistency, and it is worth reconsidering the purpose of the test

A Trivia Challenge

Many word buffs enjoy a solitary investigation, and for them Pears Advanced Word-Puzzler\u27s Dictionary (Pelham Books, London: 1987), reviewed elsewhere in this issue, offers a unique feature. Certain words in the dictionary have usual features worthy of recording as footnotes to their individual entries

The VOP Voice, September 2015

Meet Deanna Clingan-Fischer, newest VOP, Anniversaries, Trivia, continuing education, Ombudsman Tidbi

Generating Concise and Readable Summaries of XML Documents

XML has become the de-facto standard for data representation and exchange, resulting in large scale repositories and warehouses of XML data. In order for users to understand and explore these large collections, a summarized, bird's eye view of the available data is a necessity. In this paper, we are interested in semantic XML document summaries which present the "important" information available in an XML document to the user. In the best case, such a summary is a concise replacement for the original document itself. At the other extreme, it should at least help the user make an informed choice as to the relevance of the document to his needs. In this paper, we address the two main issues which arise in producing such meaningful and concise summaries: i) which tags or text units are important and should be included in the summary, ii) how to generate summaries of different sizes.%for different memory budgets. We conduct user studies with different real-life datasets and show that our methods are useful and effective in practice