INTEGRATING CULTURE, SONG LYRICS AND TECHNOLOGY IN TRANSLATIONCLASS

Translation class which is dominated by writing activity can be dull and boring for university students if it is not well organized. Some teaching techniques are introduced to minimize the dullness of lecture. One of them is using students’ interest, that is using song lyrics rather than article taken from text book as the source text. This teaching technique can be the best alternative since almost all students like music and sometimes they do not know the meaning of the song they sing or if it is Indonesian song, they can not find the best equivalent in English. This teaching technique can be considered as personal learning because the students can choose any song lyrics they like. By using song lyrics students will find the excitement and enthusiasm while they doing the tasks which they cannot find when they are translating articles, especially when they are asked to do the task using their own laptops. Nowadays, less students bring dictionary in the class because almost all of them have dictionary programs or application such as kamus.net, indotranslate.com and googletranslate in their laptops or smartphones. Some of the programs and application can translate not only a word, but phrases and even sentences into the target language. This effortless way of translating has missed one important point in doing translation, that is culture. Culture in this discussion should be seen in a broad sense. Culture is not only understood as the advanced intellectual development of mankind as reflected in the arts, but it refers to all socially conditioned aspects of human life (cf. Snell-Hornby, 1988: Hymes, 1964). With technology, students can easily type the words, phrases and sentences into the search box in their dictionary program or application but the outcome is sometimes awkward and unsuitable to the target language. The outcome of translating process should be natural and suitable to the target language as Nida and Taber (1969) stated that translating consists of reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style. A translation process should involve culture to find the best meaning and style in the target language so that the text can be as natural as it can be. Moreover, Will in Noss (1982: 3) stated that translation is a transfer process which aims at the transformation of a written source language text into an optimally equivalent target language text, and which requires the syntactic, the semantic and the pragmatic understanding and analytical processing of the source language. It is clearly stated that culture takes important role in translating process and students need to learn to involve culture in the translation process in interesting and exciting ways. In this teaching technique, students are given English song lyrics and they are asked to translate them in Indonesian and they are also given Indonesian song lyrics and they are asked to translate them into English

Complements or substitutes? Immigrant and native task specialization in Spain

Learning about the impact that immigration has on the labor market of the receiving nation is a topic of major concern, particularly in Spain, where immigration has more than doubled from 4 percent to roughly 10 percent of the population within a decade. Yet, very little is known about the impact that large immigrant inflows have had on the labor market outcomes of Spanish natives. Furthermore, most studies assume that natives and immigrants are perfect substitutes within skill groups –a questionable assumption given recent findings in the literature. In this paper, we first document that foreign-born workers are not perfect substitutes of similarly skilled native Spanish workers, which may help explain why immigration has not significantly lowered natives’ wages. Instead, immigration has affected the occupational distribution of natives. Specifically, owing to the comparative advantage of foreign-born workers in manual as opposed to interactive tasks, natives relocated to occupations with a lower content of manual tasks –such as technical and alike professional occupations, clerical support jobs, and sales and service occupations. Yet, possibly owing to the significant and simultaneous reduction in the manual to interactive task supply resulting from the increase in the share of native female workers, the increase in the relative supply of manual to interactive tasks from foreign-born workers does not appear to have significantly changed the overall manual to interactive task supply in the Spanish economy

Familiarization and Confidence: Factors Affecting Young Learners’ Speaking Test Performance

Acquiring second language for young learners is a challenging task for them especially when it comes to speaking competence. Speaking may be the hardest competence that young learners have to master as it involves many aspects of language skills such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency at the same time. Young learners find difficulty in expressing their thought and idea in spoken language as they have to combine what is in their mind with the target language and then express it orally. These young learners finds difficulties in expressing their ideas in the target language because they have limited knowledge in vocabulary and grammar while speaking is the key skill in primary school foreign language curricula as the learners develop their social-awareness and become competent speakers of the target language (Toledo & Hoit, 2016).For this reason, some school holds English Proficiency test which include speaking as one of the test. Young learners or primary school students need to practice speaking more as it is the medium through which language is encountered, understood, practiced and learnt, (Cameron, 2001).This study aims to find out what are the factors affecting young learners’performance in speaking test and to find out what  problems encountered by young learners in speaking test. This study was done in a private school in West Surabaya, Indonesia and the subjects were 87 students from second grade to sixth grade. The research instruments are questionnaire and interview. This study was expected to help students with their difficulties and improve their speaking skill. Keywords: speaking test, speaking skill, young learners, difficultie

PEMBERDAYAAN PEREMPUAN GUNA MENINGKATKAN KESEJAHTERAAN KELUARGA DAN MASYARAKAT

Penguatan ekonomi masyarakat harus menjadi suatu konsep yang dapat memberikan tanggungjawab yang lebih besar kepada orang-orang tentang bagaimana melakukan pekerjaan. Meningkatkan nilai tambah ekonomi merupakan sebuah kegiatan yeang berkaitan dengan pembangunan ekonomi bertumpu pada masyarakat. Program-program dalam meningkatkan nilai tambah ekonomi bagi masyarakat sejalan dengan tujuan pembangunan Indonesia yaitu membangun manusia Indonesia seutuhnya. Tujuan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat ini memberikan ketrampilan bagi ibu-ibu rumah tangga, yang akan membantu mengembangkan kegiatan ekonomi rumah tangga yang pada akhirnya dapat menambah penghasilan keluarga

Peranan Media Kartu Arisan Fisika (KARSANFIS) Dalam Pembelajaran STAD Terhadap Hasil Belajar Fisika Siswa

The monotonous physics learning process causes students to lose interest in physics learning material. The aim of this study is to identify differences in the achievement of physics learning outcomes between students who utilize the physics social gathering card (KARSANFIS) media in the STAD learning context and those who do not utilize the media and to evaluate the significant impact of using the KARSANFIS media in STAD learning on learning outcomes. physics students. This study applied a quasi-experimental method carried out at MA Nurul Istiqlal, Pamekasan Regency, involving 40 students as research samples, consisting of two classes, namely classes X-1 and X-2. Data analysis involves normality tests, homogeneity tests, and t tests. The descriptive results of this study show that the posttest scores in the control group and the experimental group are 67.50 and 78.25. The t test results indicated that the posttest p-value was 0.014 (p-value < α= 0.05), while the anova test results for the difference between posttest and pretest scores had a p-value of 0.001 (p-value < α= 0.05). From these findings it can be concluded that the role of KARSANFIS media in STAD learning provides a significant difference in students' physics learning outcomes compared to those who do not use the media, and the use of KARSANFIS media in STAD learning is able to significantly influence the achievement of student learning outcomes. Keywords: STAD type cooperative learning, learning outcomes, physics arisan card media Abstrak: Proses pembelajaran Fisika yang monoton mengakibatkan siswa kehilangan minat dalam materi pembelajaran fisika. Tujuan dari studi ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi perbedaan dalam pencapaian hasil belajar fisika antara siswa yang memanfaatkan media kartu arisan fisika (KARSANFIS) dalam konteks pembelajaran STAD dengan mereka yang tidak memanfaatkan media serta untuk mengevaluasi dampak yang signifikan dari pemanfaatan media KARSANFIS dalam pembelajaran STAD terhadap hasil belajar fisika siswa. Studi ini menerapkan metode eksperimen semu yang dilakukan di MA Nurul Istiqlal Kabupaten Pamekasan dengan melibatkan 40 siswa sebagai sampel penelitian, yang terdiri dari dua kelas, yaitu kelas X-1 dan X-2. Analisis data melibatkan uji normalitas, uji homogenitas, dan uji t. Hasil deskriptif dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa skor posttest pada kelompok kontrol dan kelompok eksperimen adalah 67.50 dan 78.25. Hasil uji t mengindikasikan bahwa p-value posttest sebesar 0.014 (p-value < α= 0.05), sedangkan hasil uji anova untuk selisih nilai posttest dan pretest memilki p-value sebesar 0.001 (p-value < α= 0.05). Simpulan dalam studi ini adalah peranan media KARSANFIS memiliki dampak pada hasil belajar siswa yang berbeda secara signifikan dibandingkan dengan mereka yang tidak memanfaatkan media, serta pemanfaatan media KARSANFIS dalam pembelajaran STAD mampu mempengaruhi secara signifikan pencapaian hasil belajar siswa

Binary Collisions and the Slingshot Effect

We derive the equations for the gravity assist manoeuvre in the general 2D case without the constraints of circular planetary orbits or widely different masses as assumed by Broucke, and obtain the slingshot conditions and maximum energy gain for arbitrary mass ratios of two colliding rigid bodies. Using the geometric view developed in an earlier paper by the authors the possible trajectories are computed for both attractive or repulsive interactions yielding a further insight on the slingshot mechanics and its parametrization. The general slingshot manoeuvre for arbitrary masses is explained as a particular case of the possible outcomes of attractive or repulsive binary collisions, and the correlation between asymptotic information and orbital parameters is obtained in general.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication Dec'07, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronom

PEMBERDAYAAN PEREMPUAN GUNA MENINGKATKAN KESEJAHTERAAN KELUARGA DAN MASYARAKAT

Penguatan ekonomi masyarakat harus menjadi suatu konsep yang dapat menyediakan tanggungjawab yang lebih besar kepada orang-orang tentang bagaimana melakukan suatu pekerjaan. Meningkatkan nilai tambah ekonomi merupakan sebuah kegiatan yeang berkaitan dengan pembangunan ekonomi bertumpu pada masyarakat. Program-program dalam meningkatkan nilai tambah ekonomi bagi masyarakat yang sesuai dengan tujuan pembangunan Indonesia yaitu membangun msyarakat Indonesia seutuhnya. Tujuan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat ini memberikan pelatihan bagi ibu-ibu rumah tangga, yang akan membantu mengembangkan kegiatan ekonomi rumah tangga yang pada akhirnya dapat menambah penghasilan keluarga