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Maximized The Young Language Learners’ Motivation Via Songs and Increasing Their Speaking Skill Ability

This article is aimed to describe the advantages of why songs are important to support the English language learning process. This article also explains the position where English is learned as the foreign language in Indonesia. Songs are learning resources with many advantages, including linguistics resources, affective/psychological resources, and cognitive resources. Songs can be good learning sources as teaching media for English language classes. As the world of children goes with songs and like to sing it. They love saying chants in rhythm and enjoy repeating phrases that rhyme. Moreover, they enjoy moving to the rhythm, clapping hands, tapping the feet, and dancing. Therefore, music and movement naturally connect to children's hearts, minds, and bodies. Teaching young learners has to be enjoyable for the classroom as young learners often use songs and movement to engage children in the class. Using songs and movement is one of the best ways to teach young learners. Making the learning process interesting for children is important, especially for young learners who learn English as a foreign language. Songs can also support the four skills for the learners such as speaking, reading, writing, and listening. Another language advantages are that pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar are provided in learning through songs. It is such a duty for teachers to create a fun and enjoyable atmosphere in teaching. Using the textbook is no longer efficient for teaching young learners nowadays. The teacher tends to be more creative and tend to find more variation in delivering teaching materials, whether using songs from the internet, CD or tape recorder, or television. There are several benefits for language learning using songs for young English learners' classes. Music and songs can do the following: provided authentic, meaningful context, introduce children to the target culture, emotional and social effects, provide opportunities to practice oral language, Aid in retention and comprehension.
Study on Speaking Problems and Psychological Factors Encountered by Students in Developing Their Speaking Skill at SMA Kristen Dobo, Aru District

Developing speaking skill as one of productive skill is crucial for EFL students, and it canâ€™ be denied that most students still constraints with developing that skill that covering their general speaking problems and psychological factors. Survey study under quantitative research was applied to conduct the study. The setting of the study was SMA Kristen Aru and 70 students were involved as the sample and 6 selected students were also participated to be interviewed to support the data. Descriptive quantitative and qualitative ways were done to analyze the findings. The research findings revealed that the common problems faced by the students in speaking skill were 1) lack of vocabulary, incomprehension in mastery grammar, lack of practice, the environment did not support them to speak and always speak in mother tongue. Whereas, the most psychological factors affected the studentsâ€™ speaking problems were low motivation, felt afraid in making mistakes, felt tense and nervous, unconfident in speaking presentation, and felt confuse with their thoughts. From these findings, some proposed new insights such as varied teaching strategies in speaking skill, give more chance to practice their English inside and outside the classroom, always motivate them and encouraged them to practice their English and provide any challenges tasks for helping students minimize their common problems and psychological factors in speaking skill.
Book Review: The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-by-Shelf Guide, Second Edition

Rebecca Vnuk’s new and updated edition of The Weeding Handbook is a thoughtfully written book that can spark a lot of creative thinking as well as assist with careful planning of weeding projects, large and small. Weeding a library’s collection can often cause tension and sometimes high anxiety for many who work in and manage libraries. Vnuk’s experience managing public library collections and extensive background in book reviewing, consulting, and training makes her a librarian with considerable understanding of the difficult issues that surround weeding of collections. Vnuk’s second edition of The Weeding Handbook is a very useful book to read for building confidence around the decision-making involved in weeding collections. Vnuk writes, “A library is an ever-changing organism. Weeding helps a library thrive” (XV). This statement drives the narrative of the book, and it is something that is always important to remember when one is stuck in the weeding trenches and feeling indecisive and anxious on the decision processes. While Vnuk’s new edition of the handbook may in part resemble her first edition, published in 2015, this book feels refreshed, with recently authored suggested readings. Many sections of the book include short and original weeding thoughts and ruminations from librarians across many parts of the country from an assortment of library types and sizes.
Social Capital development amongst college and university students in online and classroom education

Abstract4Social capital is linked to academic performance and education satisfaction, and also forms the foundation of students9 future business networks.It is postulated that social capital development amongst college and university students is influenced by education delivery modes in the form of online and classroom education.The Covid-19 pandemic that started in March 2020 and subsequent prolonged periods of physical lockdowns in many countries has forced colleges and universities that customarily practice classroom education to shift to online education temporarily.This situation has created a <natural experiment= whereby classes or programs from the same college or university that were previously conducted in classrooms (in-person) are now conducted online.There are three (3) objectives of this research.First objective is to investigate and determine the social capital development of students in online education.Second objective is to analyse the influence of social capital on students9 academic success and education satisfaction.Third objective is to generate and propose policies to foster social capital development.A quantitative research approach is employed and the respondent pool comprises students from colleges and universities in Malaysia.The data gathering instrument is an online questionnaire administered with the informed consent of participants.Approximately 300 participants is targeted, which exceeds the statistical minimum requirement of 166 participants.This enhanced respondent pool will further strengthen the accuracy, validity and robustness of the data analysis, findings and recommendations.The variables include Family Capital, Faculty Capital, Peer Capital, Academic Performance and Education Satisfaction.The data will be analyzed with appropriate statistical tools such as structural equation modeling (SEM).The anticipated findings are envisaged to generate policies on promoting social capital development among students in colleges and universities internationally.
A Systematic Literature Review on Change and Leadership in Higher Education

This paper presents a systematic literature review that focuses on the topics of change and leadership in Higher Education, in order to synthesis existing research in this key emerging area and provide some direction for future research. A review framework and method are outlined, in order to clarify the type and source of literature to be reviewed and the focus of this review process. Then, findings are analysed and presented, and thematic areas identified and analysed. Gaps in research are then explored followed by a conclusion and recommendations. Initially, 80 relevant articles were identified from Scopus and Academic Search Complete since 2010. Through abstract review, articles, which did not adequately relate to change and leadership were removed. The final number of papers reviewed and thematically analysed in detail were 23.&#x0D; This research confirms that there has been a steady output of peer-reviewed journal articles published that focused on both leadership and change in Higher Education. Through thematic analysis, several key themes emerged. These included an array of change drivers and the internal and external context associated with politics, culture and traditions and the developmental stage of the higher educational system. Staff utilisation, collaboration and development were additional themes identified that set the scene to determine effective leadership approaches and characteristics. The final theme identified was leadership recruitment and development. Many knowledge gaps from an instrumental, humanistic, critical, and philosophical perspective were identified. It is hoped that this literature review will aid further scholars in their research and develop new knowledge so that convergent views on this important topic will surface.
Where do you stand?: an exploration of perspectives toward feet, foot health, and footwear using innovative digital methods

Abstract Background The cost of losing foot health is significant to the person, healthcare systems, and economy, with diabetes related foot health issues alone costing over £1 billion annually in the UK. Yet many foot health problems are preventable through alternative health behaviour. It is therefore important to understand how feet, foot health and footwear are conceptualised to gain understanding about how these might influence foot health behaviour and inform health messages that seek to protect or improve foot health through altered health behaviour. This research seeks to explore attitudes and beliefs and identify phenomena that may act as barriers or motivators to the proactive self‐management of foot health. Methods Public conversations involving 2,699 expressions related to feet, footwear or foot health on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram were extracted. Conversations on Facebook and Twitter were scraped with NVivo's NCapture plugin whereby data is extracted and downloaded to NVivo. Extracted files were uploaded to the Big Content Machine (software developed at the University of Salford) which facilitated the search for keywords ‘foot’, ‘feet’, ‘footwear’, ‘shoe’, and ‘shoes'. Instagram was scraped by hand. Data was analysed using a Thematic Analysis approach. Results Three themes were identified; 1) connections and disconnections derived from social and cultural constructs, 2) phenomena beyond attitudes and beliefs that relate to symbolic representations and the impact when foot health is lost, and 3) phenomena relating to Social Media as a conduit for the exploration of attitudes and beliefs. Conclusions This novel research exemplifies complex and sometimes incongruous perspectives about feet including their value for what they facilitate, contrasted with negative feelings about the negative impact that can have aesthetically when feet work hard. Sometimes feet were devalued, with expressions of disgust, disconnection, and ridicule. The importance of contextual, social, and cultural phenomena with implications for optimising foot health messages. Knowledge gaps including factors related to children's foot health and development, and how to treat foot health problems. The power of communities with shared experience to influence decisions, theories, and behaviour about foot health was also revealed. While people do talk about feet in some social contexts, it is not always in a way that promotes overt, positive foot health behaviour. Finally, this research demonstrates the benefit of exploring perspectives in uncontrived settings and illuminates the potential utility of social media (SoMe) platforms Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as vehicles to promote foot health self‐management behaviour that is responsive to the social and demographic variances of engagers who inhabit those spaces.
UNDERSTANDING ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK IN HIGHER EDUCATION

This paper draws upon on a wider study on importance of assessment in higher education.The study reviewed literature of assessment in higher education to understand to develop an understanding of essence of assessment of education at university level or beyond.Furthermore, the new assessment methods are reviewed by author in detail.Assessment is an integral part of any successful learning period.Assessment is able to alter the students' perception and approaches towards the learning process.Effectiveness of any assessment highly depends on usage of right assessment methods and tools.In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyze assessment types, steps, possible challenges and feedback in higher education.
Advancing methods in big data capture, integration, classification and liberation

Abstract This special issue focuses on the importance of advancing research techniques for managing and analyzing data in today’s data-rich landscape. In this editorial, we set the context and invite contributions for a BMC Collection of articles titled ‘Advancing methods in data capture, integration, classification and liberation’. The collection emphasizes the need for efficient ways to standardize, cleanse, integrate, enrich, and liberate data, highlighting recent advancements in research methods and industrial technologies that facilitate this. We invite researchers to submit their best work to the collection and to showcase the latest advancements and additions to research techniques.
Datacenter usage effectiveness evaluation with TCS and DCCE metrics

The article is devoted to an automatic calculation approach for two important metrics for measuring the effectiveness of data center operations, named total cost of services (TCS) and data center compute efficiency (DCCE). The specification of required information to be gathered for metrics calculation is listed for both metrics. The software architecture that allows to perform TCS and DCCE metrics calculation is presented and implemented in the prototype tool. The results obtained from this experimental tool are presented for the TCS metric for a server on mock data, and for the DCCE metric for a single node represented by a loaded machine.
Index Coding from Reed-Solomon Codes

The problem of index coding subject to transmission errors was initially considered by Dau et al. [5].In this work we establish a connection between index coding and error correcting codes, through the tree construction for nested cyclic codes proposed in [3].We implemented the tree construction algorithm in Matlab language, which helped to solve some implementation problems found in [3].We verified that for cyclic codes there will not always be an increase in the error correction capability between the levels of the tree.This is why we restricted this study, initially, to Reed-Solomon codes, since they are MDS codes, which guarantees an increase in Hamming distance at each level of the tree.This means that, under certain conditions, the knowledge of side information will be interpreted as an increase in the error correction capability of the decoder.
Global Manager: A Serious Game to Raise Awareness of the Challenges of Being a Project Manager in Global Software Development

Project managers tend to confront multiple challenges in Global Software Development (GSD), including misunderstandings about the project requirements, complex estimations of costs, risks, and efforts, along with increases in task allocation and a lack of coordination. “Soft skills” play a fundamental role in solving these challenges, as they are the human or social abilities that facilitate the resolution of conflicts and involve dealing with people and managing projects in their most social and creative dimension. However, developing the soft skills that allow project managers to lead in an effective manner is not an easy task, especially in global or distributed environments, where coordination and control problems are commonplace. One suitable mechanism with which to develop these soft skills is that of serious games, which focus on learning by doing and allow users to simulate real scenarios. The authors of this article are aware of the usefulness of this type of teaching method and have, therefore, developed the serious game described herein. This serious game is denominated as Global Manager and is focused on helping both students and novice project managers to become aware of the factors that may affect GSD projects. Global Manager was evaluated by means of a quasi-experiment based on a pretest-posttest design, which was used to assess whether the game can increase the players’ awareness and knowledge of the factors that a project manager should consider in GSD projects. The results obtained after evaluating the game were quite satisfactory, as the game taught the players to differentiate between global and distributed software projects and to experience situations that may and do occur in these settings. Furthermore, Global Manager helped improve players' perceptions of the importance of different influencing factors in GSD.
A Quantitative Evaluation for Usability under Software Quality Models

Usability evaluation in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is done by observing the user's behaviors and reactions while performing a given task. The observers examine users' behaviors while doing assigned tasks and describe their observations in terms of usability. The usability evaluation would depend on the observers' ability or experience. It proceeds qualitatively. We propose a quantitative evaluation, which adopts attributes and metrics from System and Software Quality Requirement and Evaluation(SQuaRE) published by International Standard Organization (ISO). Furthermore, we examine qualitative observations conducted in usability testing and apply our method to make it a quantitative evaluation.
Stock Market prediction using hybrid multi-layer decomposition and optimized multi-kernel extreme learning machine

The financial time series data is a highly nonlinear signal and hence difficult to predict precisely. The prediction accuracy can be improved by linearizing the signal. In this paper the nonlinear data sample is linearized by decomposing it into several IMFs. A hybrid multi-layer decomposition technique is developed. The decomposition proposed in this paper is the combination of both EMD and VMD methods. As a new contribution to the previous literature in this study the VMD is used to further decompose the higher frequency signals obtained from the EMD based decomposed signal. In the result analysis it is observed that the double decomposition improves the prediction accuracy. This is a new introduction in the field of stock market prediction. The prediction accuracy of the proposed model is performed by applying it to three different stock markets for predicting the closing price. Historical data (closing price) is implemented to obtain 1 day ahead predicted closing price. Comparative analysis of different previously implemented methods like BPNN, SVM, ANN and ELM, along with the proposed method is performed. GA is implemented for optimizing the kernel factors. It is observed that the proposed hybrid model outperformed the other methods.
The Discourse of Development of E-Learning Platform in Vocational High Schools Case Study: Smk Negeri 1 Painan

Everyone should prioritize their education extremely highly. A person's mindset can shift for the better due to it. E- learning makes it easier for teachers to provide learning materials and for students to access learning materials. The resear ch objective revealed in this study was to develop e-learning with Moodle as a learning medium that can be done and accessed whenever and wherever. E-learning can be done and accessed whenever and wherever. Several kinds of studies on development. The end goal of development research is either the creation of brand-new items or the improvement of current ones. Developing, designing, and evaluating research are all part of the research process. This particular research utilized a total population of 65 students, of which only 30 were randomly selected to participate in the sample. According to the research findings, the validity of the moodle-based E-Learning Platform Validity Test based on material expert validation was determined to be 0.78 percent, while the validity of the test based on media validation was found to be 0.96 percent. Based on these findings, it is possible to conclude that the e-Learning platform might be implemented in vocational high schools.
A trusted multi-task distribution mechanism for Internet of vehicles based on smart contract

In this paper, a trusted multi-task distribution mechanism for Internet of Vehicles based on smart contract is proposed to improve the security and efficiency for the task distribution in Internet of Vehicles. Firstly, a three-tier trusted multi-task distribution framework is presented based on smart contract. The smart contract will be triggered by the task request. As the important part of the smart contract, the task distribution algorithm is stored on the blockchain and run automatically. In the process of the task distribution, the cost of the task distribution and the system stability play a critical role. Therefore, the task distribution problem is formulated to minimize the cost of the task distribution whilst maintaining the stability of the system based on Lyapunov theorem. Unfortunately, this problem is a mixed integer nonlinear programming problem with NP-hard characteristics. To tackle this, the optimization problem is decomposed into two sub problems of computing resource allocation and task distribution decision, and an effective task distribution algorithm is proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively improves system performance.
The Impact of Workplace Factors on Employee Commitment: An Empirical Analysis

This study expected to explore the connection between different elements of human asset and employee commitment. The review used a poll to gather information from employees of different associations. Through appropriate investigation, the elements of Altruism and Attendance were distinguished as fundamentally connected with employee commitment. The disclosures uncovered an enormous positive connection between both attendance &amp; altruism &amp; employee commitment among employees. Moreover, an amazing positive connection was found among altruism and attendance, albeit further exploration is expected to lay out the useful meaning of this relationship. In general, the outcomes propose that associations might profit from advancing attendance and encouraging a culture of altruism among employees to improve employee commitment.
The Use of English Language Learning Videos Designed Through Canva App: Students’ Perceptions

Recordings are exceptionally good at passing on the teacher's eagerness and objectives for teaching English, which are difficult to clarify. It can be passed on within the video. The teacher used to get the learning videos from YouTube or Facebook. Utilizing these learning videos makes lessons more curious within the classroom. Communication and innovation can be used as curious and fun media. Remembering that in the current circumstance, learning can be worn out both online and offline, at that point, the teachers must be able to create learning media by utilizing ICT. Teachers must also be able to create inventive and imaginative learning videos that integrate ICT. One method for making videos was to use the Canva app. This study was considered a means of sharing information about students' perceived ease of use and convenience when using English learning recordings coordinated with the Canva app. It made it less difficult for them to comprehend the English material because of its numerous highlights, which made learning movement more enjoyable. It also helped make the course more appealing to the teachers and students. The students then shared their thoughts on how simple it was to obtain the English material by utilizing it.&#x0D;