Perspectives of Arts and Social Studies Vol.4

The Application of Translingualism to Language Revitalisation in Taiwan: Advanced Study

Huang, Tung-Chiou — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Translingualism is a term from Steven G. Kellman [1] and David Schwarzer et al. [2], who see teaching an L2 as bridge building between languages that allow one to retain a unified mind and not be cloven into two for the sake of being multilingual. Thus, in contrast to multilingualism, translingualism stresses the process and not the goal. Classrooms where students come from two or more different language communities are established feature of schools in many countries. When multilingual word processing enables ethnolinguistic communities and students to express the funds of knowledge they possess, the school is truly preparing students to thrive in a global community characterized by rapid cultural and technological change. If translingualism is the process, then Action research (AR) is its method. This study explores the sociolinguistics of translingual forces: (1) how classroom experience or actual personal contact with elders in villages causes students of different cultural backgrounds to value other languages and (2) how students’ phonetic knowledge, literacy, as well as content knowledge in English may transfer to acquiring ethnic languages in a collaborative classroom. It mostly examines how the students in a community of Taiwan hailing from different cultural backgrounds and attending multilingual classrooms that promoted bi/multilingualism can come to value all languages spoken in a community.

Scientific Approach of Cupping (Al-Hijamah) Training Programs Directed towards Healthcare Professionals: Trainees' Feedback as a Powerful Assessment Tool, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Naseem Akhtar Qureshi, Sarah Mohammed Al Yousif, Hamoud Abdullah Alsubaie — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Background: The feedback of attendees constitutes a powerful tool for the evaluation of training programs directed towards healthcare professionals.

Objective: Using trainees' feedback, this study aimed to assess cupping (Al-Hijamah) training programs tailored for healthcare professionals in Saudi Arabia.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out involving 483 healthcare workers who attended the cupping training programs conducted multiple times by National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in Riyadh city. The participants completed a self-designed 6-item assessment form with a 5-point Likert scale at the end of each course.

Results: Trainees rated trainers (4.8 or 96.9%), organizational setup (4.2 or 84.8%), content relevance (4.5 or 90.6%), working and learning methods (4.5 or 90.7%), achievement of objectives (4.5 or 90.9%) and overall evaluation (4.9 or 97.1%) with a range of 4 (good-84.8% to excellent-97.1%) to 5 on Likert scale. The training program satisfied their expectations as reported by 94.2% of trainees and 99.1% agreed that they were the right person to attend the course. A proportion of trainees (98%) reported to recommend this course for their colleagues. Participants gained the significant knowledge from infection control measures, research and evidence based cupping. The most important skills acquired by trainees were proper scarification and precisely selecting points of cupping. The trainees suggested increase in number of case studies, sessions and duration of hands-on training for improving training course.

Conclusion: The attendees' feedback positively supported all the six items of assessment form concerning both trainers and trainees and offered some strategies for improving training courses. The evaluation of training programs using trainees' feedback or other methods needs to be regularly practiced in all healthcare excellent centers of learning and training not only in Saudi Arabia but also other Gulf countries.

Out-migration: A Relief Valve for a Local Economy Empirical Evidence from Vietnam

Mai Tuyet Thi Vu — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Economic crisis and recession has been the context for many research taking through. Basing on an empirical research and using mainly the survey results of Hanoi female workers, this chapter seeks to understand how the pattern and trend of the out-migration female workers has been changed; what factors determined the out-migration and how the consequences are in the context of the economic crisis and recession. This chapter also improves the out-migration act as a “relief valve” for a local economy where jobs and investment opportunities are scarce and the migration out flow from urban to rural is more vulnerable to economic shocks.

Critical Study on Poverty Alleviation Programmes in Ondo and Osun States of Nigeria: New Skills and Knowledge Acquired as a Result of Participation

E. O. Akinyemi — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of new skills and knowledge acquired by the beneficiaries as a result of their participation in the poverty alleviation programmes of the National Fadama Development Project III and the Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) Programmes.

This study adopted a descriptive research design.

A total of 150 beneficiaries comprising 70 FADAMA III and 80 JDPC beneficiaries selected purposively from Ondo and Osun were picked for the study.

A self-designed questionnaire was used for data collection. This was “Questionnaire for the beneficiaries of Fadama III and JDPC programmes (QBFJ)”. The QBFJ was designed to gather information on the skills and knowledge acquired by the beneficiaries. Data were analyzed using percentage and chi-square statistics.

The study indicated that seven new skills were acquired by the beneficiaries. The beneficiaries also acquired knowledge on ten different types of management programmes. The result further revealed that skills acquired by the beneficiaries of poverty alleviation programmes were significantly influenced by their gender (x² = 39.93, p <0.05), Bees keeping was the major skill acquired with 60% of the beneficiaries while 66.7% acquired knowledge on tree crops management.

Conclusion: This study has established that good implementation of poverty alleviation programmes will improve the standard of living of the beneficiaries. Poverty incidence can thus become reduced with increased investment in people, improving their quality and enhancing their employment prospects. It is recommended that priorities for reform should include emphasizing investment in basic education, working to improve social equity in educational provision and encouraging vocational education and training.

Advanced Research on Pattern Cutting Skills in Small Scale Garment Industries and Teacher Education Universities in Ghana

Phyllis Forster, Irene Ampong — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The purpose of the study was to compare pattern cutting skills taught in Teacher Education Universities in Ghana with what were used in local small scale garment industries. Fifty small scale entrepreneurs in six regions of Ghana were purposively selected to demonstrate how to take body measurements and cut patterns for a lady’s fitting dress. Measurement and pattern cutting procedures used by the garment producers were found to be different from what were taught at the Universities. All the demonstrators marked the measurements on their fabrics and cut the garments direct without paper patterns (freehand cutting). Their allowances for seams, hems and openings were larger than those in instructions for teaching at the Universities. Reasons for the demonstrators’ use of freehand cutting method were that: Cutting instructions were fewer and easier to commit into memory, making the process fast and the best option for the Ghanaian market’s increasing demand for new and fashionable custom-made garments; the pattern drafting method entailed a lot of work which attracted high charges their clients could not pay; drafted patterns did not produce fitting garments for many of their clients; freehand cutting was the most cost effective option; deep turnings for hems and seams were allowed in freehand cutting for future changes in design, figure and use. To the garment producers, making and keeping patterns of their clients for future use was not necessary, because girth measurement changes of Ghanaian women were very frequent. To bridge the gap between skill training in pattern cutting in the University and industrial practice, it is recommended that the University should involve entrepreneurs in the Garment Industry in their curriculum development and skill training.

Suggesting the Enhanced Lakatosian Conflict Map for Science Teaching: Overview

Jun-Young Oh — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This study is to suggest teaching strategies and procedures based on Lakatosian heuristic principle through suggested enhanced Lakatosian Conflict Map. Kuhn’s philosophy and history of science has been widely influential, but in this research it is argued that it is more appropriate to consider constructivist research within Science Education as ‘Research Program’ in the sense used by I. Lakatos. The Lakatosian Conflict Map applied in this research could help teachers understand the Cognitive dissonance between their students’ existing ideas and target scientific concepts.

Tourist Friendly Destination: Tourism Policy and Development Strategy in Kuala Lumpur

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Tourist friendly destination is a concept that gives satisfaction to tourists through utilization dimensions of spaces, activities, and products. Therefore, this study aims to find the potential of tourist friendly destination through the tourism policy and development strategy in national and state context. The findings show that some aspects need to be emphasized and have similarities in each of tourism policy and development strategy at the national and state level. This shows that tourism policy and development strategy made at national level could be followed at the state level. The tourism policy and development strategy at state level will continue with added value accordance with the current situation and the existing physical characteristics. Accordingly, in Kuala Lumpur there is no obstacle exist to planned, managed and developed through the concept of tourist friendly destination, where it is in line with the requirements of tourism policy and development strategy at national and state levels.

Heart Drawing, a New Diagnostic Tool: Administration and Scoring Manual

Arthur Becker-Weidman — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Background: A comprehensive assessment includes an evaluation of a person’s capacity to identify and regulate emotions. Affect, or emotional and behavioral regulation requires the capacity to identify internal experiences of emotions. The Heart Drawing was developed as a non-threatening method for assessing a child’s capacity to identify emotions. Most children enjoy drawing and the Heart drawing is usually experienced by the child as non-threatening and enjoyable.

The Heart Drawing is a new, easy to use, and efficient tool that allows the clinician to assess a child’s affect regulation functioning, affective range and experience in a non-threatening manner. It can also be used to assess a child’s insightfulness and capacity to identify internal affective experiences.

Method: The child is asked to select colors for the feelings mad, sad, glad, and scared from a group of eight primary colors. These simple feelings represent the bulk of a child’s emotional experience. The child is then asked to draw a heart and to fill in the heart with the amount of each feeling that the child usually feels.

Results: Administration and discussion usually takes ten to fifteen minutes.

Conclusion: The article presents examples of drawing by children with various diagnoses and conditions along with a normative drawing for comparison. The methodology has been found to be very helpful in assessing a child's emotional status and capacity to regulate emotions.

Preservation of Cultural Heritage Reflected in the Musical Tradition

Aida Islam, Stefanija Leshkova Zelenkovska — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This paper refers to the musical tradition of the Turkish rural population in the Republic of North Macedonia with a focus on the western part of the country – Municipality Zhupa. The interest is driven from the knowledge of rich historical past of this area with several villages, and specifics of the settled population—Yuruk Turks. Changes in social structures, migration from villages to cities, development of the technology and the Internet, as well as changes oriented from traditional to contemporary social forms are factors that contribute to narrowing the traditional musical repertoire. However, this music is still one of the vital factors that continually sublimate events of the rich history of many centuries. This is confirmed by our field research started during 2013 and still continuing until nowadays by collecting, recording, and monitoring of certain secular events, in which music plays an important role. The performing ensemble depends on the occasion of the traditional rites, and it can be instrumental, vocal, or vocal-instrumental. The instrumental ensemble is still constituted of traditional instruments, davul, and zurna. The musical repertoire consists of local traditional and Rumelian songs (türkü and oyun havasi) from the wider region in which lyric thematic prevails.

Literature and Society: Reflection on the Socio - Cultural Function of Oral Literary Genres in Rwandan Wedding and Death Contexts

Bazimaziki Gabriel — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Literature, society and culture cannot be separated from each other. This paper is concerned with the role that oral literature holds in society with particular interest in Rwandan wedding and burial ceremonies. The researcher reflects on oral genres as a product of society. Observation was used as research instrument besides translation, interpretation and contextual analysis hinged on two literary theories namely expressive theory and didactic theory of literature as spearheaded by Muleka’s Performer Centric Approach. The paper revealed that oral literary genres such as proverbs, elegy, pastoral poems and songs, religious and wedding songs, rhetorical and skillful expressions play a socio-cultural role. They depict the culture and reflect socio- cultural values among Rwandan citizens at a particular occasion. In wedding context, some of these genres reflect a “give and take” culture, thus building the social ties among people of the same society but from different clans. In the death context, the oral genres are didactic as they express the message of the role that the departed one(s) played, their deeds and how they behaved for the community stayed behind to ape.

Investigating the Adequacy of Textual Materials Used in Teaching Science in Nigeria Secondary Schools with Physics and Chemistry Curriculum in View

Bazimaziki Gabriel, Akano, Benedict Ubawike — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This study investigated the adequacy of physics and chemistry textbooks used in Senior Secondary Schools in Nigeria using Owerri municipal as case study. Five research questions guided the study. The sampled textual materials were the three recommended physics and chemistry textbooks. Twenty six physics teachers and thirty chemistry teachers from ten public secondary schools in Owerri municipal, Imo State were used.

The evaluation of these text books were carried out using the modified form of 8 – point quantitative approach to content evaluation of science text books (QACEST) and teacher’s perception rating scales (TPRS). The modified form of the 8 – point QACEST was used to answer research questions 1 to 4 while research question 5 was answered using teacher’s perception rating scale.

The result revealed that while all the text books were adequate in terms of content and study questions inadequacies exist in some of the texts in the areas of learning activities, illustrations and teacher’s perception. This simply implies that no single text books have completely met the requirements of the new physics curriculum and chemistry curriculum while comprehensive chemistry could serve as good as support to other textbooks. However, teachers should not adhere to a particular text book but rather should expose their students to a variety of text books depending on the goal or aim of the lessons.

The Process of Acquiring Self-genius and Its Effects Creations beyond Time

Mirtaleb Hosseini Kharvanagh — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Love to bubble the innovative creativity within oneself and increase the capacity of creativity capacity in human nature show the most striking difference between him and the other creations and will never be the end for this aim because man has always been following the attainment of immortality and is ahead of its era. The innovative creativity capacity of the mind is the most powerful incentives to form the processes that human could have been successful to represent it till today because human did a lot of searches and endeavors to access the eternity and being vanguard against the time over the time so as to find the solution to this cycle but he couldn’t be successful in this field. Lack of access to the innovative internal sources is because the man should at the first step be aware of philosophy, ignorance and life and critic them without the slightest consideration so that by attending self architect be aware of the value and the ability of the mind and by depending on own ingenuity move toward the creation of the new theoretical to outshine the time and lead up to the millennium of those won be and the powerful presence and immortality would be realized that its output would be entering into the ultramodern mind cycle. The innovation means creating and providing new vents of the theoretical with the content of vanguard against the time. The process of entering to this cycle is so that the student must have believed his ignorance to be able to pass through his mental illness and feels the thirst of knowledge. Now he finds that having the eyes for viewing the wisdom and finding the ingenuity should pass via for main cycle to attend the knowledge and innovation through the sight of his architect (creator). Failure to pass the mentioned process expresses the shuck document with empty reason ownership. Realizing the process of forming own diagram and innovative design in this article has been delivered to the reader as discover page.

Sub-clinical Narcissistic Personality Score and Academic Performance

R. Indradevi, Vaidhyanatha Balaji — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Sub-clinical narcissism is the presence of narcissistic personality traits in otherwise normal people. People with high levels of these traits said to have inflated self-esteem and possibly a high egotism. A 40 itemed Narcissistic Personality Inventory is used to measure this type of personality traits. Those individuals who score above 20 points from the available 40 points of NPI-40 Inventory is considered to be having higher levels of Subclinical Narcissism and prone to exhibit socially dislikeable personality traits. This study tried to address the relationship between supposedly negative personality traits of Sub-clinical Narcissism using NPI-40 Score against past and present academic performance of a group of students in a Private University setup. The study included 202 participants from a Business School Division of a Private University. Analysis showed that only at the current academic levels of the respondents, NPI-40 scores were significantly correlating with their academic performance. Research implications are discussed.

The Study of the Effects of Educational Judo Practices & Games on Motor Abilities of 7-9 Years Aged Judo Athletes

Sengul Demiral — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of judo educational games on the development of motor skills in boys and girls aged 7-9 years. For Judo performance athletes, claw strength, balance, flexibility and coordination skills are among the most important basic motor skills. Within the framework of the basic principle of learning these skills by having fun in judo basic education process, examples of judo educational games that contribute to the development of children's basic motor skills are given. In this study, the contribution of Judo educational games on motor development of children can be evaluated by measuring with Eurofit Physical Fitness Test battery. In addition, in this study; In addition to being a resource for judo coaches working in the field, exemplary educational games were given for judo coaches and a sample of studies that could contribute to the development of children's motor skills were presented. This study will contribute to employees receive aimed to create a resource.

The Performance of Islamic Banks in Terms of Transformational Leadership Style and Work Motivation as a Moderating Variable

B. L. Muchran — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The purpose of this study is to study and analyze the impact of transformational leadership style on the performance of Islamic banks, using job motivation as an intermediate variable. Achieving the goals of Islamic banking organizations and individuals and unit members at the same time is a top priority for leaders. The leader can influence his followers, and their executors need to execute orders without using coercive means. In this way, subordinates can voluntarily follow the requirements of the organization and perform their duties by recommending leaders. Transformational leaders are not only aware of the needs of their subordinates, but they are also trying to increase the needs of lower levels to those of existing levels. The sample for this study was an Islamic Bank employee on South Sulawesi. The significance of the repeated measures t test for analyzing the data was determined by p <0.05. The results show that transformational leadership styles have a significant impact on job motivation. Transformational leadership styles have no significant impact on the performance of Islamic banks. There was no significant impact on the motivation of Islamic Banks.