News writing -- a crucial part of journalism -- is a necessity for students, especially those at PBSI (Indonesian Language and Literature Education). Students must be able to produce writings containing news or events that are observed and experienced directly in society. In achieving these output targets, lecturers must be able to motivate students for learning by making it interesting and usi…
Purpose: In this tutorial, we review the tenets of information literacy (IL) that parallel and intersect with new American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) certification standards requiring clinicians to engage in evidence-based practice (EBP). Method: A review of the literature on EBP in medical and allied health areas was conducted through an online database search. The Informati…
This article reviews two books on the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, with a special focus on issues of language, education, and literacy. The article sketches out Bourdieu's main theoretical ideas with respect to language and raises a number of issues on classroom language and academic discourse. Bourdieu's approach is considered with respect to a range of theoretical persp…
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of educational environment based on smart learning in developing English Language listening skill among IUG female learners. To achieve this aim, the researcher adopted the experimental approach. The study was applied on a representative sample of (30) female students of journalism and media second-level at the Islamic University of Gaza, and th…
Early years and primary teachers have a unique opportunity to apply their strong teaching practices, classroom management and understanding of childhood literacy development to teaching a language. They could provide the 'dream scenario' of introducing a subsequent language in a purposeful, social and communicative environment with only a simple level of language acquisition and cultural unders…
There has been constant furor over the declining and ineffective standard of bilingual education policy in Bangladesh. Experts have been arguing for imparting English and Bangla language education to the target groups in terms of need instead of imposing bilingualism to all citizens. This paper investigates and deals with the fundamental question of domain-specific bilingualism for Bangladeshis…
Education Policies are the principles as well as the collection of laws and rules developed by government, completed by values and ideas, studied by education actors and implemented by authorities and educational experts. There are many forms of education for many purposes through different institutions (Rayou and van Zanten, 2015).
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB, 2002) sets as a goal that every student should be technologically literate by the eighth grade, regardless of student background or family socioeconomic status. In addition, many professional organizations in education have encouraged mathematics educators to reform the curriculum and incorporate more technology into the classroom instruction and acti…
Violence in schools is a concern of many educators and recently has received increased attention on a local and national level. Despite this attention, the roles of communication and violence have not sufficiently been addressed in discussions on violence. This article includes a review of three studies involving teenage delinquent girls residing in a correctional facility. Major findings from …