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Improving Reading in the Primary Grades
BY Nell K. Duke and Meghan K. Block

This journal by Nell Duke and Meghan Block first examines whether specific key recommendations from the report have been implemented in U.S. classrooms. They find that recommendations regarding increased access to kindergarten and greater attention to and improvement of students’ word-reading skills have been widely adopted. Others have not. Vocabulary and comprehension, long neglected in the primary grades, still appear to be neglected. Contrary to the report’s recommendations, attention to building conceptual and content knowledge in science and social studies has actually decreased in the past fifteen years. In other words, the easier-to-master skills are being attended to, but the broader domains of accomplishment that constitute preparation for comprehension and learning in the later grade vocabulary knowledge, comprehension strategy use, and conceptual and content knowledge are being neglected. Overall this journal really interesting to me because it has many experts that I like and relatable with the situation in Indonesia.

CCU 10

Making Culture Happen in the English Language Classroom
BY Yakup Dogana, Madina Ashirimbetova & Brent Davis

         The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of students towards using culture-based tasks, activities and the impact of these in foreign language teaching and learning performance. The results of the study confirm the idea that the usage of culture in foreign language teaching or teaching of a foreign language through culture facilitates and empowers language education and acquisition. The overall results indicate the usefulness of culture matters for the language learning groups as one of the leading ways of teaching a foreign language. In order to incorporate culture successfully in the foreign language classroom, teachers should be aware of diverse individual characteristics of the participants. Furthermore, teachers should keep in mind that cultural activities should be changed as some time passes and be organized accordingly to required situations.

During the study, it has been observed that culture-based exercises stimulate and improve students’ interaction skills and make them use the target language more efficiently. The results indicate the general interest of the students toward target culture and its comparison with the local culture which adds some more arguments to the debates concerning culturally-oriented classroom for benefit of proponents of the culture in the FLT.

CAR 9

Improving the effectiveness of large class

teaching in law degrees

By Professor Lynne Taylor

The aim of this journal project was to consider effective methods of teaching the skills of analysis, synthesis, critique and evaluation in large classes to law students.

            Teacher used to compare this effectiveness of large class with small class and begun with 90% student said that small call is more effective and more understandable because they think that large group makes a lot of noise and make them hard to understand each subject that teacher gave.

            Even though the result of this study was not effective and make them confuse they still enjoy it, the writer can say it enjoys when in class has a lot of student but still not understandable and that’s why I think the small class is more effective and should be applied in every class.

CCU 9

Through Musical Communication to Development of Competence in Culture Awareness and Expression

By Barbara Sicherl-Kafol And Olga Denac

The research on communication through contemporary musical language demonstrated a number of motivational indicators which have, at the level of personal and social factors, indirectly influenced the development of competence in cultural awareness and expression. In the process of musical communication through contemporary musical language, the aforementioned advantages functioned as motivational reinforcements on the development of competence in cultural awareness and expression. This research also points out numerous opportunities and challenges for future solutions necessary to improve the implementation of learning and teaching with and through arts into practice.

The conclusion for this journal is developing competence through musical communication can be very fun and can make them aware and give more attention because they have foreign teacher that seems cool to them.

CAR 8

Improving Reading Fluency and Comprehension Among Elementary Students:
Evaluation of a School Remedial Reading Program

by: Robin Hausheer, Alana Hansen, and Diana M. Doumas
Boise State University

The content of this journal really confusing for me because it’s like experimental research and classroom action research combine, even though the content make me headache but the results of this study are good enough and worth to try because it’s contribute to the literature by providing evidence for the effectiveness of a remedial reading program in improving both reading fluency and comprehension in elementary school students. These findings support the importance of programs for males and females in fourth, fifth and sixth grade provided to assist students academically. And maybe in the future I can use this method to improve my students reading fluency and comprehension.

CCU 8

Nonverbal Teacher-student Communication in the Foreign Language Classroom

By Qi Pan

This journal is about teaching Chinese as a foreign language. And nonverbal communication plays a very important role in this journal, in certain circumstances, non-verbal communication can achieve the goal that even verbal communication can’t, application of nonverbal communication in teaching Chinese as a foreign language must be considered, different forms of nonverbal communicative behavior play a very important role on the teaching Chinese as a foreign language. The students' attention is easily attracted by the use of body language, and the body language can also help them deepen their impression and imagination. Appropriate body language can reflect the teachers' temperament and demeanor to strengthen their personal glamour. Through this way, the students' ability of English will be certainly and greatly improved. However, the teachers' body language often exists during the oral language. We need use the body language accurately during the class, or it will cause a bad influence on the English teaching course.

CAR 7

Enhancing Students’ Motivation by Providing Feedback

on Writing: The Case of International Students from Thailand

by

Nazifah Hamidun, Shafiq Hizwari Md Hashim, and Nur Farhinaa Othman

This journal might be the finest thing to do in class, because incorporating feedback in writing is an effective approach in writing lesson as it can foster the students’ motivation, And improve their language proficiency as well as promote their great achievement in writing performance. The teacher need to offer the suggestive feedback and identify the potential areas in writing in order to ensure that the students can develop their skills and gain the beneficial experience to become better writers. Because in my own experience it can make student or participant understand more and they ‘ll remembered it because of the will of the feedback that teacher gave.

CCU 7

Critical Cultural Awareness:
Managing Stereotypes through Intercultural
(Language) Education

 by
Stephanie Ann Houghton, Yumiko Furumura,
Maria Lebedko and Song Li

The goal of this journal has been to explore theoretical approaches to the study of stereotypes across various scholarly fields and to see what cognitive processes shape stereotypes. And its shown various theoretical approaches, disclosing important features and aspects of stereotypes that can manifest on diverse linguistic levels. By nature, stereotypes display diverse features, most of which are negative. The analysis of cognitive processes is helpful in understanding why and how perception can be distorted: people belonging to different cultures have different perceptual experiences, different knowledge about the world. What is regarded as a positive stereotype might be regarded as negative. But The examination of theoretical approaches and cognitive mechanisms undertaken in this journal may be applied in teaching practice and educational research.

CAR 6

Video as a new teaching tool to increase student motivation

by :

Edna Bravo,
Beatriz Amante,
Pep Simo, Mihaela Enache,
Vicenc Fernandez

The research of this journal is at the School of Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering of Terrassa and use 12 lecturers and with 487 students in three different degrees of engineering.  The 12 lecturers who participated in the study noticed an increased level of students’ motivation and interest in the subject. This gave them a sense of satisfaction for a well done job and encouraged them to continue working on educational innovation, fostering continuous improvement. Although this method is improv student motivation but still, it cannot use in all Indonesia because of the limit of resource and the less understanding from the teacher.

CAR 5

Improv and Ink:
Increasing Individual Writing Fluency with Collaborative Improv
by: Mary DeMichele

This article explores how short form/comedic improvisational theater impacts the development of writing fluency. And after participation in the sequence of improv games researcher know that students showed an increase in their writing fluency. These findings, along with existing literacy research, suggests that improv provided a framework that takes students rapidly through essential literacy processes seen on the emergent level; and that exposure to, and practice of, these processes address deficits in social emotional or literacy skills that are important to writing. The sequence of games used in these studies scaffolded not only improv structures, but also served to scaffold essential literacy skills that enable students to move from collaborative speech to individual writing. This article is hard to understand though, but worth to try in the future.

CAR 4

Enhancing Speaking Ability of EFL Students
through Debate and Peer Assessment
By: Umar Fauzan

In this fourth journal there are 2 aspect that researcher want to use that is debate and peer assessment, and the result of it shows that the students gradually could express their thought and opinions in debate practice. This activity encouraged the students’ creativity to explore the language, since they were asked to develop their arguments from certain motions. The motions were made familiar to them so that they found it easy to speak on the topics.  By practicing speaking in the debate practice, they improved their fluency as well as their confidence. So conclusion from this article is debate and peer assessment could improve their speaking ability and its very suit for student nowadays. 

CCU 6

CULTURAL AWARENESS TRAINING
FOR POLICE IN THE UNITED STATES
A look at Effective Methodologies

by
Stephen M. Hennessy

This article really interesting for me because I never think that police need any culture awareness but this article explores the history of race relations and cultural awareness training in the United States and the importance of emphasizing cognitive and learning styles of police in an attempt to ensure the course content is effective that makes me more curious. And the end of this article said that communication is a critical part of policing. Research in the United States has shown that 93 percent of police work is one-on-one communication and the ability to communicate with all of the citizens in our communities is critical to successful policing. The more effective courses are those that include discussions of various cultures within communities and how they can best be served. And that’s why they need this lesson in police academy.

CAR 3

Collaborative action research: an effective tool for
interdisciplinary education

by: Serrano Pastor, Rosa Maria

This is the third review of car journal and I’ve been busy lately so I don’t have much time to review this. This collaborative research is new for me, and this study shows me that it’s have collaborative action research as an effective tool for improving the quality of education. Researcher have seen the positive effects both in terms of the teaching and learning process and the professional development of teachers. The educational process has improved in all phases. It has been stressed first in the design of programming, favoring globalizing interdisciplinary proposals. Also, the implementation process has improved both in the quantity and quality of significant contents worked as in the greater variety of methodological and didactic resources used.

CCU 5

Promoting Cultural Awareness in an International Business Program through Foreign Language Communication

By : Mary Vigier and Nancy Smoller Le Floch

     This is the fifth journal about culture awareness that I’ve read and the writer did the research in French, the method that writer had in this journal is worked and student can achieve the material with excellent way, and can contributes in a substantial way to their training to become competent global managers. Beside that Improving linguistic fluency and enhancing cultural awareness cannot be separated in the foreign-language classroom. Both are essential components for training future business professionals to operate effectively in today’s global workplace and maybe not only in workplace but in every situation.

CCU 4

Raising Cultural Awareness in the
English Language Classroom

By: Jerrold frank

After I’ve read this journal I learn that Cultural learning can be difficult to address in the English language classroom. Simple mastery of the linguistic forms of a language is not enough for learners to be considered competent in the target language and student cannot be called master in foreign language until they until they understand the cultural contexts in which the target language is spoken. Teacher need to have wide background knowledge and teach it carefully if not they could be wrong in the future. Student may never travel outside country and wondering why they should study it and the teacher’s role in this case really crucial to convince them.

CCU 3

Acquisition of Cultural Awareness in Pre-Service Teachers

by: Peter W. Kilgour

This journal is about the desire of teacher educators in Australia that their mandated unit of study on multiculturalism and indigenous studies produces a cultural awareness in future teachers of the
issues faced by multicultural and indigenous students. The writer reports a study where one cohort of 119 pre-service teachers was surveyed in the first and last lectures of the unit on what they believed would be the factors affecting their teaching in multicultural and indigenous classrooms. Students moved from a perception that physical, religious and language factors
would be the main issues to their belief that prejudice, stereotyping, sensitivity and ethnocentrism
would be the factor they would need to work with. And the writer hope student could understand many point of view of this study and apply it in the classroom. For me this journal really helpful and it can help me to teach in the future.

ccu 2

The Development of Cross-Cultural (Mis)Understanding Through Volunteer Tourism

              This second journal ccu from Eliza Marguerite Raymond this method from the writer is new for me because she used volunteer tourism. Volunteer tourism has potential to help writer to understand more about cross cultural understanding and a sense of global citizenry among participants. In some cases, it may even reflect the ideals of  peace through tourism or  reconciliation tourism. This research has shown that, in many cases, volunteer tourism does have the potential to fulfil such ideals. However, existing literature as well as this study, has shown that it cannot be assumed that cross-cultural understanding automatically results from sending individuals to participate in VTPs. While this does not mean that volunteer tourism is without value for the volunteers and the communities they visit, it does suggest that it is essential for programs to be carefully developed and managed. Where individuals volunteer through sending organization these organization can play an important role in ensuring that stereotypes are broken rather than reinforced.

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An Action Research Case Study on Students’ Diversity in the Classroom: Focus on Students’ Diverse Learning Progress

ISSN 1839-9053

      This second journal is from Ruiting Wu and this journal about classroom action research, from this journal I can summarize that this action research case study investigated students’ diversity in the classroom with a particular focus on students’ diverse learning progress. And writer know that this study examined literature on the research of students’ diversity in order to seek a theoretical support for conducting this research. It also examined school policies and supporting systems in assisting diverse students in a single-sex primary school in Hobart. The writer particularly focused on how the Year One classroom teacher dealt with students’ diverse learning progress in her classroom. The writer also reflected the researcher’s own experience on addressing students’ diverse learning progress and made an action plan for improving primary school teaching in the future.

CAR

Teaching Speaking Skills in English Language using Classroom Activities in Secondary School Level in Eldoret Municipality, Kenya

journal by: Benter Oseno Gudu 

SSN 2222-1735

            In this article I’d like to talk about CAR(classroom action research) that could be important method that I’ll use in my future thesis. This article is about teaching speaking using classroom activities in Kenya and researcher exploit it from Krashen’s (1985). There is a statement in this article that globally majority of high school graduates cannot speak English language properly. Even the bright students who get high scores in written examinations are unable to express themselves orally in English language. That’s make my eyes open that speak English in global high school cannot be underestimated, most of student is afraid to speak in from of class and teacher can’t let their afraid become permanent. Discussion has number one in the classroom activities number two is dramatization and third is song. Teacher use it because it’s popular and can be applied in any class situation. But in my opinion that popular technique can’t improve all of student’s speaking skill because there always be a parasite that just depend on their friend and cannot improve their vocabulary.  After I’ve read this article I know now popular technique cannot be used to improve much, but I hope in the future I can improve other technique that can improve their speaking and make them remember my technique after they graduated.

                

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Managing Cross-cultural Diversity: Issues and Challenges in Global Organizations

Citation:

Diwakar Singh (2016). Managing Cross-cultural Diversity: Issues and Challenges in Global Organizations. e-ISSN: 2278-1684, p-ISSN: 2320-334X

I have never write in blog before and this is one of many way my lecturer trying to improve my creativity and English skill of course. This Article is about my thought of journal that I’ve read entitled “Managing Cross-cultural Diversity: Issues and Challenges in Global Organizations” by Diwakar Singh. I know now that culture is not easy to understand and companies that want to open their global operations need this 3 primary things that important to understand : first The concept of culture, like if  they want to sell an alcohol in the fast food restaurant in Indonesia , it’s not right because they’re not drink it usually. Second make friends and cooperation with local people. Third they should flexible and sensitive every place has different culture it’s up to the majority and norm that is passed from generation to generation. In the end there are no right or wrong in the Culture because it’s relative. There is no cultural absolute. People of different nationalities simply perceive the world differently. They have their particular ways of doing things, and do not fit any one standard. Each culture has its own notions of what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior.