EFL Students’ Experiences in a Flipped Reading Comprehension Classroom

The aim of this research is to investigate EFL students’ experiences that appear in EFL students during the application of the flipped classroom learning model. The research was conducted by using a qualitative approach and descriptive method. The research participants were nine first-grade students at one of the public senior high school in Karawang. The participants were divided into three groups: three low-level students, three middle-level students, and three high-level students. To collect the data, researchers used were observation, interview, and documentation. This research found that the application of a flipped classroom provided positive experiences for students. The use of the video in this learning model made students excited. However, the use of online flipped classrooms appeared several challenges such as students must have internet access while they were learning and the internet connection, they have must be stable so that learning activities run well.

Hygienic substantiation of the daily regimen and weekly dynamics of the working capacity of middle-level students

The article presents the results of a study of the daily and weekly dynamics of the level of mental performance of studentsmiddle classes. Aim: creation of scientifically based recommendations for improving the daily routine of middle-level students. Mental performance was determined by the method of lesson timing and by the method of proofreading (according to the tables of V. Ya. Anfimov). Analysis of the dynamics of students' mental performance the middle level showed that the maximum efficiency was revealed on Wednesday, by Friday there is a sharp decrease in efficiency, which leads to an increase in the degree of student fatigue. In the first three days of the week, mental performance in most students develops in a favorable manner. At the same time, the introduction of dynamic pauses into the school routine of the day has a positive effect on the preservation of mental performance in schoolchildren. The data obtained from the results of the proofreading test allow us to conclude that the period of stable performance falls on only Tuesday and Wednesday, from Thursday working capacity is low, and by Friday fatigue develops after the first lesson.

Sports education an element of academic development

Sport is regularly seen as one of the forms of activation of the body that provide motor skills and contribute to healthy health, however it is important to appreciate it from the point of view of knowledge, so its contribution in aspects of academic competencies in students was analyzed upper middle level. In the first part, the history of sport was discussed, as well as the contributions of authors about educational sport and the learning generated. Subsequently, a comparison was made in young upper-middle-level students divided into two groups: the experiential group (they practice and perform exercise, sport and physical activity) and the control group (individuals who are totally sedentary), in order to observe performance. in school performance, class participation, decision making as well as knowing how influential or manipulable their peers can be to analyze and solve problems, in the study a questionnaire was applied to both groups using the Likert scale to know these results. The information obtained shows the positive influence that sport has on the development of educational capacities in students.

Entrepreneurship in upper secondary level students

Entrepreneurship is a relevant activity for the challenges of the current global economic crises, which have brought lack of employment opportunities. The present investigation was carried out through a sample of 2,005 upper-middle-level students from 14 campuses of the National College of Technical Professional Education, in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. The objective was to achieve a typology of entrepreneurship in students at this level. The following variables were identified: Attraction to be an entrepreneur (AT), Initiative (IN), Knowledge of the activity (KN), Resistance to entrepreneur (RE), Dislike to undertake (DU), Social assessment (SA), Leadership (LE) and Determination and Courage (DC). The correlation analysis showed that there is a significant correspondence between the dimension of pleasure for entrepreneurship and the variables of: innovation, knowledge, resistance to entrepreneur and social valuation; likewise, the variable of dislike to undertake showed a negative correlation, and on the other hand, the innovation variable showed correlation with the variables: knowledge, resistance to entrepreneur and social valuation. Again, a negative correlation is observed with the variable of dislike to undertake. Finally, the knowledge variable showed a slight negative correlation with the variable of dislike to undertake.

تحليل الأخطاء الإملائية في الهمزة لدى طلاب معهد اللغويات العربية بجامعة الملك سعود

الملخص استهدف هذا البحث على معرفة الأخطاء الإملائية في الهمزة لدى طلاب معهد اللغويات العربية بجامعة الملك سعود، وقد تكونت عينة الدراسة من (23) طالباً ممثلة في ثلاثة مستويات: (المبتدئ والمتوسط والمتقدم)، وقد اعتمدت الدراسة على منهج البحث الوصفي التحليلي، واستخدم الاختبار أداة لجمع المعلومات من عينة الدراسة، وتم التحقق من صدق الأداة وثباتها من خلال عرضها على مجموعة من المحكمين ذوي الاختصاص في المجال، وأشارت نتائج الدراسة إلى وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية بين المستويات الثلاثة، حيث بلغت نسبة أخطاء طلاب المستوى المبتدئ في كتابة الهمزة في أول الكلمة (37%)، ونسبة الأخطاء في كتابة الهمزة في وسط الكلمة وصلت إلى (55%)، ونسبة الأخطاء في كتابة الهمزة في آخرة الكلمة (08%). وأما نسبة أخطاء طلاب المستوى المتوسط في كتابة الهمزة المتطرفة فقد بلغت (25.4%)، وبلغت نسبة أخطائهم في كتابة الهمزة في وسط الكلمة (57.3%)، ونسبة الأخطاء في كتابة الهمزة المتطرفة وصلت إلى (17.3%). وبالنسبة لطلاب المستوى المتقدم، فقد بلغت نسبة أخطائهم في كتابة الهمزة في أول الكلمة (33.3%)، ونسبة الأخطاء في كتابتها في وسط الكلمة (60%)، والأخطاء المتعلقة بكتابة الهمزة في آخر الكلمة قد بلغت نسبتها (06.7%)، ونتيجة لذلك فقد خلصت الدراسة إلى مجموعة من التوصيات في ضوء ما أظهرت عنه من نتائج.الكلمات المفتاحية: تحليل الأخطاء ـــ الأخطاء الإملائية ـــ طلاب معهد اللغويات العربية. Abstract: This study aimed to know the spelling errors in Hamza among students of the Institute of Arabic Linguistics at King Saud University. The sample of the study consisted of (23) students represented in three levels: (beginner, intermediate and advanced) .The study relied on the descriptive analytical research methodology. To collect information from the study sample, the validity and reliability of the tool was verified by presenting it to a group of arbitrators with competence in the field. The results of the study indicated that there are statistically significant differences between the three levels. (37%), and The percentage of errors in writing Hamza in the middle of the word reached (55%), and the percentage of errors in writing Hamza in the back of the word (08%). As for the percentage of mistakes of middle level students in the writing of extreme Hamza (25.4%), and the percentage of mistakes in writing Hamza in the center of the word (57.3%), and the percentage of errors in the writing of extreme Hamza reached (17.3%). As for the advanced level students, the percentage of their mistakes in writing the Hamza at the beginning of the word (33.3%), and the percentage of errors in writing in the middle of the word (60%), and errors related to the writing of the Hamza at the end of the word (06.7%), as a result The study concluded with a set of recommendations in the light of the results shown. Keywords: error analysis - spelling errors - students of the Institute of Arabic Linguistic

Germenevticheskii podkhod k organizatsii raboty nad tekstom uchashchikhsia srednego zvena

The article deals with the aspects of hermeneutic approach in the method of working on the text with middle-level students. The problem of understanding has always been Central not only in linguistics but also in philosophy, while Philology distinguishes three types of understanding: semantic, cognitive and distributive. The main thing in the method described by the authors is a test that acts not as a basis for learning, but as an object of understanding, and the language is perceived not as a system of signs, but as our cultural and historical heritage as a whole. A detailed description of the levels of understanding of the text, when the information turns into knowledge, methods of formation of the ability to design your own text based on the intended listener or reader. Alternately, students placed in different communicative position from the speaker, pereskazchika or writer to researcher, collaborator or critic.