Objective: This study outlines the construction and initial psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Impact Scale in multiple large and diverse samples of families with children and adolescents. The scale was established to capture the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Differences in impact between samples and internal structure within samples were assessed.Method: Five hundred, seventy-two caregivers of children and adolescents or expecting mothers in diverse clinical and research settings completed the Coronavirus Impact Scale. Samples differed in developmental stage, background, inpatient/outpatient status, and primary research or clinical setting. Model free methods were used to measure the scale’s internal structure and determine a scoring method. Differences between samples in specific item responses were measured by multivariate ordinal regression.Results: The Coronavirus Impact Scale demonstrated good internal consistency in a variety of clinical and research populations. Single, immigrant, predominantly Latinx mothers of young children reported the greatest impact across groups, with elevated impact on food access and finances. Individuals receiving outpatient or inpatient care reported greater impacts on health care access. Impact was positively associated with measures of caregiver anxiety and both caregiver- and child-reported stress at a moderate effect size.Conclusion: The Coronavirus Impact Scale is a publicly available scale with adequate psychometric properties for use in measuring the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in diverse populations.
The aim of the study was to find out English major students' perceptions towards watching English movies to develop listening skill and speaking skill. This study was conducted at one university in North Sulawesi, specifically on the students who took Listening and Speaking class. The instrument used in the data collection was a questionnaire that consists of three parts for finding out the background of the respondents, English movie watching perceptions, and level agreement towards English movies. The data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel and shown in tables of frequency, percentage and mean. The findings indicated that English major students are aware that they can improve their listening skill by watching English movies. Subtitles also can help respondents to understand conversation in the movies, and English movies are believed to be more effective than other media as teaching tools. English major students also believe that they can improve their speaking skill by watching English movies. Students think watching English movies has more direct influence to listening skill compared to speaking skill. Future studies are recommended to conduct interviews of students to gain more information or arrange a test of student listening and speaking skills. Other interesting topics would be to study further about whether English subtitles or Indonesian subtitles is more effective as learning media, and also which movie genre is more effective in English skills development.
The emergence of the Covid-19 as the global pandemic with its social and physical distancing consequence has affected educational practices. This paper reports the expereince of carrying out a study on applying youtube video for writing of descriptive text in EFL Class. The purpose of this research was to find out whether the videos can develop students’ ability in writing descriptive text or not. The study took place in the time before and during the covid-19 emergence. As quantitative research, this study applied pre-experimental design. The participant of this research was the 1st year students of one of the prominence senior high schools in Manado, Indonesia. They were 26 students of language class. The results indicated that the mean score of the post-test is significantly higher that of the pre-test. This points out that the use of YouTube video in teaching the writing of descriptive text is effective. However, the emergence of Covid-19 pandemic influenced the implementation of intervention that later affected students’ achievement. The result of this study is not fully in line with the outcome of the previous studies which hypothetically resulted in two to four gains of scores. In addition, it implies that the use of YouTube video in this pandemic transition period seems to be helpful mostly to low level students as they displayed higher gains. Besides, this study denotes the challenges for teachers and students in the Covid-19 pandemic era namely the competence in online learning, and the internet connectivity access and learning mode system.
<p class="0abstract">The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has brought the dependence on the online activities as new behaviors in various aspects of society including education. It defines the reliance upon internet access for learning practices and the tendency toward learning autonomy. Yet, the sudden emergence of the pandemic causes problematic circumstances for learners. Not all learners are ready to be autonomous and to have internet infrastructure. Within this context, the current study addresses learners’ attitudes toward learning autonomy and examines what hinder them to be autonomous. As a descriptive research, this study involves 101 respondents living in Bitung city, a fast growing and harbor city in North Sulawesi, Eastern Indonesia. They are asked to fill the kind of Likert questionnaire which constitutes the source of data which are statistically analyzed. The results indicates that learners dominantly show positive attitude toward the idea of being autonomous in this pandemic era. In addition, several factors such as bad signal, distraction, self-discipline and lack of motivation occupy the dominant factors hinder learners to establish learning autonomy. <strong></strong></p>
Language is fundamental to all social processes, and human do need language to communicateto each other. In social process, there are people who communicate more than they say, they uselanguage that indicate meanings more than the language does. This term is called figurative language.By conducting the study about language in use, we undertake a discourse analysis. In this research, adiscourse analysis is conducted in Barrack Obama’s first inaugural address with point of view of fourtypes figurative language, they are metaphor, personification, paradox, and hyperbole. The purposeof this research are to find out four types of figurative language and interpret the meanings indicatein that figurative expressions. In conducting this research, descriptive qualitative method wasused. The results of this research were described qualitatively from the stage categorization of thefigurative language until explanation and interpretation of the figurative expressions. The analyzingof this research was supported by the related references to this research. By analyzing the data basedon the related theory, the result of this research showed that there are 52 figurative expressions,where metaphor had the highest frequency as 24 expressions or 46.15%, followed by hyperboleas 14 expressions or 26.92%, expressions of personification as 9 expressions or 17.30%, and theleast frequency is paradox as 5 expressions or 9.61%. From those result could be concluded thatin Obama’s speech contained huge number of figurative expressions. This fact showed that figurativelanguage is important and could influence the language to become more powerful and more artistic.Keyword: Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Speech, Obama
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