The article provides a comparative analysis of the mental word concepts in the works of two Kyiv-Mohyla Academy professors: Innocent Gizel and Joseph Volchansky. The analysis is based on the Latin-language handwritten treatises by these authors: ？De anima？ Gizel (1646–1647) and ？De corpore animato？ Volchansky (1715). The authors’ concepts of intellectual cognition are examined in the context of the European scholastic tradition. It is found out that understanding of intellectual cognition by Inn...

History  Philosophy  Literature 

Doi:10.18523/1995-025x2017130127

his article focuses on the level of using creative teaching methodologies in second language classroom as studied by the researcher. A series of qualitative methods such as using newspaper, media, movies, interpreting advertisements, and creating Sandblot can be employed in the classroom in order to develop students’ second language learning ability. The article focuses on how teaching methodologies should be modified and used in the classroom appropriately by understanding the learning capacity...

Education  Linguistics  Literature 

Doi:10.18869/acadpub.ijree.2.2.1

Being a teacher could be committed by anyone who has the passion in teaching, so that any situations in reality would not hamper him from the struggle to be a good teacher. Classroom is the laboratory for the teachers for their personal development. Students from whom the teachers can learn are their other assets. If an unfortunate system keeps going without any authority from the side of the teacher to change, being a quality teacher should still become teachers’ efforts to realize.

Education  Linguistics  Literature 

Doi:10.12962/j24433527.v6i1.613

In teaching English for engineering students, the emphasis goes to understanding the technical terms within reading scientific texts, writing technical report, and speaking on certain topics relevant to the major specialization. Students of Shipbuilding Institute of Polytechnic Surabaya (SHIPS) are demanded to be able to communicate actively either in oral or written English particularly after graduation when they work in offshore, MINING and shipyard industries. Therefore, this study is aim...

Education  Linguistics  Literature 

Doi:10.12962/j24433527.v6i1.612

This paper presents a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) description of Indonesian structures with a verbal predicate. The similarity of Indonesian and English in this type of construction has enabled the application of the original patterns of LFG for the English structures on its Indonesian counterparts. However, some adjustment has to be made in the description of the constituent structure (c-structure). The Indonesian constituent structure here is unique in that whilst it is organized endocent...

Philosophy  Education  Linguistics  Literature 

Doi:10.12962/j24433527.v6i1.610

This paper traces back the origin of tasawuf to the early period of Islam by investigating the ideas propagated by one of its best scholars named Abu Nasr al-Sarraj. The paper tries to find the link between his thought and that of the earlier sufis on the one hand, and his response to the social and epistemological contexts that shape it on the other. In doing so, it discusses first the debate and the so-called dynamic tension in which the sufis and their opponents were involved. The paper shows...

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Doi:dx.doi.org/10.15642/teosofi.2014.4.2.285-308

This paper discusses plagiarism origins, and the ethical solutions to prevent it. It also reviews some unethical approaches, which may be used to decrease the plagiarism rate in academic writings. We propose eight ethical techniques to avoid unconscious and accidental plagiarism in manuscripts without using online systems such as Turnitin and/or iThenticate for cross checking and plagiarism detection. The efficiency of the proposed techniques is evaluated on five different texts using students i...

Doi:10.5539/ies.v7n7p52