Socio and institutional conditions may affect the private forest development in Tasikmalaya District. This research was conducted in Tanjungkerta, Sepatnunggal, and Karyabakti villages from March to July 2011. The aim of the research was to identify the socio and institution conditions of farmers. The numbers of respondents involved were 60 persons.  Data were collected by implementing interview technique which was supported by questionnaires. The data consisted of the condition of social and the institution of farmers. The data were analyzed by using Dependency Ratio (DR), Labour Force…
Differences in access of natural resources between men and women is one of the causes of gender unequality. This condition may have an impact on the lack of control, benefit, and participation of women on farming activities. This study aims to analyze the gender relation pattern in private forest management in Banyumas and Banjarnegara Districts.. Data were collected by using questionnaire, interview with farmer (men and women) and farmer groups with Socio Economic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) instrument. Total respondents were 64 private forest farmers who were randomly selected. D…
Teak and polynesian arrowroot is a new pattern of agroforestry to support food security of communities around forests in coastal areas. The presence of polynesian arrowroot under teak stands is not only expected to be food sources but also to provide ecological benefits for biodiversity, especially soil macrofauna. The study aims is to determine the diversity of soil macrofauna in teak and polynesia arrowroot agroforestry patterns. The study was conducted in Garut Regency in April 2017. The method used in this study was monolithic technique and analyzed by calculating diversity and richness in…
The share of timber is part of the attractiveness to the community in the Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) program. Timbers such as teak and pine were considered a source of long-term income or as a savings (pensions). This paper aims to provide an overview of the benefits that the community will receive from the timber when the harvest implemented. This research was conducted by two methods, the first is interviews with Perhutani staff to obtain data on the number and period of thinning and harvest time for teak and pine. The second is literature study to get data about memorandum of …
Harvested wood product is one of the carbon pools that need to be considered in calculating carbon emission related to forestry sector. There are several models of wood product retirement based on scientific based experiment: linear, logistic, and exponential. The application of these models in wood product pool calculation may result in different amount of carbon stored in wood product, and hence may result in different management regime of a plantation forest. This paper aims to analyze how different models of wood product oxidation result in different amount of carbon stored in sengon wood …
Di Sumatera, Kakao pada umumnya dikelola petani melaui pendekatan sistem agroforestri dengan berbagai jenis tanaman pelindung. Namun belakangan ini banyak petani yang beralih ke sistem monokultur dengan menebang pohon pelindung agar produksi kakao meningkat. Hasil penelitian ini menjawab hipotesis bahwa produktivitas kakao yang dikelola secara agroforestri sederhana memberikan hasil yang lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan non agroforestri dan agroforestri komplek. Penilitian dilaksanakan di Sontang, Kabupaten Pasaman, Sumatera Barat dari bulan Juli sampai dengan November 2018. Tujuan penelitian …
ABSTRACT The purpose of thus studied to described the participation of the community around the development demplot agroforestry of Jamblang especially farmers involved in the the development demplot agroforestry of Jamblang. for further, could be used as material for consideration of the implementation of other forestry developments. The method used was a descriptive research method with a qualitative approach. The research was carried out from 2015 to 2019. The results of the study showed that the process of the development demplot agroforestry of Jamblang did not run partially, but was an …
This paper examined and reviewed the book authored by two ESL experts. It was discovered by the researcher-reviewer that racial literacy is important in teaching critical writing. Teaching writing skills is not a piece of cake. Learners always come to school with varied interests and motivations but it may not indicate they are inclined to writing. To make learners proficient in writing is indeed a challenging task on the part of the teacher. A racial literacy is one of the effective and appropriate approaches that can be infused by the teacher to make classroom experience holistic and engagin…
Writing, as an instrument of communication, is nowadays accomplished mostly in English to ensure information understood globally via digital platforms. This creates a transformation in job fields into utilizing technologies to textually deliver messages. Therefore, it is vital to generate high qualified future employees competing in the work places. Accordingly, university students must be equipped with English writing competencies as well as strategies focusing on content area, in addition to forms, so as to promote meaning-making concerning critical and logical thinking skills, besides to co…
This is the qualitative study that examines the students? perception of benefits and concerns of tableau used in EFL classroom. Tableau actually is one of the process drama techniques which allows the students to create a living picture using their body, gesture, and facial expression. Tableau is theoretically useful for students to be engaged in reading because it offers all reading strategies. However, there has been few available studies regarding to tableau, especially in EFL classroom context. It was then compelling for conducting the study of how students perceive of their experience in …
This book provides a theoretically framed and empirically supported approach to support explicit learning (learning with awareness) in L2 development with a link to learning in the classroom setting. It approaches explicit L2 learning from five perspectives: theory, methodology, empirical work, model building, and pedagogy. It is theoretically based on mentalist or psycholinguistics SLA which posit that L2 development is more cognitive in nature. It also reviews studies which were motivated by cognitive accounts of SLA, more specifically studies on explicit L2 learning. It provides teachers …
The developmental nature of second language acquisition research has resulted in various and at times seemingly contradictory theories, methods and approaches. In 2005, Rod Ellis published his ?Principles of Instructed Language Learning,? which he considered to be a set of teaching ?generalisations? that could stimulate debate and reflection among teachers in the ?post-methods era? (Richards & Rodgers, 2014). The purpose of this study was to investigate Ellis?s principles in terms of their perceived relevance and applicability in an adult EFL learning environment. In order to achieve this …
In this paper, we attempt to examine the identity of researchers in writing their research articles (RAs) by exploring the linguistic forms indicating the identity of the authors in English RAs, determining the functions these forms serve in the discourse, and revealing the socio-cultural aspects implied from the use of the authorial identity. We will identify the English first-person pronouns used by native and non-native authors in Scopus-indexed linguistics and education academic journal articles. This study applied the corpus linguistic method to collect the data and to draw conclusions ab…
This work assesses the perspectives of teachers on pupils? classroom performance in a foreign language. Its objectives target to discover the challenges that educators face in teaching English. English is a foreign language that teachers encounter difficulties to teach especially to a population whereby their linguistic background does not help in using the language properly. In this prospect, our research questions search for the obstacles that hinder the teachers of English from receiving a positive feedback from their pupils? performance. As a research tool, a questionnaire is handed to for…
Reading has become a major concern of EFL educators. Reading does not only help students learn foreign languages, but it is believed that it has a strong link with critical thinking skills. A reader response approach in collaborative works, adapted from literary theory, is believed to be beneficial for the students. Therefore, this study aims at investigating the answers to these two questions: (1) how are the collaborative reader responses implemented in Critical Reading and Writing II? and (2) To what extent does reader response approaches promote students? critical thinking skills? With t…
This study examines variations and insertions of schwa observed in the speech of 200 early teenage pre-intermediate second-language learners of English. The respondents were final-year students of a junior high school located in an urban setting in Ghana, a multilingual post-colonial African country south of the Sahara. The respondents read aloud sections of familiar texts they themselves chose. The reading sessions and subsequent oral interaction sessions were video-taped, transcribed verbatim, and analysed. The respondents? articulation of schwa as captured in the recordings was compared wit…
Critical thinking skill is crucial for higher education students. However, the development of critical thinking for engineering students has been overlooked. The previous research on students? critical thinking in higher education mainly focuses on Humanities and Social Sciences department. Therefore, this research aims to evaluate engineering students? critical thinking ability in English public speaking. A case study was carried out on 28 students (18 Males, 8 Females) of Telecommunication Engineering faculty at Institut Teknologi Telkom Purwokerto. The study found that students had the pote…
This paper examines issues of domestic violence in the perception of Islamic religious leaders on the island of Ambon. The problems in this paper are how the forms, perpetrators, and victims of domestic violence, which are dominant in society. Data were collected through interviews, and analyzed qualitatively descriptively. The result of the research shows that according to the perception of Islamic religious figure on the island of Ambon, the dominant form of domestic violence in society is physical violence which is often done by husband, or psychic violence done by wife to husband. Domesti…
Simple and modern society urgently need a legal system that regulate the interaction between one another. Organized community life based on social norms and regulations established institutional. However, other forms of social life does not always run normally in accordance with social norms and regulations existing institutional. Thus social change is a necessity in society. Social change is closely related to the law. Law has a very close correlation with social change as between law and social change have interdependencies. On the one hand, the social changes must be in line with the rules …
This study on the application of traffic laws aimed to determine the implementation of Law No. 22 of 2009 on traffic and road transport as well as the view of sociology of law on the level of compliance, adherence and awareness in the city of Ambon in motorcycle riding. Data were collected through field research and descriptive analysis qualitative. The results showed that the implementation of Law No. 22 Year 2009 regarding Traffic and Road Transportation already applied in the middle of Ambon City community. Unit Resort Police Ambon and PP. Lease disseminate legislation traffic and road tran…