Over 22 million US residents are limited English proficient. Hospitals often call upon untrained persons to interpret. There is a dearth of information on errors in medical interpreting and their impact upon cancer education. We conducted an experimental study of standardized medical interpreting training on interpreting errors in the cancer encounter, by comparing trained and untrained interpreters, using identical content. Nine interpreted cancer encounters with identical scripts were recorded and transcribed. Using an “Error Analysis Tool,” a bilingual linguist and two bilingual medical providers scored the transcripts for interpreting errors made, including their potential clinical severity. Trained interpreters were 70% less likely to have clinical errors than untrained ones. The likelihood of medical error increased with the length of the concept and decreased with the precision of vocabulary. It is important to train medical interpreters and to ensure their availability in cancer education encounters to minimize the risk for errors.

The research aims to investigate the influence of prior knowledge on students’ listening and reading comprehension at the tenth year of MAN 1 Pekanbaru. This study is a correlational research that involved 75 respondents as a sample from 150 students of the the tenth year of Science classes as the total population. The respondents were selected by using a simple random sampling technique. 20 items of multiple choice of listening test and 20 items of multiple choice of reading test and 15 items of the prior knowledge questionnaire were used to collect the data. Afterwards, the data were further analyzed by using Pearson product moment correlation for the first and the second hypotheses and MANOVA (Multivariate Analysis of Variance) for the third hypothesis by using SPSS 25. The research findings revealed that the mean score of students’ prior knowledge is 73.41 and is categorized as “Good”, their listening comprehension is 68.13 and is categorized as “Good”, and their reading comprehension is 70.67 and it is also categorized as “Good”. It can be seen that the value of Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.000<0.05. Lastly, for the third hypothesis, the value of significance is 0.000<0.05. It means Ha is accepted. Then, it is generated that there is a significant influence of prior knowledge on both students’ listening comprehension and reading comprehension.ABSTRAKPenelitian  ini  bertujuan untuk  mengetahui pengaruh pengetahuan yang ada pada siswa terhadap pemahaman listening dan speaking siswa kelas X MAN 1 Pekanbaru. Kajian ini merupakan penelitian korelasi yang terdiri dari 75 responden sebagai sampel dari populasi 150 orang siswa kelas X jurusan IPA dengan menggunakan tehnik sampel acak. tes Listening  dan Reading menggunakan pilihan ganda yang masing-masingnya terdiri dari 20 soal. Kuesioner digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data. Kuesioner ini terdiri dari 15 pernyataan. Selanjutnya data dianalisa dengan menggunakan korelasi Pearson Product Moment untuk hipotesis yang pertama dan kedua, sedangkan untuk menganalisa hipotesis yang ketiga menggunakan MANOVA (Multivariate Analysis of Variance) SPSS versi 25. Hasil penelitian mengungkapkan nilai rata-rata pengetahuan yang sudah ada adalah 73.41 dan dikategorikan “Baik”. Nilai rata-rata listening comprehension  68.13 dan dikategorikan “Baik” serta nilai rata-rata reading comprehension 70.67 dan juga dikategorikan “Baik”  Dapat diketahui bahwa nilai signifikan (2;tailed) adalah 0.000<0.05. Akhirnya, untuk hipotesa yang ketiga nilai signifikannya 0.000<0.05. Hasil ini menunjukkan bahwa Ha diterima. Kemudian, disimpulkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan prior knowledge siswa terhadap listening dan reading comprehension. How to Cite: Hasan, A. Gushendra, R. Yonantha, F. (2017). The Influence of Prior Knowledge on Students’ Listening and Reading Comprehension. IJEE (Indonesian Journal of English Education), 4(1), 1-15 doi:10.15408/ijee.v4i1.4744.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/ijee.v4i1.4744

The Islamic psychology (IP) community in Europe has recently witnessed a heated debate about the credentials required to participate in the theoretical substantiation of IP and Islamically integrated psychotherapy and counseling. This debate has provided convenient circumstances for Muslim psychologists and Islamic scholars alike to rethink their roles within the flourishing movement. Specifically, the discussions hint toward the importance of adopting a collaborative research methodology for IP, in particular for basic research. The methodology of choice will need to define the necessary qualifications and responsibilities of scholars and psychologists in a collaborative research process (personal collaboration) and evince its capability to appropriately marry knowledge and data, diverging research methods, and perspectives, concepts, and theories from Islamic studies and contemporary psychology (content-related collaboration). Here, we devise and offer a case illustration of an Islamic Psychology Basic Research Framework (coined the SALAAM Framework). This framework uses the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) Model of Interdisciplinary Research, developed by the IIS at the University of Amsterdam. Our first aim is to appropriate the IIS model for the IP literature by applying the model's research process phases and technique for the integration of disparate bodies of knowledge-that is, the identification of common ground-to methodological approaches in the contemporary IP literature. Our second aim is to exemplify the devised SALAAM Framework using the relatively unexplored area of Islamic cognitive theories (ICTs), which remain underdeveloped in contemporary psychological literature, primarily because of a lack of commensurability with the nomenclature of contemporary psychology. We thus provide a primer on the potential scope of ICTs. Toward Paul Kaplick is a graduate student, Brain and Cognitive Sciences,

This paper presents a study that experiments the ACEJ Language learning Strategies focusing on its effects toward students' English language achievement and their behavioural changes. Data is collected through a quantitative and qualitative method. A quasi-experimental approach is adopted with a pre-post-test analysis. A total of 181 year-four students of Elementary Schools in Riau province and three teachers were involved as the participants of the study. The quantitative data showed significant differences on students' English language achievement scores between experimental and control groups through ACEJ learning. The qualitative data on the other hand, dealt with teachers' perception towards students' behavioural changes during the process of the treatment of LLS through Active, creative, Effective and Joyful learning.