As it is known formative assessment focuses on both the learning process and learner's performance. In this study digital formative assessment and traditional speaking tests were utilized comparatively to evaluate 52 upper-intermediate EFL learners' English language speaking skills. The study was designed as a mixed-method. The quantitative data were collected via achievement tests which had been administered both in traditional speaking tests and digital formative tests. The qualitative findings were collected with students' interviews which consisted of four open-ended questions. The results of the study showed that participants outperformed in digital formative tests in comparison to traditional speaking tests. Another significant finding of the study is that participants are satisfied with the digital formative assessments in terms of peer collaboration during tests, enriched test materials, and preparation time for the speaking test. Although they have positive views on digital formative assessment, participants are dissatisfied with it in terms of technical problems that they encountered during the administration of digital formative tests.
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Subaedah Subaedah, Andi Banna, Nuraeni Abdullah, Ahmad Muladi Multazam
Saat ini, Siswa cenderung meniru budaya asing karena mereka hebat dan mereka mempengaruhi hilangnya pengakuan terhadap nilai-nilai budaya lokal mereka. Guru perlu menjadi inovatif dalam menyajikan materi pengajaran dengan cara yang efektif dan memperkenalkan budaya Bugis. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk Mengembangkan Karakter Siswa dengan menerapkan Model Pembelajaran Konstruktivis Berbasis Ugi (Siri ’Na Pesse) di Sekolah Dasar Negeri Lalabata, Distrik Tanete Rilau, Distrik Barru. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian eksperimental. Penelitian ini melibatkan 25 siswa yang berada dalam satu kelas. Penilaian dievaluasi dan diklasifikasikan oleh guru berdasarkan standar kurikulum Indonesia terbaru. Kemudian, analisis deskriptif digunakan untuk menggambarkan mean dan standar deviasi tanda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan model pembelajaran konstruktivis berbasis Ugi melalui siri 'na pesse meningkatkan karakter siswa pendidikan dasar secara efektif. Implementasi model pembelajaran konstruktivis berbasis Ugi melalui siri 'na pesse dan post test menunjukkan bahwa 100% siswa meningkatkan karakter. Uji-t berpasangan menunjukkan bahwa ada perbedaan yang signifikan secara statistik antara tanda rata-rata dari pra dan pasca-tes untuk setiap tahap karena semua hipotesis nol ditolak pada tingkat signifikansi 5%. Dengan demikian, analisis statistik berfungsi sebagai bukti bahwa model pembelajaran konstruktivis berbasis Ugi melalui siri 'na pesse efektif dalam meningkatkan karakter siswa.
如今，学生倾向于模仿外国文化，因为他们很优秀，影响他们对当地文化价值观的认识。教师需要在有效地呈现教学材料和介绍布吉斯文化方面发挥创新作用。这项研究的目的是将以Ugi为基础的Ugi基础学习模式(Siri ' Na Pesse)发展学生的性格。这类研究是实验性的研究。这项研究涉及25名一年级的学生。根据最新的印尼课程标准，评估和分类由教师进行。然后，描述性分析被用来描述符号偏差的平均值和标准。研究结果表明，基于Ugi的构建学习模式通过siri 'na pesse有效地提高了基础教育学生的性格。以Ugi为基础的Ugi学习模式的建立学习模式通过siri 'na pesse和post测试表明，100%的学生提高了性格。uj -t配对表明，每阶段的预验和测试后平均分数在统计学上有显著差异，因为所有零假设都被忽略在5%的重要性水平上。因此，统计分析证明，以Ugi为基础的构建学习模式通过siri 'na pesse有效地提高学生的性格。
{"title":"Keefektifan Model Pembelajaran Konstruktivis Berbasis Ugi (Siri ’Na Pesse) untuk Meningkatkan Karakter Siswa","authors":"Subaedah Subaedah, Andi Banna, Nuraeni Abdullah, Ahmad Muladi Multazam","doi":"10.33096/ELJOUR.V2I1.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33096/ELJOUR.V2I1.94","url":null,"abstract":"Saat ini, Siswa cenderung meniru budaya asing karena mereka hebat dan mereka mempengaruhi hilangnya pengakuan terhadap nilai-nilai budaya lokal mereka. Guru perlu menjadi inovatif dalam menyajikan materi pengajaran dengan cara yang efektif dan memperkenalkan budaya Bugis. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk Mengembangkan Karakter Siswa dengan menerapkan Model Pembelajaran Konstruktivis Berbasis Ugi (Siri ’Na Pesse) di Sekolah Dasar Negeri Lalabata, Distrik Tanete Rilau, Distrik Barru. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian eksperimental. Penelitian ini melibatkan 25 siswa yang berada dalam satu kelas. Penilaian dievaluasi dan diklasifikasikan oleh guru berdasarkan standar kurikulum Indonesia terbaru. Kemudian, analisis deskriptif digunakan untuk menggambarkan mean dan standar deviasi tanda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan model pembelajaran konstruktivis berbasis Ugi melalui siri 'na pesse meningkatkan karakter siswa pendidikan dasar secara efektif. Implementasi model pembelajaran konstruktivis berbasis Ugi melalui siri 'na pesse dan post test menunjukkan bahwa 100% siswa meningkatkan karakter. Uji-t berpasangan menunjukkan bahwa ada perbedaan yang signifikan secara statistik antara tanda rata-rata dari pra dan pasca-tes untuk setiap tahap karena semua hipotesis nol ditolak pada tingkat signifikansi 5%. Dengan demikian, analisis statistik berfungsi sebagai bukti bahwa model pembelajaran konstruktivis berbasis Ugi melalui siri 'na pesse efektif dalam meningkatkan karakter siswa.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76183939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kajian tentang kesulitan belajar peserta didik dalam pembelajaran adalah hal penting untuk memberikan pendidikan yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan, hasil penelitian yang telah di laksanakan, maka peneliti dapat menyimpulkan hasil deskriptif penelitiannya dalam dua hal, yaitu perilaku siswa yang mengalami slow learner dalam pembelalajaran adalah lambatnya peserta didik slow learner dalam memahami suatu materi yang dijelaskan membutuhkan waktu yang lebih lama dibandingkan dengan temannya yang lain sehingga target-target pencapaian pembelajaran ada yang tidak dapat tercapai. Selain itu kefokusan dari peserta didik slow learner yang sulit dan membutuhkan waktu untuk membuat fokus di awal pembelajaran. efektivitas strategi yang digunakan guru dalam mengatasi slow learner pada peserta didik MTsN Makassar adalah guru melakukan pembelajaran kelompok, melakukan tutor sebaya antar peserta didik, pemberian penguatan, pendekatan khusus seperti privat khusus, pemberian nasehat dan motivasi kepada peserta didik yang mengalami slow learner. Adapun faktor pendukung yang di rasakan oleh guru dalam mengatasi slow learner pada peserta didik, yaitu ikatan yang terjalin antar peserta didik sangat baik, sehingga memudahkan guru dalam melakukan strateginya. Selain itu kemauan belajar dan partisipasi dari peserta didik itu sendiri yang menjadi salah satu faktor pendukung. Selain faktor pendukung ada pula faktor penghambat yang di hadapi oleh guru dalam mengatasi slow learner pada peserta didik di MTsN Makassar, yaitu keterbatasan waktu.
{"title":"Analisis Perilaku Peserta Didik Slow Learner (Studi Kasus Di MTsN Makassar)","authors":"Ratika Nengsi, Abdul Malik, Andi Fadilah A Natsir","doi":"10.33096/ELJOUR.V2I1.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33096/ELJOUR.V2I1.93","url":null,"abstract":"Kajian tentang kesulitan belajar peserta didik dalam pembelajaran adalah hal penting untuk memberikan pendidikan yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan, hasil penelitian yang telah di laksanakan, maka peneliti dapat menyimpulkan hasil deskriptif penelitiannya dalam dua hal, yaitu perilaku siswa yang mengalami slow learner dalam pembelalajaran adalah lambatnya peserta didik slow learner dalam memahami suatu materi yang dijelaskan membutuhkan waktu yang lebih lama dibandingkan dengan temannya yang lain sehingga target-target pencapaian pembelajaran ada yang tidak dapat tercapai. Selain itu kefokusan dari peserta didik slow learner yang sulit dan membutuhkan waktu untuk membuat fokus di awal pembelajaran. efektivitas strategi yang digunakan guru dalam mengatasi slow learner pada peserta didik MTsN Makassar adalah guru melakukan pembelajaran kelompok, melakukan tutor sebaya antar peserta didik, pemberian penguatan, pendekatan khusus seperti privat khusus, pemberian nasehat dan motivasi kepada peserta didik yang mengalami slow learner. Adapun faktor pendukung yang di rasakan oleh guru dalam mengatasi slow learner pada peserta didik, yaitu ikatan yang terjalin antar peserta didik sangat baik, sehingga memudahkan guru dalam melakukan strateginya. Selain itu kemauan belajar dan partisipasi dari peserta didik itu sendiri yang menjadi salah satu faktor pendukung. Selain faktor pendukung ada pula faktor penghambat yang di hadapi oleh guru dalam mengatasi slow learner pada peserta didik di MTsN Makassar, yaitu keterbatasan waktu.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76765469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marian Olaya, Gladys Marta Elena González-González
Abstract This paper reports an action research study on cooperative learning projects for engineering students at a public university. The study is aimed at improving reading skills through the use of four cooperative learning projects implemented during the English classes. Information gathered from a survey, a group’s interviews, and the teacher’s journal was collected and analyzed to determine the categories after being coded. Findings suggest that students significantly enhanced their reading skills by working cooperatively. Conclusions also highlight the notion that cooperative learning strengthens English reading skills and fosters leadership, decision making, communication and problem-solving abilities. Additionally it increases participation, motivation and goal achievement in Students language learning process.
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In an experimental research design, elementary school fourth grade students (n = 60) were randomly assigned to either computer-based reading or traditional reading conditions in this study. The groups completed before-reading, during-reading and after-reading activities on computer or in traditional format, respectively. The computer-based reading texts included static and animated visuals and background sounds. Students in each group completed a pretest, four reading texts and a posttest over a six-week period: the pretest in the first week, the four texts in the following four weeks, and the posttest in the sixth week. The results showed that although no significant difference was found between group’s pretest scores, computer-based group has significantly better posttest scores than the traditional group. Additionally, the fourth graders in the computer-based reading group significantly improved their reading comprehension. However, there was no significant difference between students’ reading comprehension results from pretest to posttest in traditional group. As a result, presenting students multimedia supported reading activities has a positive impact on their reading comprehension. Thus, we recommend teachers use individual and visually-supported computer-based reading texts to improve students’ reading comprehension.
{"title":"Computer-Based Reading Texts to Support Fourth Graders’ Reading Comprehension","authors":"Nilgün Günbaş","doi":"10.26817/16925777.820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.820","url":null,"abstract":"In an experimental research design, elementary school fourth grade students (n = 60) were randomly assigned to either computer-based reading or traditional reading conditions in this study. The groups completed before-reading, during-reading and after-reading activities on computer or in traditional format, respectively. The computer-based reading texts included static and animated visuals and background sounds. Students in each group completed a pretest, four reading texts and a posttest over a six-week period: the pretest in the first week, the four texts in the following four weeks, and the posttest in the sixth week. The results showed that although no significant difference was found between group’s pretest scores, computer-based group has significantly better posttest scores than the traditional group. Additionally, the fourth graders in the computer-based reading group significantly improved their reading comprehension. However, there was no significant difference between students’ reading comprehension results from pretest to posttest in traditional group. As a result, presenting students multimedia supported reading activities has a positive impact on their reading comprehension. Thus, we recommend teachers use individual and visually-supported computer-based reading texts to improve students’ reading comprehension.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88814772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis Jesús Rincón-Ussa, Yamith José Fandiño-Parra, Andrea Margarita Cortés-Ibañez
This paper describes the results of the first cycle of a co-joint research study in methodological innovation in the initial education of pre-service language teachers. The experience consisted of the implementation of several learning strategies mediated by different ICT tools. These strategies were used by three teachers, in three different academic spaces of a B.A. in Spanish and Foreign Languages during the second semester of 2018. The purpose of this implementation was to examine the value of ICT-mediated learning strategies and gaining insights into how to integrate ICTs with a process of pedagogical and methodological innovation. The results of the data analysis, which were collected through a qualitative-quantitative survey, indicate that the integration of strategies mediated by ICTs seems to be essential for methodological and pedagogical innovation because they promote the development of collaborative and cooperative learning, foster autonomy and self-directed learning. Besides, these strategies also provide a range of possibilities for bolstering the development of the capacity of agency pre-service teachers.
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Jorge Luis Romero-Villamil, Claudia Patricia Guzman-Martinez
This quantitative and qualitative research paper attempts to demonstrate to what extent instructional subtitled videos influence students’ vocabulary learning. The main objective is to know how this visual strategy contributes to increasing students’ new vocabulary power in meaningful contexts. This is an action–research study, which is based on the use of qualitative and quantitative methods. The applied data collection techniques included the following: a) a pre–test, in order to identify students’ difficulties regarding vocabulary, b) three classroom observations in which three lesson plans, based on ESA (Engage, Study, and Activate) Model, were done; c) a teacher-researcher’s diary to reflect about students’ performance in the whole implementation process was used, d) a semi-structured interview was designed in order to collect participants’ comments on subtitled videos, and e) a post-test by measuring students’ vocabulary knowledge for language improvement. The analysis of the data showed that the use of instructional subtitled videos helped students to learn vocabulary. The intervention stage helped participants to perform better on the post-test than the pre-test. The target words were contextualized and presented through the combination of sounds, images, and text, simultaneously. The data also showed that the participants considered that the videos were useful to remember the new words and to use them in meaningful communicative contexts. After discussing the findings of the study in the light of the theory, its implications and limitations, as well as some considerations for further research, were presented.
这篇定量和定性的研究论文试图证明教学字幕视频在多大程度上影响学生的词汇学习。主要目的是了解这种视觉策略如何有助于在有意义的语境中提高学生的新词汇能力。这是一项基于定性和定量方法的行动研究。应用的数据收集技术包括:a)预先测试，以确定学生在词汇方面的困难;b)三个课堂观察，其中三个课程计划，基于ESA (Engage, Study, and Activate)模型，完成;C)使用教师研究员的日记来反映学生在整个实施过程中的表现，d)设计半结构化访谈以收集参与者对字幕视频的评论，e)通过测量学生的词汇知识来进行后测，以提高语言水平。数据分析表明，使用字幕教学视频有助于学生学习词汇。干预阶段帮助参与者在后测试中比前测试表现得更好。目标词被语境化，并通过声音、图像和文本的组合同时呈现。数据还显示，参与者认为视频有助于记忆新单词，并在有意义的交际环境中使用它们。从理论的角度对研究结果进行了讨论，提出了研究的启示和局限性，以及进一步研究的一些思考。
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In the last few decades, several studies have documented the discrimination that teachers face in the field of Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). To date, research evidence has shown that discrimination tends to be motivated by issues concerning the native- vers. non-native language status of these professionals. However, recent evidence has suggested that discrimination in TESOL is intricate involving factors that are associated with the language status of teachers, their pronunciation, gender, race, sexual preference, age, among others. Despite the fact that this evidence has revealed the struggles of these professionals, no research discourse, to my knowledge, has shown the extent to which these phenomena impact on the professionals’ perceptions, feelings and decision making. In response to this, the present study was conducted to understand the effects and results of discrimination in the field of TESOL in Mexico from the professionals’ perspectives. Through an online questionnaire, 78 Mexican English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers were asked to describe the instances in which they felt discriminated, and how these influenced their perceptions and decision making concerning their profession. The results show that the discrimination practices impact in complex ways, showing negative effects on the professionals’ perceptions, feelings and decisions regarding their current profession. This evidence calls for more effective strategies in order to stop affecting teachers in ELT.
{"title":"Influence of Discrimination in the Field of TESOL: Perspectives of Mexican EFL Teachers","authors":"E. E. García-Ponce","doi":"10.26817/16925777.837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.837","url":null,"abstract":"In the last few decades, several studies have documented the discrimination that teachers face in the field of Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). To date, research evidence has shown that discrimination tends to be motivated by issues concerning the native- vers. non-native language status of these professionals. However, recent evidence has suggested that discrimination in TESOL is intricate involving factors that are associated with the language status of teachers, their pronunciation, gender, race, sexual preference, age, among others. Despite the fact that this evidence has revealed the struggles of these professionals, no research discourse, to my knowledge, has shown the extent to which these phenomena impact on the professionals’ perceptions, feelings and decision making. In response to this, the present study was conducted to understand the effects and results of discrimination in the field of TESOL in Mexico from the professionals’ perspectives. Through an online questionnaire, 78 Mexican English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers were asked to describe the instances in which they felt discriminated, and how these influenced their perceptions and decision making concerning their profession. The results show that the discrimination practices impact in complex ways, showing negative effects on the professionals’ perceptions, feelings and decisions regarding their current profession. This evidence calls for more effective strategies in order to stop affecting teachers in ELT.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72885853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The present reflective article aims to describe some challenges that psychology programs in Colombia must face in the future, in order to let their students achieve an international professional profile and to improve their academic quality. First of all, psychology programs need to implement a bilingual curriculum, with many basic and professional courses in a foreign language like English, to teach students to think social and psychological problems in a wide intercultural way (Coulson & Homewood, 2016; Taylor & Hulme, 2015). Secondly, psychology professors should motivate their students to acquire higher levels of engagement with bilingual communication learning, to have better opportunities of professional development by applying to academic exchange experiences with international universities.
{"title":"Promoting an Academic International Profile in Undergraduate Students of Psychology Programs in Colombia","authors":"G. Torres-Escobar, Rolan Arcadio Correa-López","doi":"10.26817/16925777.775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.775","url":null,"abstract":"The present reflective article aims to describe some challenges that psychology programs in Colombia must face in the future, in order to let their students achieve an international professional profile and to improve their academic quality. First of all, psychology programs need to implement a bilingual curriculum, with many basic and professional courses in a foreign language like English, to teach students to think social and psychological problems in a wide intercultural way (Coulson & Homewood, 2016; Taylor & Hulme, 2015). Secondly, psychology professors should motivate their students to acquire higher levels of engagement with bilingual communication learning, to have better opportunities of professional development by applying to academic exchange experiences with international universities.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72401754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With a communicative approach to language testing, performance assessment has taken on a prominent role in testing systems around the world. Specifically, task-based assessment (TBA) is now being used to make inferences about people’s language ability and what they can do with this construct under realistic communicative scenarios. This reflection paper discusses central issues in TBA, and in doing so, it shows that TBA can be observed through a classroom-assessment lens, an idea I present as Instructional Task-Based Assessment (ITBA). The paper starts by reviewing the meaning of tasks, then discusses problems with TBA and finally offers a checklist for teachers to explore TBA in classroom contexts. I also include limitations of the proposal and conclusions
{"title":"Task-Based Language Assessment: Implications for the Language Classroom","authors":"Frank Giraldo","doi":"10.26817/16925777.828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.828","url":null,"abstract":"With a communicative approach to language testing, performance assessment has taken on a prominent role in testing systems around the world. Specifically, task-based assessment (TBA) is now being used to make inferences about people’s language ability and what they can do with this construct under realistic communicative scenarios. This reflection paper discusses central issues in TBA, and in doing so, it shows that TBA can be observed through a classroom-assessment lens, an idea I present as Instructional Task-Based Assessment (ITBA). The paper starts by reviewing the meaning of tasks, then discusses problems with TBA and finally offers a checklist for teachers to explore TBA in classroom contexts. I also include limitations of the proposal and conclusions","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76681713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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