The MIS Quarterly has always had a strong focus on building and testing theory. In this regard, most research articles published in the MIS Quarterly have proposed a theory and then tested it either in whole or in part. In the June 1998 issue of the MIS Quarterly, however, Bob Zmud as then Editor-in-Chief issued a call for pure-theory submissions: research article submissions that had the sole ...

one will no doubt be as successful as its predecessors. It lacks something in connected thought, for its "chapters" are in reality different lectures given to a wide variety of audiences and necessarily pitched at different levels under titles by no means mutually exclusive. The book is thus best read as a series of essays and these include, as in the author's other writings, sex and society, t...

This study was an attempt to investigate what metacognitive strategies are specifically employed by English learners when it comes to different speaking task types.60 students at advanced level (female) were randomly selected and given an OPT as a test of homogeneity. They were assigned to experimental and control groups. The MS questionnaire (Oxford, 1990) was also administered to see what MS ...

Speaking skills and mother tongue are strongly suspected of having an influence on language politeness in communication. The study aims to investigate the implementation teaching materials designed for speaking students' understanding based their tongue. This research employs a pre-experimental method examine politeness, taking into account at Universitas Negeri Makassar. instruments used were ...

Being able to speak or communicate orally is an ultimate goal for most English language learners. Thus, teaching speaking a main component of the curriculum in communicative-based classrooms. However, teachers struggle teach Two reasons contribute this struggle: insufficient time practice classrooms and students’ unwillingness due anxiety. Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (ACMC) may...

Twenty volunteers participated in two experiments exploring the acute effects of using the mobile phone Motorola GSM 8700 on the functions of the CNS. When speaking (5 minutes reading a text from daily newspapers) the electromagnetic fields from the mobile apparatus did not affect the visual evoked potentials. Also a 6-min exposure did not reveal any effect of electromagnetic fields on the resu...

A computer-based Spoken Spanish Test (SST) was developed to provide an accurate and convenient assessment of speaking and listening for learners of Spanish. The SST is intended to measure a candidate’s receptive familiarity with a variety of forms of Spanish and the candidate’s facility in speaking Spanish. The SST test takes between 15 and 20 minutes to complete, all the items are presented in...

This work tests the hypothesis that language skill depends on the ability to incorporate streams of sound into an accurate temporal framework. We tested the ability of young English-speaking adults to process single time intervals and rhythmic sequences of such intervals, hypothesized to be relevant to the analysis of the temporal structure of language. The data implicate a specific role for th...

This research aims to measure the performance of role-play-based speaking in a tourism area university. is projected determine student's fluency and comprehension level on also explores implementation The researchers employed exploratory small sample size; twenty-nine students were selected purposively participate this study voluntarily. In research, instruments that used tests an interview gui...

The paper describes advances in the development of an ultrasound silent speech interface for use in silent communications applications or as a speaking aid for persons who have undergone a laryngectomy. It reports some first steps towards making such a device lightweight, portable, interactive, and practical to use. Simple experimental tests of an interactive silent speech interface for everyda...