Rukmaryadi Using Hypermedia Annotations to Increase Nursing Students Vocabulary Acquisition rukmaryadi@yahoo.co.uk www.rukmaryadi.staff.unri.ac.id

Introduction Problems : Students Vocabulary is severely LIMITED Some Medical vocabulary are unfamiliar for students Students are not interested in learning vocabulary

Introduction Cardiovascular? hospital? surgery? surgeon? muscle?

Methodology Vocabulary Acquisition Word recognition : ability to pronounce or figure out words Word meaning : words students know or can define Receptive Vocabulary Productive Vocabulary Reading Writing Listening Speaking

Hypermedia Annotation Methodology Hypermedia Annotation Woolf (1995) describes hypermedia as an aid for learning when the whole materials are integrated into a computer-based system.

Methodology Advantage of using Hypermedia Annotation Mayer (2008) Hypermedia Annotation can support learning in a number of ways. Enhance vocabulary development. brings variety of activities to the class. meets demands of students at different abilities.

Methodology Sample of Hypermedia Annotation A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized staff and equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which has an emergency department. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with large numbers of beds for intensive care and long-term care. Specialised hospitals include trauma centres, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric problems (see psychiatric hospital) and certain disease categories. Specialised hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. A teaching hospital combines assistance to people with teaching to medical students and nurses. The medical facility smaller than a hospital is generally called a clinic. Hospitals have a range of departments (e.g.: surgery and urgent care) and specialist units such as cardiology. Some hospitals have outpatient departments and some have chronic treatment units. Common support units include a pharmacy, pathology, and radiology.

Methodology Without Hypermedia Annotation A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized staff and equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which has an emergency department. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with large numbers of beds for intensive care and long-term care. Specialised hospitals include trauma centres, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric problems

Previous Research Sakar and Ercetin (2005) had investigated the effect on using hypermedia for reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition . The participants were tested by using hypermedia annotation that employed texts, pictures and video at the same time. They concluded that there were some of positive points of using hypermedia annotation while reading a comprehension text instead of their interesting and motivating.

Bataineh A (2014) “annotating text could promote and help student’s vocabulary.

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