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Editorial: 2019 (4) 1 

Dear Colleagues, Readers and Contributors of RESSAT! 

We are excited to be with you through the May 2019 issue (4/1) of Research in Social 

Sciences and Technology (RESSAT). We would like to extend our appreciations to all who 

contributes by submitting or reviewing manuscripts or have been readers of RESSAT. In our 

first issue of the fourth year, you will find six articles. 

The first article written by Fouad M. Yehya, Aziz M. Barbar & Suzanne Abou- Rjeili entitled 

as “Learning with Simulations: Influence of a Computer Simulation with Hands-on Activities 

on Students’ Learning of the Physics Capacitors’ Concepts.” In their research, the authors 

examine to investigate whether the use of computer simulations combined with hands-on 

activities are more effective than simulation alone to students´ learning of physics concepts. 

The result of this research reveals that simulation usage with hands-on activities by physics 

teachers may promote leaners conceptual understanding of some capacitors’ concepts than the 

use of simulation alone. 

Deanna Jacobsen Koepke, David A. Thomas, & Alexis Manning are the authors of the second 

article entitled as “Fatal Encounters: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Depictions of the 

Deaths of Unarmed People of Color at the Hands of Law Enforcement or Security 

Personnel.” This is a very interesting study focusing on analyzing the way newspaper articles 

report on the deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of law enforcement and security 

personnel between 1999 and 2017 to determine if local and national print media frame these 

stories using similar terminology and concepts. 

With the title of “eHealth Systems' User Experiences from Healthcare Workers” in the third 

article, Synnove Thomassen Andersen seek to investigate the practices, perspectives and 

values by healthcare workers, by analyzing how they experience the use of eHealth systems. 

 



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Fenty Kusumastuti in the fourth article entitled as “Polysemy in and of the Science Fiction 

Film Arrival (2016)”. This research was aimed at describing the interrelation between the 

polysemy in the film and the polysemy of the film. The analysis of the data reveals that 

examining the phenomena of cognitive linguistic meanings from the 30 micro-unit polysemy 

to the rhetorical criticism of the polysemous text opens up multiple interpretive possibilities 

that may go unnoticed.  

In his article with the title of “Teachers’ Perceptions on Using Smartphones in English as a 

Foreign Language Context” Ali Abbas Alzubi explores the perceptions of English as a 

foreign language (EFL) teachers at a foundation year in a university in Saudi Arabia. 

 

In the last article of this issue with the title of “Critiquing a qualitative study using Tracy’s 

big-tent criteria” Saud Albusaidi critiques of an article that explores the internationalization 

of the curriculum. 

I would like to thank everyone and express my special appreciation to the people who 

contributed to make this issue ready for you. I especially would like to thank all authors and 

reviewers for their contribution to RESSAT. I hope you will both enjoy and be challenged by 

the articles in this issue of RESSAT. I also look forward to seeing your contribution to the 

development of RESSAT in the future. 

Looking forward to being with you in next issue... 

Bulent TARMAN, Ph.D 

Editor-in-Chief,  

Research in Social Sciences and Technology (RESSAT) 

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