Acknowledgement
This research was funded by the Hibah Pascasarjana 2015 from the Republic Indonesia government (Contract number 182/UN30.15/LT/2015), March 24, 2015. We express our gratitude to Choirul Muslim, PhD. for his valuable recommendations for conducting the research. We also gratefully acknowledge Nurus Sa'adiyah for her statistical analysis, Dr. Wiryono (Bengkulu University, Indonesia) and Dr. Corey Johnson (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA) for their grammatical suggestions in preparing this manuscript.
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