Erasing English Language Competency: African Migrants in Vancouver, Canada

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Creese
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
African Migrants ◽  
Language Competency

scholarly journals Effect of English Language Competency on the Job Satisfaction and Motivation of Teacher Educators: A Narrative Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 225
Author(s):  
Zafarullah Sahito ◽  
Pertti Vaisanen
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Sindh Province ◽  
Departments Of Education ◽  
Language Competency

This research study was designed to explore the English language competency of teacher educators and its effect on their job satisfaction and motivation in order to maintain their position at their departments of Education at Universities of Sindh province of Pakistan. As, languages are generally taught and assessed in terms of four skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Where listening and reading are known as receptive skills while speaking and writing as productive skills, which are directly concerned and connected with the cognitive development of the teachers  educators and its proper utilization to become satisfied and motivated faculty members. The data was collected and analysed through narrative analysis technique, the qualitative research design and method. The findings of this article would be found suitable, reliable, strong resource and a rich addition in to the existing literature, which provides a suitable insight to all stakeholders to understand the real position and phenomenon of language competency and its effects.

scholarly journals A Study on EFL Higher Education Student’s Ability to Analyze Grammatical Simple-Past and Past-Perfect Tenses

Tamaddun ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Sitti Halijah ◽  
Muhammad Basri Dalle ◽  
Oky Cahyo Sakti Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
English Language ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
School Students ◽  
Language Outcome ◽  
Language Competency

This study attempts to determine the students` Ability to Analyze the Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses. The authors used the descriptive method in this study. The population of the research were the fifth semester students of Faculty of Literature UMI Makassar in academic year 2018/2019. The sample of the study consisted of 20 students and were chosen through random sampling method. The istruments used were two kinds of instrument namely objective test and questionnaire to acquire data on their analytical capability of the simple past and past perfect tenses. Findings revealed that the ability of the fifth semester students was deemed as fair. This depicts that the students` ability to analyze Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses is 59, 20 which was condidered as fair. The problems found faced by the students ability to Analyze the Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses were; (1) sometimes students were confused in analyzing simple past and past perfect tenses due to the lack of basic knowledge, (2) there were many students who did not have rich vocabularies after they graduated from high school, (3) they had forgotten the pattern of the tenses, and (4) students were still having difficulties to differentiate between simple past and past perfect tenses. The implication of this study is that fresh graduates of senior high school are still lacking the necessary requirements to fullfil the standard English language competency which leads to poor language outcome of the Indonesian high schools today. Hence, the study srongly suggests that it is essential to pay special attention on senior high school students’ second language acquisition before continuing their study in Higher Education.

Reading behaviour and the influence of reading on the English Language proficiency at UiTM Sabah

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Yee Vun Lee ◽  
Dorothy Chin ◽  
Xavier Thayalan
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Proficiency ◽  
School Experience ◽  
Frequency Count ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Language Competency

In general, UiTM students are often said to be weak in the English Language. In this study, the students home and their former school experience, their motivations and attitudes towards their English Language proficiency were investigated Pre-diploma students answered the questionnaires and the data were analysed by looking into the frequency count, mean, standard deviation and correlations between the variables. The results ofthe analysis displayed that homes and schools ofthe respondents were the contributing factors to their English Language competency.

scholarly journals Academic Literacy Requirements of Health Professions Programs: Challenges for ESL Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Lillie Lum ◽  
Mahmoud Alqazli ◽  
Karen Englander
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
University Education ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
New Students ◽  
Language Competency ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Professionnels De La Santé ◽  
Grand Public

To succeed in Canadian health professions, university education programs students must initially meet a variety of program-specific and English-language admission requirements. For non-native English-speaking (NNES) students, a major challenge can be the demonstration of profession-specific academic literacy and, in particular, adequate language competency prior to admission and throughout the program. Despite the increased numbers in the adult NNES student population in Canada, the current academic literacy requirements within these programs have received minimal research focus. This study explores thecongruency of program requirements and learning supports within three major health professions programs across six Canadian universities. The data analyzed for this qualitative study include program documents on publicly accessible websites and a focused literature review. Findings suggest that in medicine, nursing, and pharmacy programs, discipline-specific academic literacy manifests itself in a wide variety of specialized written genres, ranging from reflections to theoretical analysis. Academic literacy is essential to the socialization of new students into these specialized programs and into the professions. Suggestions are offered to enhance universities’ support of the development of academic literacy of NNES students. Pour réussir comme professionnels de la santé au Canada, les étudiants inscrits aux programmes d’enseignement universitaire doivent d’abord satisfaire à une variété de conditions d’admission relatives au programme qu’ils ont choisi et à leur connaissance de l’anglais. Pour les étudiants dont la langue maternelle n’est pas l’anglais (NNES, pour « non-native English speakers »), la nécessité de faire preuve de littératie académique dans la profession de leur choix et, en particulier, celle d’une compétence langagière suffisante avant leur admission et tout au long du programme choisi peuvent constituer un défi de taille. Bien que la population des étudiants adultes de type NNES ait augmenté au Canada, les exigences actuelles de littératie académique liées à ces programmes n’ont fait l’objet que de travaux de recherche rudimentaires. La présente étude explore la concordance entre les exigences des programmes d’études et les soutiens pédagogiques au sein de trois importants programmes de formation de professionnels de la santé dans six universités canadiennes. Les données analysées pour cette étude qualitative comprennent la documentation sur les programmes concernés disponible sur des sites Web accessibles au grand public ainsi qu’une analyse documentaire ciblée. Les constatations suggèrent que, dans les programmes d’études médicales, infirmières, et pharmaceutiques, la littératie académique liée à une discipline particulière se manifeste dans une grande variété de genres d’écriture spécialisés allant de réflexions à l’analyse théorique. La littératie académique est essentielle à l’insertion des nouveaux étudiants dans ces programmes spécialisés de même que dans les professions. Des suggestions sont offertes pour rehausser le niveau du soutien des universités au développement des étudiants NNES dans le domaine de la littératie académique.

Health Care Needs in Crisis: An Exploratory Study of Latinos in the Midwest

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Hunt ◽  
Isabel Montemayor
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
English Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Language Competency ◽  
Unequal Access ◽  
Midwestern City

Currently, the United States is facing a health care crisis. The number of uninsured and underinsured people is increasing steadily, with Latinos especially hard hit, at nearly triple the national rate of uninsured. For many in this population, difficulty in accessing adequate health care is multiplied by poverty, limited English language competency, and immigration status. In this paper, we report on focus groups and interviews conducted with a group of Latinos in a mid-sized Midwestern city, regarding their experiences with the health care system. Our analysis provides some insight into how unequal access to health care is affecting U.S. Latinos with and without health insurance. We offer some modest recommendations toward community advocacy that may help Latinos and other marginalized groups to better access the health services they need.

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