An exploratory study of teaching English in the Saudi elementary public schools

System ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Abdan
Africa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amélie Grysole

AbstractAs in many parts of the world, the school system in Senegal has suffered from state budget cuts associated with structural adjustment and neoliberal reform in the 1980s. As a result, the quality of elementary public schools has been compromised; meanwhile a significant private sector developed. This article analyses the proliferation of private schools in Dakar and the ways in which Senegalese parents navigate the multiplicity of school types (French, Franco-Arabic or Franco-English, Catholic or secular), to understand how families struggle to ensure their social and material reproduction in a neoliberal economy. I suggest that educational investments are situated at the intersection of global and intra-family inequalities. International migration has made global inequalities apparent within and between Senegalese families, who are unequally positioned depending on whether they include members living abroad.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Meghan Kathleen Eliason

In this paper, I explain the design and implementation of an e-newsletter created to engage grandparents with public schools.  A brief literature review, the process for creating the e-newsletter, and my data collection methods are explained.  The conclusions and implementations offered provided insight into how public schools can engage grandparents as important members of their school communities.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Onoriu Colăcel

Abstract Teaching English as a foreign language is rooted in the national interest of English-speaking countries that promote their own culture throughout the world. To some extent, ‘culture’ is a byword for what has come to be known as the modern nation. Mainly the UK and the US are in the spotlight of EFL teaching and learning. At the expense of other, less ‘sought-after’ varieties of English, British and American English make the case for British and American cultures. Essentially, this is all about Britishness and Americanness, as the very name of the English variety testifies to the British or the American standard. Of course, the other choice, i.e. not to make a choice, is a statement on its own. One way or another, the attempt to pick and choose shapes teaching and learning EFL. However, English is associated with teaching cultural diversity more than other prestige languages. Despite the fact that its status has everything to do with the colonial empire of Great Britain, English highlights the conflict between the use made of the mother tongue to stereotype the non-native speaker of English and current Anglo- American multiculturalism. Effectively, language-use is supposed to shed light on the self-identification patterns that run deep in the literary culture of the nation. Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) encompasses the above-mentioned and, if possible, everything else from the popular culture of the English-speaking world. It feels safe to say that the intractable issue of “language teaching as political action” (Cook, 2016: 228) has yet to be resolved in the classrooms of the Romanian public schools too.


2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Palmira Carlos Alves ◽  
Serafim Manuel Teixeira Correia

A avaliação de escola tem vindo a ganhar força com a preocupação inerente à crescente autonomia da escola que a obriga, por um lado, a prestar contas à sociedade e, por outro, a desenvolver aprendizagens que proporcionem as soluções adequadas e criativas à resolução dos problemas que lhe são constantemente colocados. Sendo a avaliação encarada, pela maioria dos responsáveis políticos, como uma estratégia de melhoria da escola, justifica-se que esteja a ser objecto de uma profunda reflexão no seio do Sistema Educativo Português. É, neste contexto, que sustentamos que a avaliação de escola, sobretudo na modalidade de auto-avaliação, é um meio de aprendizagem organizativa, capaz de habilitar uma comunidade educativa a organizar os seus processos de melhoria e a mobilizar o conhecimento interno da escola necessário para responder, de modo adequado e criativo, às mudanças. Assim, durante o ano de 2007, levámos a cabo uma investigação, cuja preocupação central assentou, fundamentalmente, no conhecimento dos dispositivos que têm sido desenvolvidos nas 769 escolas públicas do 2.º e 3.º ciclos dos ensinos básico e secundário. Para tal, elaborámos um questionário que, depois de validado, enviámos a todas as escolas, em versão electrónica, possibilitando a resposta por essa mesma via. Os dados obtidos, a partir das 274 respostas, foram tratados com recurso ao programa informático SPSS (versão 13.0 para Windows) e, posteriormente, analisados. Neste artigo, apresentaremos alguns resultados que nos ajudaram a compreender e a problematizar as práticas de auto-avaliação das escolas públicas.   Palavras-chave: Auto-avaliação de Escola. Dispositivosde Avaliação. Organização Aprendente.   The evaluation of school has gained visibility due to its autonomy inner concerning which puts it in a position of, by one side, establishing a dialogue with society, and by the other, developing a creative learning that provides the most appropriate solutions to solve the demanded problems. Evaluation is considered, by most politicians, as a strategy that can make the school to improve, which justifies it to be the subject of a further consideration within the Portuguese Educational System. In this context we consider the school evaluating system, in its self-evaluation approach, an organization learning way, which can enable the educational community to manage its improvement processes and sensibly the necessary school’s internal knowledge in order to answer the changes. Thus, throughout the 2007 year, we carried out a research, whose essential concern is the awareness of the devices developed into the 769 basic and secondary public schools of Basic and Fundamental Schooling. So, we drew up a questionnaire and sent it to all schools in a electronic version, enabling electronic replies. The obtained data from the 274 responses were processed using the SPSS software (version 13.0 for Windows), and subsequently analyzed. In this article we present some results that helped us to understand and enquiry the practices of self-evaluation in public schools.   Keywords: School self-evaluation. Evaluation Devices. Learning organization.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Ashwag A. Al-kasi

Involving English teachers in designing and developing curriculum leads to producing effective curriculum, therefore, efficient learning process of English. This exploratory study evaluated the English teachers’ involvement in designing curriculum in Saudi public schools. Also, it investigates how English teachers’ absence of the process of curriculum design impacts them and their learners. Then the study suggests the collaborative curriculum design method as an alternative. The sample consists of seven teachers and two supervisors. The data were collected and analyzed through qualitative research methods. The findings show that English teachers’ participation is restricted to evaluating the curriculum after implementing it. This narrow role limits the creativity and productivity of English teachers and their students


2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 4664-4676
Author(s):  
Umaira Aleem, Dr. Sadia Irshad

This paper investigates the place of pedagogy in language-in-education policy through an analysis of how the macro-level government policy interacts with the micro-level English language teaching practices. Since 2015, the teaching and learning of English language to grade 3 students, in all public schools of the Punjab, has been carried out through a literacy and numeracy drive called LND. The present study investigated the effectiveness of teaching English to grade 3 through literacy drive policy (LDP) of LND programme. It locates the implementation of LDP, in language in acquisition policy perspective and supports the stance that language teaching and learning is central to language planning and policy research (Johnson, 2013; Menken & García, 2010). It argues that language interventions deployed at any level of education are extension of language education policies which aim to improve the quality of education and to promote the learning of the language. Like all language in acquisition policies, LDP for teaching and learning of English is being executed in the same context of increasing the number of language users through teaching of foreign or second language (Cooper, 1989). The study investigated perceptions of teachers regarding teaching and learning of English through LDP with the notion that effective implementation of any language programme is linked with the understanding and practices of teachers who are the real implementers and final arbiters at micro level (Menken, 2008). The present study included a portion of data from my PhD dissertation. It collected teachers’ experiential standpoints to explore teachers’ awareness regarding implementation of LDP and issues they face inside the classrooms when they carried out teaching learning of English through LDP. The findings of the study revealed that teachers teaching English to grade 3 lack awareness in terms of clear understanding regarding LDP mainly because it is less elaborated and not accessible. It ultimately hindered the successful implementation and poses multiple classroom challenges.


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