Discrimination of English and Thai words ending with voiceless stops by native Thai listeners differing in English experience

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimiko Tsukada ◽  
Rungpat Roengpitya
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
First Language ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Discrimination Accuracy ◽  
School Students ◽  
L1 Transfer ◽  
Phonetic Learning ◽  
Australian English

This study examines the discrimination of words ending with voiceless stops /p t k/ in first language (L1) and second language (L2) by three groups of native Thai participants. These participants differed in their countries of residence and experience with L2 English in the formal education system. The first group (T1) was a group of 18 Thai listeners who were living in Australia. The second and third groups consisted of 12 university students (T2) and 12 high-school students (T3) living in Thailand. Eighteen Australian English (AusE) listeners were included as controls. English and Thai words minimally contrasting in the final stop (e.g. ‘cap’ vs. ‘cat’) were presented to the listeners to investigate whether L2 phonetic learning occurs even for the contrasts that are expected to be discriminated with high accuracy from the onset of L2 learning and if so, how it is influenced by L2 experience. All three Thai groups showed reasonably accurate discrimination for both English and Thai words, but only T1 showed discrimination accuracy comparable to AusE in English. Further, only T3 was clearly more accurate in discriminating unreleased Thai than English stop contrasts, most of which were accompanied with release bursts. These two findings are taken to be evidence for phonetic learning of specific aspects of L2 contrasts rather than positive L1 transfer.

scholarly journals Indonesian EFL students’ voice on the first language usage in classroom

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
Binti Muifatun Nazilah ◽  
Peptia Asrining Tyas ◽  
Wiwik Umiyati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
First Language ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Students ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Students Attitudes

The first language (L1) usage is still found during the English lesson, specifically in non-native English countries. This may be a debatable issue among experts. Hence, investigation on students’ perception is helpful in this study. It will give an insight into students’ preferences for learning the language. The previous studies related to this topic were mainly focused on senior high school and undergraduate students as the subject. Therefore, this present study proposed to explore the perception of junior high school students. In conducting this study, the researcher applied a quantitative survey design. There were 29 questions in three sections that were distributed to investigate: (1) the language used in the EFL classroom, (2) students’ attitudes as well as (3) students’ well-being during the English foreign language lesson. The participants were 101 students of SMP Shalahuddin Malang. The findings revealed that students have positive responses towards the use of Indonesian langauge during the EFL lesson.   DOI: 10.26905/enjourme.v6i2.6701

Multi-Approach Activity Design and Effects Analysis for Science Museums

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Tung-Chung Tsai ◽  
Yao-Ming Chu ◽  
Tsuey-Ling Wu ◽  
Mei-Chen Chang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Learning Effectiveness ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
School Students ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Acceptance Levels ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Activity Design

Science museums not only function as collection, exhibition, research, and leisure locations, but are also important sites for education. Thus, science museums often organize various activities to educate the public and deliver various key concepts. Museums organize diverse activities, such as exhibitions, lectures, hands-on activities, tours, demonstrations, and drama. Subsequently, to highlight issues related to energy saving and carbon reduction (ESCR), the National Science and Technology Museum (NSTM) organized a 3-day workshop, recruiting 60 students from 2 high schools to participate in diverse promotional activities. For high school students, this diverse educational promotion method is seldom experienced in formal education; thus, presenting an extremely rare opportunity. For museums, designing activities specifically for high school students is also uncommon. Therefore, the effectiveness of using a high school-specific multi-approach activity design to promote education objectives has yet to be determined. This study analyzes the participants' level of acceptance and learning effectiveness regarding the various ESCR activities. Data were collected using questionnaire surveys, activity feedback, interviews, and observation records. Subsequently, these data were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed to determine the students' acceptance levels and learning effectiveness regarding the various activities.

Knowledge about Drug Abuse in an American Small Town

1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 571-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. McKee
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Clinic ◽  
Mental Health Clinic ◽  
School Students

In a small (pop. 25,000) Eastern community in the United States, “counselors” (teachers, parents, police, mental health clinic workers, and ministers) and high school students were interviewed and tested to ascertain knowledge regarding drugs. Data suggest that less is known about certain categories of drugs than others; drug users are more knowledgeable about drugs than non-users; police scored consistently lower than other “counselors” and students; and those with higher levels of formal education scored higher. Particular problems and areas of ignorance among the (usually non-drug using) adults who give counsel require identification to aid in establishing more realistic, efficient, and effective organizing, staffing, and operating of programs.

Senior Chinese high school students' awareness of thematic and taxonomic relations in L1 and L2

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEGAO LI ◽  
XIANNV ZHANG ◽  
GUOYING WANG
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Word Association ◽  
First Language ◽  
Semantic Networks ◽  
School Students ◽  
Choice Decision ◽  
Chinese High School Students ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
Taxonomic Relations

In the development of their semantic networks, bilinguals can be influenced by the levels of proficiency they have in their second language (L2) and by the age at which they acquired the language. Two exercises, one in word association and one in forced-choice decision-making, were used to test whether the pattern of relative awareness of thematic and taxonomic relations that senior Chinese high school students had in L2 differed from the pattern they had in their first language (L1). The results consistently indicated that (i) the participants appeared as aware of taxonomic relations in L2 as they were in L1; and (ii) they were more readily aware of thematic than of taxonomic relations in L1 but less readily aware of thematic than of taxonomic relations in L2. It was concluded that with taxonomic relations, low-proficiency bilinguals could have a common set of conceptual representations for both L2 and L1, as they are assumed in the revised hierarchical model (RHM) to have. With thematic associations, they might have more difficulty gaining access to their representations in L2 than they might have in L1.

scholarly journals Previous Conceptions of Students on Virology and Biotechnology: The Need for the Understanding

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Lorena da Graça P. Macena ◽  
Nathália Regina P. Vieira ◽  
Roberta Pires Corrêa ◽  
Izabel Paixão ◽  
Helena Carla Castro
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
School Students ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Viral Particles ◽  
The Media

Biotechnology is known as the set of processes and techniques that involves the manipulation of living beings, resulting in the production of a series of products useful to humanity. Virology is a science that studies viruses, sub-viral particles and prions and has enjoyed the benefits of biotechnology. However, although there is an increase and improvement in the productivity of goods and services including this area, the harmful potential of the virus is still highlighted, which favors the construction of negative conceptions that may make it difficult to learn subjects related to these beings or about Content in science, such as biotechnology. The theme Biotechnology and virology in high school is addressed, throughout the different series / years, in disciplinary contents that have a direct influence with the students' daily life and that, if well understood, can contribute to the improvement of their quality of life. Considering that students have knowledge prior to formal education and that such conceptions may become obstacles to the acquisition of new knowledge, this work sought to elucidate, through the application of a semi-structured questionnaire, the knowledge that high school students of a school State of São Gonçalo (RJ) have on topics related to biotechnology and virology. The results showed that students use a lot of information acquired in formal education, in the media and in social relations on the subject evaluated. It was evidenced a predominance of previous conceptions and little knowledge about the viruses and the biotechnological context present in our daily life through the use of products and services

scholarly journals Expectations, perceptions and motivations of students at a Public School of High School in Brazil

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
Carla Viana Dendasck ◽  
Lucas Facco ◽  
Amanda Alves Fecury ◽  
Euzébio de Oliveira ◽  
Cláudio Alberto Gellis de Mattos Dias
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Goal Theory ◽  
Public High School ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
School Students ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Study

The achievement goal theory seeks to understand the set of factors, such as: thoughts, beliefs, motivations, purposes and emotions that lead the development of the individual’s performance (in this case, the students) to act, and, consequently, to translate into their results actions. The objective of this research was to investigate the expectations, perceptions and motivations of students from a public high school in the interior of São Paulo. The qualitative and quantitative study was carried out in a public high school, located in a city in the interior of the State of São Paulo, in the first semester of 2019. The separation of parents can sometimes be a problematic factor for student life. Students whose parents have literacy and longer formal education tend to remain literate and evolve in the educational field. High school students seek to complete their studies and move on to higher education in order to achieve personal life goals. A large proportion of students do not understand the real role of attending school

scholarly journals Om den uformelle (mis)brug af medier i det formelle uddannelsessystem [The non-formal (mis)use of media in formal education]

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (46) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Michael Paulsen ◽  
Jesper Tække
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Adequate Response ◽  
The One

A combination of educational research and theory of media is applied in order to understand the use of new digital media among Danish high school students. By analyzing interviews with students and teachers the authors present an interpretation of the students’ media use and its consequences. One of the main results is that the use of the new media leads to problems of inattentiveness and lack of concentration related to different forms of media-addiction. The authors present an explanation of how the students’ attention is drawn away from the teaching and of what they focus on instead. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the use of media such as Messenger not only redirects the attention of the students, it also deconstructs the distinction between formal and non-formal learning. Partly contrary to what the students and their teachers say themselves, it is suggested on more theoretical grounds that a new kind of deconstructing learning process is occurring, in which the teacher is the one most excluded. Yet it is concluded that an adequate response to the problems of media-addiction and the emergence of new kinds of inclusion and exclusion calls for further media didactic reflections.

scholarly journals PERCEPCIÓN DE TÓPICOS FINANCIEROS EN ESTUDIANTES DE BACHILLERATO COMO ELEMENTO DE INCLUSIÓN. UN ESTUDIO EMPÍRICO EN LA REGIÓN DE VERACRUZ

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 513
Author(s):  
Arturo García-Santillán ◽  
Belém Alejandra Contreras-Rodríguez ◽  
Elena Moreno-García
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Money Management ◽  
School Students ◽  
Global Agenda

Abstract.PERCEPTION OF FINANCIAL TOPICS IN BACHILLERATO STUDENTS AS ELEMENT OF INCLUSION. AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN THE REGION OF VERACRUZThis study presents a global agenda subject that is an element of financial inclusion, analyzing the perception of high school students towards financial topics such as income, money management, savings and investment and expense and credit. Also, the construct of the identified variables perception is analyzed in the existing literature, where each variable gives its own indicators to study the perception of the students in the region of Veracruz. An exploratory factor analysis is applied to identify the factorial weight of each component, which grouped show that there are two components that explain the study phenomenon. The result, leads us to believe that the students have an expectation of what their future economic income will be in terms of the remuneration expected to be gained as a result of their job. They consider that the formal education that they will attain in the high school and college academic levels is closely related to the sort of income by wages and salaries that they may be able to earn on the long-term.Keyword: financial subject, financial inclusion, financial educationResumen.El presente estudio expone un tema de agenda mundial que esta como elemento de la inclusión financiera, se analiza la percepción de los estudiantes de educación media superior hacia tópicos financieros, tales como ingreso, administración del dinero, ahorro e inversión y gasto y crédito. Se analizan el constructo de percepción con las variables inidentificadas en la literatura existente, en donde cada variable arroja indicadores propios para analizar la percepción de los estudiantes de la región de Veracruz. Se realiza un análisis factorial exploratorio para identificar el peso factorial de cada componente, en donde agrupados al final arroja dos componentes que explican el fenómeno de estudio. El resultado nos lleva a pensar que el estudiante tiene una expectativa de lo que serían sus ingresos económicos a futuro en términos de la remuneración que espera obtener como resultado de su trabajo. Consideran que la educación formal que obtendrán en el nivel académico de bachillerato y profesional, está muy relacionada al tipo de ingresos por sueldos y salarios que puedan tener a largo plazo.Palabras clave: tópicos financieros, inclusión financiera, educación financiera

scholarly journals Language use, language attitude, and identity: Perceptions of high school students attending an international school in Jakarta

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 381-396
Author(s):  
Katharina Endriati Sukamto ◽  
Maria Fe Suganob Nicolau ◽  
K.R. Vinitha Rani ◽  
Sugiyanta Sugiyanta
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Language Use ◽  
First Language ◽  
International School ◽  
Home Language ◽  
School Students ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study explores the perceptions of high school students who attend an international school in Jakarta towards language use, language attitude, and identity. One hundred sixty-five students aged between 15-18 years old participated in this study. They were divided into three categories based on their nationalities, namely (1) Indonesian students who were born and raised in Indonesia, (2) Indonesian students who were born and raised outside Indonesia, and (3) non-Indonesian students (expatriates) who were studying in Indonesia. The data were collected using a survey and in-depth interviews. The findings reveal that the majority of the students in the first and second categories were more comfortable with both oral and written English rather than their first language. However, for the expatriates in the third group, they could express themselves better when they used their first language. Generally, their attitude towards their home language was quite positive. The need to speak their first language (e.g., Korean, Hindi) was a gateway to connect with friends and relatives who did not speak English. As for the students’ identity, this study reveals that although the students were more fluent in English, they felt that they were strongly connected to their country of birth. This study draws out the pedagogical implication that the use of English as a medium of instruction can be quite critical, especially for Indonesian students, as it may have an impact on the loss of their home language.

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