Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action

ELT Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-396
Author(s):  
J. Harmer
2021 ◽  
pp. 518-526
Author(s):  
Narendra Kumar Jangir ◽  
Amol R. Bute ◽  
Amit Bansode

English language teaching for the engineering students in under-develop colleges of rural location encounters challenges of resources. Even the task of imparting necessary language skills becomes difficult with the help of traditional classrooms. The syllabuses for professional courses are designed to comprehend the language skill to cop-up with the entire degree course and face the placement process towards the end of the course. Hence, the paper would be discussing the solution to the problem of the lack of facilities in teaching language to the professional undergraduates in under-develop colleges. It would also bring out the scope of discovering beyond basic software programs on the computer like Grammarly and Ginger, instead discusses the implication of new literacies in learning a language in the classroom of professional college.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-136
Author(s):  
Elena Domínguez Morales

It is not surprising that there is a clear interest in specialised English language teaching at a time when academia needs to evidence its strong connection to social practices and internationalization (Carrió-Pastor 2019, 2020). This is a timely book, both in scope and usefulness. The contents are organised in such a way as to allow an understanding of methodological practices, firstly by establishing the difference between CLIL, i.e. Content and Language Integrated Learning, and EMI, i.e. English as a Medium of Instruction. In principle, these two terms refer to clear concepts, but in practice the distinction does not always seem to be so apparent. In fact, this book succeeds in providing a theoretical stance and examples to illustrate and clarify these approaches. The usefulness of this Palgrave volume for language professionals, namely teachers, researchers and newcomers, is easy to foresee.


JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
Fajar Kristina ◽  
Syahrial Syahrial ◽  
Wisma Yunita

The study aimed to discover and to describe online learning platforms used, the problems faced and the solutions that offered by the English teacher in Vocational High School. The descriptive qualitative research was used as the research design in order to describe in detail the issues which had been discovered. The researcher selected 7 English teachers from each state vocational high school of Bengkulu city as the representative sample for this research. The instrument of this research was the interview guideline and data were collected by using the interview. After collecting the data, the researcher analyzed the data by using descriptive analysis. The result Google classroom and WhatsApp were effective platforms to have online English language teaching in the pandemic era, especially, for the students at the vocational high school. The problems of using the platforms were the internet connection, lack of students’ motivation, lack of students’ understanding, and inefficient teaching time. While the problems of teaching language skills through the use of platforms were miss understanding and lack motivation, in adequate time, lack of interaction, and overload the use of data plan. The solution that the teacher used for solving the use of platform were providing the extended time and offline module or having face to face class. However for solving the problems of teaching language skills, the teachers did Whatsapp discussion, peer feedback and having question and answer session in Whatsapp, decreasing listening activity and providing additional time for writing.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Royani ◽  
T. Silvana Sinar

This study investigated the English students’ attitudes of IAIN Padangsidimpuan towards both English language teaching in terms of (a) language-centered, (b) learner-centered, and (c) learning-centered method; and learning English in terms of scales (a) attitudes toward long-term English learning, (b) interest in culture and communication, (c) perception about studying in school context, (d) images associated with English, (e) English learning activities, (f) exposure to English outside school, (g) self-rated four English skills, (h) self-reported academic English grade, and (i) identification of English role models. The data were obtained by questionnaire and interview from 10 selected students in which 4 male and 6 female students in 7th semester and were analyzed by steps provided by Gay, L.R and Airasian (1996). The result showed:  first, English students’ attitudes towards English language teaching had been found highly onlearning-centered method, followed by learner-centered method in second range, and almost negative view in language-centered method.Second, English students’ attitudes towards English language learningwere positivein scales; long-term English learning, interest in communication, and images associated with English.  Third, role of students’ gender on English language learning were not found. Reasons for this statement are (i) status of English as international language and (ii) equalization of getting education for male and female. Keywords: attitude, language teaching, language learning, and gender


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