How Is HEL Relevant to Me?

Author(s):  
Sonja L. Lanehart

This chapter discusses teaching the History of the English Language (HEL) as a sociolinguist and being guided by three areas in learning sciences: goals, self-regulated learning, and interest, particularly social and personal. Specifically, this chapter addresses the age-old student question, “How is this relevant to me?” Part of our job as college teachers involves getting students to realize the practicality of a course for their needs (e.g., “I need to take this class in order to graduate”), and another part is to acknowledge (or awaken in some cases) their intellectual curiosity (e.g., “I’ve always wondered why “knight” is spelled with letters that aren’t even pronounced”). This chapter provides examples of instruction and assignments that correspond to research literature on goals and interest with respect to teaching and self-regulated learning more broadly and teaching HEL from the perspective of a sociolinguist more specifically.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Salim Nabhan

<p>The present study explored pre-service teachers’ self-regulated learning strategy<br />and motivation in EFL academic writing. A further aim of the study is to<br />investigate the relationship between their self-regulated learning strategy and<br />motivation as well as to explore the revision behaviors in English academic<br />writing. A questionnaire was administered to 56 pre-service teachers (PST)<br />majoring English language education. The questionnaire covered 16 items of<br />questions regarding self-regulated learning strategy comprising environmental<br />process, behavioral process, and personal process, as well as motivation. PSTs’<br />revisions of academic writing were also assessed using writing revision categories<br />to identify their revision behaviors. Descriptive analyses indicated that<br />participants were moderate to high in their self-regulated learning strategy and<br />motivation toward their writing activities. Furthermore, the result showed that<br />despite the fact that self-regulated learning strategy in the aspect of environmental<br />strategy and personal strategy did not significantly correlate with motivation,<br />behavioral strategy significantly correlated with motivation. In addition to this,<br />among the revision categories, the aspects of organization, citation, mechanics,<br />language use, and references were the most common categories of revisions,<br />while content and format were the least ones. The study might have implication<br />on the PST’s EFL academic writing instruction.<br />Keywords: self-regulated learning strategy, motivation, revision, EFL academic<br />writing</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7359
Author(s):  
Chen Li ◽  
Shahid Abrar-ul-Hassan ◽  
Fei Gao

Transitioning from high school to university presents a significant challenge for many students on multiple fronts, including language learning. This mixed-method study draws on an ecological perspective to investigate students’ English learning experiences during the transition from high school to university in China, focusing on teaching content, teaching approach, assessment and feedback, and self-regulated learning. Data is collected from six universities at three different academic levels in China, and analyzed using both statistical and thematic analysis. The research finds that there are differences between high school and university English language education in the above-mentioned four areas, and students’ ecopotentials are of critical importance for their adaptation to university English learning. These findings suggest the necessity of the continuity of teaching content, the promotion of individualized curricula, and the cultivation of self-regulated learning capacities to support students’ sustainable English learning during the transition from high school to university.


EDUTECH ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 380
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ridwan Sutisna

Abstract. New trends of technology and also the higher needs of English proficiency have encouraged the quality improvent of English instructions. The aim of this research is to deter-mine the effect of Interactive Multimedia Audio Telling Machine (iMATE) and self regulated learning level in English language greetings application skill of vocational school students. iMATE is an Interactive instructional media used in this research. While student’s self regulated learning is divided into high and low level. This research used experimental design. This re-search was held at SMK Pasundan 3 Bandung. Findings of this research were; (1) Generally students achieved better result when using iMATE. (2) There was an interaction between use of instructional media and students’ self regulated learning level. (3) Students with high self regu-lated learning achieved much better when using iMATE. (4) Students with low self regulated learning had a better result when not using iMATE. This Findings lead to the conclusion that students’ self regulated learning level may affect the succes of instructional media use, especially in teaching English language skills.Abstrak. Perkembangan teknologi dan kebutuhan akan kemampuan Bahasa Inggris yang lebih tinggi mendorong kualitas pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris juga mengalami perkem-bangan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh dari penggunaan Interactive Multimedia Audio Telling Machine (iMATE) dan tingkat self regulated learning terhadap ke-mampuan menerapkan greetings Bahasa Inggris siswa SMK. iMATE adalah multimedia inter-aktif pembelajaran yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Siswa sebagai subjek penelitian dibagi kedalam dua kelompok yaitu yang memiliki tingkat self regulated learning yang tinggi dan ren-dah. Penelitian yang dilaksanakan di SMK Pasundan 3 Bandung ini menggunakan desain ek-sperimen. Temuan dari penelitian ini adalah (1) Secara umum siswa memperoleh hasil yang lebih baik dengan menggunakan iMATE (2) Terdapat interaksi antara penggunaan media pem-belajaran dan tingkat self regulated learning siswa. (3) Siswa dengan tingkat self regulated learning tinggi memperoleh hasil yang lebih baik dengan menggunakan iMATE. (4) Siswa yang memiliki tingkat self regulated learning rendah memiliki hasil yang lebih baik ketika tidak menggunakan iMATE. Penemuan ini mengarahkan pada kesimpulan bahwa penggunaan media pembelajaran yang mempertimbangkan tingkat self regulated learning akan memberikan hasil yang lebih optimal.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daeyeoul Lee ◽  
Matthew Allen ◽  
Lixia Cheng ◽  
Sunnie Watson ◽  
William Watson

This study investigated the relationships between self-efficacy and self-regulated learning strategies of English Language Learners (ELL) in a college setting from a social cognitive perspective. Participants in this study were one hundred seventeen ELL college students who enrolled in an English language course at a Midwestern university. The results of simple linear regression analysis showed that ELL college students’ self-efficacy significantly predicted their use of self-regulated learning strategies. In addition, the results of a one-way ANOVA indicated a statistically significant difference in the use of self-regulated learning strategies between ELL college students who had high self-efficacy and those who had low self-efficacy. Based on study results, implications and future research directions are discussed.


Author(s):  
Tham Duong

It is undeniable that self-regulated learning strategies are a pivotal key to 21st century language education in which learners are provided with freedom to take control over their own learning. Of the types of self-regulated learning strategies, resource management strategies (RMS) are likely to be underestimated in practice despite the fact that these strategies are believed to assist EFL learners to modify the environment for achieving their learning goals. The study aimed to investigate RMS employed by tertiary non-English majors and to explore the relationship between the students’ use of RMS and their academic achievement. The quantitative research was conducted with the employment of a closed-ended questionnaire which was administered to 117 students taking the TOEIC course. The results indicated that the research participants frequently employed RMS in their English language learning. More importantly, it was found that the more frequently the students used RMS, the higher academic achievement they gained. Such employment of RMS in a Vietnamese EFL context serves as a reference in other similar EFL contexts.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Tanzil Huda ◽  
Indah Rakhmawati Afrida ◽  
Mariyae Chelong

Nobody can claim that all instructions are free from problems. Realizing that all instruction are potential to have problems, college teachers should do reflective practices.  One of the do reflective practices which can be done integratively and sytematically with their instructions is classroom action research (CAR). The present study tried to investigate the lecturers’ perception on CAR. The study focused on the indentifi-cation of  the lecturers’ awareness on CAR and digging up the the factors affected the lecturers perception on CAR. The study employed survey method which posited qualitative   approach. The study  revealed that the leacturers’ awareness on CAR was relatively low. It also indicated that  there were some factors which affected the lecturers’ awareness on CAR i.e., 1) the lecturer’s prior education or pre-service education; 2) their involvement in scientific forums; 3) self-regulated learning by reading books on CAR.


Author(s):  
La Ode Nggawu ◽  
Hartati Muchtar ◽  
Khaerudin Khaerudin

<em><span>This Academic article discusses the implementation of self-regulated learning model in English Writing learning, especially on enriching writing skill. The discussion of this article uses many points of views of self-regulated model learners, such as Albert Bandura, Barry Zimmerman, Anananita Bramuci, Popa Daniela, and Ernesto Panadero. According to the authors' interpretation, the discussion shows several results. (1) English writing skills require serious effort and practice in formulating, developing and analyzing ideas, especially for second /foreign language learners. (2) The understanding of English language grammar and vocabulary is indispensable for second / foreign language learners. (3) The self-regulated learning model can increase the learning motivation because this model encourages students to acquire knowledge and skills on their own voluntarily; and (4) learners who have high self-regulated learning, will have good learning outcomes as well<span class="ShortAbstract">.</span></span></em>


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