Developing generic skills at an Islamic higher education institution curriculum in Aceh, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-455
Author(s):  
Safrul Muluk ◽  
Habiburrahim Habiburrahim ◽  
Teuku Zulfikar ◽  
Janice Orrell ◽  
Mujiburrahman Mujiburrahman
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Generic Skills ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
English Language Teachers

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify skills and attributes that should be included in developing curricula, especially in the area of education. In this case, English Education Department of Ar-Raniry State Islamic University, Banda Aceh, is in charge of the preparation of English language teachers and English language professionals exceeding required standards and be competitive in the labour market.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative research involved 38 research participants consisting of government authorities, academics and students. Interviews and focus group discussions were employed to collect the data. Both interview and FGD results were analysed through thematic analysis.FindingsThe findings indicate that among the generic skills that need to be incorporated into the department curriculum in order to improve graduates’ quality and meet the requirements of the labour market are: information and communication technology (ICT), leadership, religious competencies, entrepreneurship and communication skills.Originality/valueThe paper has been developed through research conducted by the authors. Therefore, the authors confirm that the paper has been written according to the academic standard and is free from plagiarism.

scholarly journals English Teachers’ Perceptions of Technology Integration: Are They Different From Their Peers in Engineering and Medical Science?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Elias Bensalem
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Ict Integration ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Years Of Teaching Experience ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
English Language Teachers

The role played by subject areas in information and communication technology (ICT) integration has been insufficiently researched. This study compares English language teachers' perceptions of ICT integration with their peers in engineering and medical science in ICT integration. It also examines the effects of teachers’ sociobiographical variables (gender, age, computer proficiency, and years of teaching experience) predict teachers’ perceptions of ICT integration. A total of 180 teachers (112 males, 68 females) responded to a Teacher Technology Questionnaire (Lowther, Inan, Strahl, & Ross, 2008). Results show that among the predictor variables, computer skills had the highest relative impact on ICT integration. Furthermore, English language teachers' perceptions of ICT are reported to be similar to those of their peers in engineering and medical science. This study does not lend support to any significant role played by subject area in ICT integration. Implications for teaching are offered.

scholarly journals Criteria of Ideal English Language Teachers as Perceived by Secondary and Tertiary Indonesian Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Salam ◽  
◽  
Aulia Nourma Putri ◽  
Tundung Subali Patima ◽  
Azmi Abdul Latiff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Language Proficiency ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Research Technology ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
The Republic

This study presents English teachers' professional, personality, social, leadership, and classroom interaction attributes which senior high school and university students expect from their English teachers. By knowing those attributes, English teachers are expected to be able to help their students attain better English language proficiency. For the investigation, five sets of questions were distributed in order to find out the respondents’ favourite English teachers attributes. The respondents consisted of senior students of three high schools and undergraduates of three universities who had high, mediocre and low English language proficiency. The results show that the students' levels of education and English language proficiency influence the students' perceptions on their English teachers' attributes. This study suggests that English teachers recognize the attributes that their students highly expect from them. It is suggested that English teacher training institutions should conduct more professional English language and language teaching trainings that help teachers to develop the attributes. It is also suggested that the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia to monitor and evaluate universities and institutions which establish English Education Departments.

Revisiting native speaking teachers of English in Hong Kong

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Darren A. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Native Speaking Teachers

Purpose – In 1997, Joseph Boyle critiqued the Hong Kong Government’s policy of recruiting native-speaking teachers (NSTs) of English into secondary schools. Boyle examined NSTs from a post-colonial and socio-linguistic stance. He concluded that the scheme was “largely ineffective” and that efforts to expand the scheme would likely fail due to the government’s implicit lack of trust in the capacities of non-native-speaking teachers’ (NNSTs) of English. However, almost two decades later the scheme has expanded across the primary and secondary sectors. The purpose of this paper is to explore how changing educational contexts and reform efforts have influenced conceptions of NSTs as articulated in Hong Kong policy. Design/methodology/approach – The research is approached retrospectively through an interpretivist paradigm, analysing policy documents, implementation materials, evaluation reports, and interview transcripts. Over 41 scheme stakeholders participated in the interviews, inclusive of policy makers, government officials, academics, teacher educators, principals and teachers, who were active over different phases of the scheme. Findings – The intended role and perceived competencies of the NSTs have been impacted by imported education reforms leading to new rationales for maintaining and expanding NST deployment. These shifts, however, lead to new tensions among idealised images of NSTs, their capacities, and the aims of policy makers and scheme implementers. Originality/value – The value of this paper lies in its reconsideration of the role of NSTs in light of educational reform efforts influenced by global change. This perspective varies from conventional critiques that focus on NSTs’ and NNSTs’ differing capacities as English language teachers by considering the impact of historic developments on later policies, and the tendency of policy makers to legitimise reform by importing international innovations. Second, it demonstrates how idealised images of NSTs simultaneously justify policies and pose challenges to effective implementation.

scholarly journals European Experience of the Use of Information and Communication Technologies In Initial Education of the English Language Teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleh Komar
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
European Experience ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
English Language Teachers

The article deals with the analysis of the peculiarities of the use of information and communication technologies in the process of initial education of future English language teachers in the countries of the European Union. The topicality of the problem is based on the current trends in the development of education, in the particular extensive use of online technologies and tools in the process of English language learning and English language teacher education.The purpose of the article is to study the European experience of the use of information and communication technologies in the initial education of the English language teachers and single out the most important and topical of them in order to outline the possibilities of their use in the initial education of teachers of English in a broader context.The methodology of the research is realized with the use of such methods as analysis, synthesis, generalization, analogy and interpretation of empirical data and theoretical concepts; observation and study of practical experience of higher educational institutions in Poland and Portugal as well as an interview with teachers and students of the above-mentioned institutions.As a result, the importance of the development of information and technological competencies in future teachers of English is grounded, the role of information and communication technologies in initial teacher education is determined. Various information and communication technologies used in the educational process, in particular offline technologies and tools as well as online technologies and resources, are presented and analyzed. Attention is also given to the use of E-learning and the implementation of massive open online courses into the initial teacher education of the English language teachers.The conclusion about the variability of information and communication technologies is made.

scholarly journals ПІДХОДИ ДО ВЗАЄМОПОВ’ЯЗАНОГО ФОРМУВАННЯ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ В ПРОФЕСІЙНО ОРІЄНТОВАНОМУ ГОВОРІННІ ТА ІНФОРМАЦІЙНО-КОМУНІКАЦІЙНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ МАЙБУТНІХ ВИКЛАДАЧІВ АНГЛІЙСЬКОЇ МОВИ

World Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1(41)) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Мар’яна Буряк
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communication Competence ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Interactive Teaching ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
English Language Teachers

In the article the approaches to an interrelated building of the competence in professionally oriented speaking and information and communication competence of prospective English language teachers with application of the research methods (analysis of relevant research, systematization and generalization) has been grounded. The approaches which ensure efficiency of an interrelated building in prospective English language teachers a professionally oriented competence in speaking and information and communication competence have been outlined: communication and activity, socio-cognitive and integrated ones. The adoption of the listed approaches in this process envisages simultaneous mastering by students of the components of aforementioned competences in the simulated situations of professionally oriented communication of English language teachers with regard for individual peculiarities of the subjects of learning process and cognitive processes, with application of active and interactive teaching methods, modern information and communication technologies.

scholarly journals Barriers Affecting Successful Integration of ICT in Moroccan Universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssouf Laabidi ◽  
Hicham Laabidi
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
English Language ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Large Classes ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
English Language Teachers

The implementation of technology in classrooms affords educators more opportunities to work better in their lessons. However, there are numerous distinctive barriers that might prevent teachers from making use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in their teaching practices. Admittedly, studying the obstacles to the integration of technology in schools would be an important step in developing the quality of teaching. The primary objective of this study is to discover the barriers that stop university language teachers from using ICT in teaching. In this study the questionnaire is employed as data collection instrument. The questionnaire addresses only university English language teachers. Forty-six university English language teachers are chosen from two universities: Moulay Ismail University Faculty of Arts and Humanities – Meknes and Sidi Mohamed Ben AbdellahDahr – El Mahraz – Fes as a case study. So as to analyze the data from the questionnaire, the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 19 is employed. The research findings reveal that Moroccan university English language teachers face multiple barriers such as large classes, lack of computers, lack of Internet and insufficient technical support that prevent them from using ICT in their teaching practices.

Pre-service English language teachers’ conceptions of sustainable development: a case from Turkish higher education context

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 423-456
Author(s):  
Leyla Yılmaz Fındık ◽  
İlknur Bayram ◽  
Özlem Canaran
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Turkish Higher Education ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Course Syllabus

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how sustainable development (SD) is conceptualized by pre-service English language teachers in Turkey and design a specialized course syllabus on SD in English language teaching (ELT) in the light of the research findings. Design/methodology/approach The study used a mixed-methods sequential explanatory study design and investigated the case of a state university in Turkey with the involvement of 133 pre-service English language teachers. Findings The findings indicated that most pre-service English language teachers received no training or a course on SD in their whole education life and tended to associate SD mostly with the economic growth of a country, followed by education, social and ecological concepts. It was also found that the majority of the participants had a unidimensional view of SD. No direct links with ELT have been detected from participants’ responses. The findings also pointed to the eagerness of the participants to receive an ELT-specific course on SD providing that the course involves interactive teaching and learning activities with reference to contemporary sources focusing on global and local issues, as well as studying the methods facilitating the incorporation of such issues into teaching practice. Research limitations/implications This research is based on the experience of one Turkish university with limited quantitative and qualitative data. Practical implications Based on the participants’ knowledge, views and suggestions, this paper contributes to the existing literature by providing empirical evidence obtained from a local context and suggests a practical framework for a field-specific course syllabus aiming to enhance teacher candidates’ knowledge, skills and values related to SD and its incorporation into ELT. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study seeking to explore pre-service ELT teachers’ conceptualization of SD in Turkish higher education, and drawing on the research findings, the authors attempted to design a course syllabus targeted at pre-service teachers in ELT departments.

The enculturation of pre-service Emirati English language teachers

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-16
Author(s):  
Carmel Sandiford
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Content Type ◽  
English Language Teachers

Purpose – This article aims to report on a qualitative study that investigates the enculturation of a group of pre-service English language teachers over four years of a Bachelor of Education degree offered in a women ' s college in the United Arab Emirates. Design/methodology/approach – Bourdieu ' s “thinking tools” of field, habitus and capital provide the overarching theoretical framework and analytic tools to examine the processes of enculturation which impact on the student teachers as they participate in a program based on Western-oriented theories and practices. The study draws upon data gathered from focus group interviews with student teachers in the first and fourth years of the program to provide insights into their ways of thinking as future Emirati English language teachers. The article discusses the priorities that emerge as these student teachers validate, or otherwise, the theoretical principles and practices legitimated through the program. Findings – The findings suggest that influences bound by local, cultural and social forces contribute significantly to the student teachers ' perceived capacity to think and act as future Emirati English language teachers. Research limitations/implications – The study is limited to one site but, given the findings, similar investigations into processes of enculturation and the appropriation or resistance of essential aspects of English language teacher training could be undertaken. Originality/value – There is limited research into English language teacher education programs in the Arab world. This research has potential applications for English language teacher education programs where there is intent to effect educational reform.

scholarly journals The New Innovative Technologies and EFL Classes

EFL Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssouf Laabidi ◽  
Hicham Laabidi
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
English Language Teachers

Information and communication technology can be considered as a powerful tool which provides us with new views on education. Being aware of the benefits of technology in teaching will surly assist teachers, administers and parents cultivate a positive attitude toward ICT.In this research the questionnaire is used as data collection instrument. The questionnaire addresses only university English language teachers. Forty six university English language teachers are chosen from two universities: Moulay Ismail University Faculty of Arts and Humanities – Meknes and Sidi Mohamed Ben AbdellahDahr – El Mahraz – Fes as a case study. So as to analyze the data from the questionnaire, the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 19 is employed. The research findings reveal that Moroccan university English language teachers regard Information and Communication Technology as very essential in their teaching

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