Value of Non-native Speaker Teacher Acts in the Second Language Science Classroom

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azian Abd Aziz ◽  
Abdul Halim Abdul Raof ◽  
Fauziah Ismail ◽  
Masputeriah Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Teacher Trainees ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Native Speaker Teacher

This study aimed to investigate actual non-native teacher talk in the second language (L2) science classroom and the value of the talk as perceived by students, who are English language learners. Twenty L2 science lessons conducted by ten non-native teacher trainees were analyzed for teacher acts. Feedback from the teachers was also obtained via stimulated recall sessions. Perceptions of the value of the teacher acts were obtained from sixty-one students via group interviews. The findings indicated that most of the teacher acts were identical to those occurring in other classrooms. Nevertheless, two of the acts, namely, overt repair and assist acts were newly identified acts generated by the teacher trainees, which suggest that some acts may be particular to specific classroom contexts. Students perceived certain acts, namely, the elicitation, follow-up, check, and conclusion acts, to be more valuable compared to others in aiding their understanding. Findings of this study offer a more realistic approach in implementing L2 science teaching and learning in the context where teachers and students are not proficient in the L2.

scholarly journals Virtual Teaching and Learning of English As A Second Language in Selected Secondary Schools Isu-Ikwuato, L. G. A. Abia State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Bernard Meshach Aguma ◽  
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Caroline Kinuu Kimathi ◽  
Martin Situma ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Virtual Teaching

The adoption of virtual teaching and learning of a second language in the Nigerian educational system has received little attention. COVID-19 lock-down, imposed by the governments of the nations, forced educational institutions globally and locally to adapt virtual teaching and learning of English language. This research paper investigated the challenges of virtual teaching and learning of a second language (English) in selected secondary schools, Isu Ikwuato L.A. Abia State, Nigeria. It used a mixed method convergent parallel research design. The purposive sampling technique was used to select secondary schools that adopted virtual teaching and learning. The targeted population was 2000 English students and teachers with a sample size of 333. The results revealed that the schools made use of synchronous, asynchronous and blended types of online teaching and learning, and the students had a positive attitude. Both students and teachers experienced challenges of poor network, lack of ICT training, unstable electricity, and financial constraint. This study recommends the following: Language Policy Makers in Nigerian Educational System to map out the strategies that will incorporate online second language teaching and learning skills in the curriculum. That Marist Educational Board in partnership with the Ministry of Education in Nigeria, provide virtual supplementary materials for English language education. Adequate virtual training to be provided for English teachers and students. That the challenges of internet fluctuation, power shortage, insufficient virtual materials, inadequate funds, technical issues, virtual skills be addressed by all the stakeholders in education.

scholarly journals The Role of Counselling in English Language Teaching

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
M. John Britto
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Remarkable Change ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
English Language Teachers

Counselling plays a significant role in bringing out a remarkable change in an individual’s personal and professional life. It has entered a number of domains including education. As human problems are mushrooming day by day in this hi-tech world, there is a dire need for finding solutions to those problems. It is counselling that comes to one’s aid to solve one’s problems that are psychological and personal. In English language teaching and learning too, there are multiple problems encountered by teachers and students as well. This paper discusses how counselling is indispensable to English Language Teaching (ELT) for finding solutions to problems faced by English language learners. Exploring the relevance of counselling to ELT, it also seeks to highlight the benefits of integrating it with ELT. It brings out the need for introspection of English language teachers to provide counselling to students. It enumerates various counselling skills, and presents an account of problem-solving method in ELT and eight approaches to counselling.

scholarly journals Challenges Facing the Nigerian Teacher of English Language.

2019 ◽  
pp. 265-271
Author(s):  
Oguamanam Ann Dibugo
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
Effective Teaching And Learning

This paper sets out to investigate the challenges facing the Nigerian teacher of English language in order to boost effective teaching and learning of the language. The importance of English language in our Nigerian society is glaring and the teacher of English is an important agent in the achievement of proficiency in the spoken and written English. The teacher encounters a lot of challenges in the process of imparting knowledge to English language learners in a second language environment. This study also examines the place of English language in Nigeria, the expected roles of the teacher and proffers some recommendations to these challenges facing the Nigerian teacher of English language.

scholarly journals Teaching and learning English in a second language situation: The case of some Igbo Teachers and students

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 160-175
Author(s):  
Nkoli Nnyigide ◽  
Obiageli Anyaegbu
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Government Education ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
National Life ◽  
Learning English

The English language, which is studied as a second language in Nigeria, is indispensable in all spheres of human endeavours. It is the language of government, education, the judiciary and indeed every aspect of national life. All ethnic groups in the country, the Igbo inclusive, embrace this all-important language for their various activities. Because this significant language is not a mother tongue in the Igbo environment, some students of English in a second language situation encounter problems because some learners study it against the background of their mother tongue in which they have attained a reasonable degree of competence. Again, teachers on their own part contribute to the problem owing to their pedagogical incompetence, lack of instructional materials, language interference, etc. To this end, this paper looks at the concept of teaching and learning English in a second language situation with a focus on the problems encountered by the Igbo teachers and learners as regards imbibing the intricacies of the language and possible solution. To get about this, fifty Year one Sandwich students of Department of English Language and Literature, Nnamdi Azikiwe University and their lecturers were directly observed in a classroom situation. It was discovered that they have interference problem amongst other problems inherent in studying English as a second language.

scholarly journals Beyond ‘(non) native-speakerism’: Being or becoming a native-speaker teacher of English

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josie Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Native Speaker Teacher ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractThe labelling of teachers of English as either ‘native’ or ‘non-native’ speakers in the field of English Language Teaching continues to promote ideals of ‘native-speakers’ that impact negatively on the teaching lives of those teachers using English as another language. In this paper, I explore constructs of ‘native-speakerism’ (Holliday, Adrian. 2015. Native-speakerism: Taking the Concept Forward and Achieving Cultural Belief. In Anne Swan, Pamela Aboshiha & Adrian. Hollliday (eds.),Encountering Native-speakerism: Global perspectives, 11–25. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) by examining them as networks or assemblages formed through interactions of people, technologies, discourses and other material objects integral to teaching and learning environments. Drawing on ‘Actor-network theory’, I analyse unique influences of ‘native’ and ‘non-native’ networks as experienced by individual teachers of English from different contexts. The data collected in this qualitative study shows how ‘native-speaker’ networks form and exert power to reinforce the ideal of ‘native-speaker’ teachers, and restrict the agency of those who are classed as ‘non-native’. By unravelling these networks, I challenge the notions on which they are constructed, and show how the categorising of teachers in this way undermines the legitimacy of those classed as ‘non-native’, and limits their professional development. I therefore argue that moving beyond these labels is an essential step for English Language Teaching to move forward as a profession.

scholarly journals KIAT MAHASISWA BERKOMUNIKASI DIDALAM BAHASA INGGRIS PASKA PENDEKATAN FRESHNESS DAN ENTHUSIASM

Edulib ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Doddy Rusmono
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Intended Receiver ◽  
The One ◽  
Learning English

AbstractThrough DIMBI (Diskusi Ilmiah Mahasiswa Berbahasa Inggris – Student’s English Discussion) some can be drawn that learners (i.e. Students) want to have their messages accepted in a proper way by the receiver in the target language. By merely integrating vocabulary and grammar to communicate, the meaning of the expression could not reach the intended receiver and might end up with being incomprehensive on his part. Elelments of culture are neede to make other people understand what you are trying to say, especially when the one you are talking to is a native speaker of English language.  Learners are in the situation in which English fall into the category of a foreign, and not English as a second language. When learning English as a second language takes place, the learners are involved in the language in their daily life ectivities while  learning English as a foreign language as the case in Indonesia, acquisition and usage depend on and are restricted to learning structures as designed for classroom mode with its various impacts. However little any attempts made by the learners, appreciation and good points of view must emerge for the sake of skill developments. Ways of exploring with tricks by the learners everytime they try to communicate in English with a number of mistakesn needs to be ameliorated in such a way that hopes for betterments live a good endeavour. Approach in the light of teacher demeanor brings with it a positive impact. The approach generates freshness and enthusiasm as well and thus encouraging the learners to express with confidencde regardless of possible inaccuracies in their various forms.Keywords: vocabulary, grammar points, communication, culture, target language. AbstrakMelalui DIMBI (Diskusi Ilmiah Mahasiswa Berbahasa Inggris) terperoleh simpulan bahwa para pembelajar (baca: Mahasiswa) ingin agar pesan yang mereka komunikasikan dapat berterima. Dengan menggabungkan kosa-kata dan gramatika saja pesan yang mereka sampaikan sebagai penutur belum cukup untuk memenuhi keberterimaan oleh penerima pesan pada bahasa sasaran (Bahasa Inggris). Diperlukan unsur kultur untuk mencapai bahasa sasaran. Unsur kultur akan sangat menentukan makna yang ditangkap oleh penerima pesan, terutama bilamana penerima pesan tadi adalah penutur asli (native speaker).  Pembelajar berada dalam situasi yang dikategorikan Bahasa Inggris sebagai Bahasa Asing (English As A Foreign Language) , bukan sebagai Bahasa Kedua (English As A Second Language). Ketika bergagas melalui ujaran didalam Bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa kedua, pembelajar dilibatkan dengan bahasa ini didalam kehidupan sehari-hari mereka sedangkan pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa asing seperti misalnya di Indonesia, perolehan dan penggunaan Bahasa Inggris tergantung dan terbatas pada rancangan belajar di ruang kelas dengan segala dampak penyertanya. Upaya sekecil apapun oleh pembelajar harus dilihat dari segi positifnya untuk kemudian dicarikan cara pengembangannya. Kiat penuh kekeliruan sekalipun perlu dihidupkan agar komunikasi tetap berlangsung lancar dan berterima. Pendekatan melalui teacher demeanor yang menyegarkan dan penuh semangat membawa dampak positif bagi pembelajar berupa keberanian berekspresi, terlepas dari ketidakpasan disana-sini.Kata kunci: kosa kata, gramatika, komunikasi, kultur, bahasa sasaran.

Engaging Exam-Oriented Students in Communicative Language Teaching by ‘Packaging’ Learning English Through Songs as Exam Practice

RELC Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003368822097854
Author(s):  
Kevin Wai-Ho Yung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
High Stakes Testing ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Secondary English ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
Teachers And Students

Literature has long been used as a tool for language teaching and learning. In the New Academic Structure in Hong Kong, it has become an important element in the senior secondary English language curriculum to promote communicative language teaching (CLT) with a process-oriented approach. However, as in many other English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) contexts where high-stakes testing prevails, Hong Kong students are highly exam-oriented and expect teachers to teach to the test. Because there is no direct assessment on literature in the English language curriculum, many teachers find it challenging to balance CLT through literature and exam preparation. To address this issue, this article describes an innovation of teaching ESL through songs by ‘packaging’ it as exam practice to engage exam-oriented students in CLT. A series of activities derived from the song Seasons in the Sun was implemented in the ESL classrooms in a secondary school in Hong Kong. Based on the author’s observations and reflections informed by teachers’ and students’ comments, the students were first motivated, at least instrumentally, by the relevance of the activities to the listening paper in the public exam when they saw the similarities between the classroom tasks and past exam questions. Once the students felt motivated, they were more easily engaged in a variety of CLT activities, which encouraged the use of English for authentic and meaningful communication. This article offers pedagogical implications for ESL/EFL teachers to implement CLT through literature in exam-oriented contexts.

scholarly journals Perceptions Towards Integrating Desire2Learn System in EFL Teaching and Learning Processes

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Eman Abdel-Reheem Amin ◽  
Faiza Abdalla ELhussien Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Efl Teaching ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Acceptance Model

This study applied the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in investigating teachers and students’ perceptions towards integrating the D2L system to enhance EFL teaching and learning processes at the English language department, Majmaah University. Two close-ended questionnaires were designed to measure the participants’ perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitudes, and intentions to use D2L. To understand participants’ perceptions and the obstacles that may hinder their use of D2L, an interview with open-ended questions were conducted. Data from the questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS. Qualitative analysis of the interview data showed the frequencies and proportions of participants’ responses. The findings indicated that the D2L system is totally accepted by teachers and students. Few problems along with their suggested solutions were grouped, presented and discussed.

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