scholarly journals Educational Technology in Iranian High Schools: EFL Teachers’ Attitudes, Perceived Competence, and Actual Use

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Jahanban-Isfahlan ◽  
Nasrin Hadidi Tamjid ◽  
Zohre Seifoori
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Educational Technology ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

It goes without saying that technology has influenced virtually all spheres of our lives, and teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) is not an exception to this rule. Also, teachers’ undeniable and decisive role in the integration of technology into teaching is not to be taken a blind eye on. With this in mind, this study explored Iranian high school EFL teachers’ attitudes toward, their perceived competency in, and their actual use of instructional technology in their classrooms. 120 randomly selected junior and senior high school Iranian EFL teachers filled out The Survey of High School EFL Teachers’ Attitudes toward Computer Technology. Over 600 junior and senior high school students filled out Students’ Questionnaire Surveying the Use of Educational Technology by English Teachers in Classrooms. The results indicated that even though Iranian teachers have an overall positive attitude toward (computer) technology, they are not sufficiently competent to use it in their classes, and this lack of competence may be one of the main barriers to the full use of technology in their classes.

scholarly journals EFL Teachers' Attitudes towards the Effectiveness of Metacognitive Strategies Used by High School Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Hanieh Garmabi ◽  
Gholamreza Zareian
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Metacognitive Strategies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
School Students ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Teacher's Knowledge

In any educational program, the most influential factor affecting the students’ level of improvement  is the teacher (Rama, 2011). Indeed, the teacher is assigned such an importance that his/her attitude is important for improving educational process and more influential than a teacher‘s knowledge (Xu, 2012). Hence, this study intends to examine the teachers' attitude towards the effectiveness of metacognitive strategies used by high school students. To achieve the study goals, 100 teachers who taught English at different high schools of three Cities of Iran were asked to complete 34 item thesis questionnaire which investigated the teachers' attitude toward the effectiveness of metacognitive strategy use while reading a text. The results of statistical analysis indicated that while male and female teachers have the same attitude about reading and post-reading metacognitive strategies, they have significantly different attitudes about pre-reading metacognitive strategies. The results offer implications and suggestions for the pedagogical considerations within the school and even at university contexts. 

scholarly journals A Video-Mediated EFL Learning: Highlighting Indonesian Students’ Voices

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-193
Author(s):  
Sitti Hadijah ◽  
Shalawati Shalawati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
School Students ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Efl Learning

The emergence of videos as instructional media in the EFL learning contexts has provided meaningful values to learners’ learning experiences. There have been many studies investigated the effectiveness of the videos in EFL field. However, this study presents a gap in the literature regarding the acceptance of videos usages of Indonesian senior high school students who learn English as a foreign language. This study employed quantitative survey research by distributing a closed questionnaire to one hundred fifteen students from the tenth grade of a state senior high school. Overall, participants showed positive voices towards using videos to support their learning in terms of ease of use, learning opportunities, learning experience, and preferences. With regard to the actual use of videos in learning, most students spent at least 1-2 hours watching videos in and outside the classrooms. The availability of smartphones contributes significantly to ease video access. Moreover, social media networking, such as Youtube, Instagram, and WhatsApp, provides more video sources for the student. Amongst the video types enjoyed by the students, videos of interviews, tutorials, explanations, vlogs, profiles, and testimonials were their preferences.

scholarly journals The Use of English Movie to Enhance Tenth Grade Students’ Pronunciation at SMA Angkasa 2, East Jakarta

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Reggy Rayasa
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Tenth Graders ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Senior High School Students

This study aims at developing students’ pronunciation skills by using English movies as a teaching media and investigating the students’ perception of the use English movie in learning pronunciation. To attain the objectives, a two-cycled action research was conducted to 35 tenth graders at SMA Angkasa 2, East Jakarta in March to May 2017. Data were collected using test, some observation sheets, and a questionnaire. The results revealed that the movies developed the students’ pronunciation skills. Their poor pronunciation (indicated by the pretest mean score of 48,11) developed after participating in Cycle I (mean score, 62.5) and developed higher after Cycle II (mean score, 76.08). Along with the increase of frequency of watching the movies and the researcher’s improvement in facilitating the actions as well, the students’ enthusiasm and involvement in the actions keep on increasing. It was concluded that using use movies as teaching media is effective to develop students' pronunciation skills. EFL teachers are, therefore, recommended to use movies as an alternative media to develop students' pronunciation skills. Further studies are recommended to carry out experimental studies to see the degree of effectiveness of using movies in pronunciation teaching to senior high school students.

DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE MEDIA TO TEACH SPEAKING SKILL FOR GRADE 11 STUDENTS

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anggi Yulihar And Nora Ronita Dewi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Senior High School Students

The study deals with the developing interactive media for senior high school students. The objective of this study is to find out how to develop interactive media for better speaking skill of senior high school students. The research was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D). The subject of this research was 2016/2017 students of the eleventh grade of Class XI IPA4 in SMAN 1 Batang Kuis. The number of the students was 30 students. The data of this study was collected by using need analysis questionnaire and experts’ judgment. Need analysis questionnaire was calculated by using percentage to get the information of students’ need before developing interactive media. Experts’ judgment was calculated by using likert data, mean and criteria interval of expert judgment to know the validity of interactive media which has been developed. After the data analyzed, it was found that the experts’ judgment result was 4.80 which had a very good criteria interval. The result of the research find that interactive media is a very good to be used in teaching speaking skill.

Characteristics of Physics Module about Mechanics-Based on Multi Representation to Improve Students of Senior High School Reasoning Ability

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimas Fawahid Tamimi Anwar ◽  
I Ketut Mahardika ◽  
S Supeno (Page 14-23)
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Physical Phenomenon ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Reasoning Ability ◽  
School Students ◽  
Material Sample ◽  
Instructions For Use ◽  
Module Development ◽  
Method Model

This study is about the characteristics of Physics Module to improve students of Senior High School reasoning ability-based on Multirepresentation. The problem of study is how characteristics of Physics Modules Based on Multirepresentation to improve students ability to reason? This problem is described in two study questions. First, is the Physics Module based on Multirepresentation contains examples of the application context of the image phenomenon ofphysics? Second, how is the writing pattern of Physics Module? This study is about Physics module development based on Multirepresentation, using the mix method model of investigation that collecting qualitative data, then construct the draft Module Physics, so the Module Physics ready to be validated. Subjects in this study is a Physics module which can improve the reasoning ability of students in Senior High School. While respondents were Senior High School students majoring in science at the students in Senior High School. Data collection techniques are observations, questionnaires, and documents. Data described in qualitative research. The results showed that the physics module based on Multirepresentation contains examples of application of the principle of material in the context of the image physical phenomenon ; and has a certain writing pattern, which has a chapter title sequence, sub-chapter title, instructions for use, a description of the material, sample questions, questions test capabilities, and bibliography.

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