Teachers’ perceptions of linguistic mediation in the curriculum for advanced English in Madrid secondary schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 136216882110056
Author(s):  
Miguel Fernández Álvarez ◽  
Silvia García Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
English Subject ◽  
The Way

After the publication of the CEFR Companion Volume in 2018, a revision of the curriculum in force for the English subject in the Bilingual Sections in the Community of Madrid has been implemented. One of the main changes is the inclusion of the concept of linguistic mediation in the subject ‘Advanced English’ in the last stage of secondary education. In an attempt to understand how linguistic mediation strategies and activities are being developed in real classroom contexts, this study has focused on teachers’ perceptions of linguistic mediation. A questionnaire and a focus group were used to examine teachers’ understanding and awareness of linguistic mediation, as well as the type of mediation activities that are relevant for their students and the extent to which they include linguistic mediation activities and strategies in their lessons. Additionally, the study has shown some of the deficiencies that exist in the way linguistic mediation is currently being addressed in the classroom, as well as teachers’ needs in order to better implement it.

Teaching grammar again after twenty years: corpus-based help for teaching grammar

ReCALL ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony McEnery ◽  
Andrew Wilson ◽  
Paul Barker
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Grammar ◽  
The Way

In this paper we consider how corpora may be of use in the teaching of grammar of the pre-tertiary level. Corpora are becoming well established in teaching in Universities. Corpora also have a role to play in secondary education, in that they can help decide how and what to teach, as well as changing the way in which puplis learn and providing the possibility of open-ended machine-aided tuition. Corpora also seem to provide what UK goverment sponsored reports on teaching grammar have called for – a data-driven approach to the subject.

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF EFFICIENCY IN SECONDARY EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Mališová ◽  
◽  
Jana Štrangfeldová ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Method ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Negative Factors

The state of Slovak education is influenced by several negative factors. In terms of human capital, we have seen the decline of pupils for demographic reasons and lack of interest in the work of teachers. This paper aims to evaluate the efficiency of secondary education on the example of selected secondary schools. The main method of the paper is multicriteria analysis. The subject of research is the efficiency of selected secondary schools. The 10 Business Academies attended by pupils aged 15-19 years and established in the Banská Bystrica and Žilina self-governing regions will be the subject of research. For the analysis we use panel data collected for the school years 2013/2014 - 2017/2018. The contribution of the paper is to create an evaluation of the efficiency of the surveyed schools and to propose solutions for schools that achieved below-average results. The findings may serve as a basis for assessing the efficiency of the Business Academies for comparison with competitors, as well as for the founders of these secondary schools.

scholarly journals TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION OF SCHOOL GOALS AND APPROACHES TO INSTRUCTION: EFFECTS ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT GOALS

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Basit ◽  
Fazal Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Structures ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Perceptions Of School

Secondary school is considered to be the gateway for development of other sectors of education. It provides students the opportunity for quality education and a platform from which to proceed to higher education or vocational work. It has been a challenge for secondary schools to incorporate relevant skills, knowledge, and experience in the teaching-learning process as to address students’ needs. Some students learn English better than others even if they are given the same opportunities. The present study intended to make contributions in clarifying the findings regarding effects of goal orientations on students’ academic achievement in the subject of English. This study aimed to determine the effect of teachers’ goals and approaches to instruction on student achievement goals in the subject of English at secondary level. Main objectives of the study were to Survey the teachers’ perceptions of school goal structures for students, investigate the effects of teachers’ perceptions of school goal structures and their approaches towards instruction on students’ achievement goal orientation and to determine the kind of approaches teachers had towards instruction. It is a survey research and it was conducted in conventional classrooms in government Higher Secondary schools in district Peshawar. The sample consisted of 224 male and female teachers. The Patterns for Adaptive Learning Scale (PALS) developed and revised by Midgley et al, (2000) was used for the study. Descriptive statistics and correlation analysis were applied to identify teachers’ goals and approaches to instruction and its relationship with students’ achievement goal orientation. It was concluded that teachers’ perception of school goal structure was not significantly correlated with students’ achievement goal orientation. Teachers had low mastery approaches to instruction. Gender differences were found as more female teachers had high mastery approaches to instruction than male teachers.

Modernism, economics, and the ancient economy

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 174-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Meikle
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Human History ◽  
Ancient Economy ◽  
New Science ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
The Way

Modernism, as a phenomenon in the study of the ancient world, has shown miraculous powers of recuperation from repeated and apparently fatal blows, and the appearance in 1992 of Edward Cohen's book Athenian economy and society: a banking perspective is a reminder of the fact. Modernism's apparent capacity to postpone terminal decline obviously has something to do with the subject of economics, but the connections are unclear.It might be imagined that modernism began with the first appearance of economics as an independent science in the eighteenth century. But in fact the classical political economists did not seek to universalize political economy backwards in time to cover the whole of human history in the way that today's modernists try to universalize economics. Adam Smith distinguished four stages in the development of mankind from the ‘rude’ to the ‘civilized’ state. He was perfectly aware that what he called ‘the stage of commerce’ was historically recent, that earlier forms of society had been quite different in character, and that the new science of political economy described only the operations of the last stage, that of commerce.

scholarly journals الأسس لإعداد وتأليف مواد تعليم اللغة العربية

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Falahun Ni'am
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Survey System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Learning Issues ◽  
The Way

The basics for preparing teaching materials are very important. The very first thing to consider when you are planning a learning experience is what exactly you intend your students to learn. Onsider the approach you would like students to take to their learning in your subject (The way in which you intend student to learn will, in many respects, dictate how you teach). Plan to evaluate your teaching and the subject regularly. Regular evaluation will enable you to improve the quality of the course and your teaching. This can be done by keeping a journal of activities and changes you would like to make (and the reasons for them!), by having other teachers 'sit in' on some classes, by asking the students what they have understood to be most important in each session, by having a focus group of students discuss important teaching and learning issues, and by using the Student Feedback Survey system.

scholarly journals History of Work with the Staff of Secondary Schools in Uzbekistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1609-1611
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
General Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

the importance of secondary education has been becoming more crucial than ever. Developing countries always pay great deals of attention to this in order to strengthen the quality form the very beginning of the early ages of nation. This article explains the issues of supplying general education schools in Uzbekistan's southern provinces during the years of independence, lack of teachers on the subject, problems of improving pedagogical cadres and ways to overcome them.

scholarly journals Vocational and Technical Education in Nigeria: Issues, Challenges and the Way Forward

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 219-224
Author(s):  
Ubom A.E.B ◽  
Aregbesola B.G. .
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Parental Attitudes ◽  
Vocational Technical Education ◽  
Skilled Manpower ◽  
Vocational And Technical Education ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

The paper seeks to look into the subject of vocational and technical education in Nigeria the issues involved, challenges encountered and how it can get better. The purpose is to unveil education as an instrument for transformation, productivity and motivator for the betterment of individual who has passed through it. In this paper vocational and technical education can be seen as that aspect of education use to gear the preparation of skilled manpower towards nation’s development. Major constraints to vocational education such as nation’s growth and vocational technical education, job scarcity and severance of Nigerian youths, implication of technology on vocational education training, parental attitudes toward vocational education, vocational for secondary schools, vocational technology elucidation for present needs and redundancy expiration & engagement with vocational technical education were discussed. The paper concluded that Nigerians should give vocational technical education leverage in her educational system and some recommendations were proffered.

Effect of Cooperative Learning on Students’ Achievements in Literature in English Subject: A Case of Dodoma City, Tanzania

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-76
Author(s):  
Anagrolia Faustino ◽  
Mussa Muneja
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
School Level ◽  
Learning Effectiveness ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Do So ◽  
English Subject ◽  
Primary School Level

The study sought to establish effectiveness of Cooperative Learning in Literature in English Subject among government Secondary Schools in Dodoma City, Tanzania. Through survey research design, questionnaires were distributed to 160 students who took the Literature in English subject but the respondent rate was 150 (93.75%). Data was analyzed through descriptive statistics and Pearson product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The study revealed that the rate of cooperative learning effectiveness is high. This is due to the fact that students either strongly agreed or agreed with all the items in the questionnaire regarding effectiveness in Literature in English. Further, the study concludes that the achievement in Literature in English subject is high. This is due to the fact that students agreed with all the items in the questionnaire regarding the achievement in Literature in English subject. Finally, the study established that there is a significant relationship between interest in Literature in English subject and students’ academic achievement in the subject. The study recommends that teachers should strive to maintain the effectiveness in cooperative learning which is the key factor for learning effectiveness. They should also take advantage of students’ interest in Literature in English subject as a way to mobilize them maintain positive attitude toward that subject. Secondly, teachers should try to convince students who are not taking the Literature in English subject to do so since the subject is manageable as students who take it performed well. Lastly, since interest in learning increases students achievement in Literature in English subject, there is need to inculcate the positive attitude toward Literature in English subject since primary school level so that when students join secondary schools they already have interest in the subject.

scholarly journals Exames nacionais: a influência de pequenos factores

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
João Paulo Leal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
National Examinations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Pedagogical ◽  
The Way

To construct external examinations is a complex and very serious matter. It is necessary time and the contribution of many people with complementary skills, who are specialists in various subjects (scientific, pedagogical and technical ones). Despite all this effort, a test always depends on many small factors. Small changes in quotations, the way one asks a question or the type of question chosen can have very marked effects in the grades of a test. Whatever the subject in analysis the fundamental question is: what are the national examinations for? If the examinations are to be the end of a cycle, i.e. the completion of secondary education, the way questions are placed and the distribution of quotations must follow a certain pattern if the examinations are meant to select students to access higher education the approaches to assume will be completely different. The option of using national exams as a way of select students to access higher education has been hijacking teachers who increasingly feel pressure to prepare students for exams instead of providing students with knowledge and skills. Universities and Polytechnics should assume their responsibilities and, in coordination with the Ministry of Education, take the initiative to select the students for Higher Education by releasing the national exams to fulfill their task, certifying the end of a cycle.

Meningkatkan Kemampuan Guru dalam Menerapkan Model Pembelajaran Problem Centered Learning Melalui Focus Group Discission di Sekolah Dasar Negeri 187/X Bangun Karya Tahun 2019/2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Mujiem Mujiem
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academic Year

This research is a classroom action research that aims to improve the ability of teachers to apply the problem centered learning model of learning in the Elementary School 187/ X Bangun Karya, Academic Year 2019/2020. The subject of this study was a teacher at 187 / X Bangun Karya Elementary School, Rantau Rasau District, Tanjung Jabung Timur District, Jambi Province. This class action research was carried out in two cycles, each cycle consisting of two meetings. The results of the evaluation are converted into a recapitulation table of the results of cycle I. The conversion results state that the research has not yet reached the target, it needs to be continued with cycle II. The results of observers in the implementation phase of the second cycle showed that all parts of the learning activities were going well, so that there were no more parts of the learning activities that needed to be improved. While the results of the second cycle are converted with the results of the recapitulation table states that the study has reached the target limit of completeness criteria in the first cycle that is equal to 50% and an average of 68.7 in the initial conditions of improvement in the second cycle completeness criteria to be 100% and the average namely 91.7 states that the Focus Group Discission can improve the ability of teachers to apply the Problem Centered Learning learning model in learning in 187 / X Public Elementary School Build Work Year 2019/2020.

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