༄༅།།བོད་ཀྱི་སློབ་མའི་དབྱིན་ཡིག་སློབ་ཁྲིད་ཀྱི་སྤུས་ཀ་མཐོར་འདེགས་ཡོང་ཐབས་དཔྱད་པ།-གངས་ལྗོངས་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཆེན་མོ་དཔེར་བཀོད་དེ་གླེང་བ། Exploring the elements of a quality English language program for Tibetan students: A case study of Gang Jong Normal University

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-451
Author(s):  
Jia Yinzhong ◽  
རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་སྒྲོལ་མ།
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Program ◽  
Normal University

Morfological Awareness of Students English Language Program of Universitas Islam Riau Pekanbaru: An Analysis Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-189
Author(s):  
R Rugaiyah
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Morphological Awareness ◽  
Final Examination ◽  
Language Program ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
The Third ◽  
Examination Result ◽  
English Students ◽  
Academic Year

This study is aimed to investigate the students’ morphological awareness which is employed by the third semester of English students FKIP Universitas Islam Riau Pekanbaru Riau, Indonesia.This study is the qualitative design namely case study. The instrument of this study was documentation or the scrips of the students in the final examination result in the academic year 2019-2020. In this case, the researcher has analyzed the data using the Cresswell method. The result of this study found that some of the students still have a problem in using derivational affixes such as in changing the classes of words from verb to noun, noun to adjective, adjective to a verb, adjective to an adverb

A qualitative case study of how an English language program at a U.S. university prepares Chinese students for U.S. undergraduate programs and communicative competence

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mingming Wang
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Language Program ◽  
Undergraduate Programs ◽  
The U.S

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Chinese students account for about one-third of the international students at U.S. universities from 2013 to the present year 2020; however, many of them, after their arrival, feel it is difficult to fit into U.S. college learning environments. This study focused on how to get Chinese students ready for U.S. undergraduate programs. A qualitative case study method was utilized, and the case was the Intensive Language Program (ILP), a full-time program of an English language center at a Midwestern public university that is designed to support international students. Using theoretical frameworks on college readiness (Conley, 2010a, 2014b) and communicative competence (Canale and Swain, 1980, 1983), I explored how ILP prepared Chinese students for U.S. undergraduate programs in general, and I paid particular attention to how ILP improves Chinese students' communicative competence. My specific research questions were: 1. How do ILP teachers and leaders prepare students for U.S. undergraduate programs? 2. How do Chinese students who have finished the ILP program perceive ILP and how well it has prepared them for U.S. undergraduate programs? 3. How does ILP enhance Chinese students' communicative competence? The findings demonstrated that the ILP program provided valuable and comprehensive support to Chinese students in five overarching components: Think, Know, Act, Go, and Talk. Specifically, ILP added five great values to Chinese students: research, MLA and APA, writing, transition, and presentation. However, as they started their undergraduate program learning, Chinese students also shared two greatest needs: reading and the U.S. History course. The results are significant to the practices of the U.S. English language centers and international schools in China.

scholarly journals Needs analysis in ESP context: A case study of People’s Police University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-73
Author(s):  
Le Thi Thuy Nhung ◽  
Le Huong Hoa
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Language Program ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Specialized Subject ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Gain Access

This paper investigates the learning needs of students enrolled in an ESP course at the People’s Police University. A qualitative case study research design was employed through in-depth interviews with 20 undergraduate students. The findings show that the students perceived reading and writing as critical English skills needed for their future profession. The need to thoroughly understand the specialized subject matter in both English and Vietnamese was also reported. Also, the students wished to gain access to extra resources to assist their studying of ESP courses. The students experienced difficulties in mastering technical terms and specialization and comprehending online resources in English. Implications are made based on the findings. The study results would serve as a reference for language program managers, course designers, and English language instructors to enhance ESP courses’ quality in Vietnamese universities.

scholarly journals LANGUAGE NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR WORKING ABROAD: A CASE-STUDY IN THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 129 (6B) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Nguyễn Ngọc Bảo Châu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Language Program ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
Life Tasks ◽  
Vocational Tasks ◽  
Language Needs

Needs analysis is the first essential step of designing a language curriculum [26]. Needs analysis provides a mechanism for obtaining a wider range of input in the contents, design, and implementation of a language program. The process identifies general or specific language needs so that they can be addressed while developing goals, objectives, and content for a language program. In this study, we aimed to explore the language needs analysis for labor export. We regarded foreign language for labor export with a view that all decisions in instructions are based on the learners’ reasons for learning. As a case in point, we studied the language needs for labor export of laborers in Thua Thien Hue province. A task-based needs analysis approach [17] was utilized due to its methodological cogency.  45 laborers who were working abroad participated in our study. Five were interviewed and 40 were surveyed to elicit the foreign language needed for everyday life tasks and occupational domains. The results outlined export laborers language needs in regards to everyday survival (i.e. language at the supermarket, hospital, etc.) and vocational tasks (i.e. understanding employer’s requests, interacting with customers/clients, etc.). The findings of this study inform the design of an English language curriculum for labor export and serve as the basis for reviewing and evaluating existing language programs for labor export. The research also affords implications for future designs of task-based needs analysis.

Assessment 360°: A Panoramic Framework for Assessing English Language Learners

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Lewis ◽  
Nancy Castilleja ◽  
Barbara J. Moore ◽  
Barbara Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Many Sources

This issue describes the Assessment 360° process, which takes a panoramic approach to the language assessment process with school-age English Language Learners (ELLs). The Assessment 360° process guides clinicians to obtain information from many sources when gathering information about the child and his or her family. To illustrate the process, a bilingual fourth grade student whose native language (L1) is Spanish and who has been referred for a comprehensive language evaluation is presented. This case study features the assessment issues typically encountered by speech-language pathologists and introduces assessment through a panoramic lens. Recommendations specific to the case study are presented along with clinical implications for assessment practices with culturally and linguistically diverse student populations.

Importance of Video Aids’ Usage in Teaching and Learning Process of English Language Classes

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eriselda Vrapi ◽  
Xhevdet Zekaj
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
9Th Grade ◽  
8Th Grade

This study aims to explore the use of video in English language teaching (ELT) elementary school (grades 8 to 9)... In addition, the thesis aims to find out how videos in English lessons helped to achieve the goals of English curriculum. The main hypothesis was that teaching with video would develop pupils’ communicative skills and, therefore, was appropriate for the communicative approach to ELT. The study addressed five research questions regarding the use of videos in English lessons in the case study school: why the teachers used videos in ELT, what kinds of videos were used in English lessons, how and how often videos were used, what was taught and learned through the use of videos and, finally, what the teachers’ and pupils’ attitudes to lessons with videos were. The research was performed as a case study at an Elbasan elementary school. The data for the research was obtained through the use of mixed methods: qualitative, in the form of interviews with four English teachers and observations of three of the interviewed teachers’ lessons with videos, and quantitative, in the form of a pupil questionnaire answered by 105 pupils from two 8th grade and two 9th grade classes.

Habemus Corpora: Reapproaching Philological Problems in the Age of ‘Big’ Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-127
Author(s):  
Mark Faulkner
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Old English ◽  
English Language ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
British Library ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Major Task ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Primary Focus

Abstract This paper demonstrates the potential of new methodologies for using existing corpora of medieval English to better contextualise linguistic variants, a major task of philology and a key underpinning of our ability to answer major literary-historical questions, such as when, where and to what purpose medieval texts and manuscripts were produced. The primary focus of the article is the assistance these methods can offer in dating the composition of texts, which it illustrates with a case study of the “Old” English Life of St Neot, uniquely preserved in the mid-twelfth-century South-Eastern homiliary, London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D.xiv, fols. 4–169. While the Life has recently been dated around 1100, examining its orthography, lexis, syntax and style alongside that of all other English-language texts surviving from before 1150 using new techniques for searching the Dictionary of Old English Corpus suggests it is very unlikely to be this late. The article closes with some reflections on what book-historical research should prioritise as it further evolves into the digital age.

scholarly journals Implications of Lesson Study for Tertiary-Level EFL Teachers’ Professional Development: A Case Study From Turkey

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110237
Author(s):  
İlknur Bayram ◽  
Fatma Bıkmaz
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Lesson Study ◽  
English Language ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Student Thinking ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Starting Point

This qualitative case study carried out at a Turkish university with four English language teachers aims to explore what teachers experience in the planning, implementation, analysis, and reporting phases of the lessons study process and what the implications of lesson study for teacher professional development can be. Data in this four-month study were gathered through observations, interviews, whole group discussions, and reflective reports. Findings revealed that lesson study had potential challenges and benefits for the professional development of teachers. The model poses challenges in finding a topic and research question, determining the lesson design and teaching style, making student thinking observable and analyzing qualitative data. On the other hand, it benefited teachers in terms of increasing their pedagogical content knowledge, reflectivity, research skills, collaboration, and collegiality. This study suggests that lesson study might be a good starting point for institutions wishing to adopt a more teacher-led, inquiry-driven and collaborative perspective for professional development.

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