scholarly journals Washback of assessment on English teaching-learning practice at secondary schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kh. Atikur Rahman ◽  
Prodhan Mahbub Ibna Seraj ◽  
Md. Kamrul Hasan ◽  
Ehsan Namaziandost ◽  
Shouket Ahmad Tilwani
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Assessment And Testing ◽  
Teaching Learning

AbstractThis paper presents the findings of a study which aimed at exploring the washback of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) English examinations on English teaching and learning practice at secondary schools in Bangladesh. For this purpose, a qualitative research (employing interviews with English teachers, FGDs with students and classroom observations protocol) was conducted in 12 secondary schools. The results from data analysis indicate that the SSC English tests had strong negative washback on English teaching-learning practice at secondary schools resulting from a lack of a congruence between the objectives of the curriculum and the format of the tests, teachers’ lack of adequate understanding about the curriculum and present assessment system, respondents’ negative attitudes towards the test, and pressure from the schools and the parents to ensure good grades in the final examination. Consequently, teachers and learners adopted such teaching and learning approaches which are highly examination-oriented. The study puts forward some suggestions on how positive washback could be generated. The findings of the study have implications for the decision makers, designers of curricula, assessment and testing, teachers, and teacher trainers involved in the Bangladeshi educational system and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Changing Policy of English Teaching Approach at Indonesian Secondary Schools In Face of ASEAN Economic Community: A Few Notes to Relevant Ministries

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ardi Marwan
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
English Learning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Study Program ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Asean Economic Community ◽  
Teaching Learning

This article provides information about a research aiming to identify causes of secondary school students’ failure to acquire English effectively and provide recommendations to relevant ministries to better deal with these problems.  A qualitative design involving a number of students as well as teachers from lower and upper secondary schools and pre-service teachers from a training college was used. Findings of this research revealed that issues of English teacher quality, English study program graduates’ quality, lack of English learning hours at school, the absence of extra-curricular activities for English exposure and English speaking environment, English national exam, the underuse and inexistence of facilities and ineffective monitoring system were found to be the major contributors of students’ English learning ineffectiveness. This study, therefore, recommends the relevant ministries to cope with these issues urgently or else this unfavorable situation will remain unchanged in future years.     Keywords: English, teaching, learning, quality, policy, change

scholarly journals Integrating Content and Language in Business English Teaching in China: First Year Students’ Perceptions and Learning Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Ruth Martyn
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Difficulty Level ◽  
First Year ◽  
Business English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Teaching Learning

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is a key construct in Business English teaching in universities in China today. While there is a plethora of articles on implementation in European contexts, there is limited evidence in the literature of the teaching/learning experience in other foreign language learning environments—despite its wide application in, for example, south-east Asia and China in particular. As CLIL programs have been developed in a variety of ways to meet the unique needs of learners and societal expectations, the context of teaching and learning is critical. This paper focuses on the perceptions and learning experiences of students in a first year, first semester course, Introduction to Contemporary Business, in a Chinese university. Lesson observations, questionnaires, and interviews explore the experience of learners. While most students found the course very challenging in their first semester, they met the challenge. Coping with both language and content is always a double challenge: most students found their Introduction to Contemporary Business their most difficult course, yet they perceived it as manageable and worthwhile. Students coped with the difficulty level in two main ways: either by spending much time in review and translating the textbook prior to class, or by focusing on the teacher’s PowerPoint slides after class—as they considered these were the key points and the textbook was too difficult. Suggestions for a closer integration between language and content within CLIL courses are offered, such as a case-task-based approach, a greater variety of input, and the role of content teachers in English enhancement.

scholarly journals CHALLENGE LEARNING FOR TEACHERS IN RURAL GWERU ZIMBABWE

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Gladwin Bhebhe ◽  
Matiya Mugurani
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Science ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Secondary School Science ◽  
Attitudes Towards Science ◽  
Home Background

The study established that rural day secondary school science teachers face a number of challenges, including inadequate teaching and learning materials, students’ negative attitudes towards science, conflicts between students’ home background and school science, and absence of science teachers’ associations. These challenges could have a direct impact on the teaching and learning of science in rural day secondary schools. The opening of rural day secondary schools in Zimbabwe was a great challenge in terms of providing science education to all students because the newly opened secondary schools did not have conventional laboratories and equipment that would facilitate the teaching and learning of science. This study sought to find out the challenges faced by rural day secondary school science teachers in Gweru district of Zimbabwe and propose a way forward. Questionnaires, interviews and observations were used to collect data pertaining to the challenges that were faced by the teachers.

scholarly journals Análisis De La Competencia Comunicativa Y Su Vínculo Con La Formación Para Los Negocios Desde La Enseñanza-Aprendizaje Del Inglés Con Fines Específicos

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maritza Sandra Pibaque Ponce ◽  
Ned Quevedo Arnaiz ◽  
Silvia Colunga Santos
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
International Business ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Development Education ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Professional Business ◽  
Teaching Learning

La educación para el desarrollo hace posible que toda persona adquiera los valores, capacidades, habilidades y conocimiento necesarios para contribuir a la construcción de una sociedad, a partir del análisis efectuado se asume como problema: insuficiencias en la comunicación oral en idioma inglés, de los estudiantes de carreras universitarias relacionadas con los negocios internacionales, con el objetivo elaborar una estrategia didáctica para favorecer la formación y desarrollo de la competencia linguo -cultural, desde la enseñanza-aprendizaje del Inglés con fines específicos, Su objeto, el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje   del Inglés con fines específicos en las carreras universitarias  relacionadas  con  los  negocios  internacionales,  y  el  campo,  la  formación  y desarrollo de la competencia linguo-cultural. Es labor primordial de los educadores brindar y fortalecer  las  herramientas  necesarias  para  que  el  estudiante  sea  capaz  de  desarrollar  una adecuada comunicación en las diversas situaciones y escenarios de la vida, esencialmente en su labor como profesional en negocios, para poder establecer una adecuada comunicación. Palabras claves: enseñanza de lenguas, competencia comunicativa, desempeño comunicativo, comunicación, profesional en negocios, formación, negocios internacionales, inglés con fines específicos. Analysis of communicative competence and its link with the business training from the teaching and learning of English for Specific Purposes   Abstract  The  development  education  enables  a  person  to  acquire  the  values  ,  skills,  abilities  and knowledge to contribute to building a society from the preceding analysis it is assumed as a problem: inadequacies in  oral  communication in  English, the university students of  careers related to international business, with the aim to develop a teaching strategy to promote the formation  and  development  of  the  lingual  -cultural  competence,  from  the  english  teaching learning for specific purposes , Its object, the english   teaching learning for specific purposes in university careers related to international business and country, the formation and development of the lingual - cultural competence. Primary task is to provide educators and strengthen necessary for the student to be able to develop adequate communication in various situations and stages of life, essentially in its work as a professional business, to establish proper communication tools.  Keywords: language teaching, communicative competence, communicative, performance, communication, business professional, formation, English with specific purposes.

scholarly journals TEACHER'S DISTRIBUTION PATTERN AS DETERMINANTS OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN NIGERIA SECONDARY SCHOOLS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Ekere ◽  
Ogunlade J Olurotimi ◽  
Adeleye J Olusola
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
Implementation Stages ◽  
Senior Secondary Schools ◽  
Teaching Learning

The study investigated teacher’s demographic factors to ascertain teaching learning issues in Nigeria. As a descriptive survey, teachers and students in senior secondary schools in Ekiti State constituted the study population. The sample comprised of 288 teachers and 1920 students, randomly selected from 32 schools that were stratified, selected and drawn from 16 local government areas in Ekiti State. Four different measuring instruments were used to collect data. The data collected were subjected to statistical analysis using t-test. Findings from the documentary evidence revealed there is uneven distribution of teachers between sex and location, while statistical calculation results revealed that there is a difference between the effectiveness of male and female teachers as well as teachers from both urban and rural locations in the improvement of teaching and learning. The study recommended that government should do more to monitor implementation stages of its education policy with special regard to gender and locations of teachers. Serious and genuine implementation of policy is as important as its formulation. The inspectorate division of the ministry of education should take seriously the distribution of teachers and monitoring of what goes on in our classrooms, especially schools in rural areas where students expect ”miracle” passes.

Advantages and Problems of Multimedia-Based College English Teaching Mode

2011 ◽  
Vol 271-273 ◽  
pp. 1644-1646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju Hong Zhan ◽  
Chun Xia Li ◽  
Wen Xin Nie
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Multimedia Teaching ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Individualized Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Technical Failures

Multimedia-based teaching and learning is an interesting, interactive, innovative and individualized teaching-learning mode. But according to our survey, there are often some problems in multimedia teaching and learning in practice, such as: lack of emotional exchange between students and teachers, insufficiency of student’s independent learning ability, students’ dilemma in what to choose to learn from diverse online contents, unexpected technical failures, etc. All these factors affect the effectiveness of multimedia teaching. Teachers and students who involve in the multimedia-based English teaching-learning should pay full attention to the problems above, so as to take full advantage of the multimedia technology to improve the effectiveness of the multimedia teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Teachers and Technology: Trends in English Language Teaching in Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farooq ◽  
Abdul Soormro
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Teaching Learning

Technology has impacted the learning approaches and vice-versa with an aim to improve the standards of language teaching/learning process. The present study focuses on teachers’ preferences and use of technology in their language classrooms. A survey was conducted to seek opinion of EFL teachers both male and female at the English language center on technology-related competencies. The survey comprised four domains: planning and preparation, classroom management, instruction, and professional responsibilities (Danielson, 2007).The questionnaire was distributed to 100 English language teachers (50 males and 50 females) at Taif University English Language Centre. The responses revealed that most of the teachers thought aware of the technology and its uses in education don’t integrate technology in their teaching at planning and preparation stage. They use the available technological gadget in the classroom to exploit some of the activities. They must use the university LMS for uploading certain activities and assessment otherwise they hesitate to design technology-based activities for English language learners. They and the students need training in integrating technology with teaching and learning process.

scholarly journals Teaching and Learning Techniques for the Online Environment. How to Maintain Students’ Attention and Achieve Learning Outcomes in a Virtual Environment Using New Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 278-290
Author(s):  
Narcisa Roxana Moşteanu
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Teaching Learning

Digital communication has become vital to all social and economic sectors. Today we are experiencing a transition from traditional learning to e-learning via digital means. Overnight, all of humanity is learning how to adapt to digital life and leaving traditional ways of doing things behind. Digitization has been around for several years, but has become a necessity due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdowns have forced us to work remotely and to use digital networks to communicate, make payments, and learn – all sectors have had to abruptly adapt to the digital age. This paper shows how teaching and learning approaches need to adapt to new communication requirements and students' needs to achieve learning outcomes in a virtual environment. This paper uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze professors’ and students’ perspectives on the techniques of online teaching and learning, both during the isolation period and after, and what the best methods are for online learning, taking into consideration how to maintain students’ attention and how to get them actively involved in the learning process. The aim of this study is to develop a holistic image of online teaching-learning-assessment activities, to ensure the efficiency and quality of the educational process in the university environment.

scholarly journals Teaching techniques adapted for online delivery to achieve course learning outcomes in a virtual environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narcisa Moşteanu
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Teaching Learning

Today we are moving from traditional learning to e-learning via digital means. The entire humanity learned how to adapt overnight to digital life and leave the traditional doing things behind. Digitization has been around for several years, but its use has become a necessity with the Covid-19 pandemic. The blockade forced us to work remotely overnight, to use digital networks to communicate, make payments, learn, all sectors of activity had to adapt to the digital age in one night. This paper shows how the teaching and learning approaches need to adapt to new communication requirements and students' needs to achieve course learning outcomes in a virtual environment. This paper uses both a quantitative and qualitative method to analyze the professors and students’ perspectives on the techniques of online teaching-learning, during the isolation period and after, and what are the best methods recommended to be used for online learning taking into consideration how students can maintain their class’s attention and how can get actively involved in a learning process. The value of this study is to develop a holistic image of online teaching-learning-assessment activities, to ensure the efficiency and quality of the educational process in the university environment.

scholarly journals Analyzing effectiveness of active learning through project-based learning approach in university level ICT courses

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Dhiraj Shrestha ◽  
Satyendra Nath Lohani ◽  
Roshan Manjushree Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
University Level ◽  
Teaching Learning

The concept of Active Learning (AL), which has journeyed through multiple research studies over the years, is an important part of the teaching learning process at academic institutions. The present study applies active learning via project-based approaches where students engage in real life projects and solve associated complications with their research, communication, and technical skills. As a case study of effectiveness of project-based learning (PBL), especially in engineering project contexts, the present research is conducted among students studying computer science and engineering at Kathmandu University (KU), Nepal. The key findings of the study suggest that PBL assignments have helped students in their active learning processes. This paper also compares teaching and learning approaches of KU with other IT institutions of Nepal.

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