Using Student Response System to Enhance Listening and Speaking Skills for EFL Saudi Secondary School Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-103
Author(s):  
Omar Abdullah Amin ◽  
Aly A. Qoura ◽  
Adel A. Alsheikh
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Student Response System ◽  
School Students ◽  
Response System ◽  
Listening And Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

scholarly journals PERCEPTIONS OF SPEECH COMPETENCES IN FIRST AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (Percepcija govornih kompetencija u materinskome i stranome jeziku kod učenika završnih razreda srednje škole)

2019 ◽  
Vol X (28) ◽  
pp. 203-224
Author(s):  
Ivana Odža ◽  
Mirjana Matea Kovač
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Speech Disfluency ◽  
Insufficient Knowledge ◽  
Speaking Skills

The paper examines the attitudes of secondary school students, e. g. grammar school and craftmanship secondary school, toward their own language competences in the native (Croatian) and foreign (English) language. The testing instrument is a questionnaire with statements compiled according to questionnaires used to study attitudes toward the native and / or foreign language. The aim of the research is to observe the level of awareness of the respondents about their own language competences. The results of the statistical analysis indicate that the students of both populations are satisfied with their speaking skills in both languages. They also claim to recognize their own errors, as well as the errors and speech disfluencies of others. Grammar school students, unlike students from the craftmanship secondary school, find the introduction of a course that would further develop speaking skills useful. The obtained results are not in line with the dominant curricular guidelines for teaching the native language, especially those related to the area of speaking competences, emphasizing the need to strengthen the basic, spoken, and consequently written competences of students. The reasons for such attitudes could be explained by insufficient knowledge of the underlying features of highly developed communication competence and consequently of insufficient awareness of their own, as a necessary prerequisite for successful interaction in the contemporary society. The research results point to the necessity of acquiring a more objective perception of students about their own language competences. Keywords: speaking competences; speech errors; speech disfluency; students’ attitudes.

scholarly journals Debate as a pedagogical tool for developing speaking skills in second language education

2021 ◽  
pp. 136216882110506
Author(s):  
Abid el Majidi ◽  
Rick de Graaff ◽  
Daniel Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
L2 Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

Many secondary school students’ second language (L2) speaking skills suffer from deficiencies; the effects thereof are detrimental to their academic and career opportunities in a globalized world that highlights the importance of oral communication skills. Debate has been considered a potentially effective speaking pedagogical tool that can scaffold learning processes in ways that can lead to language development. This study investigates the effect of a debate intervention on English L2 speaking competence of Dutch secondary school students. Following a pretest–posttest control group design, we elicited speech samples from opinion tasks which we coded in terms of measures of speech quantity, fluency, complexity, accuracy and cohesion. Multilevel analysis results indicate that after the intervention, the intervention group produced more language which was more fluent, accurate, coherent and lexically more sophisticated relative to the control group. These findings, which have significant implications for L2 speaking development, are discussed in relation to specific characteristics of L2 debate pedagogy.

scholarly journals Quizizz As Interactive and Gamified Assessment Platform: Voices form Indonesian EFL Secondary Learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Moh. Ilham Dzikrullah ◽  
Ahmad Syafi'i
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Student Response System ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Response System ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Life On Earth

<p>Almost every aspect of human life on earth has been disrupted since the emergence of Covid-19, particularly education. Many countries have decided to close schools and universities. This condition has forced the Indonesian government through its Ministry of Education to implement policies moving conventional classrooms to be online classrooms. This process is carried out to maintain the health of students to avoid Covid-19. The learning process can be helped by using one of the applications on the internet which is called Student Response System (SRS). According to the statement, the researcher investigated secondary school students’ perceptions towards the implementation of Quizizz as an assessment platform in teaching English. Mixed-method research has been implemented in this study. The study involved 61 students as the participants in quantitative stage and 6 students in qualitative stage. The main instruments employed in this research are an online questionnaire and in-depth interview. The findings indicated that the students have both positive and negative perceptions toward the use of online assessment, especially in Quizizz. The students enjoyed Quizizz and thought it was exciting, interesting, motivating, and enjoyable because the Quizizz platform was distinct from the others. Quizizz had an interactive display, which made it simple for students to use the platform. However, in addition to the positive perception of Quizizz as an assessment platform in English teaching, some students expressed a negative perception of Quizizz as an assessment. According to the data, one of the platform's negative perceptions was the presence of music</p><p class="abstrak"><em>Hampir setiap aspek kehidupan manusia di muka bumi ini terganggu sejak munculnya Covid-19, khususnya pendidikan. Banyak negara telah memutuskan untuk menutup sekolah dan universitas. Kondisi ini memaksa pemerintah Indonesia melalui Kementerian Pendidikan untuk menerapkan kebijakan pemindahan ruang kelas konvensional menjadi ruang kelas daring. Proses ini dilakukan untuk menjaga kesehatan siswa agar terhindar dari Covid-19. Proses pembelajaran dapat dibantu dengan menggunakan salah satu aplikasi di internet yang bernama Student Response System (SRS). Menurut pernyataan tersebut, peneliti menyelidiki persepsi siswa sekolah menengah terhadap penerapan Quizizz sebagai platform penilaian dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris. Penelitian metode campuran telah diterapkan dalam penelitian ini. Penelitian ini melibatkan 61 siswa sebagai partisipan pada tahap kuantitatif dan 6 siswa pada tahap kualitatif. Instrumen utama yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kuesioner online dan wawancara mendalam. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa siswa memiliki persepsi positif dan negatif terhadap penggunaan penilaian online, terutama di Quizizz. Para siswa menikmati Quizizz dan menganggapnya menyenangkan, menarik, memotivasi, dan menyenangkan karena platform Quizizz berbeda dari yang lain. Quizizz memiliki tampilan interaktif, yang memudahkan siswa dalam menggunakan platform. Namun, selain persepsi positif tentang Quizizz sebagai platform penilaian dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris, beberapa siswa menyatakan persepsi negatif tentang Quizizz sebagai penilaian. Menurut data, salah satu persepsi negatif platform adalah kehadiran musik.</em></p>

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