scholarly journals DEVELOPING ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR STUDENTS OFCOMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT (A NEEDS ANALYSIS)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Fransisca Endang Lestariningsih ◽  
Arida Susyetina ◽  
Lucia Dwi Krisnawati
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
English Education ◽  
Action Observation ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Science Department ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Computer Science Department

English is one of compulsory subjects at the computer science department in a higher education. Since English is not a field of study at the computer science, it is taught as an ESP (English for Specific Purposes). The fact that English is part of the curriculum at the computer science department makes it challenging for both the teachers and the students. The majority of the students will always deal with motivation, whereas teachers face a great challenge in designing an appropriate instructional material that gives short-term and long-term effects to the students. Besides, there are two types of teachers who teach English for computer science students, English teachers who have English education background and English teachers who do not own degrees in English education. These two types of teachers experience their own strengths and weaknesses in designing English instructional materials. This research, therefore, will combine the strengths of the teachers in the development of English instructional materials for computer science students that will have short-term and long-term impacts to the students. This research is applying an action research which is divided into some cycles of planning, action, observation, and reflection. The participants are three English teachers and two classes of computer science students. 

scholarly journals IST (In-Service Training) Model to Improve English Teachers’ Pedagogical and Professional Competencies in the Computer Science Department of Universities in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Fransisca Endang Lestariningsih ◽  
John Hope ◽  
Suwarsih Madya ◽  
Joko Nurkamto
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Training Model ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
Science Department ◽  
Computer Science Department ◽  
Service Training

The fact that English teachers teaching in a computer science department may not really know detail about information technology (IT) as a subject, as well as its terminologies, brings about difficulties when deciding what kind of teaching materials are appropriate to the student’s learning needs. Another issue is that some computer science teachers do not have an English language teaching background. This can be a drawback for this group of teachers since they do not really know how to teach the language. The following discussion is a needs analysis used as a preliminary study to develop an in-service training (IST) model to improve English teachers’ pedagogical and professional competencies in a computer science department. Pedagogical knowledge, skill, and attitude, and professional competency became the core study since these two were the obvious difficulties faced by the two groups of teachers. This study involved English computer science teachers, the curriculum administrator, and the students in two private universities and one state university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Observations, open interviews, and questionnaires were used to gather the data.

scholarly journals Proceedings of the CLICS Workshop: Part I og II

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (397) ◽  
Author(s):  
Glynn Winskel
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Science Department ◽  
Computer Science Department ◽  
Categorical Logic ◽  
Research Action ◽  
Logic In Computer Science

This is a collection of papers, notes and copies of transparencies representing the talks of the CLICS Workshop at the Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, 23 - 27 March 1992. CLICS is an Esprit, Basic Research Action on Categorical Logic in Computer Science.

A Checklist for a New Millennium School Science Department

2011 ◽  
pp. 273-274
Author(s):  
Ed Hessler
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
School Science ◽  
Learning Science ◽  
Science Department ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Over Time ◽  
New Millennium

My focus is both narrow and incomplete, for it is limited to a single area of learning: science, and it is in the form of a working list, a beginning of things one might write down, not in any particular order—so that they might be remembered and edited over time, with colleagues. Improving schools, teacher preparation, and professional development are important national priorities as we enter a new millennium. Past emphasis on targeted innovations in the short term are now conceptualized into the idea of continuous improvements that are connected in the long term. Today, the idea of improvement itself is being challenged. “Improvement,” the term of the technocrat, is being recast in the context of student learning—that is, how can we educate our young or learners of any age?

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