scholarly journals Foreign Language Learning Management for World Class University Ranking (Comparative Study between State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta and the University of Malaya (UM) Malaysia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-359
Author(s):  
Sembodo Ardi Widodo ◽  
Agung Setiyawan ◽  
Ana Zahida
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Interactive Model ◽  
World Class ◽  
The University

The paper aims to compare the management of foreign language learning at UIN Sunan Kalijaga and the University of Malaya as a way to improve World Class University ranking for taking a closer look at the institutional management, institutional curriculum habit, learning strategies progress, and emerging problems for managing education solutions. The data were collected through interviews, observation, focus group discussions, and documentation. The research uses qualitative method through interactive model analysis, content analysis, and comparative analysis. The research finds that UM has more focus on foreign language specialization, while UIN Sunan Kalijaga does not have clear focus on language learning specialization. The foreign language learning at UM is intended for graduate programs. It aims to prepare the graduates with international language fluency for industrial purposes by wider choices of language programs and in-depth linguistic knowledge. Language learning strategies at Sunan Kalijaga UIN use active learning and interconnection-integration models, while UM uses Communicative Language Teaching. Learning problems occurring in UIN Suka are mostly caused by Human Recourses factors due to the lectures. Problems in UM occurs with students’ difficulty. Taking from the institutional aspects and foreign language curriculum, UM is more prepared in heading towards World Class University and globalization than UIN Sunan Kalijaga. Keywords: Management, Curriculum, Language Learning, English, Arabic Abstrak Penelitian ini membandingkan manajemen pembelajaran bahasa asing di UIN Sunan Kalijaga dan University of Malaya dalam rangka program World Class University dari aspek kelembagaan, organisasi kurikulum, strategi pembelajaran, dan problematika yang muncul dalam implentasi. Data diperoleh dengan wawancara, observasi, FGD, dan dokumentasi. Data diolah secara kualitatif dengan analisis interactive model pada analisis isi, dan analisis komparatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan aspek kelembagaan pada pembelajaran bahasa asing di UM lebih fokus, lebih luas, dan komprehensif. Hal tersebut tidak dimiliki UIN Sunan Kalijaga. Tujuan pembelajaran bahasa asing di UM ditujukan untuk program lulusan yang dapat mengasai pasar ke dunia kerja yang fasih dalam berbahasa internasional sesuai dengan pilihan program bahasa dengan pengetahuan linguistik yang mendalam. Strategi pembelajaran bahasa di UIN Sunan Kalijagaa menggunakan pembelajaran aktif dan model integrasi-interkoneks. UM menggunakan strategi Communicative Language Teaching. Problem pembelajaran yang terjadi di UIN Suka lebih banyak disebabkan oleh faktor SDM pengajar. Problem di UM lebih dikarenakan oleh factor SDM mahasiswa yang belajar. Dilihat dari aspek kelembagaan dan kurikulum bahasa asing, UM bisa dikatakan lebih siap dalam menuju World Class University dan globalisasi. Hal ini berbeda dengan kesiapan UIN Sunan Kalijaga. Kata Kunci: Manajemen, Kurikulum, Pembelajaran Bahasa, Bahasa Inggris, Bahasa Arab

scholarly journals COMMUNICATION-ORIENTED LESSONS: MOVING FROM COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING TOWARDS TASK-BASED INSTRUCTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Diego Ortega-Auquilla ◽  
Uvaldo Recino Pineda
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Language Teaching Methods

Communicative-oriented  language teaching methodologies need to have a central role in the current foreign language education. In fact, language teachers are expected to shift away from traditional language teaching methods that have proven to be ineffective for language learning. Nowadays, a movement, which favors and embraces interaction, communication, and negotiation of meaning, is growing in language education; therefore, pre-service and in-service teachers of English need to be responsive to and become aware of the importance of these key aspects. With these notions in mind, the present article can be seen as a contribution  to help language teachers gain an understanding of key theoretical notions related to the emergence of communicative language teaching and its most well-known methods – CLT and TBLT. Additionally, this work analyzed CLT and TBLT as these two language teaching methods are not opposing but in line with the communicative  approach. The importance of implementing communicative-oriented lessons into the English classroom was also examined. In this sense, a table made up of specific guidelines was elaborated by using works of leading experts in language teaching and learning. The table is intended to help teachers to be better equipped to design and implement  TBLT lessons into the classroom, which may have a positive impact  on foreign language learning.

scholarly journals Interview with Amos Paran, Specialist in L2 Reading and Literature in Language Teaching

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Simon Bibby ◽  
Anna Husson Isozaki
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
L2 Reading ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

Dr. Amos Paran teaches MA and PhD students at the University College London’s Institute of Education. Fluent and literate in English, Hebrew, and German himself (with a bit of Spanish and French), he is probably best known for his research and writing on literature in foreign language learning. Among the recent books he has written, edited and co-edited are Literature —Into the Classroom with Pauline Robinson (2016), Testing the Untestable in Language Education (Multilingual Matters, 2010) with Lies Sercu, and Literature in Language Teaching and Learning (2006, TESOL).

Developing Professional and Communication Skills of Students in Engineering Disciplines

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-266
Author(s):  
Tsvetelina Vukadinova ◽  
◽  
Senya Terzieva ◽  
Mladen Popov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Bilingual Learning

The article presents a study designed to develop professional and communication skills of students in the subject "Chemical Engineering" with German language teaching at the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy. During the application of the experimental model, the COVID crisis required switching to hybrid teaching. This brought a new focus on the teaching design in the 2019/2020 academic year. The research is based on self-regulated learning strategies. The collected data offer a tool for developing professional and foreign language skills. It aims to optimize the educational process in engineering disciplines, as well as to enhance the foreign language knowledge acquisition: bilingual learning materials for improving the specialized foreign language learning.

scholarly journals PRZYGOTOWANIE DO PRACY Z UCZNIAMI O SPECJALNYCH POTRZEBACH EDUKACYJNYCH: JĘZYKOWE NARZĘDZIA DIAGNOSTYCZNE W PRAKTYCE NAUCZYCIELSKIEJ

Neofilolog ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 187-201
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Karpińska-Szaj
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Special Educational Needs

Adapting foreign language teaching to the requirements of studentswith special educational needs requires prior diagnosis of the developmentalpotential of the pupils concerned. Because of the educationaland rehabilitative character of foreign language learning in studentswith language and speech deficiencies, the diagnosis addresses thepossibilities of using foreign language learning in developing generaland linguistic competencies in both languages (native and foreign). Thearticle presents the aims of diagnosing linguistic communicative competenciesin the context of foreign language teaching. The differencesbetween speech diagnosis and diagnosis performed for the needs of foreignlanguage teaching are discussed, based on cases of pupils with deficienciesin their native language (Polish). The evaluation of the students’competencies involved reformulation as an instrument of linguistic diagnosis;learning strategies were also considered in the assessment.

TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT THIRD-YEAR STUDENTS IN POLAND

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Ivashko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Third Age ◽  
The Third

The article tackles the problem of teaching foreign languages to seniors. The general trends in FL education for the third-age learners are outlined. The institutions in which seniors can study foreign languages in Poland are enumerated. The psychological, physiological, methodological and social peculiarities of teaching a foreign language to the third agers are analyzed. Special emphasis is laid upon educational needs of the Third Age learners. Some language learning strategies which help seniors’ foreign language learning are suggested.

An Analysis of Factors Influencing Foreign Language Self-Efficacy Based on C5.0 Decision Tree Algorithm in Data Mining

2014 ◽  
Vol 538 ◽  
pp. 460-464
Author(s):  
Xue Li
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Decision Tree Algorithm ◽  
Tree Algorithm ◽  
C5.0 Decision Tree

Based on inter-correlation and permeability among disciplines, the author makes an attempt to apply the information science to cognitive linguistics to provide a new perspective for the study of foreign languages. The correlation between self-efficacy and such four factors as anxiety, learning strategies, motivation and learners’ past achievement is analyzed by means of data mining and the extent to which the above factors affect self-efficacy in language learning is explored in this paper. The paper employs the decision tree algorithm in SPSS Clementine. C5.0 decision tree algorithm is adopted to analyze data in the study. The results are elicited from the researches carried out in this paper. The increased anxiety is bound to weaken learners’ motivation over time. It is obvious that learners have low self-efficacy. It is very important to employ strategies in foreign language learning. Ignorance of using learning strategies may result in unplanned learning with unsatisfactory achievements in spite of more efforts involved. Self-efficacy in foreign language learning may be weakened accordingly. Learners’ past achievement is a reference dimension in measuring self-efficacy with weaker influence.

scholarly journals Developing Students’ Cognition Culture for Successful Foreign Language Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01128
Author(s):  
Lyubov Pavlova ◽  
Yuliana Vtorushina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Culture Conditions ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Cognitive Component ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
The University

This paper presents results of the research aimed at determining essential aspects of the development of university students’ cognition culture as a factor of successful foreign language learning. The authors define cognition culture as a complex of capabilities and skills, enabling students to look for, analyze, process, organize and critically assess information in the text, considering its historical and cultural value background. The investigation proves that a student’s cognition culture is manifested in his/her knowledge of national mentality, language, and cultural picture of the world as well as in the student’s skills of search, procession and critical assessment of information, the skills of analysis, comparison, generalization, cognitive motivation and aspiration for constant improvement of foreign language skills. The research determines the contents of the cognitive component of foreign language learning and works out a complex of teaching techniques for developing students’ cognition culture. The results prove that the application of the complex of special teaching techniques ensures effective development of the university students’ cognition culture for successful foreign language learning. Thus, students’ cognitive culture conditions their social adaptation and academic mobility.

The Impact of Foreign Language Learning Style on Strategies Preferences in Art Colleges

2014 ◽  
Vol 971-973 ◽  
pp. 2677-2680
Author(s):  
Di Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Factors affecting students’ English learning performances are always debated among language researchers. This research is carried out in art colleges to figure out the students’ preferences in learning styles and learning strategies as well as the relationship between them. Questionnaires have been applied and data have been dealt with by SPSS. This research has shown that students in the art college tend to be visual and individual learners, and thus they prefer to adopt metacognitive, memory and affective strategies.

scholarly journals Christopher Brumfit Award 2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-433
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Quality Of Presentation

The Editor and Board of Language Teaching are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2014 Christopher Brumfit thesis award is Dr Hilde van Zeeland. The thesis was selected by an external panel of judges based on its significance to the field of second language acquisition, second or foreign language learning and teaching, originality and creativity and quality of presentation.

scholarly journals I LOVE INDONESIA: EFL LEARNERS� PERCEPTIONS ON WEB-FACILITATED LANGUAGE LEARNING

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Muzakki Bashori
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The integration of computer in the service of FL (Foreign Language) learning is expected to be inevitable in the future. It is seemingly due to (a) its considerable affordances for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners, (b) the characteristics of today�s learners as the Generation Z (Gonz�lez-Lloret & Ortega, 2014), and (c) the widespread use of the internet in the 21st century. This situation then leads to transforming CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) into WFLL (Web-Facilitated Language Learning) as an alternative paradigm for EFL teachers and learners. Furthermore, TBLT (Task-Based Language Teaching) is likely to serve as a pedagogical framework in designing the Web for the purpose of FL learning. The present study was therefore mainly aimed at (a) developing a particularly teacher-designed learning website, namely I Love Indonesia, and (b) investigating high school learners of English in Indonesia with different attitudes towards CALL (positive/moderate/negative) in correlation with how they perceive WFLL (agree/disagree) and perform web-based activities. Descriptive Statistics, IF Function in Excel, Correlation Analysis, and Independent-samples t-test were employed in the study. Finally, the findings of the study showed that (a) the website seems to benefit EFL learners in some certain aspects, and (b) positive attitude learners are likely to perceive more positively (agree) than moderate and negative attitude learners (disagree) on the use of the website for the purpose of language learning. A greater number of learners over a longer period of time should be taken into account when conducting further studies on the effectiveness of the website for EFL learners in order to be able to shed some light on learners� language development.�Keyword: attitude, perception, task-based language teaching, web-facilitated language learning

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