scholarly journals Investigating Pronunciation Material Tasks and Method of Teaching in Sunrise Series 7-9

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-128
Author(s):  
Pakhshan I. Hamad ◽  
Dlakhshan Y. Othman ◽  
Himdad A. Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
School Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Basic School ◽  
Sound Files

This study is an attempt to investigate pronunciation material and tasks and/or activities along with teaching methods in Sunrise 7-9 series adopted by the ministry of education in KRG to be taught in basic schools all over Kurdistan region of Iraq. The rationale of the study is the obvious deficiency of basic school students’ performance, more specifically of student's pronunciation and speaking skill. Pronunciation is regarded as one of the basic components in learning English, hence conducting this study is deemed necessary. This paper focuses on investigating pronunciation material, tasks/exercises and teaching methods used from the teachers' and researchers' perspectives. To this end, a questionnaire was administered to 51 English teachers who have taught these books for at least three years in Basic Schools in Erbil city and an observation checklist was designed to observe 30 lesson periods of teachers. The data are analyzed through SPSS program to find out the frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation. The results reveal that most of the teachers are (not quite) satisfied with the pronunciation material, more than half of teachers are not satisfied with the tasks and exercises due to time and lack of equipment, almost none of the teachers use effective and suitable teaching methods and the sound files found within the teachers' book of the series. Based on the results, some new pronunciation material, new tasks, exercises, teaching strategies and also some recommendations are presented.

scholarly journals Minority languages in Estonian segregative language environments

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-240
Author(s):  
Elvira Küün
Keyword(s):  
International Study ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Census 2000 ◽  
Basic School ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Research Grant

The goal of this project in Estonia was to determine what languages are spoken by students from the 2nd to the 5th year of basic school at their homes in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. At the same time, this problem was also studied in other segregated regions of Estonia: Kohtla-Järve and Maardu. According to the database of the population census from the year 2000 (Estonian Statistics Executive Office?s census 2000), there are representatives of 142 ethnic groups living in Estonia, speaking a total of 109 native languages. At the same time, the database doesn’t state which languages are spoken at homes. The material presented in this article belongs to the research topic “Home Language of Basic School Students in Tallinn” from years 2007–2008, specifically financed and ordered by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (grant No. ETF 7065) in the framework of an international study called “Multilingual Project”. It was determined what language is dominating in everyday use, what are the factors for choosing the language for communication, what are the preferred languages and language skills. This study reflects the actual trends of the language situation in these cities.

scholarly journals ENGLISH SPEAKING TEACHING METHODS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT AT KAMPUNG INGGRIS PONTIANAK

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-190
Author(s):  
Viqri Rahmad Satria
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
English Language ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
School Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Four Levels

This research aims to know speaking teaching methods used at Kampung Inggris Pontianak for elementary school students and tutor obstacles during teaching activity. The method applied in this research was qualitative approach with descriptive analysis. The data were collected from interview and observation with the owner of Kampung Inggris Pontianak, West Kalimantan. It was found that English speaking skill to elementary school students was separated into four levels; basic, intermediate 1, intermediate 2, and advanced. There are five methods applied by Kampung Inggris Pontianak to improve students English speaking skill. Flashcards, watching movies, listening, games, and singing. There were two kinds of obstacles that tutors face during the class. First, most of the tutors’ backgrounds were non-educational. So, they found it hard, sometimes, to control their elementary students who are very energetic. They might have English language competence. However, it is not adequate as their only competence to teach students compared to tutors with English educational background. Therefore, Kampung Inggris Pontianak holds micro-teaching practices to see tutor candidate performances before coming into class. Second, new students made many false answers on the placement test just to make them get into a lower level class than they are supposed to be. The researcher hopes this research will give knowledge to the reader of how tutors in Kampung Inggris Pontianak teaches speaking skills to their students.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Lack of Modern Educational Technology in the Teaching of Secondary Vocational English Subjects and its Teaching Strategies——Take Pingli Vocational Education Center as an Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunmei Yuan ◽  
Ping Li
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Vocational Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Secondary Vocational Education ◽  
Basic English

The report of the Educational sector in China advocates modern education technology, and now a new round of curriculum reform has thoroughly revised the curriculum standards of middle school students in various subjects, and penetrated modern educational technology into the teaching of various subjects. In recent years, the education department has raised the importance of vocational education, changed the concept of education for teachers and students, vocational education is in the fastest-growing period, the majority of secondary vocational education students has greatly improved, the curriculum is colorful. We should make good use of all kinds of the up-to-dated educational technologies in various subjects. However, in the process of education, the basic level of secondary vocational students is relatively poor phenomenon slowly appeared, which is a common problem in secondary vocational education, so we should strengthen the modern education technology in English subjects of the value of education. English, like our mother tongue, has a wealth of humanistic knowledge and spiritual connotation. Many English teachers in secondary vocational school simply teach basic English knowledge aspects and English grammars. It only lets the most vocational students to learn only the most basic English textbook knowledge, and then English teachers find many bad aspects, such as: students do not understand foreign culture; Therefore, secondary vocational English teachers in the English classroom to penetrate modern education technology, is the most important measure. So, as an English teacher, how to modernize secondary school students in classroom teaching? This article mainly talks about the teaching of secondary English subjects lack modern education technology and its teaching strategies.

scholarly journals Penilaian Alternatif pada Keterampilan Berbicara Bahasa Inggris di Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Kota Pontianak

Eksos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-73
Author(s):  
Lilis Listiyawati ◽  
Anggita Anggita ◽  
Riska Wahyuni ◽  
Heriyanto Heriyanto
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Alternative Assessments ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking

English speaking skill is an important communication skill and must be mastered by students to be able to interact actively, convey ideas and provide responses in both formal and informal situations. Alternative assessment provides benefits for students and teachers in improving students' speaking skill in English. This research focuses on an alternative assessment of English speaking skill in Vocational High Schools in Pontianak City, especially South Pontianak. The objectives of this research are (1) to determine problems related to the English speaking skill of vocational school students in South Pontianak, (2) to identify and analyze alternative assessments applied in overcoming the problems of English speaking skill of vocational school students in South Pontianak, and 3) to find a solution to the English speaking skill problems of vocational school students in South Pontianak by using alternative assessments. This research was a qualitative research, and data were collected from interviews with English teachers and documents analysis. Data were collected through interviews with English teachers at SMK in south Pontianak and analysis of related documents. The stages of data analysis include data reduction, display data, and conclusion drawing / verification. The results showed that the problems faced by students related to English speaking skill were limited ability of students caused by several factors, namely grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary and self-confidence. The alternative assessments that were applied include performance - assessment, peer - assessment and portfolio. The solutions taken were to involve students in providing assessments to other students and the teacher focuses on conveying information clearly and conveying the moral values that are learned without focusing too much on grammar. The suggestions that the researchers gave were in the form of matriculation for students in the early year of school, knowledge sharing between teachers, determining priority aspects of speaking that were assessed and implementing self-assessment as an additional form of alternative assessment that could motivate and encourage students to gradually improve their speaking skills in English.

scholarly journals EFFICACY OF METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICES UNDERTAKEN BY SAUDI ENGLISH TEACHERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS DURING THEIR FORMATIVE PHASE

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Majed Othman Aba Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal ◽  
Imran Khan
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Conventional Teaching

The main focus of this article is to evaluate the practices involving various approaches and methods that the novice Saudi English Teachers (SETs) employ in classrooms, and to see how far these are successful in attaining the desired results. It also takes into cognizance the chasm between the measures taken by Saudi Ministry of Education to modify the curriculum to develop communicative competence and the actualization these measures in the classroom pedagogy. The dichotomy eventually brings to bear upon the learning outcomes of the students who fail to achieve the required proficiency in communicative skills. The study necessitated a qualitative approach (grounded theory) in which previous literature was ransacked. Data was gathered through structured interviews, surveys and documents analysis. The rudimentary results showed that SETs rely more on conventional teaching methods despite the States thrust on Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) that tends to be more student-centered, cooperative and collaborative.

DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE MEDIA TO TEACH SPEAKING SKILL FOR GRADE 11 STUDENTS

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anggi Yulihar And Nora Ronita Dewi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Senior High School Students

The study deals with the developing interactive media for senior high school students. The objective of this study is to find out how to develop interactive media for better speaking skill of senior high school students. The research was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D). The subject of this research was 2016/2017 students of the eleventh grade of Class XI IPA4 in SMAN 1 Batang Kuis. The number of the students was 30 students. The data of this study was collected by using need analysis questionnaire and experts’ judgment. Need analysis questionnaire was calculated by using percentage to get the information of students’ need before developing interactive media. Experts’ judgment was calculated by using likert data, mean and criteria interval of expert judgment to know the validity of interactive media which has been developed. After the data analyzed, it was found that the experts’ judgment result was 4.80 which had a very good criteria interval. The result of the research find that interactive media is a very good to be used in teaching speaking skill.

Students’ Speaking Skill in English Immersion School

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Fadil ◽  
Sumardi Sumardi ◽  
Ngadiso Ngadiso
Keyword(s):  
English Teachers ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
English Immersion ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Comparative Results ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Speaking Skills

This research aims to describe: (1) students' English speaking skill in English immersion school; (2) students’ strengths and weaknesses in speaking skill in English immersion school; (3) factors affecting students' speaking skill in English immersion school. The research was designed as a case study, conducted at a school applying English immersion in Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia in Academic Year 2017-2018. The research used purposive sampling. Data were collecated by interview, questionnairre, observation, and document analysis. The informants were grade 2 students, English teachers, and the school founder. The analysis found that: (1) on the scale of 1-5 (1=very bad, 2=bad, 3=fair, 4=good, 5=very good), students’ English speaking skills were at levels of very good (2.22%), good (6.67%), fair (37.78%), bad (44.44%), and very bad (8.89%); (2) students’ strengths in English speaking skills were related to vocabulary with average score of 2.7, and the weaknesses dealt with fluency with average score of 2.25; (3) factors that were assumed to affect students’ English speaking skills were environment, local accent, vocabulary mastery, English use, preference, and habits. It is recommended that all parties involved in the English immersion program evaluate the running of the program and the content of the program to provide learning outputs through English immersion. Commitment to using English should be strengthened, especially in English Week program. Improvement on English teachers’ is needed by involving them in trainings. Finally, similar research at non-English immersion school is necessary to ensure the comparative results gained from both types of school.

Effect of Resource Factors and Quality of Instruction on Performance in Mathematics of Nigeria Secondary School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Umar Abdullahi ◽  
Musa Sirajo
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Secondary School Student ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quality Of Instruction ◽  
The Public

It seems that educational system in Nigeria has undergone only quantitative improvement in terms of number of schools and students’ enrolment. However, there has been little effort in respect to the capacity to manage them through provisions of adequate financial, human, material and physical resources. Physical and material resources in secondary schools were discovered to be inadequate and poorly equipped. Some of the secondary school buildings were dilapidated, also the allocated financial resource, teaching and non-teaching staff are grossly inadequate compared with the students’ enrolment. The public, the Ministry of Education and other stakeholders in education are expressing serious concern about the consistency of the poor performance of secondary school students especially in mathematics. Increase in population and the government’s free education programs make people want to take advantage of the education provided. Provision of both professionally qualified and non-qualified teachers by government and non-state providers of education also appear not to ameliorate the problem of declining performances in mathematics. The effect of all these on the public secondary school student academic performance in mathematics concern the researchers of this study. It is against this background that the study sought to empirically investigates effect of resource factors and quality of instruction on performance in mathematics of Nigeria secondary school students.

مهارة الكلام منظور من عملية التعلم والتعليم في جامعة باتوسنجكر الاسلامية الحكومية سومطرى الغربية

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suharmon Suharmon
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Class A ◽  
Class B ◽  
Speaking Skill

This research aims to obtain infomation about Arabic learning especially speaking skill in Arabic Language Education Department at IAIN Batusangkar. The research uses a quantitative approach. The instruments to collect the data are test and questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results of the research state that the students’ speaking ability at class “ A “ are 28% low, 36% moderate, and 36% high. While, at class “B”, students’ speaking abilities are 36.4% low, 40,9% moderate, and 22.7% high. The cause of students’ low ability is the unappropriateness of teachers’ strategy in teaching speaking. There are about 96% students at class “A” agreed and 86.4% students at class “B” had similar answer. Another cause is students’ low motivation in learning. Class “A” students agreed for about 76% of them and 77% of class “B” students answered the same. From the finding, it can be concluded that the inability of students to speak Arabic can be overcomed by improving teaching strategies and encouraging maximum motivation  to learn Arabic.

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