Bilinguals, Monolinguals and their Choices of Metacognitive Strategies in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 69-86
Author(s):  
Julia Falla-Wood ◽  
Keciya Varghese
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Metacognitive Strategies ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
School Students ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Syntactic Process ◽  
Listening And Speaking

The purpose of this explorative study is to compare the choices of metacognitive strategies made by bilinguals and monolinguals in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Kovelman, Baker & Petitto (2008) compare bilingual and monolingual brains and observe that there is a differential activation in the syntactic process between bilinguals and monolinguals. Could there be a difference between monolinguals and bilinguals in the choice of metacognitive strategies too? The data, collected in three private institutions, one in Quebec, and two in Alberta, consists of 144 students, 72 monolinguals, and 72 bilinguals. The instrument of research is a questionnaire. The results of this study show that 63.8% of all participants are unaware of the concept of metacognition. This lack of awareness is found not only in high school students but also in senior university students. In the category of bilinguals, the students acknowledge being bilinguals, but the percentage of those who feel comfortable in both languages is only 47.2%. Regarding the choices of metacognitive strategies, there are more similarities than differences between bilinguals and monolinguals. The implications of these results could lead educators to be intentional in bringing awareness of the concept of metacognition in a more efficient manner. Further research is needed to determine if the choice of specific metacognitive strategies would improve the four language skills.

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN LISTENING AND SPEAKING AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yune Andryani Pinem
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Field Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Listening And Speaking

This research looks at listening as one factor that gives contribution toward speaking among high school students. The study attempts to reveal through data analysis, in the form of students. score from each variable that both have correlation. Further the objective of the study is also to find out the extent of influence contributed by listening toward speaking. The research applies library study and field study (instrument designing and test performing both for listening and speaking). The theory used for analysis deals with listening and speaking correlation from language learning review. The result of the study demonstrates that the correlation of listening as the independent variable with speaking as dependent variable is positive. It also proves that with a unit of program or treatment given toward listening class, there will be a significant improvement equals with 3.134 times from previous speaking score for the same sample. For the analysis of data, the extent of correlation between two varibales is shown as low. It indicates that even though listening do have positive correlation towarde speaking, it is not the only deminant factor to determine success in speaking.

scholarly journals Implications of Interrelationship among Four Language Skills for High School English Teaching

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengyu Nan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
System Theory ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Whole Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
School Students ◽  
High School English ◽  
Simple Combination

Theoretically, four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing are interrelated and interactive in real communication. According to the system theory, the improvement of whole language ability can not be achieved by a simple combination of the four skills, but results from the interaction and coordination among the four skills. On the basis of some theories of physiology and psychology as well as principles of system theory, this paper analyzes the interrelationship among four language skills and finds that they have close and strong an impact upon one another. Then the paper inquires into the necessities and feasibility of improving overall English language skills of high school students by comprising four language skills in a more economic and effective way.

scholarly journals METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES IN TEACHING SPEAKING AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Idris
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Metacognitive Strategies ◽  
Metacognitive Strategy ◽  
School Students ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Speaking Skills

This research aimed to find out the student ability in speaking at students at Junior High School 2 Panca Rijang and this study is the result of a report from a case study on the effect of metacognitive teaching on speaking ability of low-ranking junior high school students, the metacognitive strategy influences students' speaking achievement, namely by conducting a pre-test in one group and the design of the post-test was conducted to support the findings in the results of learning speaking after training. In design, observation and qualitative questionnaires were conducted to see the process of students in learning speaking procedural knowledge of metacognition in speaking. This research applying metacognitive strategies that are developed as a way of learning. Subject, selected by simple random sampling, are 20 first grade junior high schools, Comparison of pre-test and post-test scores will show metacognitive strategy can help students who are less skilled improve their speaking skills. The results show the view that metacognitive strategy can help students with speaking skills who are less skilled improve their speaking skills, but from the overall results there still appear to be some limitations for those who are skilled with minimal results.

scholarly journals Senior High School Students’ Anxiety towards Language Learning Skills

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Hendrikus Male
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
School Students ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Senior High School Students

AbstractThis study merely aims to investigate Senior High School Students’ language anxiety and also to find out what class obtains the most dominant language anxiety. The respondents were administered a set of questionnaire and interview which was adapted from Muhaisen and Al-Haq (2012) The result of data analysis showed that the most dominant of the students’ anxiety were found in speaking followed by reading, writing and listening in their language learning process. It is highly recommended that the teachers be more creative in making the class atmosphere to be more fun and relaxing in teaching the language skills so that the students are more encouraged to learn the language.Keywords: language anxiety, senior high school students, language learning process

scholarly journals فعالية استخدام الوسائل التعليمية " برنامج توندو كوميك ماكر" لترقية مهارة الكتابة لطلاب الفصل العاشر بمدرسة سبيل المتقين الثانوية فوغيغ موجوكرتو

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-59
Author(s):  
Ibnu Makruf ◽  
Mohammad Nu’man ◽  
Aan Najib
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Tenth Grade

The purpose of learining Arabic is to master all four language skills, listening, speaking, reading dan writing skills. Most students have difficulty to mastering writing skills. Difficulties in mastering writing skills were also felt by Sabilul Muttaqin High School students in Pungging Mojokerto. It can be seen from the Arabic test scores of students who still have not reached the KKM (Minimum Completation Criteria) 75. Based on these problems, researchers want to use tondo maker comic learning media to improve students’ writing skills in Arabic lessons. This study uses a quantitative method to determine the effectiveness of the comics tondo maker media to improve Arabic writing skills. This research was conducted at Sabilul Muttaqin Mojokerto High School with tenth grade as a sample 66 students. In an effort to collect data, researchers used the method of observation, interviews, documentation, questionnaires and test. The results of this study indicate that the tondo maker comic media is effective in an effort to improve student writing skills based on the results of T count is 3,255 greater than T table, which is 2,30. From these results indicate that Ho is rejected and the results of sig Tailed 0.003 is smaller than 0.005 which indicates Ho’s rejection and Ha’s acceptance.

scholarly journals A NEED ANALYSIS ON ICT-BASED ENGLISH MATERIAL FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING OF READING FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SOUTH BENGKULU

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Margareta Margareta ◽  
Safnil Safnil ◽  
Irwan Koto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Field Test ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Reading Materials

This research was aimed to find out ICT media are preferred by high school students in South Bengkulu in learning reading and to describe the reading materials should be used with ICT media. The research design was mixed method quantitative and qualitative with the subjects of this research were 302 high school students and 11 English teachers in South Bengkulu. The instruments of this research were questionairre and open-ended interview. The findings of the research revealed that (1) online ICT media was prefered  by high school students in South Bengkulu in learning reading  and (2)  kinds of text became the reading material that should be used with ICT media. To suggest, a broader field test still needed to be done to achieve a better result and other researchers who are interested in the incorporation of ICT in learning teaching are suggested to conduct further investigation which possibly deals with other language skills.

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