Medical ethics and the learner-centred approach: Developing materials on organ transplant and euthanasia in an English as a foreign language classroom in higher education

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valéria Jamrichová ◽  
Katarína Zamborová
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Organ Transplant ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Materials Development ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Health Studies ◽  
Sensitive Issues

AbstractA learner-centred approach puts students amidst the learning process and helps them become involved in that process. It provides an opportunity for students to choose and direct the course of the lesson. This approach is especially appropriate when dealing with ethical concerns that might be sensitive issues. When it comes to the sources for the development of teaching materials, the Internet provides numerous possibilities. Not only does it enable students to choose from a wide variety of topics but it also offers, for both teachers and students, a chance to develop their own up-to-date materials through which students improve their language skills. Nonetheless, teachers can help their students to become more autonomous and develop strategies for lifelong learning. The aim of this article is to provide ideas on materials development for teaching English as a foreign language to students of medicine and health studies and to link theory and practice in the Slovak context. Specifically, it focuses on how topics in medical ethics, such as organ transplant and euthanasia, could be taught by emphasizing the learner-centred approach. Involving the student in the learning process and using the Internet as an easily accessible source enables students to develop their skills and strategies, which will help them become more autonomous, and thus develop their confidence in dealing with authentic English outside the classroom.

scholarly journals Teacher’s and learner’s roles in autonomy-oriented foreign language teaching: a theoretical investigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Dung Nguyen Tri Tran
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Theoretical Investigation ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Learner Autonomy ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Global Language

The global language teaching community has largely spotlighted students’ autonomous learning for the last few decades. Through the thorough review of the existing literature on learner autonomy, this article aims to theoretically investigate this concept as well as clearly specify the roles played by teachers and students in an autonomy-oriented classroom. Autonomous learning is not at all synonymous with the absolute elimination of teacher’s role and learner-learner relationships. In fact, language instructors need to comprehend their roles in a multidimensional way, and students are supposed to be responsibly active for their own learning process as well as positively interdependent for academic cooperation.

scholarly journals CHALLENGE TASK FOR TEACHERS IN TEACHING ACADEMIC ESSAYS FOR POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS DURING THE PANDEMIC

Epigram ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-70
Author(s):  
Yogi Widiawati
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Multimodal Learning ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Use Of Internet

A myriad research has demonstrated the use of internet as an approach to teaching English as foreign language (EFL). The little research on this topic of interest has been undertaken in the Indonesian higher education context. Particularly, the use of digital tool as practicing and examining students’ writing remains under-explored in this educational setting. With these in mind, this research presents an empirical study that looks into to what extent the deployment of a digital tool mediates multimodal learning tasks in the EFL classroom. The study specifically examines challenges and benefits to develop students’ writing and reading competences. The study also looks at the roles of teacher and students in the entire learning process. A total of 80 polytechnic students volunteered to participate the study. Individually, they were assigned to perform a series of tasks, including (1) connecting to website, (2) reading articles and instruction in, and (3) writing essays. Drawing on these data, the present chapter reports on four major findings, that is: (1) drafting and negotiating strategies for writing essay creation, (2) framing the use of language in composing, (3) discussing the result essay creation and improvement, and (4) positioning roles of teachers and students in the entire learning process

scholarly journals Importance of Assessment in ELT

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irfan Tosuncuoglu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Assessment Procedures

Assessment has an important role in education and it has a critical role in the teaching process. Through appropriate assessment, teachers can classify and grade their students, give feedback and structure their teaching accordingly. Recently, educators and scientists have been becoming more interested in the requirements of assessment procedures in the scope of foreign language teaching and the learning process, as forms of assessment have been changing. The assessment procedures relate to authenticity, practicality, reliability, validity and wash back, and are considered the basic principles of assessment in foreign language teaching and learning. The main value of these aforementioned principles is to distinguish the effects of assessment and review any classroom based issues between the teacher and the student. As the assessment process affects both teachers and students, significance and consideration should be given to assessment procedures in foreign language teaching.

scholarly journals Language Learning Through Drama

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-380
Author(s):  
Nuriye Değirmenci Uysal ◽  
Fatih Yavuz
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Role Of Teachers ◽  
The Impact

This study presents a review of the literature regarding the impact of drama on dimensions of second/ foreign language learning. The paper first discusses the importance of integrating drama into the second/ foreign language learning process and the role of teachers and students in the learning process. Then, after introducing the pedagogical and linguistic aspects of using drama techniques in the language classroom in a broader perspective, it focuses on the drama-oriented verbal and nonverbal exercises. Next, the paper reviews the studies on the language learning through drama, and concludes that using drama in language teaching would facilitate emotional and social development in addition to language development of students while it points out that the number of studies on the issue is limited. 

scholarly journals Implementation of Learning to Write News Text via the Internet in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era (Case Study in Class VIII MTs N 1 Surakarta)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Rina Dewi Astuti ◽  
Andayani Andayani ◽  
Suyitno Suyitno
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
Interesting Learning ◽  
Interest And Motivation

The aim of this study is to describe and explain: 1) lesson plan of writing news text via the internet; 2) the implementation of learning to write news text via the internet; 3) obstacles encountered in learning to write news text via the internet; and 4) the effort of the students to solve obstacles they faced when learned to write news text via the internet in the COVID-19 pandemic era. This study is descriptive qualitative that conducted in the class VIII MTs N 1 Surakarta. Source of the data of this study were from: (1) indonesian language teachers and students of class VIII as an informant and (2) documents such as syllabus, lesson plan, and textbooks as the learning media and material in the process of teaching and learning Indonesian language. This study uses purposive technique to collecting the data. Data collecting technique used as follows: 1) interview and 2) document analysis. The result of this study were 1) lesson planning of writing news text via internet in the COVID-19 pandemic era of class VIII has running good; 2) the lesson of writing news text via internet in the COVID-19 pandemic era was conducted in a good way; 3) the obstacles in the learning process were separated as three kinds as follows: a) the students’ psychological unpreparedness in facing distance learning, b) students have lack of interest and motivation to follow the learning process via internet, and c) students were the different levels of understanding abilities; 4) there are four efforts to overcome the obstacles. First, the collaboration between the material and the interesting learning media. Second, teacher gave some games such as online quiz. Third, students tried to find information and review the material. Fourth, teacher gave opportunities for students to ask questions.

scholarly journals Urgent Transition to Group Online Foreign Language Instruction: Problems and Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Daria V. Kolesova ◽  
Leonid V. Moskovkin ◽  
Tatiana I. Popova
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Teachers And Students

The purpose of this work is to study how teachers and students react to the urgent large-scale transition to online education. The research was done via surveys conducted at the Center for Additional Educational Programs in the field of Russian as a Foreign Language at St. Petersburg State University. March 2020 transition to distance learning kept intact the lesson schedule, the duration of lessons, and the compliance with the approved programs. This case study was conducted as follows: (1) a questionnaire for teachers was distributed via e-mail; (2) teachers’ responses were collected and processed; (3) a questionnaire for students was created in Google Forms; (4) students’ responses were collected and processed; (5) the research results were described and analyzed; (6) teachers’ and students’ responses were compared. The study involved 45 teachers and 100 foreign students, mostly from China. The majority of teachers taught at Level A2 (48%); the majority of students studied at Level B1 (36%). The study shows that modern teachers (77.8%) have a high degree of adaptability, which allows them to switch to new teaching formats in two weeks. They use a variety of teaching aids: not only textbooks mandated by the curriculum (100%), but also other textbooks (91.1%), educational materials from the Internet (88.9%), authentic audio/video materials (51.1%), and self-developed educational materials (53.3%). According to students, the most effective are the authentic materials from the Internet (45%), and the textbook mandated by the program (41%). Both teachers and students noted difficulties in the online training of four language skills: speaking (35.6% of teachers and 32% of students), writing (17.8% and 32%, respectively), listening (15.6% and 40%), and reading (11.1% and 17%). Teachers lack personal communication with students (35.6%), specialized online tools for teaching Russian as a foreign language (13.3%), and effective means of monitoring the acquisition of educational material (31.1%). They strive to solve these problems through a variety of activities, creating an atmosphere conducive to authentic communication. Research data correspond with the conclusions of methodologists about the fundamentally new nature of the relationship between teachers and students in the virtual environment, which is manifested in a less hierarchic teacher-student relationship due to greater initiative, involvement, and independence of students in an online lesson. The article presents a way to study the perception of changes in the teaching mode by teachers and students. The research enriches the e-learning knowledge area with data on how the sudden mass transition to online foreign language learning was carried out.

The Structure of English Classroom Discourse in SMP Negeri 1 Tebing Tinggi

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Novelia Siregar ◽  
T. Silvana Sinar
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Classroom Discourse ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Video Tape ◽  
English Class ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
English Classroom ◽  
Teaching Learning

This study is concerned with the structure of English classroom discourse in SMP Negeri 1 Tebing Tinggi. The objectives of this study were to describe the structures of English classroom discourse, to describe how the structures are linguistically realized and to reason for the realizations of the English class structure. The source of the data in this study was English teachers and also the students while the data are the utterances from the teacher and the students and semiotic markers as marked in the text. The instruments used for colleting data were video tape recorder and researcher’s fieldnote. The data were collected by observing and recording the utterances uttered by the teachers and students and writing all semiotics then classified them into types of exchanges as Sinclair and Coulthard theory. The research result mentioned that he structure of English classroom were teacher elicit, teacher direct, teacher information, boundary, pupil elicit, check, repeat, reinforce and reinitiating (II). These structures were dominantly realized by IR structure. English as a foreign language was also one point made the students afraid of uttering the utterances in teaching learning process.   Keywords: classroom discourse, pattern, Sinclair and Coulthard theory, structures.

scholarly journals Teaching a Second (Foreign) Language in Diverse Classes

2021 ◽  
Vol X (3) ◽  
pp. 74-80
Author(s):  
Naira Bepievi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Comparative Methods ◽  
Verbal Nouns ◽  
Multilingual Students ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teaching Learning

In diverse classes, that is, in classes in which multilingual students study, the difficulties that accompany the teaching of a second language (foreign language) should be taken into account. In schools where the Ossetian language is taught, Georgians learn this language together with Ossetian children. It is known that the Ossetian language belongs to the group of Indo-European languages and, naturally, differs from the Caucasian languages, although there are some similarities between them. This difference concerns both phonetics, morphology and syntax. In this work, we will touch upon some morphological and syntactic peculiarities, which should be known and taken into account when studying/teaching this language in diverse classes. In order to better guide the teaching/learning process, this work will analyze the ways and methods of overcoming grammatical difficulties. It should be taken into account the circumstance that in most Indo-European languages there is no category of behavior and contact. Comparative methods explain some of the characteristics of verbs, verbal nouns, prepositions, and other categories. In addition to theoretical material, the work will take into account practical exercises that will be of interest to both teachers and students.

scholarly journals How to Lend the Shoulder, Not to Do Harm during Online Learning Russian as a Foreign Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Svetlana S. Pashkovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Information And Communication

The relevance of the research topic is due to the possibilities of online learning in an uncertain critical situation. New life conditions made us see a model of teaching Russian as a foreign language in a different perspective: there came changes not only in number and quality of the material being learned, but also the form of communication of active subjects of educational process, teaching strategy itself. The purpose of the article is to present a theoretical analysis of the features of online teaching Russian as a foreign language in a forced situation of general technologization of the learning process in Russian universities. On the one hand, modern information and communication technologies open up wide opportunities for choosing a learning model depending on the goals of teaching Russian as a foreign language, and on the other, they create negative stereotypes in the organization of educational process. To achieve this goal, combinations of research methods were chosen: a) methods used at the empirical level - analysis of scientific literature, scientific observation and generalization of pedagogical experience; b) methods used at the theoretical level - abstracting, analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction. The research material includes the theoretical works of linguists, methodologists, practicing teachers, as well as real online education. In the course of the study, the theory and practice of online teaching Russian as a foreign language were analyzed, the requirements for effective online learning were determined; the specific tasks in online education that teachers of Russian as a foreign language face were revealed. The authors conclude that effective online learning requires: 1) understanding its distinctive features; knowing which information and communication technologies are suitable for the solution of particular didactic tasks - the content of the educational material, principles, methods and strategies of teaching depend on this; 2) taking into account the specifics of the subject - Russian as a foreign language, its difficulties, didactic tasks that need to be solved in the learning process. The article shows that the construction of an effective model of online teaching of RFL is possible in accordance with the modern scientific recommendations of methodologists, linguists, psychologists, specialists in the field of using computer technologies in teaching foreign languages. Online learning forms a variable (flexible) model of teaching Russian as a foreign language in constantly changing living conditions, in the conditions of shock learning. The prospects for creating effective online teaching of Russian as a foreign language and using all the didactic possibilities of information and communication technologies are outlined.

scholarly journals EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF TOPONYMICAL DICTIONARIES IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Lyubov G. Chumarova ◽  
Evgeniya A. Belyayeva ◽  
Rezida
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
English Speaking

Purpose of the study: This article is about the experience of using toponymical dictionaries in the process of developing communicative skills of the students at undergraduate level. Methodology: The authors use toponymical dictionaries of the native language and of the learning foreign language as valuable sources in their work. According to our experience, the toponymical dictionaries help to motivate students for self-study, to find interesting information about their native places where they were born and grew up and about the English-speaking countries. Students research the names of the places with great interest. Results: The authors analyzed the educational value of toponymical dictionaries. In the article, it is described the research of some successful methods and techniques of using toponymical dictionaries in teaching foreign language. It was researched pedagogical principals of using toponymical dictionaries in teaching and learning process; what results are possible to achieve and what exercises can be used working with toponymical dictionaries in teaching foreign language. Applications of this study: This research can be used for the universities, teachers, and students. Novelty/Originality of this study: In this research, the model of the Educational Value of Toponymical Dictionaries in Teaching Foreign Language is presented in a comprehensive and complete manner.

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