Using English to Learn While Learning to Use English: International Field Trips as a Way to Learn (Through) Language

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Lucélia Ramos Alcântara
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Direct Relation ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Learning English

AbstractLearning English has always been the goal for many people to achieve. Content knowledge of any subject used to have no direct relation with mastering a foreign language. That is water under the bridge. Learning through a foreign language is a trend and must be considered as a way to prepare students for a globalized world. The adoption of a Content Language Integrated Learning Approach seems to fulfill the need for future successful professionals in field. By offering the opportunity to live real-life situations where content has to be acquired through any understanding of input in English, international field trips are an excellent way to educate content-literate and language-effective students.

scholarly journals Using English as the Language of Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-160
Author(s):  
Nina Meyerhöffer ◽  
Daniel C. Dreesmann
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Eighth Graders ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Exchange Model ◽  
Desert Ecosystem ◽  
Secondary English ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
Curricular Content

This article presents the development and testing of a content-based video exchange model as a motivating means to introduce lower secondary English learners to English as the language of science. The central goal was that students reach the required curricular content knowledge despite learning some of the content in a foreign language. The model was tested in German seventh-grade classes (n = 133), in which the students communicated with U.S. eighth-graders on the topic of ecology. Following field trips to a forest and a desert ecosystem, students presented and compared biotic and abiotic data in videos. The German students’ content knowledge and their motivation were assessed in a pretest/posttest design. They met the curricular outcome requirements, and their motivation was remarkably high at both test times. We discuss implications for further application of the exchange model.

scholarly journals Review of Literature on Learners' Personality in Language Learning: Focusing on Extrovert and Introvert Learners

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1478
Author(s):  
Maryam Cheraghi Shehni ◽  
Tahereh Khezrab
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Primary Students ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Learning English

The improvement in learning English is based on how students are enthusiastic about the subject of English. Learning languages, mainly English, is a great need, even for our primary students who have the responsibility to develop in the globalized world (Muñoz, 2002). These traits are the critical parts of one’s personality because they make him unique, and what psychologists have desired to study and measure in the process of learning English as the foreign or second language. Indeed, the variations between individuals, their learning situations and the contexts where they learn are some features that can illustrate the complexity of learning a foreign language. Conversely, in research on the acquisition of foreign languages, it is essential to consider the differences between individuals, their different ways of learning styles and the environment where they are involved.

scholarly journals Investigating Iraqi EFL Learners' Awareness of Selected English Proverbs

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (38) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Azhar Chassab Jabir
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Learning English

       Learning English as a foreign language does  not refer to the mastery of  the rules or merely the grammar of  English  . Rather , it refers to the full understanding of the semantic ( and syntactic ) concepts of that language , and employing this in real life situations . In this sense , the current research represents an attempt at investigating the Iraqi  EFL Learners’ recognition and  production of selected English proverbs . The study is divided into five sections (  an  introduction , three sections and a conclusion ) .  Evidence shows   that English proverbs represent a   very important component in learning English as a foreign language , and that Iraqi EFL learners face considerable  difficulties in understanding and employing them in real life situations .

Psychological aspects of learning english

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Zakura Makazhanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Correct Method ◽  
Learning English

The article discusses issues of effective learning and mastering a foreign language and factors affecting the learning process. The author focuses on the methodological and psychological aspects of this process. The effectiveness of learning and mastering a foreign language, its further professional use, in addition to the teacher’s talent to use the correct method of presenting and activating teaching material, the ability to build trust with students and create a comfortable environment for them in the classroom, depends largely on psychological factors, on the students’ ability to change established ideas about their ability to assimilate and freely use foreign language speech both in class and in real life.

scholarly journals Iranian EFL Learners’ Writing Problems: A Move towards Solution

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Maryam Sharafi Nejad ◽  
Shohreh Raftari ◽  
Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed Ismail ◽  
Lin Siew Eng
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Writing Problems ◽  
Learning English

Writing connotes the declaration or expression of thoughts, feelings, plans and wishes in a composed form that demands skills and expertise as opposed to knowledge. Skillful writing calls for diligent work, perusing or reading, composing through reaching inferences from perusing materials and long period of practice. This study seeks to investigate the problems and identify the practical needs of writing skill in English as Foreign Language (EFL) context with special focus on Iranian citizens studying in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). In Iran, learning English language appears cumbersome for learners because it is handled as a foreign language. Hence, the leaners are confronted with plethora of problems in writing the language because it is not utilized in real life conversation or situation. In order to achieve its objectives, the study administered questionnaires to the respondents to elicit information on the difficulties confronting them while learning English as Foreign Language and their pragmatic needs.  

scholarly journals INNOVATIVE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR ERGOTHERAPISTS APPLIED DURING ENGLISH LEARNING IN UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-233
Author(s):  
ALLA KULICHENKO ◽  
YURIY POLYEZHAYEV
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Learning English

According to Ukrainian higher educational policy, there is an urgent need to combine general competencies. Thus, the article aims at highlighting the use of innovative information and communication technologies (ICTs) for ergotherapists when learning English in Ukrainian higher educational establishments as types of such competencies. To achieve the objective of research the authors have applied theoretical and empirical methods. Besides, the authors are convinced that content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is appropriate to apply with innovative information and communication technologies when teaching a foreign language. Moreover, the research describes how to use Lumowell, a YouTube channel, Quizlet, and Zoom, free online educational platforms.

The Importance of Intercultural Communicative Competences for Tourism Labour Market: Students’ Views and their Self-Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
Zuzana Sándorová
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The Given

Abstract The present paper is founded on two pillars. Firstly, it is one of the current trends in education worldwide, i.e. to connect theory and practice. Secondly, it is the need to be interculturally competent speakers of a foreign language in today’s globalized world of massive migration flows and signs of increasing ethnocentrism. Based upon these two requirements, the ability to communicate in a FL effectively and interculturally appropriately in the tourism industry is a must, since being employed in whichever of its sectors means encountering other cultures on a daily basis. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to find out undergraduate tourism students’ opinion on the importance of intercultural communicative competences for their future profession as well as their self-assessment in the given field. The findings of the research, which are to be compared to employers’ needs, revealed that there is considerable difference between the respondents’ views on the significance of the investigated issues and their self-esteem.

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES OF VERBS IN ENGLISH AND ALBANIAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 2245-2249
Author(s):  
Suzana Ejupi ◽  
Lindita Skenderi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Grammatical Categories ◽  
Learning English

Working with English learners for many years, gives you the opportunity to encounter linguistic obstacles that they face while learning English language as a foreign language. Additionally, teaching for 13 years and observing the learning process, it enables you to recognize the students’ needs and at the same time, detect linguistic mistakes that they make, while practicing the target language. During my experience as a teacher, in terms of teaching and learning verbs in general and its grammatical categories in specific, it is noticed that Albanian learners find it relatively difficult the correct use of verbs in context and even more confusing the equivalent use of verbs in Albanian. Since verbs present an important part of speech, this study aims to investigate several differences and similarities between grammatical categories of verbs in English and Albanian. As a result, the Albanian learners of English language will be able to identify some of the major differences and similarities between the grammatical categories of verbs in English and Albanian; overcome the usual mistakes; gain the necessary knowledge regarding verbs and use them properly in English and Albanian.

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