scholarly journals Effects of Text-messaging on the Academic Writing of Arab EFL Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh M. Al-Salman ◽  
Aziz T. Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Arabic And English ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
English Academic Writing

This paper investigates the effect of text-messaging on Arab EFL learners’ English academic writing. It also investigates teachers’ attitudes and reactions to the presence of e-texting features in their students’ writing. Qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis were employed on data obtained from the following sources: (1) a sample of freshman students’ writing, (2) a survey investigating students’ use of e-chatting in Arabic and English, and (3) a questionnaire eliciting teachers’ reactions to students’ use of texting features in academic writing. The data were collected from a student sample of the Arab Open University (AOU). The research findings show that Arab EFL students’ writing does not reveal a heavy use of texting features, which suggests that this phenomenon neither poses a serious threat nor adversely impacts students’ written English.

scholarly journals Toward an Intercultural Rhetoric: Improving Chinese EFL Students’ Essay Writing through Outline Writing

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Fang Li ◽  
Yingqin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Intercultural Rhetoric ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
English Academic Writing ◽  
Chinese And English

This study explores the effects of teaching EFL students to use an outline in their English essays. The researchers maintain that using outlines can raise students’ awareness of different audience expectations embedded in the rhetoric of the target language (English) and culture and can improve their English academic writing. The study was based on a four-week long case study at a university in Xi’an, China, in which 24 Chinese EFL students at the College of Translation Studies participated. A discourse analysis was conducted by comparing the Chinese EFL students’ English essays produced at the beginning of the study with those produced at the end of the study after learning and practicing outlining for writing the English essays. Email inquiries were used for understanding the participants’ viewpoints on learning how to write English essay outlines. The findings reveal that teaching EFL students to use outlining in their English essays is an effective way to help them improve their essay writing. Not only can it enhance the students’ understanding about using the English thesis statements, but it can also help improve the use of related, logical, and specific detailed examples to support the main ideas in their essays. The email inquiries also revealed that the students believe that outline learning helped them to understand the differences between Chinese and English essay writing. The implications of the study for intercultural rhetoric are also discussed.

Participatory action research with ex-prisoners: Using Photovoice and one woman’s story told through poetry

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Jarldorn ◽  
‘Deer’
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Unexpected Findings

This paper provides an unexpected and extraordinary example of research data from a Photovoice project conducted with ex-prisoners in South Australia. It focusses on the contribution made by one of the participants who chose the pseudonym ‘Deer’. Deer joins me as a co-author, her voice shines in this paper, albeit through a pseudonym she chose for the project. Photovoice, a qualitative research method, uses a feminist framework and typically produces rich thick accounts of lives and experiences that cannot be adequately captured by quantitative research. Both qualitative and quantitative methods of research data collection each have merits, but qualitative approaches tend to engage the researcher, participant and later the reader on a more personal level. Moreover, unexpected findings are more likely to arise when researchers ask participants to express what they believe is important to their experience. This paper provides such an example, where the unexpected gift of poetry adds a deeper dimension to research findings.

scholarly journals Investigação do efeito do material do curso on-line na capacidade de redação dos alunos de inglês como língua estrangeira

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-339
Author(s):  
Fakhereh Safatian
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Methodological Triangulation ◽  
Course Material ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
On Line

The paper aimed to investigate the effect of using online course material on EFL students’ writing ability has conducted. The focus of the study is mainly to discover the writing attitudes and learning problems among students. The study employs a methodological triangulation whereby both qualitative and quantitative methods will be used. The study incorporated three stages. First, the foundation survey and the pretest were regulated to all the samples. Next, in the four-week treatment stage, understudies were obliged to do the two errands in class. The main research tools used in the study are the Students’ Survey Questionnaires and the interview questions. 20 English school majors in a rookie composing class took an interest in the study. The significant discoveries show that understudies made noteworthy change in equivalent word use in the controlled tests and still kept up that learning two months after they finished the web learning units. It was concluded from the correlation of the pretest and posttest papers that the students increased their general composition quality and execution in the utilization of synonymous descriptive words. The students had the capacity impel a few examples for the target expressions of 25 equivalent words with different degrees of achievement. By and large, the exactness rate of incitement was more than 50%.

scholarly journals EFL STUDENT’S PROBLEMS WITH PARAGRAPH WRITING AT TAY DO UNIVERSITY, VIETNAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thi Tra My Ly ◽  
Thi Thuy Hang Nguyen ◽  
Thi Minh Uyen Phan ◽  
Thi Thuy Ha Dinh ◽  
Thuy Vi Huynh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Grammatical Structures

This paper studied problems in EFL students’ paragraph writing. The research participants were first-year students of English in Tay Do University (TDU). To achieve the desired aims of the current study, the researcher combined both qualitative and quantitative methods, using questionnaires, interviews, and observations as the main instruments. The researcher used the package of social sciences (SPSS) for analysis. Research results showed that the freshmen at TDU often encountered problems in writing paragraphs. These accounted for grammatical structures, vocabulary, and coherence. Basing on the research results, students could recognize their difficulties when writing and find some new ways to overcome them. It is suggested that teachers should find and update some new teaching methods so as to develop students’ paragraph writing skills. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0920/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF LOGGER PRO INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTED APPLICATIONS IN THE SCOPE OF STEM

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (5) ◽  
pp. 751-766
Author(s):  
Ahmet Kumaş
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Physics Teaching ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The University

Although advanced technological tools and equipment are used effectively in daily life, the inability of all students to access high-tech experiment applications in high schools negatively affects disadvantaged student groups in the further education process. The main purpose of the research evaluates students in four different categories about 10th-grade illuminance subjects by using Logger Pro technology within the scope of STEM. The study was carried out with 84 students at the school where the researcher taught in the fall semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. Within the scope of action research, qualitative and quantitative methods were used together. Quantitative findings were evaluated with SPSS and qualitative findings were evaluated with content analysis. Based on the research findings, it is revealed that the use of experimental content supported by innovative technology within the scope of science in high schools make a significant contribution in three categories within the scope of hopes and goals for STEM. Making applications supported by Logger Pro with technological content in schools improves the responsibilities of students in homework, contributes to their successful graduation from high schools and enables them to get into the departments they want in the university. These practices cause students to enjoy the professions they will choose in the future and help them reach their favorite professions by working harder. Keywords: experimental content, innovative technology, physics teaching, STEM

scholarly journals Translating Animal Idioms from English into Arabic: An Application of Nida’s Strategies for Translating Idioms

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-100
Author(s):  
Filwah i Dawood Al-Qahtan ◽  
Osama Abdulrhman Al Qahtani
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Geographical Environment ◽  
Arabic And English ◽  
Mixed Approach

Many animal-related idioms are found in Arabic and English languages. However, since there are some differences between Arab and western cultures in history, tradition, geographical environment and mode of thinking, animal idioms can create a cultural gap, which hinders mutual understanding between both cultures. The cultural gap is noticed when translating animal idioms from English into Arabic. Therefore, this research investigates problems encountering translators in the translation of animal idioms from English into Arabic. It also presents strategies that can be applied in the rendition of animal idioms from the source language into the target language. The study discusses problems and strategies of translating animal idioms based on Eugene Nida’s strategies for translating idioms (1964). To conduct the study, the researcher developed an empirical survey adopting a mixed approach of qualitative and quantitative methods, to gain a detailed understanding of the translational problems and strategies followed by Saudi translators in the transference of animal idioms from English into Arabic. Findings of the study indicate that most translator respondents opted for the strategy of translating an idiom into a non-idiom even when a corresponding idiom is found in Arabic.

scholarly journals Translating Animal Idioms from English into Arabic: An Application of Nida’s Strategies for Translating Idioms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filwah Dawood Al-Qahtani ◽  
Osama Abdulrhman Al Qahtani
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Geographical Environment ◽  
Arabic And English ◽  
Mixed Approach

Many animal-related idioms are found in Arabic and English languages. However, since there are some differences between Arab and western cultures in history, tradition, geographical environment and mode of thinking, animal idioms can create a cultural gap, which hinders mutual understanding between both cultures. The cultural gap is noticed when translating animal idioms from English into Arabic. Therefore, this research investigates problems encountering translators in the translation of animal idioms from English into Arabic. It also presents strategies that can be applied in the rendition of animal idioms from the source language into the target language. The study discusses problems and strategies of translating animal idioms based on Eugene Nida’s strategies for translating idioms (1964). To conduct the study, the researcher developed an empirical survey adopting a mixed approach of qualitative and quantitative methods, to gain a detailed understanding of the translational problems and strategies followed by Saudi translators in the transference of animal idioms from English into Arabic. Findings of the study indicate that most translator respondents opted for the strategy of translating an idiom into a non-idiom even when a corresponding idiom is found in Arabic.

scholarly journals ANALYZING ERRORS IN THESIS WRITING: SHOULD GRAMMAR BE AN ISSUE IN ENGLISH ACADEMIC WRITING FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH COLLEGE?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Riana Suryanti Tambunan ◽  
Widya Andayani ◽  
Winda Setiasari ◽  
Fauziah Khairani Lubis ◽  
Bahagia Saragih
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
State University ◽  
Word Form ◽  
Result Section ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Student Researchers ◽  
Thesis Writing ◽  
English Academic Writing ◽  
English Students

The result section is an essential part of the thesis to summarize information about research findings. Presenting research findings in terms of clear and concise writing is vital for the English students of the higher education. To this, students should know the linguistic aspects of writing. Previous research shows that a lot of research has been carried out regarding grammatical issues in writing, but little research has been done on deep grammar issues in writing the result section of the thesis. Thus, this study aims to analyze the grammatical issues in student-researchers’ thesis. Data were officially collected from the reading room of the faculty of state university in Medan. The data were analyzed according to Bourke & Holbrook's (1992) theory. The results show student-researchers are still struggling to use verb-form issues, nouns, and tenses. At last, word form remains the most dominant issues of errors.

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