scholarly journals AN EXPLORATION OF THE PROGRESSION POLICY AND ITS EF

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-207
Author(s):  
Thandi Priscillia Nkosi ◽  
◽  
Rufus Olufemi Adebayo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Parental Support ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Pass Rate ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Learner Achievement

This article examines the Progression Policy and its effects on learner achievement in the Further Education and Training Phase (Grades 10 to 12) amongst five underperforming public secondary schools in Pinetown. Since the adoption of the Progression Policy, the pass rate noticeable declined between 2014 and 2016. Thus, the Progression Policy is used in this study as an analytical framework, whilst the qualitative research design was used to gather data. The faceto-face semi-structured interviews, as well as focus group discussions with educators and principals, served as data collection methods. This study emphasized challenges attributed to the implementation of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement and the Progression Policy in the Pinetown District. The study further revealed that the South African education system, from the Foundation Phase level all the way up, is plagued by serious challenges. The identified challenges include a lack of parental support, learner absenteeism, learner indiscipline, learner demotivation, resource allocation, and teacher-learner ratios. The results also revealed that the socioeconomic environment contributes to a dysfunctional condition in schools, which has a negative influence on the teaching and learning experience amongst educators and learners. Thus, the study proposes the reconfiguration of the Progression Policy alongside practicable and relatable recommendations inconsonance to study.

scholarly journals Students’ Perceptions Towards Extensive Reading In Efl Contexts

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-104
Author(s):  
Rini Lindawati
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Extensive Reading ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Learning English

Most university students are struggling in learning English as Foreign Language. The utilization of an extensive reading strategy will potentially promote more striking influential impacts on EFL learners’ target language proficiency. The students' perceptions influence the success of teaching and learning English. The research aimed to know the students’ perception of Extensive Reading in EFL contexts. The researcher used the Qualitative Research method. This study was conducted in Universitas Islam Majapahit. The researcher selected twelve senior students of the English language education department who have already received the extensive reading subject in their previous semesters. The researcher collected the data through semi-structured interviews. The data were then analyzed by following Miles and Huberman’s (1994) framework. The results showed that the students had positive perceptions toward Extensive Reading practices. They considered if Extensive Reading is a reading activity for pleasure and information search where they can read material without any restraint. Besides, Extensive Reading also contributed to developing their comprehension and English skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary mastery, and grammar. Moreover, Extensive Reading enabled them to enjoy the learning experience.

scholarly journals Reflections on Blended Learning in Management Education: A Qualitative Study with a Push-pull Migration Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 231971452110136
Author(s):  
Jaya Gupta ◽  
Kapil Garg
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
Teaching And Learning Environment ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Education Today

COVID-19 pandemic is a major disruptor for education today. Its onset has necessitated innovations in design and delivery of teaching and learning environment with extensive technology integration. The present study aims to scan the factors that are bringing about major transformations in management education in current times. The study extends the demographic push-pull (PP) migratory model to explain and analyse the factors that can enable a smooth transit to a technology enabled virtual teaching and learning mode in business schools or B-schools. In the present phenomenological qualitative study, based on the management faculty responses, the major pull and push factors influencing this switching decision are identified. The data is gathered using semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions designed to answer the research questions. The conceptual model has been proposed that portrays the factors influencing switching intentions. This article highlights the need of reforms in the prevailing management educational models. Also, it provides insights into how the necessary changes in Management Education 4.0 that are important to improve the overall learning experience of future business leaders.

scholarly journals Norwegian in-service teachers’ perspectives on language corpora in teaching English

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-106
Author(s):  
Barry Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Further Education ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Learner Corpus

This study aims to explore potential reasons why the use of the tools and methods of corpus linguistics are not prevalent in English teaching in Norway, using the research question What do in-service English teachers in Norway find useful about corpora and what do they find challenging? The study provides interview data from in-service teachers, contributing to our understanding of the in-service perspective on corpora. The research design consists of teaching corpus use in seminars for in-service English teachers (featuring LancsLex, the concordancer AntConc and the OANC), integrated into a language course that is part of a further education programme, and semi-structured interviews with four of the students who took the course, during which they also interacted with Netspeak, SKELL and COCA. As with previous research, the in-service teachers found corpora particularly useful for teaching and learning vocabulary, and found challenges to use which are categorized here as usability (criticism of AntConc), IT challenges (a lack of IT skills among teachers), learner-corpus interaction challenges (the complexity of software and concordance lines for pupils; pupil uninterest in language), and lack of teacher need (mistakes being “obvious” to teachers in the lower years). The article discusses some implications of these findings. Keywords: English language teaching, pedagogical corpus application, corpora           

scholarly journals Improving Student Teachers’ Digital Pedagogy through Meaningful Learning Activities

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (Number 2) ◽  
pp. 143-173
Author(s):  
Siti Nazuar Sailin ◽  
Noor Aida Mahmor
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Digital Pedagogy

Purpose – This study aims to examine the attributes of meaningful learning that student teachers perceived as enabling them to improve their digital pedagogy. It is concerned with how the meaningful learning activities help to prepare student teachers to successfully integrate digital technologies in their future teaching practice. Methodology – This study adopted a qualitative research design and was underpinned by a meaningful learning theory as the theoretical and analytical framework. A total of 24 final year student teachers participated in this study. Data were mainly collected through student teachers’ reflections regarding their learning experience. Thematic analysis was utilized to analyze and present the findings. Findings –The findings offer some important insights into how the learning activities carried out in this Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project have directly and indirectly accelerated the acquisition of all the five attributes of meaningful learning. The findings of this study reveal that meaningful learning activities contribute to the improvement of the student teachers’ knowledge of and skills in using Web 2.0. This improvement has boosted their confidence to integrate digital pedagogy in future teaching practices. The findings also indicate that although student teachers value their experiences in meaningful learning activities, they have some concerns regarding firstly, their capacities in applying digital pedagogy and secondly, the practicality of integrating Web 2.0 tools in the school setting because of several inherent limitations. Significance – Meaningful learning activities when incorporated into teacher training programmes will expose student teachers to authentic experiences which will be beneficial for their own learning and future teaching practice.

scholarly journals Editorial

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-261
Author(s):  
Mirosław Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Subsequent Paper ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
L2 Motivational Self System

The second 2019 issue of SSLLT brings together six papers, all of which report empirical studies dealing with different aspects of teaching and learning additional languages in various contexts, and it also includes two book reviews. In the first contribution, Alastair Henry combines Hermans’ (2008) concept of the dialogical self with the tenets of complex dynamic systems theories (Hiver & Al-Hoorie, 2016) to investigate the developing professional identity of a preservice teacher of English during the practicum in a school in western Sweden. Using a combination of intra-personal data in the form of semi-structured interviews conducted before and after the practicum as well as inter-personal data in the form of forum postings and a stimulated recall discussion of a lesson taught by the participant, Henry shows that the construction of teacher identity entails interaction between present experiences and the imagined self. In the subsequent paper, Anne Huhtala, Anta Kursiša and Marjo Vesalainen seek to identify the motives driving 51 Finnish university students to learn foreign languages other than English, in this case French, German and Swedish, adopting as a theoretical framework Dörnyei’s (2009) theory of the L2 motivational self-system. Qualitative analysis of the narrative reflections written by the participants revealed that although the initial decisions to engage in language learning may be driven by social pressure, or the ought-to self, in the course of time it is the ideal self and the L2 learning experience that start to play the dominant role.

Does the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement Address Teaching and Learning of Reading Skills in English First Additional Language?

Mousaion ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannah Mapotlakishe Rapetsoa ◽  
Rachael Jesika Singh
Keyword(s):  
Reading Ability ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Reading Levels ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Assessment Policy ◽  
New Curriculum

There has been a general outcry in South Africa that learners’ reading ability has deteriorated. This could be attributed to the fact that since 1998, new curricula were consistently introduced and changed with an aim of redressing the legacy of apartheid. The whole process of curriculum change not only affected the learners’ ability to read, write and count, but the quality of education as well. When reading skill are not developed, learners cannot cope with their academic responsibilities. The aim of this article is to determine whether the recent curriculum, the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS), gives the teaching and learning of reading skills the necessary attention, and whether there is improvement in the reading ability of learners. The study used the mixed methods approach, but focused mainly on the qualitative approach, and employed a small scale quantitative focus to collect data from grade ten English First Additional Language (EFAL) learners and their educators, as well as curriculum policy documents. Although on paper CAPS seems to be a good curriculum, three years after its inception, educators are concerned about the reading ability of EFAL learners who are in grade ten in the Further Education and Training (FET) phase. Findings from educators and learners’ data indicate that there are some learners who can read well and those who are lagging behind. The challenge of educators not receiving intense training in order to implement the new curriculum was also highlighted. The study recommends that training of educators to implement the new curriculum EFAL educators should focus on building vocabulary and teaching comprehension skills so that the reading levels of EFAL learners in the FET phase can be enhanced.

scholarly journals “DISTANCED” TIMES: INVESTIGATING PRE-SERVICE MUSIC TEACHERS’ EXPERIENCES ON ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol LXIX (1) ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Miruna Luana Miulescu ◽  
Florentina-Lavinia Matei
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
Service Music

The technology use is flourishing in a growing set of educational contexts. Music education is no exception, seeing more and more learning practices be actively incorporated into educational frameworks. Our study seeks to investigate the online teaching and learning experiences of music university students who are participating in the pre-service teacher education during the Covid-19 pandemic. The participants of the present study are pre-service music students (n=22) enrolled in the teaching education programme in their 2nd or 3rd year at the university. By making use of a phenomenological qualitative inquiry, data was collected through participating at semi-structured interviews via ZOOM videotelephony software in January and February 2021. The key findings indicate a neither overtly positive or negative teaching and learning experience, even if the students had to navigate an avalanche of offline learning technology requirements both as students and teachers in a limited amount of time. The results of the study indicate that teacher training programmes should consider the move to virtual teaching and learning as an opportunity for change and to go beyond the emergency online practices and develop quality online educational activities.

scholarly journals Which Factors Affect Learner Achievement? Analysing the Role of Psychological, Surface Level, Environmental and Learner Effort Variables

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al-Azawei ◽  
Karsten Lundqvist
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Environmental Variable ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Learner Performance ◽  
Learner Achievement ◽  
Log File

<p>The meshing hypothesis of learning styles suggests that matching teaching and learning styles<br />can promote learning experience. In this research, learning styles (psychological variable),<br />gender diversity (surface level variable), learning modes (environmental variable), and<br />learning time (learner effort variable) were integrated in a model in order to explore their<br />pedagogical impacts on learner performance. The investigated learning environments adopted<br />the traditional teaching approach of ‘one-size-fits-all’. Variables of 59 undergraduate students<br />were measured using the Index of Learning Styles (ILS), an academic record, and a log file of<br />Moodle system. Based on the proposed model, the identified hypotheses were quantitatively<br />analysed. Surface level, environmental, and learner effort variables showed to have a<br />significant effect on learner performance. However, the meshing hypothesis could not be<br />proven. This suggests that other variables are more likely to influence achievement than<br />learning styles.</p>

scholarly journals The teaching and learning experience of home care in undergraduate nursing programs

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-529
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Hermann ◽  
Luciane Favero ◽  
Vânia Marli Schubert Backes ◽  
Elizabeth Bernardino ◽  
Maria Ribeiro Lacerda
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Nursing Programs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Grounded Theory Method ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Academic Year

The objectives of this research were interpreted as the teaching and learning home care is experienced by students and teachers at the Nursing Undergraduate Course, at the Federal University of Paraná and build a theoretical model that explain this experience. It is a qualitative research that used the Grounded Theory method. Semi-structured interviews were performed with eight of the last academic year of nursing undergraduate course and five professors of content related to the topic. The experience in home care occurs and grows out in contact with reality through interaction between practical and theoretical issues and stage with specific working hours. The student comes across various nuances of this type of assistance, which allows understanding the health system and knowledge expansion related to home care. This fact shows that this area of expertise should be part of nursing undergraduate course because it is in expanding process and requires trained professionals to perform it.

scholarly journals Teaching and learning experience with a virtual classroom in the field of pedagogical support due to Covid-19

Apertura ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-35
Author(s):  
Leda Beatriz Digión ◽  
◽  
Margarita María Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Virtual Design ◽  
School Year ◽  
National University ◽  
Didactic Strategies ◽  
Health Situation

This work describes a pedagogical proposal for the dictation of a degree course, which originally had a face-to-face modality, sustained with the e-learning modality in the 2020 school year due to the social health situation caused by Covid-19. An analytical framework based on the pedagogical model of dimensions was applied, adapted for the virtual design of the Medical Informatics subject, of the Medicine career of the National University of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. The proposed dimensioning in the field of the pedagogical accompaniment process projected by the authorities of the faculty, allowed to program the active participation of the students and organize the monitoring of learning, through the axes proposed by the chair: individual work, group work, interactions and interventions. Regarding the results obtained on educational mediation in the virtual classroom, it was possible to identify and propose the guidelines and resources in a new pedagogical dimension on didactic strategies; thus, this proposed dimension is considered a highly usable component for teaching work in search of an autonomous student, in terms of achieving goals in their teaching and learning process, as shown by the presented experience.

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