scholarly journals MOTIVATION AND CONFIDENCE OF INDONESIAN TEACHERS TO USE ENGLISH AS A MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Mangasa Aritonang
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Medium Of Instruction ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Motivation And Confidence

This research paper investigates the motivation and confidence of Indonesian teachers of non-English to learn English and to use it as a medium of instruction resulting from their participation in a blended learning course. The purpose of the English learning for this particular group of teachers was to enable them to create English-speaking teaching and learning environment. Such environment is perceived as necessary to enhance English language learning and acquisition in some Indonesian vocational schools. The levels of motivation and confidence have been an issue because they potentially either contribute to or hinder English language learners to learn and use English for interactions. This qualitative research was undertaken using an interpretive research paradigm and a case study approach. Qualitative research data were collected from multiple sources such as indepth interviews, observation notes, online interaction script, and reflective journals of the participants. Quantitative data were collected through surveys to add meaning to the qualitative data. The research revealed varying increase in the levels of motivation and confidence of the participants. Transformation of extrinsic to intrinsic motivations appeared to occur. Contributing factors to the increase of the motivation and confidence are discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals The Importance of Pedagogical Empiricism for Sensitizing University English Language Teachers in Arab Context

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh Ahmed Saif Abdulmughni
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
English Language Learners ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning

There is a significant psychological aversion to English as a foreign language in Saudi Arabia. General weakness among learners opting for English majors and undergraduate learners of the English language is noted. Different learners are unaware of learning styles most suited to them. This research discussed the necessity for sensitizing university teachers towards the contributing factors in the success or failure of teaching and learning the English Language in Saudi Arabia. Teaching-learning processes would be fruitful if the syllabus designers, teachers, and learners become aware of important factors like teacher’s characteristics, learners’ characteristics, teaching materials, and educational institutions. This study aimed to emphasize the role of the English language teacher in facilitating learning processes, through conducting active research of English language learners at Wadi Ad-Dawasir in Saudi Arabia. This research enhances the prospects of pedagogical studies of different language learning and teaching.

The Benefits of Android Applications for an Independent Learning in Learning English Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Faiz Ushbah Mubarok ◽  
Atiqah Nurul Asri
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Android Applications ◽  
Motivation And Confidence ◽  
Learning Language ◽  
Affective Skills ◽  
Learning English

Due to the pandemic condition, we rely more on the technology usage. Technology presents us plentiful advantages and features in the teaching and learning. Specifically in smart phones, android nowadays offer numerous applications of language learning in Play Store. This article shows the benefits of Android applications namely Duolingo, Busuu, Rosetta Store, and Memrise in learning English language. These apps enhance the user’s four language skills mastery using games, riddles and other various ways. By learning language independently, students may also their cognitive, meta-cognitive and affective skills. It aids learners to gain their goals in a fun and enjoyable ways. Further, it is also beneficial in terms of improving students’ motivation and confidence, easy and simple, practical and entertaining, and sustainability. 

scholarly journals Teaching and Learning Vocabulary: What English Language Learners Perceive to Be Effective and Ineffective Strategies

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Seyyed Hatam Tamimi Sa’d ◽  
Fereshte Rajabi
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Strategy Training ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
English Language Teachers

Vocabulary constitutes an essential part of every language-learning endeavour and deserves scholarly attention. The objective of the present study was three-fold: 1) exploring Iranian English language learners’Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLSs), 2) examining language learners’ perceptions of vocabulary learning, and 3) exploring Iranian English language teachers’ Vocabulary Teaching Strategies (VTSs). In total, 145  intermediate learners of English as a foreign language, consisting of 114 males and 31 females aged 15 to 27, participated in the study. The triangulated data were collected using three tools: questionnaires, interviews, and class observations. Sixty-seven learners (31 females and 36 males) filled out a 56-statement questionnaire, adopted and adapted from Takač (2008) and translated into Persian. The questionnaire comprised two parts, enquiring as to the learners’ VLSs and the teachers’ VTSs. The findings indicated that females and males differed significantly in their reported VLSs and their teachers’ use of various VTSs. Additionally, 78 learners were interviewed as to their perceptions of effective and ineffective VLSs as well as VTSs. The findings revealed that the most effective VLSs were reported to be: a) reciting, repeating and listening to words, b) using words, and c) memorising words while the most effective VTSs revolved around: a) explanation, b) repetition, and c) dictation. The observations also confirmed the findings obtained via the questionnaire and interviews. In general, the findings are indicative of the limited repertoire of vocabulary acquisition techniques employed by Iranian EFL learners, hence the need for strategy training in how to acquire vocabulary. 

scholarly journals The Use of CLT in the Arab Context: A Critical Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Basma M. Alwazir ◽  
Nadia Shukri
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Efl Classrooms ◽  
Authentic Environment

<p>One of the main aims behind learning English as a foreign language (EFL) is to communicate effectively with other speakers of the English language. The justification for concentrating on the teaching and learning of English as a second language (L2), and as a foreign language, is that it is the lingua franca (Klimczak-Pawlak, 2014) and the primary language used for communication around the world (Rich, 2014). English language learners are given limited chances to practice speaking in authentic situations in class, and teaching to communicate effectively in an authentic environment is often overlooked. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) emphasizes meaning and communication in language learning, and with CLT the goal is to improve learners’ “communicative competence” (Richards &amp; Rodgers, 2001). Nevertheless, challenges are faced when applying CLT in the EFL classrooms. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is to critically explore elements of the CLT approach and to better understand some of the cultural difficulties involved in its application. The paper will propose more application of the CLT in EFL classrooms, in place of language teaching techniques currently used in the Arab context. This paper will also examine issues dealing with the theoretical background of CLT, and focus on the implementation of activities that can encourage students' communicative competence.</p>

scholarly journals Language AND Content?  How do Curriculum Teachers of Year 12 English Language Learners Combine Two Disciplines?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Margaret Gleeson
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Curriculum Area

<p>The provision of language instruction in secondary schools for students who speak English as an additional language (EAL) is moving from the domain of the English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) classroom where it traditionally lay. Increasingly, curriculum teachers are urged to take responsibility for language learning within their subject areas. How are curriculum teachers responding? Has this affected their professional relationships with ESOL teachers? What is the nature of the professional engagement between language and content specialists? This qualitative investigation uses an exploratory case study approach to examine the beliefs and teaching approaches identified by secondary school curriculum teachers as beneficial to learning for EAL students in their classes. Data were gathered using a questionnaire, interviews, and classroom observations for seven participant teachers, then analysed thematically using a conceptual framework derived from content-based language teaching principles. The findings were that these teachers’ approaches to teaching language appear to be shaped by their disciplinary beliefs and pedagogical content knowledge. Their openness to applying a systematic language focus to their teaching seemed to relate to whether their curriculum area was characterised as ‘hard’ or ‘soft’. They struggled to differentiate between language and literacy learning and largely assumed language to mean vocabulary. This indicates that many language challenges facing EAL learners may be invisible to their teachers. Curriculum teachers’ unfamiliarity with research-based language teaching has implications for teacher education and professional development. This study suggests the urgency for compulsory pre-service teaching courses to illustrate how disciplinary meaning is shaped by specific language forms. It also indicates that curriculum teachers with specialist qualifications in teaching EAL learners may provide a powerful link between ESOL and subject expertise.</p>

scholarly journals The English teacher's attitude towards internet personal access device (iPad) in teaching and learning process

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Miftahul Jannah
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Learning ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Cognitive Attitudes ◽  
Banda Aceh

Regardless of the integration of technology into English learning at school brings an abundance of advantages, there are still very few teachers who have been implementing technology. iPad as a learning medium in English language learning has been widely applied in many countries. However, the use of iPad for English language learning in Banda Aceh is still considered uncommon. Descriptive qualitative research with a case study approach was carried to find out an English teacher’s attitude towards the integration of iPad in English teaching-learning class in Al-Azhar Cairo Islamic Junior High School in Banda Aceh. An observation sheet and guided interview were used to gather the data. The data analysis was processed in the form of condensation data, display data, and conclusion data which are proposed by Miles, Huberman, and Saldana (2014). The findings show that the English teacher delivered 91 utterances consisted of 34 affective attitudes, 28 conative attitudes, 16 evaluative attitudes, and 13 cognitive attitudes. The highest frequency attitude showed by the teacher is the affective attitude meanwhile the lowest is the cognitive attitude.

Learner perceptions and experiences of pride in second language education

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Ross ◽  
Elke Stracke
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Language Learner

Within applied linguistics, understanding of motivation and cognition has benefitted from substantial attention for decades, but the attention received by language learner emotions has not been comparable until recently when interest in emotions and the role they can play in language learning has increased. Emotions are at the core of human experience, so a greater understanding of their impact on language learners is critical. In particular, the role and impact of positive emotions on learners and their learning experience has been overlooked in favour of a focus on issues of confidence and anxiety. One particular positive emotion that has a meaningful connection with the learning experience is that of pride. Drawing on qualitative interview data from tertiary English language learners in Australian universities, this article singles out pride as a means of confirming the critical role of positive emotions in language learning. The interviews revealed that pride had a significant impact on the experiences of learners. It was also discovered that within the notion of pride there exists a degree of dimensionality. Pride is felt in communicative contexts whereas a feeling of ‘non-pride’ can occur in learning contexts. The article also presents implications arising from the study concerning the place of emotions in language teaching and learning.

scholarly journals EXPLORING THE POTENTIALS OF TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR TEACHING LANGUAGE SKILLS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 488
Author(s):  
Isry Laila Syathroh ◽  
Evie Kareviati ◽  
Ayu Lestari ◽  
Nurlaila Fitria
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Technology Integration ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
Language Class ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Integration Of Technology

The use of technology has become an essential element in teaching and learning process. Usually, each language class uses some type of technology tools that are used to support and enhance language learning. They are tools to help teachers facilitate their students' language learning. This research focuses on the role of technology in learning English as a foreign and second language. It addresses the significance of technology that allows English language learners to develop their learning abilities. In this paper, the researchers describe the term technology integration,  of technology, explain the use of technology in the language classroom, discuss the advantages and challenges of technology integration, and provide some suggestions for better use of these technologies to help learners develop their learning abilities.

scholarly journals PERAN SISWA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS DI PUSDIKLAT BAHASA KEMHAN

Epigram ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nidia Sofa
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Learning ◽  
Military Background ◽  
The Military ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis ethnograpic qualitative research aimed to understand the students’s role like kinds of learners’ roles appeared, when they appeared, and factors that influenced the appearance. The result showed that there were two roles of English language learners at Defense Force Language Centre of Ministry of Defense, active/productive and receptive. The active/productive covers the role as imitator, initiator and partner which appear during communicative approach. The receptive role includes the attitude when they obey the instruction, when they perform task, and when they process any information given by instructors. The factors influenced are the selection of different methods by instructors, the military background, and level of class.Keyword: English language learning, the role of learners, adult learnersAbstrakPenelitian kualitatif etnografis ini bertujuan untuk memahami peran siswa dalam pembelajaran bahasa Inggris seperti peran yang muncul, kapan peran tersebut muncul, dan faktor yang mempengaruhinya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa peran siswa di Pusdiklat Bahasa Kemhan terbagi dua, yaitu aktif/produktif dan reseptif. Peran aktif muncul ketika siswa berperan sebagai imitator, inisiator dan partner. Peran ini muncul di pembelajaran komunikatif. Peran reseptif muncul ketika mengikuti perintah atau arahan dari instruktur, ketika mengerjakan tugas dan menyimak pelajaran. Peran ini muncul di kelas yang menerapkan metode tradisional. Faktor munculnya berbagai peran adalah pemilihan metode pengajaran bahasa, budaya kemiliteran, dan tingkatan kelas.Katakunci: pembelajaran bahasa Inggris, peran siswa, pelajar dewasa

Learning English through Movies: Adult English Language Learners’ Perceptions

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waheeb S. Albiladi ◽  
Fahad H. Abdeen ◽  
Felicia Lincoln
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Reading Vocabulary

The use of media in English teaching and learning has received much attention from educators and second/foreign language educators. The use of media includes the use of movies, music, films, and other types of entertainment-related learning resources. However, little has been done to understand the adult language learners’ perceptions toward the benefits and challenges of using English movies to learn English. This qualitative research study explored English learners’ perceptions regarding the use of movies as English teaching and learning tools. The study focused on what language learners believe are the benefits and challenges of relying on English movies to develop their language competency. The study’s results indicated that language learners believed that movies are authentic sources of language learning and can be used effectively to improve language skills including speaking, listening, reading, vocabulary, and writing. Findings also revealed that according to language learners, movies are beneficial in terms of increasing students’ cultural awareness.

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