The Effects of Using the Mad Minute Strategy in Teaching English among Female Students in Some Saudi High Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 542
Author(s):  
Ghufran Abuabah
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Public High Schools ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Post Test

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of using "The Mad Minute" as an intervention strategy to improve students' level of English. Moreover it seeks to discover learners and teacher’s perceptions of the efficacy of The Mad Minute intervention in terms of its efficacy in developing students' performance in English. The sample consisted of 100 female students from two public high schools and their 4 teachers who were asked to complete two questionnaires relating to how useful and effective the learners and teachers found The Mad Minute intervention for enhancing the students' learning skills. The findings showed that the students in both schools reported that the intervention enhanced their subjective ability to learn new English language skills. Further, the study sheds light on the learning processes involved in the "The Mad Minute" intervention and how it benefits students to improve their level of achievement in English. Moreover, the analysis of test scores reveals significant learner development at the level of (α = 0.05) between the pre-test and the post-test in the total score in the favour of the post-test scores indicating the effectiveness of using The Mad Minute strategy. Recommendations have been given at the end of the article.

scholarly journals TMS Based TOEFL Training and Try Out (TOEFL Strategy Module) for 2019 TMT Lecturers at Ambon State Polytechnic to Get Lecturer Certification

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 812-819
Author(s):  
Juvrianto Chrissunday Jakob ◽  
Ahmad Nusi ◽  
Nelda Maelissa ◽  
Hindri Febri Ana Sari ◽  
Meyke Marantika
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Certification Exam ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
Almost All

One of the requirements to pass the lecturer certification exam is to attach a TOEFL score. TOEFL itself is an abbreviation of Test of English as a Foreign Language which is used to measure how far a person's English ability is. In the various findings and field observations made, almost all lecturers who will carry out the 2019 TMT lecturer certification at the Ambon State Polytechnic have the same difficulties when they want to face the TOEFL test. Therefore, the Ambon State Polytechnic Community Service Team took the initiative to conduct TOEFL training activities for TMT 2019 lecturers so that they could overcome their difficulties on the TOEFL test by using modules compiled by the team. The results of this service activity show that the English language skills possessed by the lecturers have increased after the training. This can be seen from their pre-test and post-test scores. It is hoped that after going through this activity, they can test their abilities by carrying out the TOEFL test and can penetrate lecturer certification.

scholarly journals ADDRESSING THE NEED OF TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSE AT SMK KESEHATAN BAKTI ASSYUKUR

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Robby Trimaulana ◽  
Efransyah Efransyah
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Post Test

CTL method is one of the teaching techniques where students work in a group. It is used to improve the student’s skill in mastering and understanding English vocabulary. This study tries to determine the effectiveness of teaching and learning at the tenth-grade students of Vocational School. The main goal of this research is to improve English language skills, especially in vocabulary understanding. The method of this research is classroom action research and the populations are the tenth-grade students of pharmacy which consist of nine students as sample randomly. The data collection was done by pre-test and post-test as research instruments. The results of this research that had been carried out during the study showed that the post-test average score (71,5%) is higher than the pre-test average value (49,3%). It shows that the CTL method is very effective in increasing students’ understanding of English, especially in the homonym vocabulary pronounciation and spelling words. Keywords:  ESP, CTL, Vocabulary, Teaching  

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES TO ADIWANA UNAGI SUITES UBUD IN INCREASING THE SERVICE QUALITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
I Kadek Agus Bisena ◽  
Sri Widyastutik ◽  
Kadek Yogi Susana ◽  
Agus Ari Iswara
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
English Language ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Hospitality Sector ◽  
Very High

Adiwana Unagi Suites is one of the most affected businesses in the hospitality sector during the Covid-19 period, but it is one of the hotels that can survive in Ubud Bali. This hotel has a very high score of 9.6 on booking.com, but throughout 2020 there were several reviews stating that the English of the hotel staff was not good. As long as the hotel is open until the end of 2020 the management has never carried out English language training to hotel staff. The implementation of the English for Specific Purposes training was carried out using an experimental research study which was carried out for six months, from January to June 2020. The implementation was carried out using youtube as a learning medium, and other online platforms such as kahoot, google form and live worksheets. The results of the implementation of the English language training carried out showed progress where during 2020 there was never a tourist review stating a lack of English, as well as an increase in English language skills as indicated by a very significant increase in post-test scores, as well as positive feedback from management.

scholarly journals PELATIHAN SPEAKING BAHASA INGGRIS DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN PLATFORM ZOOM MEETING PADA STAFF BIRO KEUANGAN BP BATAM

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
Suswanto Iswandi Megah ◽  
Eka Wilany ◽  
Desi Surlitasari Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Basic English ◽  
English Language Skills

English is very important for communication between countries so that BP batam is a government agency that cannot be separated from developing its English language skills. LPPM Unrika's collaboration with BP Batam Finance Bureau staff in implementing online English language training during the pandemic to improve English language skills. Overall service activities are carried out in a span of 6 months (July-August 2021). The post-test results obtained a conclusion that the basic English skills of the inmates were very good with an average score of 81.8, while the lowest score was 80 and the highest score was 85. When compared to the pre-test where the lowest score was 71.6 and the highest was 80, with an average of 77.1. So the average result of the pre-test and post-test scores is 79.4, so the achievement value of BP Batam's financial bureau staff increases significantly.

scholarly journals THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GAME TO INCREASE COURAGE CHILDREN TO SPEAKING ENGLISH IN DAHANREJO VILLAGE GRESIK

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 667
Author(s):  
Risca Hidayanti Qurani ◽  
Safira Dewi Kurnia ◽  
Henny Dwi Bhakti ◽  
Andi Rahmad Rahim ◽  
Sukaris Sukaris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
The Other ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
The Media ◽  
English Language Skills

This study aims to increase courage children to speaking English using implementation of game in Dahanrejo village, Kebomas, Gresik. The author as tutors and teachers for children in Dahanrejo village in this research. The problems refer to in Dahanrejo village, many children are afraid to speak English because there are no motivation to increase knowledge related studying English, therefore they have lack vocabulary and also teachers can’t explore the other media to teaching English in the classroom. The results of the action research given by the authors are the application of the media can improve the English language skills especially speaking of students and be able to provide variations in indoor learning that are not only fixed on the Package Books and Students Worksheets (LKS). Not only that, but the authors also found that the media was able to change the mood of students who did teaching through the media and were more interested in English.

scholarly journals Developing Barcorious Application as Teaching Media for English Young Students: Focus on Implication

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Arimuliani Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
English Language ◽  
School Level ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Young Students

Recently, teaching English for young learners especially for elementary school level still becomes problem in practice especially in Pekanbaru. Practically, the teachers teach their students without standard guidance to go with such as curriculum and syllabus because for fourth grades students, English Language subject looks like as extra subject which affects the effort to teach maximal. As response to this issue, the researcher has developed a learning media which focuses on vocabulary mastery which provides chance for the students to learn with or without teacher. There are five stages in developing this media which called by Barcorious such as analyzing students’ need, designing media, developing content and design, implementation media, and evaluation. This study describes the implementation of Barcorious application to enhance students’ vocabulary mastery. Indeed, this media was implemented for teaching four grade students. There was one class which consisted of 35 students participated. The finding shows this media can give significant improvement of students’ vocabulary mastery because the students’ post-test higher than pre-test.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Multimodal Glossing Reading Program on English Vocabulary Acquisition

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Nunpaporn Durongbhandhu ◽  
Danuchawat Suwanasilp
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Visual Aid ◽  
Post Test

Vocabulary is an essential factor in English language learning. The competency in vocabulary acquisition enables learners to develop their language skills, especially, reading skill. Presently, with the advent of technology, teaching media with visual aid is used worldwide for media-assisted language learning. The study aimed to develop, implement Multimodal Glossing Reading Program (MMGR), used for enhancing English vocabulary acquisition, and compare the program with Textual Glossing Reading Program (TGR) and a control group. One control group and two experimental groups were performed by 72 university learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). An experimental research with randomized pretest-posttest control group was used. Pre-and post-tests of meaning and form recognition were administered. The scores learners obtained from the pre-test and post-test within groups and between groups were analyzed by MANOVA. The findings revealed that MMGR was effective than TGR and the control group. It is suggested that teaching English vocabulary through MMGR program not only helps learners have the ability in vocabulary acquisition, but also enables the instructors to use the program as a potentially supplemental material or alternative method in teaching vocabulary as well.

scholarly journals The Influence of Digital Games Based Learning on Students’ Learning Outcomes and Motivation

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Rahmat Yusny
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Implementation Effort ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Experimental Use ◽  
English Language Skills

There is no doubt that the emergence of today's digital age greatly affects the human life - including students in their educational life. In order to simplify the process of studying languages, especially English, many scientists and experts continue to find new and innovative methods.  One of them is the method of Digital Games Based Learning (DGBL).  However, the implementation effort of DGBL method to improve English language skills of students is still a matter of controversy. It is mainly caused by the use of game - which is assumed by the public just as merely means of entertainment rather than as a medium of learning. Judging on this reason, researchers are interested highlighting them to be their research. This research was conducted in order to view the significance and influence of DGBL in improving English language skills of students - particularly the ability to hear and read - as well as their motivation to learn. The study was conducted over five sessions in March 2013 with a sample of 13 students were selected at random stratification of 68 second -year student population PBI , Ar - Raniry UIN .Researchers collected data by applying the experimental use of games in the classroom , provide pre-test and post-test , as well as distributing  questionnaires dealing with motivation. From the analysis of quantitative data, it can be concluded that the method of Digital Games Based Learning (DGBL) can be used to improve student’s achievement and learning motivation in learning English.keywords:   Digital Games Based Learning (DGBL) ; Learning outcome ; Motivation   

scholarly journals Objectives of teaching English skills and their assessment in Indian schools: A study on the divergence

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 755-766
Author(s):  
Nida Qayoom ◽  
Mohammad Saleem ◽  
Mozaffar Mansoor
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
State Level ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Teaching Objectives ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Listening And Speaking

Listening and speaking are active language skills and need special attention in English language pedagogy, especially in ESL/EFL contexts. English in India is taught as a second language in almost all the states, and the secondary education boards stipulate the teaching of all the four language skills as the objective of teaching English, yet the teaching and assessment system is only read-write intensive, and the active language skills, i.e., listening and speaking, are neglected in teaching as well as in assessment. The present paper is the result of a survey of the language teaching objectives, learning outcomes and assessment policies of two secondary education boards in India to investigate whether there exists any divergence between the stated objectives regarding teaching English language skills, and the testing pattern followed. The findings of the study suggest that there exists a divergence between the objectives stated by state level secondary education boards and their assessment patterns set for the English language. The study recommends that there should be a uniform standard of teaching and assessment of English in secondary schools in India, and there should be more research studies on the potential negative impact of the neglect of teaching and assessment of active language skills.

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