EFL teachers’ perceived language proficiency and teaching effectiveness

The importance of language teachers possessing high level of language proficiency has been extensively studied. On the other hand, studies related to teaching effectiveness (TE) have yet to define the concept of teaching effectiveness, and studies to relate teacher language proficiency (TLP) and TE, especially in Indonesian context are found to be scarce. In addition, the lack of both clear guidelines on how to assess TLP and current and official data of TLP in Indonesia only exacerbate this matter. Thus, the objective of this study was to find the relation between TLP and TE in the context of a language school in Bandung and the perception of its teachers on the role of TLP in the effectiveness of their teaching process. Using a mixed-methods sequential explanatory research design, the result of the data collection was then cross tabulated and analysed using Fisher-Freeman-Halton exact test. It was found that there was a strong positive relation between TLP and the two aspects of TE: managing the classroom, and understanding and communicating lesson content, but no relation between language proficiency and assessing students and giving feedback. This was further confirmed in the qualitative stage that teachers with lower language proficiency could also deliver lesson content, and assess students albeit with a lower degree of flexibility compared to their more proficient counterparts. This means that the relation between TLP and TE was complex and not straightforward, and that the mastery of one does not always entail the mastery of the other.

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Perceived versus Measured Teaching Effectiveness: Does Teacher Proficiency Matter?

RELC Journal ◽

10.1177/0033688219845933 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 280-293

Author(s):

Karim Sadeghi ◽

Jack C. Richards ◽

Farah Ghaderi

Keyword(s):

Classroom Management ◽

Language Proficiency ◽

Teaching Effectiveness ◽

Language Teachers ◽

Management Skills ◽

Teacher Language ◽

Teacher Proficiency ◽

How to Combine Virtual and Reality in Archaeology Communication

Developing Effective Communication Skills in Archaeology - Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-1059-9.ch012 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 245-258

Author(s):

Caterina Paola Venditti ◽

Paolo Mele

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Mixed Reality ◽

The Other ◽

Static Models ◽

Display Technology ◽

Digital Archaeology ◽

High Level ◽

Individual Objects

Within digital archaeology, an important part is centered on technologies that allow representing, or replaying, ancient environments. It is a field where scientific competences' contribution to contents makes a difference, and pedagogical repercussion are stimulating. Among the other reality technologies, the Mixed Reality, giving the possibility to experience in front of the users' eyes both static models of individual objects and entire landscapes, it is increasingly used in archaeological contexts as display technology, with different purposes such as educational, informative, or simply for entertainment. This chapter provides a high-level overview about possible orientations and uses of this technology in cultural heritage, also sketching its use in gaming within the role of gaming itself in smart communication of archaeological contents and issues.

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Features of teaching a foreign language in the digital educational environment of the University

Applied psychology and pedagogy ◽

10.12737/2500-0543-2020-47-57 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 47-57

Author(s):

Tat'yana Tancura

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Social Life ◽

Educational Process ◽

Language Teachers ◽

Learning Tools ◽

Language Competence ◽

Electronic Learning ◽

High Level ◽

The Impact

The article examines the impact of the digitalization process on the creation and use of modern electronic tools and technologies for teaching a foreign language in higher education. The article presents the main electronic tools and technologies that are used in the Financial University during the educational process of teaching a foreign language. The author notes the effectiveness of the implementation of the personality-oriented approach, which is provided by individualization and differentiation of training using the Bank of test tasks created by university teachers, and the electronic educational platform Rosetta Stone Advanced. The use of electronic learning tools and digital technologies allows to develop self-organization of the student. Changing the role of the teacher to the role of the manager of educational activities contributes to the formation of the ability to constant self-studying the student throughout his professional and social life. The effectiveness of the electronic learning tools use is proved by the high level of students’ foreign language competence and their assessment of the foreign language teachers’ pedagogical activity with the results of the survey "Students’ view on teachers".

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The role of organo-tissue barriers in the formation of a systemic inflammatory reaction and neutralize toxins in pancreatic necrosis, the choice of rational tactics surgical treatment

Vestnik of Experimental and Clinical Surgery ◽

10.18499/2070-478x-2011-4-1-51-56 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 51-56

Author(s):

Vladimir Grigoryevich Lubyanka ◽

Victor Fedorovich Chernenko ◽

Aleksandr Hrustevich Aliev ◽

Andrey Nikolaevich Zharikov ◽

Svetlana Aleksandrovna Yelchaninova ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Surgical Treatment ◽

Pancreatic Necrosis ◽

The Other ◽

Systemic Inflammatory Reaction ◽

Organ Tissue ◽

The One ◽

High Level ◽

Methods Of Treatment ◽

Intensive Development

Despite the intensive development of the diagnosis and surgical treatment of pancreatic necrosis (PN), mortality remains high, reaching 30-50% or more. This is due, on the one hand, with insufficient study of the mechanisms pancreatogenic toxemia, generalized infection, manifestations of the Systemic Inflammatory Response (SIR) and the role of organ-tissue barriers in the neutralization of toxins (the liver, lungs, muscles and cellulate array), on the other hand, the ineffectiveness of drugs in their system application as a result of blocking organ microcirculation and limiting their availability. As a result, research has found evidence of the complexity of the SIR and the mechanisms of toxemia in the PN (enzymatic, metabolic and bacterial), which showed a high level of leukocytosis, the study of enzymes, especially when infected Mon, reflecting the morphological and functional liver damage, as the primary detoxification barrier pancreatogenic aggression. These humoral indicators can serve when they raise specific markers of the severity of toxemia and SIR. Application regional arterial drug therapy provider medicinal effect is in the region of defeat, can achieve better results in reducing mortality in Mon, compared with traditional methods of treatment.

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COUNSELLING ON THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONCEPT OF WASATHIYAH (MODERATE) ISLAM

ICCD ◽

10.33068/iccd.vol2.iss1.116 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 269-272

Author(s):

Elis Teti Rusmiati ◽

Rajab Ritonga

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Full Understanding ◽

Islamic World ◽

Constructive Dialogue ◽

The Family ◽

The One ◽

High Level ◽

Correct Understanding ◽

Muslim Scholars

The idea of the concept of Wasathiyah Islam (moderate Islam) reappeared in the High Level Consultation (Summit) of World Muslim Scholars and Intellectuals at the Bogor Palace, 1-3 May 2018. Wasathiyah Islam is perceived as a perspective that understands the position of Islam between two extreme opposite points: Fundamentalist and radical on the one hand, and liberal and permissive on the other. Women are the party mostdefeated by Islamic fundamentalists and most disadvantaged in the application of rigid Islamic sharia in various places in the Islamic world. In connection with concept of Wasathiyah Islam, women have monitoring ability that can promote constructive dialogue and provide understanding, both in the family and in the community. Therefore, women need to be equipped with a full understanding of the concept of WasathiyahIslam, because misleading understanding can foster religious radicalism on the one hand, and permissive attitudes will dwarf the understanding of religion on the other. The method used in this counselling includes several stages: 1) survey; 2) module making; 3) counselling; 4) interactive dialogue; 5) evaluation. The results of the counselling showed that after the training, participants enhanced their knowledge about the concept ofWasathiyah Islam. They began to realize that they had an important role in instilling a correct understanding of Wasathiyah Islam towards their families and communities.

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When Teacher Enthusiasm Is Authentic or Inauthentic: Lesson Profiles of Teacher Enthusiasm and Relations to Students’ Emotions

AERA Open ◽

10.1177/2332858418782967 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 233285841878296 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Melanie M. Keller ◽

Eva S. Becker ◽

Anne C. Frenzel ◽

Jamie L. Taxer

Keyword(s):

Teaching Effectiveness ◽

Well Being ◽

The Other ◽

Teaching Behaviors ◽

Teacher Enthusiasm ◽

Low Levels ◽

High Level ◽

Level 2

It was recently proposed that teacher enthusiasm encompasses an experienced component as well as a behaviorally displayed component. Aiming to validate this proposition, the present study utilized lesson diaries to explore patterns of teacher-reported experienced enthusiasm and student-reported enthusiastic teaching behaviors and to investigate whether those patterns were related to students’ enjoyment and boredom. Findings imply that the two enthusiasm components do not always co-occur. Four lesson profiles were identified: (1) experienced enthusiasm and enthusiastic teaching coinciding at a high level, (2) teachers reporting high levels of experienced enthusiasm but not being perceived as enthusiastic, (3) teachers being perceived as enthusiastic but not reporting high levels of experienced enthusiasm, and (4) low levels of experienced enthusiasm and enthusiastic teaching. The first pattern was superior to the other profiles regarding students’ emotions. Study findings are discussed with respect to teachers’ emotional well-being and teaching effectiveness.

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Lack of influence of low temperature, light and growth substances on phytochrome resynthesis in coleoptiles of irradiated oat seedlings

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae ◽

10.5586/asbp.1984.025 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 271-278

Author(s):

Jan Kopcewicz ◽

Mariusz Cymerski ◽

Kazimierz Madela

Keyword(s):

Low Temperature ◽

Large Fraction ◽

Elongation Growth ◽

The Other ◽

High Rate ◽

Growth Substances ◽

Etiolated Seedlings ◽

High Level ◽

Very High

The photoconversion of phytochrome P<sub>R</sub> into the P<sub>FR</sub> form causes at the same time the destruction of the initial large fraction of phytochrome found in the coleoptiles of etiolated oat seedlings. Factors such as low temperature, light of different wavelengths or growth substances are not capable of preventing the progressive destruction and restore the synthesis of phytochrome. Thus an abnormally high level of phytochrome is found only in etiolated seedlings. Such seedlings, on the other hand, are characterized by a very high rate of elongation growth. The role of phytochrome in the control of deetiolation of seedlings is discussed.

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social and cultural issues in ‘The Slave Yards’

Twejer ◽

10.31918/twejer.2141.18 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 807-850

Author(s):

Abdullah Bairam Younis ◽

◽

Amir Ahmed Hamad Amin ◽

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

The Other ◽

Narrative Form ◽

Social Meaning ◽

The Novel ◽

Cultural Issues ◽

Popular Songs ◽

The Social ◽

High Level

The novel of ‘The Slave Yards’ by Najwa Bin Shatwan, is not only a biographic of his daughter Atiqa, in which they were lived through depression, and misery. Also, it is not a narration of Libya’s history, while the novel is about the intellectual, social and cultural issues. The author tried to present that matters in a high level. In general, that novel can be distinguished with the other novels in numerous social references, and the ability to identify them in a narrative form, in which the social references are related to the relationships of individuals with each other. The author tried to control the events, and to link the role of the characters to each other. Also, the author presents the events which they are imposed by reality, and in any changes their real social meaning will be changed as well. In this regard, we highlight those issues into two points: the first one is highlighting the traditions and customs, and the second one is highlighting the folklore songs, myths, and religious places. Key Words: Slave Carpets, Social references, Myths, Popular Songs, Customs

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Fine-Grain Episodic Memory Processes in Cognitive Control

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000127 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 221 (1) ◽

pp. 23-32 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Erik M. Altmann

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Control ◽

Episodic Memory ◽

Proactive Interference ◽

Task Switching ◽

The Other ◽

Memory Processes ◽

Fine Grain ◽

Integral Role ◽

High Level

Previous task-switching research raises a question concerning the role of episodic memory processes in cognitive control. The question is framed by the contrast between two procedures, explicit cuing and randomized runs, one of which presents a task cue perceptually on every trial and the other of which involves uncued trials. The present study compares performance across these procedures. Performance errors sensitive to errors in focusing on the correct task were higher under explicit-cuing conditions than under randomized-runs conditions, consistent with a high level of proactive interference from old task information. The results support an account in which control codes stored in episodic memory play an integral role in cognitive control, even under conditions in which all information needed for performance is perceptually available.

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Lab-Sophistication: Does Repeated Participation in Laboratory Experiments Affect Pro-Social Behaviour?

Games ◽

10.3390/g12010018 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 18 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tiziana Medda ◽

Vittorio Pelligra ◽

Tommaso Reggiani

Keyword(s):

Social Behaviour ◽

Laboratory Experiments ◽

Potential Effect ◽

The Other ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Methodological Question ◽

Behavioural Patterns ◽

Per Se ◽

High Level

Experimental social scientists working at research-intensive institutions deal inevitably with subjects who have most likely participated in previous experiments. It is an important methodological question to know whether participants that have acquired a high level of lab-sophistication show altered pro-social behavioural patterns. In this paper, we focus both on the potential effect of the subjects’ lab-sophistication, and on the role of the knowledge about the level of lab-sophistication of the other participants. Our main findings show that while lab-sophistication per se does not significantly affect pro-social behaviour, for sophisticated subjects the knowledge about the counterpart’s level of (un)sophistication may systematically alter their choices. This result should induce caution among experimenters about whether, in their settings, information about lab-sophistication can be inferred by the participants, due to the characteristics of the recruitment mechanisms, the management of the experimental sessions or to other contextual clues.

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