scholarly journals Basic Need Analysis in Practical English Grammar: An Effort on Creating and Empowering Autonomy Learners

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Dwi Astuti Wahyu Nurhayati
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Media Learning

This paper presents the students’ need analysis in Practical English Grammar course. The data were collected through questionnaires and interview by individual or group assessment. It involves 34 Indonesian undergraduate students who were majoring in English, took, join Grammar class and conducted classroom interaction in English teaching and learning process in IAIN Tulungagung, East Java, Indonesia. The data were analyzed using descriptive qualitative approach. The finding revealed some students’ perspectives on Practical English Grammar course (lack of learning media, ineffective teaching strategy, unsupportive class atmosphere, and Grammar as difficult course); some student-considered effective ways to learn Practical English grammar (YouTube, discussion, appropriate learning techniques, progress report, peer assessment, and game); and students’ results on their need analysis in learning Practical English Grammar in form of independent option on: learning media, learning strategy, learning material, and creating own questions and its answers.

scholarly journals Perception and Readiness Towards Integration of Learning Management System (LMS) Into Open and Distance Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tolulope Fashina ◽  
Oluwajoba Adisa
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Management System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Management System ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Learning Management ◽  
Integration Of Learning

The rapid development of information and communication technologies has led to the use of new and digital technologies in education which involves combinations of text, graphics, audio, video, animations and other eLearning resources such as authoring tools, Learning Management System (LMS), Mobile learning and others. Arguably, using LMS leaves much to be desired. The inherent problem here is that the future of extensive adoption of ICT via LMS to enhance and promote classroom interaction in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) is bleak. This is worrisome given that the country is lagging far behind in the innovative use of this web 2.0 technology to impart knowledge. Further, the low-level application of LMS in instruction connotes the loss of inherent advantages in its adoption. Also, the online setting which makes students less nervous and interactive, sharing of ideas and viewpoints; and a host of other benefit will be lost. While evidence has shown that LMS is not a new phenomenon, the use of LMS in ODL is still at its infancy, particularly in Nigeria. Research in this area is rare. A quick search on prominent research databases could testify that. It is on this thrust that this study investigates University of Ibadan undergraduate students’ perceived roles and readiness towards integration of learning management system into teaching and learning.

Students Writing Their Own Lectures with a Wiki and the CSA

2010 ◽  
pp. 244-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cath Ellis ◽  
Sue Folley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Diverse Background ◽  
Overwhelming Evidence ◽  
Didactic Lecture

This chapter examines why despite decades of research and overwhelming evidence questioning the pedagogical effectiveness of lecturing as a teaching and learning strategy, it remains the dominant pedagogical mode in most higher education institutions worldwide. The authors explore further why lectures are not the most appropriate teaching strategy in the current higher education climate for three main reasons: the way we now view ‘knowledge’; the information society in which we are currently immersed; and the diverse background and experience of today’s student population. The authors offer an alternative to the lecture which can achieve what a lecture aims to, but in a more student-centred way. Their alternative is informed by the contributing student approach, devised by Collis & Moonen (2001), whereby students collaboratively find, explore, share, and engage with the content which they would have otherwise received passively via a didactic lecture.

scholarly journals Developing Online Learning Assessment Instrument for English Sentence Structure Course during Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Emy Sudarwati ◽  
Fatimah Fatimah ◽  
Yuni Astuti ◽  
M. Faruq Ubaidillah
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Test Time ◽  
English Department ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
English Sentence ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
English Grammar

Anchored by the need for constructing an online assessment which is mediated by honesty as the character value for grammar mastery among undergraduate students during Covid-19 pandemic, in the present study we developed a test of English Sentence Structure (ESS) situated in an English department of a public university in Malang, East Java, Indonesia. To enact such a purpose, Design-based Research (DBR) was carried out in the study. Findings from the study showcase that the test was valid and reliable, giving it accessible portion for use in the English department. Aside from that, students also opined positively toward the use of the test in measuring their English grammar mastery. Despite these, we found that students’ score in the tryout phase is low affected by their lack of test preparation, inappropriate situated test time, and ineffective teaching and learning enactment. The paper ends with recommendation for future researchers.

scholarly journals The Problem Based Learning in Enhancing Students’ Critical Thinking for Reading Skills in English Teaching at Vocational School

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-249
Author(s):  
Nurul Iskandar ◽  
Mustaji ◽  
Miftakhul Jannah ◽  
Soetam Rizky Wicaksono
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
School Students ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Expert Validation ◽  
Learning English

The purpose of this research explained how Problem Based Learning (PBL) designed in teaching and learning English for Vocational School students in Indonesia. A PBL was used for overcoming critical thinking skill in teaching English at vocational school. The sample consisted of tenth grade of vocational school students who were recruited purposively. The research methodology used qualitative and qualitative method. Interview was used to get data about instructional and students’ needs. Questionnaire was used to obtain expert validation during teaching and learning process, and a test was used to obtain the effectiveness. The results of expert validation showed that the design of this learning strategy was good and can be used in learning English. It was effective in English as Foreign Language teaching strategy for vocational school in Blega of Bangkalan. Thus, it could be implemented in the teaching and learning English for vocational school students in enhancing students’ critical thinking.

scholarly journals THE UTILIZATION OF FOLKLORES AND THE HAPPY STRATEGY TO IMPROVE ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL AND SELF CONCEPT (BEST PRACTICES FOR NONFORMAL EDUCATION)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 510
Author(s):  
Wiwiek Afifah
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Speaking Skill

This paper aims to discuss: (1) the integration of moral values through folklore in narrative texts, (2) the implementation of the happy strategy in teaching and learning processes, and (3) the improvement of speaking skill and self concept. The integration of moral values in folklores as narrative texts can be done to fulfil the learning targets. It is because students will be supported to internalize and actualize those values in their life. Some moral values that can be stressed in the integration of folklores are how to be an honest one, confident, careful, communicative, and down to earth person. The Happy strategies are joyful learning activities that can support students in learning how to speak effectively. It is because learning experiences on how to speak and to communicate were framed fun and relax. The characteristic of the happy strategies included ice breaking, storytelling, role playing, self assessment, peer assessment, and selected report. The strategy also made students felt directly aware of their performance from the result of peer assessment. The teaching strategy that had been implemented in non formal education especially for packet B program was proven to be appropriated. Having been implemented the language input (moral values based on folklores) and the happy strategies, student’s linguistic competence, linguistics performance (speaking skill) were improved. Furthermore, student’s self concept also changed to be better. It is because they can learn some moral values from the folklores and strengthen them through the reflection session of the class.

scholarly journals Video-based flipped learning in higher education: Effects on students’ learning motivation, attitudes, and engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-101
Author(s):  
Mariam Haghegh ◽  
Arif Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
P Value ◽  
Flipped Learning ◽  
Higher Education Curriculum ◽  
Education Effects

In the recent years, flipped learning has become popular and been widely utilized as teaching approach to activate students’ learning engagement, which is frequently used to reverse the conventional teaching. However, much more efforts are necessary to enrich the literature about its practices across different teaching and learning contexts. This study is at the cutting edge of examining the practice of flipped learning in higher education contexts; as well as exploring its effects on students’ learning motivation, attitudes, and engagement. Data were collected using a questionnaire from 35 undergraduate students enrolled in “Introduction of Educational Technology” course at a college of education, and the data were tested using 24-version IBM-SPSS linear regression. The results demonstrated that flipped learning strategy is a positive predictor for students’ learning motivation (p-value 0.001 0.05), attitudes (p-value 0.007 0.05), and engagement (p-value 0.003 0.05). The results contribute to offering valuable insights for college stakeholders to enhance the efficacy of teaching and learning process, particularly for higher education curriculum designers to adapt to the current teaching approach. Instructional implication and research suggestions are provided based on the results of the study.

Designing English Course Learning Material for Grand Zuri Hotel Padang Employees

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
Sherly Franchisca
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Hotel Management ◽  
Current Analysis ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Is Research ◽  
English Class ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Listening And Speaking

This research was aimed at designing English course handout for Grand Zuri Hotel Padang employees. The type of this research is Research and Development toward designing and producing handout for teaching and learning at Grand Zuri Hotel Padang. It is conducted for the employees of the hotel which participates for English class. In additon, there were 50 (fifty) employees involved in English teaching and learning process at Grand Zuri Hotel Padang and they were divided into two meeting. In fact, the result of the study shows that: (1) current analysis about teaching and learning process of Grand Zuri Hotel Padang related to several information of the previous teaching and learning process where the learners are in pre-intermediate level and a meeting last in 120 minutes, but there was no handout for the learners; (2) need analysis showed that the dominant skill  needed  by  the  learners  based  on  the  questionnaire  were  listening  and speaking, generally the ability of the learners in English are good, and there were 19 (nineteen) topics that could be choosen by the learners; (3) in designing handout, there were 14 (fourteen) topics in the handout and there was also a syllabus of the handout, also the activity in the handout consist of the introduction about   the   topic,   expressions,   reading,   paired   practice,   chit   chatting,   and worksheet; (4) to validate the handout, there were 4 (four) validators involved, General Manager of Grand Zuri Hotel Padang (Surni Yanti,S.Pd), two lecturers from Hotel Management Study Program at Universitas Negeri Padang, and experience  trainer  for  English  in  otel  industry.  In  conclusion,  based  on  the findings, there should be attractive and easy to understand materials or handout for the employees of Grand Zuri Hotel Padang; (5) in order to know the effectifity of handout in teaching and learning there was limited try out in Grand Zuri Hotel. Based on the result of the try out, there is a conclution that the material which is prepared for the employees were needed in teaching and learning process , such as handout, which is made by easy and understandable format to be learned.

scholarly journals Mengembangkan Strategi Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris Yang Kreatif

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Agung Prihantoro
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Second Languages ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Learning English

The main problem of students in Indonesia in learning English as a second languages is that they have been learning English since they studied in the basic schools but they cannot communicate (read, write, speak, listen [RWSL]) in English well as some researches show it. The problem is concerned with teaching and learning components that are students, teachers, curriculum, learning material, teaching and learning activity, classrooms, and learning tools. The article focuses on learning material and teaching and learning activity that should drive studentsaat higher education able to communicate in English well. The learning material includes knowledge, skills and expertise, values, and attitudes and behaviors. The teaching and learning activity contains (1) paradigm shift from instruction paradigm to learning paradigm and (2) communicative learning strategy.

scholarly journals effect of learning strategy and cognitive style on student’s narrative writing ability

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tata Tambi ◽  
Fathiaty Murtadho ◽  
Zainal Rafli
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Narrative Writing ◽  
Anova Analysis ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Factorial Anova ◽  
Field Independent

In the class, most of the teacher use a single teaching strategy to students who have different cognitive styles when teaching narrative essays in the class. Therefore, it is necessary to improve teaching strategies in the teaching and learning process. The teaching strategies that fit with the cognitive style of students in order that the learning objective is improved. This paper investigates the effect of learning strategy and cognitive style on student’s narrative writing ability. This study was conducted on the VII grade students at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Ibnu Taimiyah Bogor, West Java. Treatment by level design and two-factorial ANOVA analysis with ? = 0.05 were applied in this experimental study. The sample was 40 students grouped into experiment classes and 40 students was grouped into control classes. There was a different ability in narrative writing in Bahasa Indonesia between students having field independent cognitive style (A1) and students having field dependent cognitive style (A2).  Results of two-way interrow analysis of variance showed that Fcalculated (4.123) was higher than Ftable (3.97) at a significant level  of ? = 0.05.

scholarly journals ENGLISH GRAMMAR AWARENESS FACILITATES L2 LEARNERS’ WRITING

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nor Syahiza Shahabani ◽  
Irma Wahyuny Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
English Classes ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
The Government ◽  
English Classroom ◽  
Strongly Agree

“Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them”, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). It is true that from just words can become a phrase then a sentence but what we may need to realize is how hard and challenging it is to make the sentence right. To face the real world, writing is the most challenging skill to teach for language teachers mainly because students take time to grasp and digest the knowledge of writing skill. To make matters worse, writing test is also the most popular means of test for placement in entering schools and universities. Due to this reason, L2 learners crave to write clearly and accurately in English. Undeniably, how a person writes with acceptable choice of words and correct grammar represents the L2 learner’s competency in English Language. This study is done to explore the importance of having English grammar awareness to facilitate L2 learners in their writing activities. The study thus aims to determine how grammar awareness amongst the L2 and other support systems such as English classes & facilities help facilitating L2 writing. 84 undergraduate students answered the questionnaire. The quantitative data have been analysed at the end of the research. Some of the findings are 75% of the respondents indicated that they were still unsure on the use of proper grammar in writing despite 94% of the respondents agreed and strongly agreed that they understood when the instructor/teacher taught them English Grammar. The mix-up results in the findings have shown some drawbacks in the teaching and learning practices. Moreover, only 63% of the participants answered agree and strongly agree that their learning institution has an English classroom that is conducive for learning (self-access centre), which can be considered as not satisfactory since English Language is the second language in Malaysia. It is hoped that the government of Malaysia could provide complete conducive learning centre for schools and universities. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0758/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

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