scholarly journals Understanding of Reading Among Teachers and Learners: A Descriptive Study of Pre-University English Language Teaching /Learning in Saudi Arabia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mogbel Aid K Alenizi
Horizontes ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Marques Beato-Canato ◽  
Vera Lúcia Lopes Cristovão

Em uma perspectiva interacionista sociodiscursiva, advogamos que, para alcançar seus objetivos, o trabalho com línguas na rede regular pública de ensino pode ser planejado em sequências didáticas organizadas em torno degêneros textuais. Tais unidades visam ao desenvolvimento de capacidades de linguagem, entendidas como “aptidões requeridas para a realização de um texto numa situação de interação determinada” (DOLZ; PASQUIER; BRONCKART, 1993, p.30). A partir desses pressupostos, sequências didáticas foram aplicadas a alunos de uma escola municipal de Joinville, ao longo de um ano escolar, com o objetivo de possibilitar a participação efetiva em um projeto de troca de correspondências. Dentre os gêneros abordados, selecionamos receitas culinárias para o escopo deste artigo, que visa, assim, descrever o material elaborado e analisar as produções de um aluno de modo a ilustrar oportunidades (ou não) de desenvolvimento de capacidades de linguagem possibilitadas por um trabalho dessa natureza. Palavras-chave: Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo; gênero textual receita culinária; sequência didática; ensino-aprendizagem de língua inglesa; desenvolvimentode capacidades de linguagem.The work with a didactic sequence of recipes in English as an additional language in a public schoolAbstract In a sociodiscursive interactionist perspective, we advocate that, to achieve its goals, the work with languages in public regular schools can be planned in didactic sequences towards genres. Such units aim at the development of language capacities (DOLZ; PASQUIER; BRONCKART, 1993). Based on these principles, didactic sequences were employed with students of a public school in Joinville, during a school year, with the objective of contributing to their effective participation in a pen pal Project. Among the genres handled, cooking recipeswere taken as scope of this paper, which aims at describing the material planned and analyze the productions of one student in order to illustrate the opportunities of language capacities development enabled by a work of thisnature.Keywords: Sociodiscursive Interacionism; genre cooking recipe; didactic sequences; English language teaching/learning; language capacities development.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Armas Pesantez Paul Rolando ◽  
Armas Pesantez Washington Geovanny ◽  
Salazar Calderón Edison Hernán ◽  
Guadalupe Bravo Luis Oswaldo ◽  
Orozco Yánez Gabriel Isaac

The purpose of the current research was the implementation of didactic audiovisual and communicative resources through a virtual classroom for the teaching-learning of English language, aimed to the first level students Languages School at Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo due to the lack of didactic material helping in the development of activities and tasks into the classroom. This fact impedes teachers and students reaching a higher level in the English Language teaching-learning process, this situation made necessary the implementation of resources adaptive to the pedagogical context and planned through a content manager or virtual classroom. The current research is quasi experimental, bibliographic, documental and descriptive which was applied to a sample where it was necessary to consider an initial knowledge diagnose before applying the communicative and audiovisual resources, then it was necessary to carry out an evaluation at the end of it. It was also necessary to use a set of activities based on communicative and audiovisual resources framed within the micro curriculum guidelines with schedules and contents that were evaluated through questionnaires and a checklist. The instruments for collecting information allowed obtaining data in both pre-test and post-test. These qualifications were compared through a statistical test that allowed concluding that the use of the mentioned resources improved the English language teaching, at the same time it was possible to recommend its use within the curriculum for the First Level of the Languages Major.


Author(s):  
Bilge Akıncı

This chapter presents an example of STEM and English language teaching integration. In this study, it was aimed to improve students' English language skills and increase their engagement with the appliance of STEM. In this descriptive study, a way of integrating STEM into the language teaching process was explained with an applied example. The research is of qualitative design with the implementation of action research method. As a result, the implementation improved students' language skills and gave students the chance of using knowledge of other disciplines in English courses while increasing their engagement. Additively, the implementation developed students' 21st century skills. It is thought this study can be an inspiration for English teachers to apply various approaches in their teaching processes. In addition, the study can be accepted as an example of the contribution of STEM to English language teaching process. Moreover, the study is a representation of teacher research, and this research can be assessed as an inspiration for teachers to turn their practices into research.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Amjjad Sulaimani ◽  
Tariq Elyas

Abstract The focus of this paper is on the cultural aspects of the internationally, well-recognised and accepted international teacher training course known as Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), or rather, the lack of it. In what follows, we will first discuss the various aspects related to the importance of culture and its inclusion in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT). Next, we will discuss the main highlights of the CELTA course and its main components and present a practical suggestion for implementing a short ‘culture’ component that can be easily integrated into the course where it will increase cultural awareness amongst new teachers embarking on a career abroad in a foreign country and hopefully achieve pedagogical competence when working abroad.


2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 147-157
Author(s):  
SM Kamruddin Ropum ◽  
Md Yasin Arafat

Smart teacher smart class (STSC) is a portal developed by Dnet which contains curriculum, teachers’ guide, education policy, textbook, lesson plan, multimedia contents, and teaching-learning strategies on different subjects aiming to provide content and pedagogical support to the secondary school teachers in Bangladesh. Making an offline CD, the STSC portal is provided to the respective teachers of secondary schools Dnet works with. The regular use of the STSC portal helps the teachers to improve their knowledge about effective teaching-learning techniques. The study was designed as one group pre-test post-test quasi-experimental method to find the effect of STSC portal on secondary school English teachers’ English language teaching knowledge (ELTK). Twenty eight English teachers from 14 secondary schools were selected purposively to form the group and the tests were administered on them considering 6 months intervention (STSC portal) period. The test was adapted from Cambridge language teaching knowledge (TKT) test focusing on different ELT aspects. The tests scores of the teachers were categorized in 4 knowledge levels: limited, basic, deep and extensive. The findings of the study show that the STSC portal induces a significant improvement of the teachers’ ELTK. Most of the teachers showed better performances in the post-test than the pre-test. Moreover, significance (0.001) and effect size score (0.91) also depict a clear and large effect in enhancing teachers’ ELTK. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v19i1-2.12087 Journal of NELTA, Vol 19 No. 1-2, December 2014: 147-157


Author(s):  
Ana Lúcia Farias da Silva ◽  
Teresa Cristina Giarolla Ramos ◽  
Rachel Fontes Sodré

This article aims to describe the development of the teaching–learning process of Foreign Language, with the use of the CLIL (Integrated Content and Language Teaching) approach in the teaching of English, within the framework of a Bilingual Program, within an emergency context of Remote Teaching. We also seek to reflect on the adequacy of technological tools in the process of teaching Foreign Language – specifically the English Language – for a certain age group, as well as to evaluate the elaboration and adaptation of materials, activities and pedagogical approaches to the reality of Remote Teaching during the period of isolation. For this reflection, our analysis aims to point out possibilities and limitations, both of the CLIL (Integrated Teaching of Content and Language) approach, as well as of the modality of distance learning for the age group observed. Thus, in addition to presenting what was accomplished during the research, we intend to reflect on possible paths and contribute with good practices that make the English Language Teaching process more meaningful and proficient, within the Modality Of Distance Education (EaD).We defend in this research the search for strategies in a digital format, for a Foreign Language Teaching, which develops in a more natural and motivating way, as well as the need for public policies aimed at a post-pandemic education of COVID-19, in the sense of ludicity and inclusion, aiming at the development of skills and skills of the student, from elementary school, transforming information into knowledge.


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