scholarly journals Using the Spanish Online Resource Aula Virtual de Español (AVE) to Promote a Blended Teaching Approach in High School Spanish Language Classrooms / Utilisation de la ressource en ligne espagnole AVE pour favoriser l’approche de l’enseignement hybride

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martine Pellerin ◽  
Carlos Soler Montes
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Online Resource ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Delivery Approach ◽  
Blended Teaching

The study explores the effectiveness of the implementation of blended teaching (BT) by combining the Spanish online resource Aula Virtual de Español (AVE) with the face-to-face (F2F) delivery approach in second language Spanish programs in two high schools in Alberta, Canada. Findings demonstrate the effectiveness of combining the online resource AVE to the F2F teaching approach to promote BT in the Spanish language classroom. The use of BT approach in the language classroom had a positive impact on the students’ attitudes towards the study of the language, the students’ motivation and their participation levels in class, as well as their use of the target language in the classroom. Moreover, the multimodal experiences provided by the use of the online AVE resource combined with the F2F delivery approach responded more to the different learners learning styles and specific needs. Finally, the use of online AVE in conjunction with F2F teaching was also perceived as an effective tool in the preparation for the International Spanish Diplomas (DELE) taken by the students in the more advanced Spanish classes. La présente étude explore l’efficacité de l’enseignement hybride combinant l’utilisation de la ressource espagnole en ligne Aula Virtual de Español (AVE) et l’interaction face à face dans les programmes d’enseignement de l’espagnol, langue seconde, dans deux écoles secondaires de l’Alberta (Canada). Les résultats démontrent l’efficacité de la combinaison de la ressource en ligne AVE à la prestation face à face pour favoriser l’approche de l’enseignement hybride dans les cours d’espagnol. L’utilisation de l’approche de l’enseignement hybride dans le cours de langue a eu une incidence positive sur l’attitude des élèves relativement à l’apprentissage de la langue, la motivation des élèves et leur taux de participation en classe, ainsi que leur utilisation de la langue d’apprentissage dans la classe. En outre, les expériences multimodales fournies par l’utilisation de la ressource en ligne AVE et l’interaction face à face correspondaient mieux aux styles d’apprentissage et aux besoins particuliers des apprenants. Enfin, l’utilisation de la ressource en ligne AVE et de l’interaction face à face a aussi été perçue comme un outil efficace de préparation aux Diplômes internationaux d’espagnol (DIE) entrepris par les élèves des cours d’espagnol plus avancés.

Writing and Culture in CALL

2019 ◽  
pp. 1579-1603
Author(s):  
Reyes Llopis-García ◽  
Margarita Vinagre
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Target Culture

This chapter discusses the importance of writing as a key ability to address in the foreign/second language classroom. The need to design and implement projects and tasks that foster authentic cultural learning through the meaningful use of written production is addressed, and a project that meets these criteria is presented. This email tandem exchange project was conducted between 94 intermediate-level students (47 pairs) from Columbia University/Barnard College in New York and the Universidad Autonóma de Madrid in Spain during the Fall Semester 2010 (and subsequently in 2011 and 2012). There were several goals to this project: to help improve students' writing skills; to encourage them to learn about culture through authentic and real exposure to the target language (TL onwards, understood as “direct contact with a native speaker”); to foster progress in their use of the TLs through peer-to-peer corrections; and to take an active part in their own learning through self-assessment. Based on students' opinions, this project had a very positive impact on the way they viewed the foreign/target culture on both sides of the Atlantic. It also helped them enhance their written proficiency and acquire a new lexical mastery that would have been impossible through the limited and less-real scope of the classroom.

scholarly journals THE LEARNING STYLE OF MILLENIAL STUDENTS AT ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF IAIN BUKITTINGGI

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Ummu Hani ◽  
Leli Lismay
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Team Learning ◽  
English Education ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Language Classroom

This research was conducted based on some problems found related to the learning style of milenial students in the classroom interaction. Most of the students did not follow the instructions given by the lecturer when working on assignment. So that, analysing milenial learning style is needed in order to found out some appropiate styles and strategies in teaching. This research was qualitative research. The instrument used in this research was observation and interview. The result showed that there were three categories of millenial learning styles namely; team learning, experiencing, and uses technologies in learning. Especially for students in the 2nd year at English Education Department of State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi, Most of the students applied  team learning and uses technologies as learning styles during classroom interaction. They did not like the style of experiencing, while in the language classroom, experincing, should be the crucial factor to help the students mastering the target language. In coclusion, millenial learning styles at English Education Department of State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi need to be improved in order to achieve the learning objectives.Keywords: Learning Style, Millenial, classroom interaction.

Writing and Culture in CALL

2014 ◽  
pp. 129-151
Author(s):  
Reyes Llopis-García
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Target Culture

This chapter discusses the importance of writing as a key ability to address in the foreign/second language classroom. The need to design and implement projects and tasks that foster authentic cultural learning through the meaningful use of written production is addressed, and a project that meets these criteria is presented. This email tandem exchange project was conducted between 94 intermediate-level students (47 pairs) from Columbia University/Barnard College in New York and the Universidad Autonóma de Madrid in Spain during the Fall Semester 2010 (and subsequently in 2011 and 2012). There were several goals to this project: to help improve students’ writing skills; to encourage them to learn about culture through authentic and real exposure to the target language (TL onwards, understood as “direct contact with a native speaker”); to foster progress in their use of the TLs through peer-to-peer corrections; and to take an active part in their own learning through self-assessment. Based on students’ opinions, this project had a very positive impact on the way they viewed the foreign/target culture on both sides of the Atlantic. It also helped them enhance their written proficiency and acquire a new lexical mastery that would have been impossible through the limited and less-real scope of the classroom.

scholarly journals Metaphorical and Strategic Competence in the Spanish Language Teaching Classroom as a Foreign Language through Task-Based Learning Methodology

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Javier Julian Enriquez
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Strategic Competence ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Speakers Of Other Languages

This article focuses on highlighting the application of discourse analysis in the Spanish Language Teaching as a Foreign Language. Especially, it does emphasize the importance of the conceptual fluency acquisition, as a strategic competence in particular, and as a communicative competence in general for non-native speakers of other languages enrolled in Spanish courses as a foreign language. That is, it does draw attention to Metaphorical Competence (MC), which can be defined as the ability to acquire, create, and interpret metaphors in the target language. For this purpose, we have chosen a Golden Age poet, Gongora, considered by most literary critics as the most influential and important poet in Spanish-language poetry, whose works represent the most admirable literary masterpieces  in the western classical literature and Baroque poetry. In the same way, we would like to bring to light his literary value, excellent, and didactic potential for teaching poetry in the second language classroom, underpinned by a Task-based Learning methodology.

scholarly journals Global Issues in ESP Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 388-400
Author(s):  
Yana Diachkova ◽  
Lilia Sazhko ◽  
Liudmyla Shevchenko ◽  
Anastasiia Syzenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Synergetic Effect ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Global Competence ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

In English for Specific Purposes, one of the challenges is to transform teaching and learning into a process, which focuses on the development of professional skills, enables students to become successful learners of the target language, and makes them more aware of the local and global environments. This paper aims to analyse key challenges that teachers and learners face in the classrooms and suggest a way of integrating global issues into the process of development of professional soft and hard skills. The paper studies the existing ESP literature in terms of presence of global issues, explores the perceptions of global issues among university students in Ukraine, outlines the correlation between professional skills and global competence. The findings suggest that there are numerous advantages of introducing materials based on global issues into the teaching process as it has synergetic effect of fusing professional skills, soft skills and global competence. The paper concludes that this fusion improves the skill set of a future professional and has a positive impact on the quality of higher education in general.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Teachers’ Questions in English Language Classroom: A Case Study in Year 10 of SMK N 1 Nunukan

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eka Pratiwi ◽  
Yuyun Yulia
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
English Language Teachers

In English language classroom, teachers’ questions are important parts of teaching English language. Teachers need to know what kind of questions which potentially support students learning target language.  However, students did not actively participate in learning particularly when responding teachers’ questions. To overcome this problem, it is important for teachers to modify their question through some techniques in order to get students’ responses. This study reports the types of teachers’ questions used by English teachers in classroom, and the classification of modification questions used by teachers during teaching English language in class.This research belongs to classroom discourse analysis. The research was conducted at tenth grade of SMKN 1 Nunukan. The data were collected through observation, video recording, and interview. The teachers’ questions were analyzed using Miles and Huberman’s (1995) model of qualitative data analysis.The research findings show that both teachers pose more questions of knowledge level than other levels, and the teachers used various techniques to modify their questions when the students did not give response. The modification of modifying questions are repeating and rephrasing. Then sometimes teachers negotiated questions by in Bahasa Indonesia or first language (local language). The domination of knowledge level questions and how teachers modified the questions is influenced by teachers’ competence, students’ competence, situation of teaching English language, and teaching material.

scholarly journals Increasing Cultural Awareness Through a Cultural Awareness Program

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beate Baltes ◽  
David Hernandez ◽  
Christina Collins
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
School Students ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Students Attitudes

Racial tension motivates strife and violence in the metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, area. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a collaborative partnership, the Cultural Awareness Consortium (CAC), in making a positive impact on the attitudes of a group of diverse high school students regarding multicultural relations. The two theoretical frameworks guiding this study were Allport’s intergroup contact theory and intercultural competence theory originating from International Education and International Studies. The research questions concerned whether attending the CAC for 4 months, the treatment, changed students’ attitudes on multicultural relations, and whether a student’s gender or ethnicity was a predictor of changes in these attitudes. A single group, pre-experimental design with data collection from two administrations of the Student Multicultural Relations Survey was used in the study. Fifty-four students completed the survey, which yielded four multicultural relations scales (dependent variables), eight single-item attitudinal variables on multicultural issues, and two demographic variables (independent variables), and inferential analysis included <em>t </em>tests and multiple regression. According to study results, students’ attitudes on multicultural relations had changed significantly, and students talked to and mixed with students from different cultural backgrounds more after the treatment. Educational institutions providing experiences like the CAC can make a positive impact on students’ attitudes on multicultural relations. This can lead to positive social change as students increase their acceptance of others and take those attitudes and values with them into the workforce after they graduate, serving as role models of acceptance for their peers.

The Implementation of Aspects of Learner Autonomy in Technical English Courses

10.47908/9/9 ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 170-178
Author(s):  
Gerhild Janser-Munro ◽  
Tanja Psonder
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Learner Autonomy ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Peer Evaluation ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Construction Design

This article reports on two best practice examples which incorporate principles of learner autonomy into two different technical courses in tertiary education. These principles include encouraging active learner involvement, self-reflection and peer evaluation as well as target language use and a focus on individual learning styles. The approach applied has been developed based on real experiences from teaching the General English and Technical English courses as part of the Information Management and Construction Design and Economics Bachelor Degree programmes at the FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences. The goal of this approach is to move away from frontal teaching and to let students develop their own learning materials, experience the social dimension of peer evaluation and become aware of the importance of addressing the needs of different learner types. Thus, students develop their individual autonomy and at the same time integrate their field-related knowledge with a foreign language.

Content-Based Instruction in a Spanish Language Classroom

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Silvia M. Peart ◽  
Bradford S. Barrett ◽  
Sharika D. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Language ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Based Instruction

Perceived Ease in Using Technology Predicts Teacher Candidates' Preferences for Online Resources

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Yukiko Inoue-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Online Learning Environments ◽  
Online Resource ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship

This study provides a preliminary analysis of teacher candidates' attitudes toward information technology as they predict receptivity to an online resource-based learning. The participants of the current questionnaire-based study were randomly selected teacher candidates (N = 101) at an American Pacific island university. The questionnaire focused on the relationship between the candidates' levels of comfort with technology and the degrees to which they consider the Internet useful in doing coursework. Results from this study may guide teacher education programs, as they seek to optimize teacher candidates' receptivity to course-appropriate online resources. This is because these teachers will shape their own students' attitudes toward online learning environments, promoting their students' tendencies to access resources maintaining lifelong learning perspectives.

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