scholarly journals Efektivitas Penggunaan Media Flashcard dalam Pengajaran Kakikata to Yomikata III pada Mahasiswa UBINUS Semester Tiga Tahun Ajaran 2010/2011

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Timur Sri Astami
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Class Environment

Article clarified the process of language learning, especially Japanese in a class environment, in which closely related to the teacher, material learning, and the learning media. In kakikata to yomikata subject (Writing and Reading III), students frequently got difficulties in reading or spelling kanji letters. To observe these difficulties, the researcher uses flashcard for developing the Japanese vocabularies in six weeks regularly in thirty minutes. The result indicates that around 64% of the respondents get significant developments. The positive impact on those successful respondents is their ability in remembering vocabularies as well as writes them in kanji letters.

Indonesian Language Learning and Teacher Innovation for Foreigners and Instructors for Foreign Language for Employees in Bali

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 21087-21095
Author(s):  
Ni Putu Nita Anggraini ◽  
Ni Luh Gede Yogi Arthani ◽  
I Putu Yuria Mendra
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
Counseling Training ◽  
Language Instructors

The group of foreign language instructors and Indonesian language instructors for foreigners initially had problems in the fields of HR, legality, marketing and management. The implementation of the community partnership program (PKM) funded by the Ministry of Research and Technology's Research and Development Program aims to solve partner problems through entrepreneurship building. The method applied is in the form of knowledge transfer in the form of counseling, training, simulation and diffusion of science and technology about teaching methods, mentoring financial management and marketing and managing agency permits. The teaching method quality improvement program is carried out through workshops and workshops with the theme of teaching Indonesian and multimedia-based foreign languages. The resulting output is in the form of certificates and the quality of teaching increases. The problem of business management and enlargement has been solved through mentoring by management experts so that partners know the tips of building a small business. To build a language teaching business, the team helped partners manage the Business Course and Training (LKP) business license in a notary and operational permits in the Badung District Education Office. From the marketing aspect, the team has helped partner market course service products through the creation of signboards, business cards and websites with the domain www.gepbali.com . The implementation of all these activities has been running 70% while the draft article and seminar papers are still in draft form. This activity has had a positive impact on providing employment for language teachers and improving language skills for the community.

scholarly journals Robot-Enhanced Language Learning for Children in Norwegian Day-Care Centers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Till Halbach ◽  
Trenton Schulz ◽  
Wolfgang Leister ◽  
Ivar Solheim
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Day Care Center ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
Nao Robot ◽  
Program Language

We transformed the existing learning program Language Shower, which is used in some Norwegian day-care centers in the Grorud district of Oslo municipality, into a digital solution using an app for smartphone or tablet with the option for further enhancement of presentation by a NAO robot. The solution was tested in several iterations and multiple day-care centers over several weeks. Measurements of the children’s progress across learning sessions indicate a positive impact of the program using a robot as compared to the program without robot. In-situ observations and interviews with day care center staff confirmed the solution’s many advantages, but also revealed some important areas for improvement. In particular, the speech recognition needs to be more flexible and robust, and special measures have to be in place to handle children speaking simultaneously.

scholarly journals Mobile Applications in Mastering Mining Engineers' Competences

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 04041
Author(s):  
Roman Islamov ◽  
Oksana Greenwald ◽  
Nina Tunyova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Educational Potential

Being one of the leading coal mining regions in the world, Kuzbass (Russia) demands from its regional higher educational institutions to master a range of competences of the graduates, namely mining engineers. Foreign language competence is considered to be among the key ones. The article reveals the concept of the competence, its relevance for mining engineers. We also analyze existing mobile applications from the point of view of their educational potential and present the results of the experiment conducted to assess effectiveness of mobile applications in mastering foreign language competence of mining engineering undergraduates. Our methods included interviews with students, classroom observations and surveys of students. The results suggest that integrating mobile applications in educational process is likely to have a positive impact on foreign language competence and increase students’ motivation and satisfaction with foreign language learning.

De bueno a muy bueno

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Luisa Parra ◽  
Marta Llorente Bravo ◽  
Maria Polinsky
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
College Level ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Heritage Speakers ◽  
Subordinate Clauses ◽  
Narrative Skills ◽  
Heritage Speakers Of Spanish

This paper presents and analyzes quantitative and qualitative changes in the performance of seven advanced-proficiency heritage speakers of Spanish over the course of one semester of instruction, during which these speakers were part of a college-level macro-based heritage Spanish class. Using oral narratives recorded in the first and last weeks of class, we analyzed changes in key categories such as overall narrative organization, use of discourse connectors, tenses, complex structures (subordination), and lexical proficiency. The post-intervention results showed positive improvements in students’ linguistic ability to narrate in more sophisticated and complex ways as the proportion of subordinate clauses, variety of tenses, and diversification of discourse connectors increased, as well as the use of stylistic phrases and formulas characteristic of the narrative genre. The results provide concrete examples of the positive impact that a pedagogical macro-approach can have on advanced heritage learners’ language development, use, and motivation. We propose a combination of pedagogical practices that include a rich language environment, meaningful interactions, continuous scaffolding, and explicit instruction about discourse elements, complex structures, and genre characteristics to continue fostering advanced language learning. Other factors we analyze as part of the dynamics of change in students’ narrative skills include the interaction between oral and written modalities of the language and individual differences.

scholarly journals The Interplay of EFL Students’ Enjoyment, Hope, Pride and Self-Regulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuehong Yin
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Academic Organizations ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Efl Students

Nowadays, emotions are among the most significant issues in the route of learning a language that should be taken into consideration. Consistent with the fundamental function of positive psychology (PP) and also the theory of broaden-and-build, enjoyment in language learning especially the foreign language is among those positive emotions that encourage EFL learners to develop their perspective to achieve. Efforts to apprehend and develop the academic achievement of EFL learners have also progressively concentrated on self-regulation as it boosts learners’ enjoyment, hope, pride, self-control, and learning. Besides, in line with the investigations of these positive emotions, principles of PP, the present review makes every effort for the interplay and its effects in language learning. It is pertinent to state that the present review of studies can benefit academic organizations, professional development centers, policymakers in the academic community to consider the role of emotions, namely positive ones and their positive impact on language learning.

scholarly journals Self-Regulation Skills: Several Ways of Helping Students Develop Self-Regulated Learning

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Baranovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
English Language ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Motivational Orientations ◽  
Active Involvement

Empirical research supports the long held assumption that self-control, self-esteem, and motivational orientations of adult language learners are important factors in their language learning behavior. However, precisely these variables influence the language learning process has yet to be investigated. The goal of this paper is to examine the role of how self-control, self-esteem and motivational orientations influence the English language learning process. Recent methodological advances and various theoretical frameworks that have guided the present research are considered in this paper. A special “bidirectional course” turning on teacher-learner interaction was designed - a communicative course which promoted learner autonomy. The results indicate that active involvement in learning, monitoring motivation, self-control and self–esteem are positively related to learning outcomes, demonstrating that the acquisition of self-regulation skills have a positive impact on the learning of English.

scholarly journals ‘I’M GETTING THERE’: AN INVESTIGATION OF ACADEMIC WRITING DEVELOPMENTS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN A FOREIGN BRANCH CAMPUS IN MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Fatimawati ADI BADIOZAMAN
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Branch Campuses ◽  
Academic Units

Many foreign university branch campuses in Malaysia make it compulsory for students to undertake academic literacy units (i.e. Reading for Academic Purposes, Technical Report Writing) in order to equip them with language skills as well as reading and writing for academic purposes. Despite the ubiquitousness of such units in universities, little is known about their effectiveness. This longitudinal study aims to address this gap. This paper reports on data collected from the first phase of a mixed methods study that seeks to explore (i) students’ self-concept in academic writing, (ii) perceived impact of the Academic Writing (AW) unit on the writing development and (iii) the transferability of skills to other academic units. Findings from the questionnaire revealed that the AW unit had a significant positive impact on their writing skills and that the skills acquired were reported to be highly transferable to other study units. Nevertheless, to ensure academic success, the study concludes that the foundations for first year studies need to be laid early. Keywords: academic writing, L2 writing, academic language-learning needs, language learning, English for academic purposes (EAP)

scholarly journals An Arabic Mispronunciation Detection System Based on the Frequency of Mistakes for Asian Speakers

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-297
Author(s):  
Faria Nazir ◽  
Muhammad Nadeem Majeed ◽  
Mustansar Ali Ghazanfar ◽  
Muazzam Maqsood
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Confusion Matrix ◽  
Classification Problem ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Detection Model

Over the last few decades, the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning has evolved. Due to the advancement in these fields, much work has been done to assist language learning with the help of computers called Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Mispronunciation detection is one of the significant tasks of the CALL system. An efficient mispronunciation detection model has a positive impact on the life of second language learners by providing phoneme level feedback. In this paper, we introduce the phone grouping technique for mispronunciation detection that is based on mistakes probability. We consider mispronunciation detection as a classification problem, traditionally for this purpose, a separate classifier is trained for each phoneme mistake that requires a lot of memory and time. Instead of training a separate classifier, we group the phoneme based on their mistakes probability that helps in reducing the number of the classifiers to be trained and also saves memory and time. We use the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier and test the results on the Arabic dataset (28 Phonemes). The performance of our proposed method is evaluated by using accuracy. The results of the model are evaluated using the confusion matrix and gives an accuracy of 88%. Our approach outperforms the existing systems developed for Arabic phonemes in terms of accuracy and is also time/memory efficient.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON THE LEARNING BELIEFS OF CHINESE AS A SECOND FOREIGN LANGUAGE FOR ENGLISH MAJORED STUDENTS OF BANKING UNIVERSITY HO CHI MINH CITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luu Hon Vu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Learning Beliefs ◽  
Learning Capacity ◽  
Second Year

The research surveyed the learning beliefs of Chinese as a second foreign language for English majored students of Banking University Ho Chi Minh city. Based on the theory of beliefs in foreign language learning by Horwitz (1985), we conducted a questionnaire survey with 177 students. The questionnaire results indicate that: firstly, Chinese is relatively easy to learn; secondly, children have better language learning capacity than adults; third, focus on phonetics, vocabulary and culture, not grammar; fourth, learning Chinese is useful for yourself. Female students focus on phonetics more than male students. Second-year students focus on phonetics more than third-year students, but not more grammar like third-year students. Unlike students from the central region, students from the northern and southern regions said that they must come to China to learn Chinese. The belief that "Chinese language is easy to learn", the confident and proactive attitude of using Chinese language has a positive impact on students' learning results.

scholarly journals Synchronous Mobile-Mediated Communication: An Analysis of Discourse Functions and the Nature of Negotiations

2019 ◽  
pp. 1419-1427
Author(s):  
Mohammad Shariq Mohammad Aslam ◽  
Atef Odeh AbuSa’aleek
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Discourse Functions ◽  
Audio Output ◽  
Language Output

Negotiating meaning and form has an important role in the development of a language. At the same time, written and audio output may also vary, which can lead to the generation of a variety of discourse functions and materialize in teaching methodologies and academic content used in the language teaching process. Since technology is increasingly becoming an indispensable and integral educational tool across the world, Saudi Arabia being no exception, language teachers are encouraged to integrate new technologies into their teaching methodology and practice to ensure they meet learners’ needs. WhatsApp Messenger, as a messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service that allows users to, among others, send text and voice messages and make voice and video calls, is investigated as a real-time language learning in this research. The current paper was conceived out of the researcher’s consistent observation of the positive impact of synchronous audio and written mobile-mediated communication tools, in particular WhatsApp, and the nature of negotiating meaning and form on the development of English as a foreign language for ESL and EFL learners. There has been previous similar research on WhatsApp as an educational tool but, in these studies, the language outcomes have largely been neglected. By analyzing audio and text negotiations and interactions conducted over WhatsApp, and comparing them with equivalent asynchronous computer-based exchanges, this study aims to investigate different types of discourse functions that are used in the negotiation of meaning via synchronous mobile-mediated communication. On a micro level, we compare Synchronous Audio Mobile-Mediated Communication (SAMMC) and Synchronous Written Mobile-Mediated Communication (SWMMC) modes of interaction, when applying discourse functions, to determine which mode offers a greater range of innovative language output. The language output of forty undergraduate EFL learners was studied over a five-week period and it was concluded that SAMMC outperformed SWMMC in terms of the scope of meaning and form.

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