scholarly journals Changing Policy of English Teaching Approach at Indonesian Secondary Schools In Face of ASEAN Economic Community: A Few Notes to Relevant Ministries

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ardi Marwan
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
English Learning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Study Program ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Asean Economic Community ◽  
Teaching Learning

This article provides information about a research aiming to identify causes of secondary school students’ failure to acquire English effectively and provide recommendations to relevant ministries to better deal with these problems.  A qualitative design involving a number of students as well as teachers from lower and upper secondary schools and pre-service teachers from a training college was used. Findings of this research revealed that issues of English teacher quality, English study program graduates’ quality, lack of English learning hours at school, the absence of extra-curricular activities for English exposure and English speaking environment, English national exam, the underuse and inexistence of facilities and ineffective monitoring system were found to be the major contributors of students’ English learning ineffectiveness. This study, therefore, recommends the relevant ministries to cope with these issues urgently or else this unfavorable situation will remain unchanged in future years.     Keywords: English, teaching, learning, quality, policy, change

scholarly journals English for Nursing Students Based on Task-Based Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Ahmad Rusli ◽  
Jufrizal Jufrizal ◽  
Hamzah Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Addie Model ◽  
Teaching Learning

The aim of this research was to develop English learning materials based on task-based learning in the form of handout for nursing study program students at STIKES Aufa Royhan Padangsidimpuan. In the development process, this research used to: 1) identify the needs of teaching/learning Englishof the students; 2) develop English learning materials based on task-based learning; 3) find out the experts’ judgments about the developed handout; 4) find out the users’ perceptions about the developed handout. Research method was Research and Development (R&D). ADDIE model used to develop the handout. The result of needs analysis indicated the students needed to learn English language use in the nursing context. Then appropriate handout of English for Nursing was developed based on the result of needs analysis. Based on the experts judgments and users’ perception, the developed handout are categorized valid, effective, and practical.

scholarly journals Gifted High School Students’ Needs for English Learning in Vietnam Contexts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh Hung ◽  
Nguyen Thi Thu Ai
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Interview Survey ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Students

The learning needs of English students have been researched over the past decades in different countries, especially among non-speaking English ones. The core goal of these studies was to examine if learner needs/wants and learning outcomes of the English course/curriculum provided are sufficiently matched, i.e., whether or not students feel satisfied (because their needs/wants are met). Expanding this line of research, the current study attempts to find out the needs for English learning among gifted high school students in the current Vietnam context by seeking the answer to the main question: How do these students report their needs for English learning? The findings are supposed to provide useful insights into this English learning – teaching setting. One hundred and eighty English-majored students from five gifted high schools in five provinces of Vietnam participated in a questionnaire-interview survey. The obtained results show that most participants opted for English because they needed it for future employment and cross-cultural/national communications for long-term purposes. As a result, they wanted to practice more English speaking and listening skills rather than other components of English knowledge (pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary) and skills (reading, writing). Yet, their English practices in the classroom did not place much emphasis on speaking-listening skills, i.e., their needs were not very satisfactorily met. Some of the findings echo those of previous research, and some are first reported in the current study.

scholarly journals UPPER-SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ APPROACHES TO SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS IN AN EXAMINATION DRIVEN CURRICULUM CONTEXT

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-535
Author(s):  
Tamirirofa Chirikure
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
Iterative Approach ◽  
School Students ◽  
Linear Approach ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Teaching Learning

This research explored upper-secondary school students’ approaches when they engage in planning and conducting science experiments. Approaches to science experiments are important because they provide insight into students’ scientific reasoning and their enactment of scientific methods. An explanatory mixed-methods design was employed to determine and explain students’ approaches to science experiments. Data were generated by administering a 15-item Approaches to Science Experiments Questionnaire (ASEQ) on 211 participants and interviewing a smaller sample of 33. The linear approach was predominant while the divergent approach was least adopted by the participants. The teaching-learning context, substantive and procedural knowledge lead to specific approaches and the emergence of subcategories of the three broad approaches. Capable students engaged in a self-directed iterative approach while external help resulted in an assisted iterative approach. Rigid and contrived linear approaches were a result of time constraints, substantive and procedural shortcomings. Scattergun and blanking divergent approaches emerged from extreme weaknesses in substantive and procedural knowledge. Assessing practical skills through long-term projects is recommended to focus more on developing students’ scientific reasoning and process skills. Research with the ASEQ in other teaching-learning cultures, observing students in action and analysing their write-ups could provide deeper insights into approaches to science experiments. Keywords: science experiments, divergent approach, iterative approach, linear approach, mixed methods.

scholarly journals Using Technology in English Teaching of Pre-Service Teachers in 4.0 Industrial Revolution Era

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Yosephin Widarti Lestari ◽  
Siti Musarokah ◽  
Asysyifa Dinar Prashanty
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Study Program ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Know How ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Academic Year

The study aims at knowing the use of technology in teaching learning process of pre-service teachers of English Study Program of Universitas PGRI Semarang. The subjects of the study are the eight semester students which are Pre-service teachers of the English Study Program of Universitas PGRI Semarang in the academic year 2018/2019. The instrument used in the study is questionnaire. The techniques used in the study are sharing the questionnaire to the eight semester students through WhatsApp to know what kinds of technology used by them are and interview to know how their perception of the use of technology in teaching learning process is. The qualitative data are analyzed by reducing the data, classifying the data and drawing conclusion. The result of the study shows that Pre-service teachers tend to use same kinds of technology in teaching learning process, and they have an opinion that technology is really important for the teachers and for students.

scholarly journals STUDENT’S ABILITY IN ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL BY USING PICTURE (A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN MUHAMMADIYAH ISLAMIC SCHOOL AND SMAN 1 SIMEULUE TIMUR)

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Indratmoko Ariwibowo
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
T Test ◽  
School Students ◽  
Islamic School ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
2004 Tsunami

This study is intended to figure out if there is a significant difference in English speaking ability between public school students and Islamic school students. The population of this study is the second year students of both SMAN 1 Simeulue Timur and Muhammadiyah Islamic School Simeulue Timur. The samples of this study were 20 students taken from two classes at SMAN 1 Simeulu Timur and 20 students taken from two classes at Muhammadiyah Islamic School Simeulue Timur. So, the total number of samples from the two schools was 40 students. In collecting the data, the writer gave a picture of 26th December 2004 tsunami in Aceh. The students were asked to describe the picture by their own words. In analyzing the data, the writer used t-test formula to see the significant difference between the students of the two schools in English speaking ability. The mean and standard deviation scores for Muhammadiyah Islamic School Simeulue Timur are 35.25 and 8.20. While the mean and mean and standard deviation scores for SMAN 1 Simeulue Timur are 39 and 8. The result of t-test of the two schools is 13.20. It is considered higher than t value on the table if significance at level 0.05 and 38 for the degree of the freedom which is stated 2.02. The writer concludes that the speaking ability between SMAN 1 Simeulue Timur and Muhammadiyah Islamic School Simeulue Timur is significantly different. Furthermore, the writer found that students of SMAN 1 Simeulue Timur are better in speaking ability than those of Muhammadiyah Islamic School Simeulue Timur. Therefore, the writer suggests that the teachers of boarding school should evaluate their teaching learning process and have more motivation to improve their student’s ability English speaking

scholarly journals Subjective Understanding and Individual Interpretation of the Life Value “HEALTH” by the Second-Year Students of Lower Secondary Schools and of the First- and Second-Year Students of Upper Secondary Schools in Slovakia

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slávka Krásna
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Upper Secondary Schools ◽  
Individual Interpretation ◽  
Lower Secondary Schools

AbstractThe article focuses on the value “health”, as a component of the value orientation of students of lower secondary schools and upper secondary schools in our country. At the same time, it focuses on the presentation and interpretation of the results of a research conducted on a sample of students of selected schools, which was a part of a more comprehensive research on subjective understanding and individual interpretation of selected life values of lower secondary and upper secondary school students in Slovakia.

scholarly journals Wybory edukacyjno-zawodowe uczniów gimnazjów w tym uczniów ze specjalnymi potrzebami edukacyjnymi w kontekście kondycji doradztwa zawodowego

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Joanna Kozielska
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Local Labor Market ◽  
School Students ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Project Groups

The proposed text is an illustration of research conducted in the first half of 2016 years of empirical verification planning future educational and vocational secondary school and upper secondary youth in Gniezno. When analyzing the situation of the local labor market and its prospects for the group of respondents was done between other high school students, because they are in a few years will include the labor market and indirectly (now) affect its shape. The awareness of their plans but allows us to predict, and thus the possibility of remedying causing difficulties in the labor market. In proposed project groups of respondents they were done as teenagers of secondary schools, directors of secondary schools and the largest local employers. Article focuses on students with special educational needs and on  issues concerning the condition of vocational education and educational and professional choices of young people, taken over their strategies in relation to the current needs of the local labor market

scholarly journals ‘Triple P’ to Improve English Speaking Ability of Students in English Language and Literature Study Program Sawerigading University

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-183
Author(s):  
Rezkiawati Nazaruddin ◽  
Syamsuddin Syamsuddin
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
English Language ◽  
Triple P ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Academic Year

The purpose of this study is to find out whether the triple P model can Improve the students' speaking skills. This research is a Classroom Action Research which applied to the students of English Language and Literature Study Program of Sawerigading University the academic year of 2016/2017. During the learning process, students are taught using ‘Triple P’ model. This model includes three activities; presentation, practice and production. In general it can be concluded that this model could motivate the students to speak confidently in the classroom and showed the improvement of students’ creativity on teaching learning process, their ability to express their own ideas, and their ability to interact or communicate with their friends.

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