scholarly journals An Arabic text as content in an Indonesian EFL setting: Trans-language

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-142
Author(s):  
Safi Aini
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Arabic Text ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Islamic School ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Learning English

Maynard and Furlong (1995) state that teaching materials should be something that students can relate to, and that occupy students’ interests. They assert that teachers must recognise what students already know about material to be learnt, and introduce teaching material which students are somewhat familiar with. This study was conducted at an Islamic school where the English teachers fostered a culture of English learning using content embedded in Islamic theme. This was manifested in Arabic textbooks, which were used as a resource for learning English, and as a basis for translation and communicative language activities. The purpose of this study is to examine learners’ perceptions about the use of Arabic texts as a resource for learning English as a foreign language (EFL). The results show that through a trans-language approach, learners can improve their English vocabulary, understand parts of speech of translated English words, improve their use of English grammar, especially regarding tenses, learn how to translate, and speak English more fluently, since they understand the content of the textbooks. However, they also have difficulty in making English sentences in the passive voice, and in pronouncing English words.

scholarly journals Application of Massive Open Online Course to Grammar Teaching for English Majors Based on Deep Learning

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minghui Du ◽  
Yiqun Qian
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Grammar Teaching ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
New Knowledge

The study aims to explore the roles of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) based on deep learning in college students’ English grammar teaching. The data are collected using a survey. After the experimental data are analyzed, it is found that students have a low sense of happiness and satisfaction and are unwilling to practice oral English and learn language points in English learning. They think that college English learning only meets the needs of CET-4 and CET-6 and does not take it as the ultimate learning goal. After the necessity and problems in English grammar teaching are discussed, the advantages of flipped classrooms of MOOCs are discussed in English grammar teaching. A teaching platform is constructed to study the foreign language teaching mode under MOOCs, and classroom teaching is combined with the advantages of MOOCs following the principle of “teaching students according to their personalities” to improve the listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation skills of foreign language majors. The results show that high-quality online teaching resources and the deep learning-based teaching environment can provide a variety of interactive tools, by which students can communicate with their peers and teachers online. Sharing open online communication, classroom discussion, and situational simulation can enhance teachers’ deep learning ability, like the ability to communication and transfer thoughts. Constructivism with interaction as the core can help students grasp new knowledge easily. Extensive communication and interaction are important ways for learning and thinking. The new model provides students with profound learning experience, expands the teaching resources of MOOCs around the world, and maximizes the interaction between online and offline teachers and students, making knowledge widely rooted in the campus and realizing the combination of online resources and campus classroom teaching. Students can learn the knowledge through autonomous learning and discussion before class, which greatly broadens the learning time and space. In the classroom and after class, the internalization and sublimation of knowledge are completed through group cooperation, inquiry learning, scenario simulation, display, and evaluation, promoting students to know about new knowledge and highlighting the dominant position of students.

scholarly journals Needs Analysis of Agricultural English Teaching in an Indonesian Islamic Higher Education Context

Tamaddun ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-114
Author(s):  
Muhammad Yunus ◽  
Sitti Halijah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Is Research ◽  
Learning English

The research is the development of Agricultural English teaching materials at Universitas Muslim Indonesia. The purposes of this research are to (1) produce a type of Agricultural English teaching material suitable to be used by the students of Faculty of Agriculture UMI and to (2) discover why the students are learning English. The method used is research and development. The research site was at the Faculty of Agriculture UMI with the number of 50 respondents. The results showed that based on the student responses, 12 out of 42 topics occupy the highest percentage needed for Agricultural English teaching materials. Those 12 topics are as follows: rice, tomatoes, chili,  shallots, eggplant, papaya, rambutan, coconut, coffee, land, disease pest, and seeds. Then, the purposes of the students learning English can be categorized into two major groups, namely to anticipate competition in the workplace where the ability to communicate both oral and written is needed and to prepare themselves in the academic field both to complete S1 (undergraduate degree)  and to continue their studies S2 (master degree).

scholarly journals STUDY OF MOTIVATION TYPES OF ENGLISH-MAJORING STUDENTS AND DEMOTIVATING FACTORS - IN THE CONTEXT OF NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA, ERDENET SCHOOL

2020 ◽  
pp. 083
Author(s):  
Solongo Shagdarsuren ◽  
Ulambayar Batchuluun ◽  
Daniel Lindbergh Lang
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
National University ◽  
English Learning Motivation ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Learning English

A decline in number of credit hours of English courses for English-majoring students at National University of Mongolia is forcing teachers and students to focus on how to learn English more effectively and what factors would affect that process within credit hours allowed at the university. However, the English teaching class hours in Mongolian secondary schools have been increasing for the last few years, due to the interest in learning English as a foreign language, and resulting in a growth in the demand for English teachers. This study has a goal to investigate into motivation of English-majoring students towards learning English and the factors affecting them to be demotivated. Twenty students studying English as a major at National University of Mongolia, Erdenet School completed the research questionnaire  which intended to discover English learning motivation through 12 items and attended focus group interview with 5 questions to find internal and external demotivating factors in 2019-2020 academic year. The students had instrumental orientation and demonstrated a strong desire to learn English. Furthermore, they were demotivated by their teachers’ and classmates’ attitudes and living conditions. The researchers suggested some recommendations based on the study findings. 

scholarly journals INTERACTIVE VIDEO AS ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIALS FOR SPEAKING

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
I Gde Putu Agus Pramerta
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Interactive Video ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Minimum Criteria ◽  
Passing Grade ◽  
Learning English

The process of learning English in SMP N 2 Penebel class VII C showed that students experienced obstacles in speaking. It could be seen from result of observation, interview and pre-test. It was 2.70 which is categorized below the passing grade minimum criteria: 3.0. Researcher indicated that it was because they seemed to be having lack of motivation in the English learning process. The use of interactive video in learning is necessary in order to improve students' motivation in speaking. Action research design was accommodated to help their problems. The researcher offered three kinds of tests. The result of pre-test was 2.70. After pre-test, the researcher went into cycle 1 which succeeded in improving their speaking from 2.70 to 2.96. In cycle 2, there was improvement up to 3.31. The use of interactive video gave positive responses to the students. As the result, their speaking could be improved.

scholarly journals Aplikasi Tematis Al-Qur'an Berbasis Web

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Arief Wisaksono ◽  
Anis Farihah ◽  
Novia Ariyanti
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Islamic School ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Main Method

In the elementary school curriculum know 2013 revision 2017 now the process of teaching and learning is based on themes, namely a teaching and learning process that has teaching materials related to the problem, and local needs that are used as themes or titles in the learning process in study groups. As a leading Islamic school SD Muhammadiyah 8 Tulangan Sidoarjo in every teaching and learning process teachers are required to always associate all teaching material with the Qur'an. The problem is that the support of open tools that can quickly find references to verses of the Qur'an related to a particular theme does not yet exist, so that the teaching and learning process becomes ineffective. To overcome this problem the author provides a program solution. This program will provide solutions that are expected to solve partner problems. The main method used is to use a tool in the form of a web-based thematic application, which is an application that can find references to Ayat Al-Qur'an related to a particular theme. In this application, users simply enter the theme to be discussed, the reference letters and verses and their meanings will appear. With this application, it is expected that teachers can quickly find references to each theme in each teaching material while making time efficiency.

scholarly journals Review of Literature on Learners' Personality in Language Learning: Focusing on Extrovert and Introvert Learners

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1478
Author(s):  
Maryam Cheraghi Shehni ◽  
Tahereh Khezrab
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Primary Students ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Learning English

The improvement in learning English is based on how students are enthusiastic about the subject of English. Learning languages, mainly English, is a great need, even for our primary students who have the responsibility to develop in the globalized world (Muñoz, 2002). These traits are the critical parts of one’s personality because they make him unique, and what psychologists have desired to study and measure in the process of learning English as the foreign or second language. Indeed, the variations between individuals, their learning situations and the contexts where they learn are some features that can illustrate the complexity of learning a foreign language. Conversely, in research on the acquisition of foreign languages, it is essential to consider the differences between individuals, their different ways of learning styles and the environment where they are involved.

scholarly journals Linguocultural approach as means of managing learning strategies when teaching a foreign language

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 01041
Author(s):  
Anastasia Sinichkina ◽  
Lilya Faizrahmanova ◽  
Rezeda Muhtarova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Questionnaire Method ◽  
Learning English

The article deals with the survey conducted upon the basis of the Pedagogical University with the students learning English as a foreign language. The study is aimed at finding the correlation between applying the linguocultural approach and improving students’ leaning strategies implication. Thus, the study defined the positive impact of the linguocultural approach upon the frequency of learning strategies usage by the students. The study deals with such types of learning strategies as common, metacognitive, affective, and social strategies implemented by the students learning English grammar and phonetics. The authors of the article used a questionnaire method to assert the fact that linguocultural approach has positive impact upon the development of the students’ learning strategies depending upon their gender and national peculiarities.

Teaching Cultural Differences through Korean Canadians: Teaching Material Development for English as a Foreign Language Classes

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-65
Author(s):  
Mátyás Bánhegyi ◽  
Judit Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Potential Model ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Competence Model ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Material Development ◽  
Canadian Content

Abstract Introduction: Students of English as a foreign language must possess intercultural communicative skills in order to be able to interpret and discuss the cultural diversity that surrounds them when they use English for communicational purposes. This paper claims, and is based on the conviction, that the development of these skills takes place primarily through teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in most educational contexts. This approach is facilitated by the fact that the English language functions as the most widely used foreign language in the context of culture teaching. Methods: Based on these considerations and with a view to theoretical and practical aspects concerning teaching material development, the presented study discusses some fundamental concepts associated with the relationship between teaching EFL, teaching cultural information and developing students’ intercultural skills. After reviewing potential theories, it adopts Byram’s (1997, 2008) Intercultural Communicative Competence model as a theoretical foundation for creating teaching materials for the purpose of developing students’ intercultural communicative skills. Results: The study presents the results of this endeavour through the example of author-designed worksheets focusing on Canadian content, and analyses a worksheet that covers Korean immigrant culture in Canada in order to demonstrate, with the help of this example, how theoretical considerations can be put into practice in the scope of developing teaching materials with Canadian content focusing on the development of intercultural communicative skills. Discussion: Within the scope of English as a foreign language, Byram’s (1997, 2008) Intercultural Communicative Competence model proves a very practical model to be used for the purpose of designing worksheets that develop students’ intercultural communicative skills: this is proved on the basis of the analysis of the above-mentioned worksheet. It is also demonstrated that teaching intercultural communicative skills through Canadian contents is a feasible and practicable way of introducing students to the concept of interculturality through the cultural heritage of an English-speaking country. Limitations: The theoretical background and the teaching material development project described below can serve as a potential model for designing similar worksheets, but the actual use and efficiency of this and similar worksheets depends on the applicable national curriculum and the specificities (primarily the language and motivational levels) of the class where such materials are intended for use. This also means that some aspects of the project are worth reconsidering when one intends to design their own teaching materials. Conclusion: For the design of worksheets developing intercultural communicative skills, this study provides a tried and tested methodological model to follow and presents a worksheet that can function as a potential model. In addition, this paper hopes to generate further research in the field of developing teaching materials focusing either on the development of intercultural communicative skills or on Canadian culture, and, through setting an example, it encourages the creation of worksheets of a comparable design or topic.

Psychological aspects of learning english

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Zakura Makazhanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Correct Method ◽  
Learning English

The article discusses issues of effective learning and mastering a foreign language and factors affecting the learning process. The author focuses on the methodological and psychological aspects of this process. The effectiveness of learning and mastering a foreign language, its further professional use, in addition to the teacher’s talent to use the correct method of presenting and activating teaching material, the ability to build trust with students and create a comfortable environment for them in the classroom, depends largely on psychological factors, on the students’ ability to change established ideas about their ability to assimilate and freely use foreign language speech both in class and in real life.

scholarly journals Motivating EFL Learners Comprehensively: Applying Dörnyei’s Taxonomy of Classroom Motivational Strategies

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Ernita Raharja ◽  
Ashadi Ashadi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Motivational Strategies ◽  
Language Aptitude ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Single State ◽  
Learning English

<p><em>Learning English as a foreign language is considered as a long-term process. During the period of learning, students might undergo ‘ups’ and ‘downs’ issue related to motivation swings. It is believed that motivated learners likely to outperform others who have high language aptitude but possess low motivation. For this reason, EFL teachers are required to involve strategies that captivate EFL students’ motivation. Motivating students should not only rely on immediate teaching strategies or a single activity since learning English as a foreign language is not an immediate process. Students tend to show fluctuated motivation in a time while in the other occasions could suffer in learning. </em><em>Hence, how motivation is considered as a process rather than a single state is described. Examining other perspective about motivation and the changing of focus in researching motivation show that seeing motivation as a process indicates more promising results for EFL students’ learning accomplishment. </em><em>Pointing out the importance of motivation in English learning attainment and the need of continuum process in motivating students, this paper offers the practical and comprehensive classroom motivational strategies by applying </em><em>Dörnyei’s motivational taxonomy</em><em>. </em></p>

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