scholarly journals Dramaturgical and Theological Issues Involved in Producing and Staging a Play in Jerusalem about the Disputation of Barcelona

Perichoresis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-61
Author(s):  
Yael Valier
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Law ◽  
Historical Accuracy ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
New Theater ◽  
High Level

AbstractIn the context of the launch of a new theater company whose mission is to bring entertaining theological content to audiences in and around Jerusalem, Roy Doliner’s Divine Right was chosen as the company’s first production. This play about the Disputation of Barcelona balances historical accuracy and creative dramatic content in a satisfying and intellectually honest portrayal of the events of the Disputation for educated lay audiences. Many theological and dramaturgical issues arise, especially in producing a play with a high level of Christian content and theology for mainly Orthodox or at least traditionally educated Jewish audiences. English speaking audience members in Jerusalem tend to be well-informed, both on the historical level and on the level of Jewish law and mores. This makes them exacting viewers, critical of inaccuracies of history or interpretation, wary of challenging positions but mostly willing to learn, and delighted by thorough research and characterization. This paper examines the technical, dramaturgical, and theological issues that arose during this production for the playwright, director, actors, and audiences.

scholarly journals Structure of social attitudes based on lexical approach in Serbian-speaking area

Sociologija ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boban Petrovic ◽  
Janko Medjedovic
Keyword(s):  
Political Correctness ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Western Democracy ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Universal Structure ◽  
Lexical Approach ◽  
High Level

Although usually applied in the field of personality psychology, in the last decade there were attempts of applying the lexical paradigm in the studies social attitudes studies. One of those attempts was made by Saucier (2000), who included and analyzed all the words ending with the suffix ?-ism?. The product of this analyze is a two-form instrument called "Survey of Dictionary-Based Isms (SDI)", with its long, 40-item version, and brief, 28-item version. This instrument measures four main dimensions of basic social attitudes: alphaisms (traditional and religious sources of authority), betaisms (dismissing political correctness), gammaisms (believing in Western democracy) and deltaisms (personal spirituality). Until now, this instrument was only used in English-speaking area, and therefore the objective of this research was evaluation and validation of Saucier?s basic structure of social attitudes model in the Serbian-speaking area. In this research, conducted on the sample of 253 participants, both sexes, average age of 39.3 years (SD=14.9), a slightly shortened version of Saucier?s 24-item questionnaire was used. The results of this study contribute to the hypothesis of a universal structure of basic social attitudes: the factor analysis extracted four factors, which correlate from moderate to high level with the original dimensions. However, the structure and content of the factors pointed to a strong cultural influence on the forming and shaping the basic social attitudes. Practically, only the first factor, Religiosity, is a full replication of the original alpha factor. Other items built the factors somewhat different from the original: Hedonism, Rational Spirituality and Nationalism. The results show a better fitness of the model obtained in this study for the Serbian-speaking area compared to the original one.

scholarly journals A Study on Communication Breakdowns between Native and Non-native Speakers in English Speaking Classes

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 01-06
Author(s):  
Tran Tin Nghi ◽  
Luu Quy Khuong
Keyword(s):  
Information Overload ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Language Differences ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
Native Teachers ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
High Level ◽  
Communication Breakdowns

English majored students have a positive influence on intercultural awareness in learning a foreign language. In their classes, they are often asked to discuss some academic matters in British cultural beliefs. Although they have a high level of proficiency in English communication, there often encountered misunderstandings between them when they interpret things or present academic matters. As a result, students cannot achieve plurilingual and pluricultural competence in the course. This paper was conducted to investigate communication problems between Vietnamese learners of English and Native teachers at HUFI. The data were collected from 28 participants who are third-year students and four different lecturers from different countries. The findings revealed that sources were mainly clustered for the following reasons: perceptual and language differences, information overload, inattention time pressures, distraction/noise emotions, complexity in organizational structure, and poor retention. The perceptual and language differences, information overload, and emotions were mainly responsible for the quality of communication. This paper can help students engage in awareness-raising activities that promote understanding in some contacts and discussions.

scholarly journals Problems and Needs Analysis of English for Tourism Industry: A Case of Hotel Staff in Phang Nga Province, Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanyakorn Sermsook ◽  
◽  
Rattaneekorn Nakplad ◽  
Ladawan Jantawong
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Writing Problems ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
High Level ◽  
Sustainable Recovery ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods ◽  
Or Applications

Tourism is an important industry that has created a lot of income for many nations, including Thailand; therefore, it is essential to increase its potential as a more sustainable and successful industry, in particular to support a sustainable recovery of nations’ economies after a tough situation like Covid-19. The present study was carried out to investigate tourism staff’s problems and needs for using English at work and to explore their needs for improving English for their work. The participants were 200 hotel staff in Phang Nga Province, Thailand. Data were collected through a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. Quantitative and qualitative methods were employed for data analysis. The findings showed that in general, the hotel staff’s problem in using English at work was at a moderate level (M=2.76, S.D.=1.11). They had English writing problems the most. They found it very difficult to write letters or e-mails in English. Regarding their needs for using English, it was found that every English skill was rated at a high level (M=3.75, S.D.=1.11), and English speaking was the most necessary. The hotel staff reported that they had to speak English to welcome, greet and say good-bye to foreign guests. Pertaining to their needs for improving English, overall, the hotel staff needed to improve their English skills at a high level (M=3.85, S.D.=0.98). They highly needed to improve their English use in every aspect, especially English listening. Based on the interview information, English courses, handbooks or applications relating to English for hotels are truly needed for their English use improvement.

scholarly journals Classroom Interaction In English Speaking Class (A Study At Sma Santu Fransiskus Ruteng, Flores)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 311
Author(s):  
Gabriel Fredi Daar
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Teacher Pay ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
High Level

<em>Classroom interaction emphasizes on the effectiveness of the students participation in the dialogue, and finally improving the ability of speaking. It involves all participants; teacher, learners and learning sources. There are some different purpose of using speaking. Each purpose implies knowledge of the rules that account for how spoken language reflects the context in which the speech occurs (Richard and Renandya, 2002:201). The study aims at finding out how classroom interaction employed in speaking class at SMA Santu Fransiskus Ruteng, Flores.  It’s used mixed method combining the use of descriptive quantitative and qualitative study design with phenomenological approach. It’s used random sampling, with 45 students taken as the samples. Meanwhile, employing a qualitative research design and phenomenological approach, the data for this study are mostly collected through interview completed by observation and documentation. For the purpose of deep interview, the participants are 1 English teacher and 4 students taken purposively. The study showed that 1) there is one aspect of classroom interaction mostly categorized as high level of implementation; Response and Asks Questions (28=62.2%). Data of interviewed confirmed that students needs appreciation for learning progress or achievement they may make. It encourages them to be more active and participative. 2) Feelings acceptance, praises or encouragement, and  ideas use or acceptance implementation (40=88.9%) and giving directions, criticisms or authority justification (38=84.4%) were mostly in the category of medium level. Meanwhile, initiation was mostly in the category of low level (24=53.3%). Data of interview confirmed that low initiation is caused by students learning habit. Most students do the activities of learning English when English teacher fosters them to learn. It’s in the form of quiz, assignment, mid test or final test. Leaning is merely conducted to improve and increase English score. Other activities such as memorizing vocabularies, writing stories, answering questions based on the passages, building up sentences and other classroom activities designed are done under teacher’s control and design. In the next phase, students find it difficult to accomplish complex tasks. They are only able to accomplish simple tasks. Learning autonomy which is oriented to build up speaking ability hardly ever done.  To this extend, English teacher pay more attention to the topic chosen in teaching learning processes. It determines whether the students initiate interaction or not.</em>

scholarly journals Subjectification Strategy of Author’s Statement in English Literary Xeno-Narrative

2019 ◽  
pp. 1648-1658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liudmila V. Kulikova ◽  
Elizaveta Iu. Mikalauskaite
Keyword(s):  
Growing Up ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Mental Experience ◽  
Thematic Units ◽  
Narrative Functions ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Difference ◽  
High Level ◽  
Narrative Forms ◽  
Stress Minimization

Literary xeno-narrative is a text illustrating the experience of interaction with cultural otherness that focuses on contrasting the in-group/out-group categories, with adaptation stress minimization and mental experience transfer as xeno-narrative functions. The author of the xeno-narrative forms the idea of the perfect reader through the implementation of strategies aimed at the recipient. The subjectification strategy of the author’s statement in literary communication is aimed at the reader’s personal acceptance of the author’s meanings in the text and the reader’s emotional involvement and empathy. This process is represented through the lexical and emotionally connotative language tools in xeno-narrative texts and also readers’ reviews corpus. The results of the study indicate the difference in the process of subjectification, understanding of content and the author’s emotional intentions among the readers with different national worldviews. The study is based on the materials of the electronic corpus of English and Russian readers’ reviews of the analysed narrative text. English-speaking readers recorded thematic units typical for the xeno-narrative and showed a high level of empathy to the immigrants’ experience associated with the personal experience of overcoming otherness. Russian-speaking readers drew on the thematic unit associated with intercultural interaction to a lesser extent, focusing on the timeline of growing up.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Internship Students’ Speaking Anxiety

AL-TA LIM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-212
Author(s):  
Asnawi Muslem ◽  
Ika Apriani Fata ◽  
Inayatullah Inayatullah
Keyword(s):  
Research Subjects ◽  
Grammar Rule ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Educational Factors ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
High Level ◽  
Rule Making

This study is sought to discover the English speaking anxiety factors in class of internship students and to investigate the students’ efforts to cope the problems. This research applied qualitative method in addition research subjects were 30 English internship students of Universitas Syiah Kuala in 2015. The data were collected through questionnaire and interview. Both of the instruments were adapted from (Tum Kunt, 2013). The study discovered that the major factors of students’ speaking anxiety divided into two interrelated groups; psychological and educational factors. Regarding to the psychological factors, the students were anxious and feeling fear of having misunderstanding teachers’ instruction and supervision. The educational factors were reflecting to the current bad performance of speaking skill aspects namely; inaccurate of fluency, inappropriate of vocabulary, inappropriate application of grammar rule, insufficient materials preparation and poor of pronunciation. Nevertheless, 16 internship students who were indicated high level of speaking anxiety used various efforts to solve the speaking anxiety such as; practicing, listening to native speaker’s utterance, reading English texts, memorizing words, keeping using English in class, learning grammar rule, making note, preparing the material and using audio dictionary. This study concludes that everyone has anxiety and it is common, yet this problem could be reduced by doing some efforts

scholarly journals Self-efficacy effect on basic level learners in speaking activities

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dewa Ayu Ari Wiryadi Joni ◽  
I Gusti Agung Putri Wirastuti
Keyword(s):  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
High Level ◽  
Lottery System ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
Basic Level

This study aims to reveal the effect of self-efficacy on the elementary level students and factors causing the high level of self-efficacy and its influence on students' English speaking ability. The population of this study were all students of grade VIII SMPN 3 Gianyar, while the sample of this study was taken by random sampling technique with lottery system. For research and data collection methods, the researcher uses some valid and reliable instruments, namely (1) speaking performance appraisal to know students' ability to speak English consisting of 3 criteria ie smoothness, pronunciation and improvisation, (2) self-efficacy questionnaire for knowing the high level of self-efficacy and its influence on students' speaking ability consisting of 4 components ie learning experience, field experience, social invitation, and psychological and emotional condition and analyzed with SPSS 16.0, (3) FGD guide (Focus Group Discussion) to know the factors causing the high low self-efficacy consisting of these 8 interview questions. A total of 33 students with details of 12 male and 21 female students were grouped into 3 large groups (high, medium, low) to be interviewed through FGD. The results of this study is self-efficacy gives a significant effect on students' speaking ability at the basic level of contribution of 91%. It was also found that the four criteria in self-efficacy have significant influence on students 'speaking ability, the most dominant is the criteria of students' psychic and emotional state when learning to speak English. This study contributes empirically that teachers can update their teaching techniques by observing self-efficacy in students by using creativity in teaching. In addition students can find out what happens to them during English learning so that together can create a comfortable and conducive learning atmosphere.

scholarly journals ANXIETY LEVEL IN ENGLISH SPEAKING AMONG AHMAD DAHLAN STUDENTS

Lire Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Megawati Basri ◽  
Fahmi Djaguna ◽  
Balqis Husain
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
High Level ◽  
Very High

One language that is a communication tool in various parts of the world is English; English has become a language that must be mastered by the community, especially students. However, not everyone can easily speak English. The purpose of this research is to know the level of anxiety when they speak in English at Universitas Ahmad Dahlan students. This research uses a qualitative method. One hundred and twenty seven students were selected as the participants of the questionnaire; the tool used for this study was adapted from Horwitz, Horwitz & Cope (1986) Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). The result of this study was showed that the majority of the students (n=103) were found students had a moderate level of anxiety, one student had a very high level of anxiety and thirteen students were found to had a high level of anxiety. The level of anxiety by dimensions, such as the Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE) ranks third. Meanwhile, Communication Apprehension (CA) and Test Anxiety (TA) are significantly dominant performance anxieties.

scholarly journals Has Robert Parker lost his hegemony as a prescriptor in the wine World? A preliminar inquiry through Twitter

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina I. Font-Julian ◽  
Raúl Compés-López ◽  
Enrique Orduna-Malea
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Online Strategy ◽  
High Level

The aim of this work is to determine to what extent Robert Parker has lost his influence as a prescriber in the world of wine through a webometric analysis based on a comparative analysis of Parker’s web influence and that of a competitor who represents an anthitetical vision of the world of wine (Alice Feiring). To do this, we carried out a comparative analysis for Parker’s (@wine_advocate) and Alice Feiring’s (@alicefeiring) official Twitter accounts, including a broad set of metrics (productivity, age, Social Activity, number of followees, etc.), paying special attention to specific followers’ features (age, gender, location, and bios text). The results show that Parker’s twitter profile exhibits an overall higher impact, which denotes not only a different online strategy but also a high level of engagement and popularity. The low level of shared followers by Parker and Feiring (1,898 users) offer prima facie evidence of an online gap between these followers, which can indicate the existence of a divided group of supporters corresponding with the visions that Parker and Feiring represent. Finally, special features are notice for Feiring in gender (more women followers), language (more English-speaking followers) and country (more followers from the United States).

scholarly journals The history of an English-speaking Canadian distance university: the Athabasca University - An interview with Nancy K. Parker

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-111
Author(s):  
Hélène Pulker ◽  
Cathia Papi
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Admission Process ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Self Service ◽  
Pedagogical Research ◽  
High Level ◽  
Equality In Education ◽  
The University

In her interview, Nancy Parker outlines the origins of Athabasca University and its purpose. She describes the internal and external pressures the university has had to face over the years to become a fully online institution. Athabasca University's unique features are portrayed throughout the interview, to include serving rural and adult learners, emphasizing learning rather than teaching, using ongoing pedagogical research in instructional design to develop online content, committing to equality in education for adult learners through an open and rolling admission process, a high level of web-enabled self-service tools and call centres, and empowering students to create learning communities beyond physical and virtual boundaries.

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