scholarly journals Grammatical Mistakes in Relation to English Competency Test

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Gusti Ayu Gde Sosiowati ◽  
Ni Luh Ketut Mas Indrawati ◽  
Ni Wayan Sukarini ◽  
Ida Ayu Made Puspani
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Test ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English Department ◽  
Student Life ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Important Activity

The research aims at finding out the freshmen’s ability on English grammar. This is very important activity so that the English department knows their level of ability so that the teaching materials can be determined. The test is about structure, taken from TOEFL. The theory used is the theory English Language Teaching, especially Testing by Harmer (2001), in which the test is used as diagnostic test. The result of the test will provide the information about three crucial points on grammar that must be developed. This will help the related teacher to decide what items should be taught so that by the end of the semester, at least most of the students can reach the level of Intermediate, that is the level in which the students are capable of doing conversations on routines, understanding lectures, understanding English TV programs (http://www.embassyenglish.com/student-life/your-level-of-english cited on 19 January 2015).

Patterns, local grammars, and the design of English teaching materials1

ELT Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Hang Su
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Close Association ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Local Grammar

Abstract This paper explores the applications of pattern grammar and local grammar in English language teaching, focusing specifically on the design of teaching materials. It shows that grammar patterns can be systematically analysed from a local grammar perspective, and further argues that the practice of local grammar analyses helps to raise language learners’ awareness of the patterned nature of language in use and the close association between patterns and meanings. These in turn offer insights into materials writing. A sample coursebook unit is then offered to exemplify how pattern grammar and local grammar can be applied to derive pedagogical materials for English language teaching.

scholarly journals Revisiting Primary English Teachers’ Critical Reflections on Coursebook Usage

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 662-674
Author(s):  
Senem Sahin
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
Designed Materials ◽  
Critical Reflections

AbstractThis study of 30 primary teachers of English in Germany used questionnaires to explore their critical reflections on coursebook usage in classrooms. The research questions were: What are primary school teachers’ perceptions of English language teaching materials? What materials are used by primary school English language teachers? What are their reasons for using certain materials? What characteristics define good language teaching materials for primary school English teachers? The participants mostly prefer implementing their own self-designed materials in combination with coursebooks. Given that preparing personal primary school teaching materials is quite time-consuming, the teachers’ arguments for their choice should be explored further to optimize English language teaching. Some argued that self-designed materials are more adjustable to the needs of their students and more authentic. The paper proposes some strategies for striking a balance between teaching English with and without a coursebook, such as making coursebook learning activities more interactive and raising awareness of effective coursebook selection. Different stakeholders can thus collect useful ideas for improvement, including teacher trainers, teachers, student teachers, school administrators, and publishers. 

scholarly journals Mind Map Construction for English Grammar Teaching Based on Knowledge Map

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Qijun Fu ◽  
Shouzhong Kuang
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Map ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
English Grammar

The analysis of the frontier issues of the English language teaching method in China is of great guidance for English language teaching. Based on the ontology model of English teaching domain, the knowledge map of English teaching in colleges and universities is constructed by fusing heterogeneous English subject data from multiple sources. Firstly, we obtain domain knowledge from relevant websites and existing documents through web crawlers and other techniques and clean the data based on BERT model; then, we use Word2Vec to judge the similarity between the research directions of characters and solve the entity alignment problem; based on the scientific knowledge map theory, we count the frequency of keywords in each year and analyze them to describe the association and union between keywords. It can explain the current situation and trend, rise and fall, disciplinary growth points, and breakthroughs of ELT. Through keyword analysis, the hot issues mainly revolve around ELT, English teaching, college English, grammar-translation method, curriculum reform, and so forth, to realize the quick query and resource statistics of ELT basic data, in order to promote the subsequent English discipline assessment work to be completed more efficiently.

scholarly journals English language teaching for students of management of travel and tourism

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 01037
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Kacetl
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Travel And Tourism

English has become the lingua franca in a lot of areas, including tourism industry. The aim of this contribution was to explain the way English is taught to students of Management of Travel and Tourism at the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. The basic teaching approaches were described, and justified. Methods of collecting as well as creating teaching materials were exemplified. The resulting syllabi should be implemented in the coming years. Prior to this implementation, the whole curriculum of Management of Travel and Tourism has to be revised as the new accreditation is due in 2019. The new approach takes into account the fact that people working in tourism need to master especially speaking and listening as they are expected to communicate with foreigners.

Chief Editor’s Epilogue: Toward a More Creative Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Ikhsanudin Ikhsanudin
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Creative Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
Creative Studies

Changes in society need creative changes in education, including in English language teaching and learning. Society 5.0 needs more creative educators and researchers to help learners getting prepared for the future. This journal’s first volume (issues 1 and 2) reports fourteen creative studies and a review. In the next issues, more creative and innovative studies need to be done to open new horizons of language creative uses, innovations in language teaching, and innovations in teaching materials.

DEVELOPING ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR MUHAMMADIYAH SCHOOL; AN IDEA TO INTEGRATE THE MUHAMMADIYAH VALUES INTO ELT

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 462
Author(s):  
Septian Dwi Cahyo ◽  
Ika Rizqi Vitasari ◽  
Sucipto Sucipto
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
National Education ◽  
English Textbooks ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Islamic Values

As the most common teaching materials, textbook always has significant impact toward English language teaching. An English textbook contains language culture, ideology, and behavior. While a common textbook is developed by mimicking the native language, it can be said that an English textbooks have secular knowledge for not integrating faith into its content. The Muhammadiyah proposed an education of coherence between knowledge and faith for better education by developing unique curriculum known as ISMUBA which is contain Islamic values and enhancing knowledge. The problem is most of teachers in the Muhammadiyah school use general English which does not meet with the Muhammadiyah education goal.This paper propose and give example of an idea to develop an English textbook for the Muhammadiyah schools by integrating the Muhammadiyah values into textbook. The textbook is developed by integrating Islamic values as base of language teaching materials. The textbook is also developed based on Kurikulum 2013 for English language teaching, so there is no contradiction of national education goal and the textbook itself. The textbook is developed in order to achieve coherence of knowledge and faith in the Muhammadiyah education

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