scholarly journals The Impact of Memrise Application on Iranian EFL Learners’ Collocation Learning and Retention

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Zeynab Esmaeili ◽  
Mohsen Shahrokhi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Differential Effect ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Impact

This study aimed at investigating the effect of Memrise application on Iranian EFL learners’ collocation learning and retention. To this end, a quasi-experimental design was used. 75 Iranian intermediate EFL learners studying English at a private language institute, namely Farahan, Iran were selected to participate in the study based on convenience sampling in the form of two intact classes. The scores obtained were entered into SPSS software for the purpose of data analysis. The results of data analysis showed that Memrise application had a statistically differential effect on collocation learning of Iranian EFL learners. Moreover, it was demonstrated that Memrise application had a statistically differential effect on collocation retention of Iranian EFL learners. In addition, it was proved that there was a significant difference between the immediate post-test scores Iranian EFL learners who received Memrise application and those who received traditional teaching. Finally, it was indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between the delayed post-test scores of Iranian EFL learners who received Memrise application and those who received traditional teaching. Key Words: Collocation Learning; Collocation Retention; Memrise application; Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL); Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).

scholarly journals Using social networking tools for teaching requests to undergraduate Arab EFL learners: a study of pragmatics

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adil Mohammed Qadha ◽  
Baleigh Qassem Al-Wasy ◽  
Hassan Saleh Mahdi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Social Networking Tools

PurposeThis study aimed to investigate the impact of social networks on learning requests by Arab undergraduate EFL students.Design/methodology/approachFurthermore, both types of requests (i.e. direct and indirect) have been compared under the same condition. A total of 40 Saudi EFL learners participated in this study. Their scores in the pre-test and post-test were compared.FindingsResults of the post-tests indicated that the experimental groups' performance significantly outscored the control groups. However, no significant difference was reported between the two experimental groups (i.e. direct and indirect).Originality/valueRequests, as a component of pragmatics, have been investigated extensively in the literature to aid second/foreign language learning. However, little is known about the manner by which social networks could foster learning requests.

Exploring EFL Learners' Preferences, Perceived Needs, and Perceptions about Language Learning Strategies

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 1128
Author(s):  
Maryam Alsadat Mortazavi ◽  
Hamed Barjesteh
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Language Experience ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Perceived Needs ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Impact

This study was to investigate the impact of language experience and academic level on the perceived needs of Iranian undergraduate EFL learners. Two groups of Iranian TEFL female students (freshmen and senior) were compared regarding their preferences, perceived needs and perceptions of different activity types about language learning. To collect data, Sihong's (2007) needs analysis questionnaire for English language needs was utilized. Thirty two freshman and twenty nine senior MA students with the age range of 25-35 were considered as the subject of this study. They were asked to fill out the questionnaire through email and they were given the confidence that the collected data would remain anonymous. Results revealed that there was a significant difference between freshman and senior EFL learners in their preferences, needs and opinions about various types of activities, and various aspects of language education. The findings also revealed that freshmen students required more practice in grammar and pronunciation than vocabulary for them. The most difficult components of language were pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar respectively; however, the senior students reported that vocabulary and grammar were the most difficult component of language skill and pronunciation was the least one.

scholarly journals Effect of Tell Me More on EFL undergraduate students’ English Language achievement

Open Praxis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 449
Author(s):  
George Gyamfi ◽  
Panida Sukseemuang
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Language Achievement ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Achievement Data ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Impact

This descriptive study aimed at finding the impact of Tell Me More (TMM), an online language-learning program, on English as a foreign language (EFL) undergraduate learners’ achievement in a University in Thailand. The study also looked at whether the time of use of TMM had an effect on learners’ achievement. Data was collected from the scores of students at four proficiency levels who did the placement, progress and achievement tests in the TMM program for the 2015 academic year. The analysis of the data indicated an improvement in English language achievement for the beginner and advanced proficiency levels after the use of the TMM program. However, TMM did not have any effect on students of intermediate+ and intermediate proficiency levels. The ANOVA and pairwise comparison analysis revealed a significant difference between the proficiency levels. The analysis of the time on task was striking. It raises concerns about the use of time as the sole indicator for assessment. The findings suggest that learning goals and assessment have the capacity to influence the use of computer-assisted language learning technologies. The study therefore will guide instructors on how to design curriculums for autonomous online learning and improve ways of assessment.

scholarly journals Impact of Integrating Task-Based Learning and Functional Approach to Empower Learners’ Communicative Competence

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Tri Nguyen ◽  
Trang Xuan Phuong Dao
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Impact

Enhancing EFL learners’ communicative competence is a time-taking process to reach certain levels of interacting with different communication participants. However, in the tertiary education in Vietnam, traditional teaching approach with the task-based learning does not thoroughly focus on the language use but on the strategies to perform the tasks. Hence, the functional approach has been applied to boost learners’ awareness of their language delivery thanks to communicative functions and notions. The new mode of teaching concentrates on what communication participants desire to convey and why they make use of those speech acts. This paper aimed to explore the impact of the integration of task-based learning and the functional approach, and learners’ perspective towards the implementation of such approach combination. With the application of the mixed method of qualitative and quantitative approaches, the data were collected via a pre-test and a post-test, survey, and 32 interviews with the participation of 100 students whose major is Business Administration at a university. The findings reveal that adding the functional approach to the existing teaching method could enhance students’ overall speaking competence, especially their fluency and discourse management. Additionally, the application of the functional approach received positive feedback from the learners.  

scholarly journals The Impact of Text-Messaging on EFL Freshmen's Vocabulary Learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Ali Derakhshan
Keyword(s):  
Text Messaging ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Original Sentence ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Impact

<p>The present research investigates the effectiveness of text-message vocabulary learning on EFL freshmen. The results of the pretreatment interview with EFL learners showed that many of them have difficulty learning vocabulary through the traditional paperand-pencil way; therefore, text-message vocabulary learning was hypothesized to be a potential way to help EFL learners consolidate their vocabulary knowledge. To this end, 43 participants from among 85 freshmen studying in Torbat-e-Heydarieh Azad University participated in the study. The participants were divided into two groups of 21 and 22 on the basis of their proficiency. The book Check Your Vocabulary for Academic English by David Porter (2001) was taught to both groups, and they were told to make some sentences in the class to become familiar with these words; they were requested to work cooperatively in small groups of 3 or 4 in order to have the opportunity to talk more about these words. Fifteen to 20 words were introduced and taught to these students on each session. Then, the participants in the experimental group sent the researcher one text-message containing an original sentence for each word covered in the class. They were also asked to send a text-message containing a sentence to their three predetermined partners. The participants in the control group wrote one sentence using each covered word, and they were also asked to write one sentence to exchange with their three partners and bring their assignments to the class next session. The results of independent samples t-test for the post-test and the delayed post-test showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the initial vocabulary learning and the retention of the vocabulary between the two groups.</p>

scholarly journals The impact of individual and group_based expectations on the self_image and reading comprehension of iranian intermediate efl learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (33) ◽  
pp. e15298
Author(s):  
Elahe Salehi ◽  
Ali-Reza Ameri ◽  
Gholam-Reza Abbasian
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So

The study scrutinized the effect of individual and group-based expectations on EFL learners' self-image and reading comprehension. This study explored the effectuality of individual expectations and group-based expectations in improving self-image and reading comprehension among EFL learners. To do so, 50 out of 120 Iranian EFL learners were chosen as the sample of the study and they were divided into two groups of Individual-based Expectation Instruction and Group-based Expectation Instruction, received five sessions of instruction along with some types of expectations and took two types of reading and self-image tests as a pre- and post-test. In general, the results showed no significant difference between the two groups’ mean scores on the post-test of self-image. The results revealed that the individual expectation group significantly outperformed the group-based expectation group on the post-test of reading comprehension. The findings suggest that using different forms of expectations in language classes can be instrumental in improving the students’ self-image and reading comprehension.

scholarly journals The Impact of Kagan’s Cooperative Learning Structure (KCLS) on Grade 9 Students towards English Language Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
English Language ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Brain Breaks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
English Subject

English subject has become very important in the context of Bhutanese education system. Owing to its importance in the era of modernization, the education ministry of Bhutan is providing professional development program in a form of training and workshops for all the English teachers to grow oneself professionally. Therefore the purposes of this study were to examine the learning achievement and investigate opinions of grade 9 Bhutanese students towards English subject by incorporating Kagans Cooperative Learning Structure (KCLS). The study was an experimental research and consisted of two groups pre-test post-test design at Kamji Central School under Chhuka district, Bhutan. A cluster random sampling was used to select two sections out of three sections with 38 students each in the experimental and the control groups. The quantitative data was analyzed using a pre-test and post-test scores while students’ reflective journal was analyzed using a coding system.The findings of the study showed a remarkable difference in the post-test scores. The mean scores of the control group and of the experimental group were 9.5 and 11.5 respectively. In addition,the student’s reflective journals revealed that the Kagans Cooperative Learning structure (KCLS) was interesting, provided with equal opportunities,enhanced active participation, and the brain breaks and cheers helped them keep themselves alert and boost retention level of learning.

scholarly journals The effect of explicit and implicit teaching vocabulary on Iranian EFL learners vocabulary

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Seyyed Taghi Yaghoubi ◽  
Fatemeh Seyyedi
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
New Words ◽  
English Classes ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Explicit Teaching ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Teaching Learning

This research aimed to find out and compare the effects of two types of teaching- learning vocabularies: explicit vs. implicit teaching-learning on building the EFL vocabulary of Iranian EFL students. The participants of the study were 100 intermediate females EFL students from four English classes. The instruments of this study included a PET test, a pre-test and a post-test. The researchers divided the sample into two groups which were given 15 sessions of treatment; the vocabulary items were taught explicitly to the Explicit Group (EG) by giving them the definitions of the words. However, to the second group, the Implicit Group (IG) the vocabulary items were taught implicitly by giving them example sentences in which the new words were used. After the treatments, a post-test was taken by the participants to examine the effects. The results showed that although both methods of teaching vocabulary were found to be effective, there was a significant difference between the post-test scores of the two groups; the EG which received explicit teaching-learning learnt much more vocabulary than the IG that received implicit teaching-learning of vocabulary. The findings of this study have several pedagogical implications in that they can make EFL teachers in Iran clearer about the more effective way for EFL classes to teach and learn vocabulary.

scholarly journals The impact of flipped learning in surgical education: A mixed-method study

2021 ◽  
pp. 273-289
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Education ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
First Year ◽  
Flipped Learning ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Case Based

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of flipped learning in surgical education in trauma. The participants were 15 first-year general surgery residents in Shiraz medical school. After completing a pre-test, the participants received the learning content in interactive multimedia, podcasts, movies, and books. One month later, they had a face-to-face class based on case-based discussions. An early post-test was performed immediately after the class, and a late post-test was performed one month later. In these tests, the residents' problem-solving abilities were assessed using multiple-choice questions. A semi-structured phone interview was used to measure their attitude towards the learning program. The results showed a significant difference between pre-test and early post-test scores and between pre-test and late post-test scores. However, there was no significant difference between early and late post-test scores. The residents were satisfied with the program's overall usefulness for junior residents. The participants tended to use podcasts more than other materials. They mentioned that the videos and books helped more to foster theoretical knowledge. The case-based discussion makes them more confident in dealing with patients in daily encounters.

scholarly journals Integrated Teaching: the Need of the Hour

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Siddharth P Dubhashi ◽  
Riddhima S Dubhashi ◽  
- RajatSindwani
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Systemic Organization ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Medical Study ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Difference

Integration means a systemic organization of teaching matter pertaining to different disciplines coordinating delivery of the learner to give a holistic approach to medical study. The objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of integrated with traditional teaching. Twenty integrated and ten traditional sessions were conducted over five semesters. Duration of each session was 90 minutes. Sample sizes for integrated and traditional groups were respectively 5600 and 1400 students. Pre and post- test scores for integrated, pre and post- test scores for traditional and post-test scores for integrated and traditional teaching groups were compared. Faculty and students’ feedback were analyzed. Difference in Pre and Post-Test scores for integrated teaching was statistically highly significant. Difference in Pre and Post-Test scores in traditional teaching group, though statistically significant, was less than that observed with integrated teaching .The difference in Post-Test scores obtained in integrated and traditional teaching groups was statistically highly significant. Ninety four percent Faculties agreed that integrated teaching was an effective mode of training. Ninety percent faculties rated the program on a higher scale. Ninety five percent students liked the concept of integrated teaching. .Student-centered, patient-oriented approach is the fruitful outcome of the integrated teaching model, which will definitely help us to have a much needed “Basic Doctor.” Bangladesh Journal of Medical Education Vol.13(1) January 2022: 79-86

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