scholarly journals Student Perception of ESP Business English Teaching Implementation in Makassar National Informatics Polytechnic

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Rahmi Rahmi ◽  
Abduh Abduh ◽  
M. Sofyan
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Student Perception ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Business English ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Tertiary Institution ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Research Questions

English for Specific Purpose (ESP) is currently a subject that must be followed by every student in every vocational or polytechnic tertiary institution throughout Indonesia, including in South Sulawesi. This study aims to find out in advance the students' perceptions of English for Specific Purpose (ESP) Business English teaching materials, and their perceptions of the teaching strategies adopted by ESP Business English teachers. In answering the research questions above, researchers used a descriptive qualitative approach. The method of data collection is done through semi-structured interviews using open-ended questions and analyzing them using an interpretative analysis approach. From the results of data analysis found 1) the material or textbooks that are used already meet the learning needs of students where the materials provided include Business English related words, the structure of Language/Grammar, and practical language teaching. However, students consider the design or appearance of the book to be less attractive making them less interested in using the book; 2) students show a variety of perceptions about the teaching strategies of their lecturers, found themes that show the teaching strategies preferred by students are supportive, create fun learning, provide games, be disciplined and assertive but feel not pressured, have an active professional knowledge component.

scholarly journals Why do Students Seek Help in an Age of DIY? Using a Qualitative Approach to Look Beyond Statistics

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Vinyard ◽  
Colleen Mullally ◽  
Jaimie Beth Colvin
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
National Statistics ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Consultation Services

National statistics indicate that academic libraries are experiencing declines in reference transactions, but the references services in some libraries continue to thrive. While many studies explore reasons that students do not seek assistance from librarians, there is limited research explaining why students do ask for help. The authors conducted a study to answer two questions: (1) How do undergraduate students look for information? (2) What prompted the students to seek out help from a librarian? To answer these questions, the authors conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with undergraduate students who had received reference assistance. An important theme that emerged from the interviews was students’ preferences to search independently without assistance. Despite this “do-it-yourself” mentality, students aware of library research consultation services still continue to seek out assistance for librarians when stressful and time-consuming research questions arise. The findings from this study will help librarians better market their research services and understand how students perceive the help-seeking process.

scholarly journals The use of adapted teaching strategies in literacy by grade three educators in the northern KwaZulu-Natal region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Veena Loopoo
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Intervention Programme ◽  
Diverse Classrooms ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Grade 3

The literacy levels in South African schools are alarmingly low. Educators are challenged in diverse classrooms with multicultural and multilingual learners as they are faced with the problems that these learners are experiencing in literacy. Educators therefore need to be able to adapt their teaching strategies to suit the needs of their learners to address learners’ different learning needs and styles. This study investigated the use of adapted teaching strategies used by grade 3 educators in literacy in selected schools in northern KwaZulu-Natal. A mixed methods research design was used which included the use of a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews to gather data. The findings which were linked to the literature review revealed that educators lacked adequate knowledge and skills to adapt their teaching strategies as they have not been adequately trained to teach literacy within multilingual contexts. Although some educators were using adapted teaching strategies they were not using them effectively in their multilingual classrooms while some educators did not have a wellstructured intervention programme at school to deal with learners who were experiencing problems with literacy. Inexperienced educators also had problems identifying learning styles and adapting their teaching strategies. This study found that teachers require continual professional development to enable them to effectively adapt their teaching strategies to suit individual learning needs and styles.

TBLT in Business English Communication

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Task Completion ◽  
Business English ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Uk Higher Education

Research on the use of task-based language teaching (TBLT) with digital technologies has increased over the last few years but few studies have focused specifically on its use with blended learning involving international undergraduate learners studying in a UK higher education context. This paper explores the role of a task-based approach with international students learning business communication in English with a focus on the use of two collaborative digital technologies to aid blended learning: the video conferencing software Adobe Connect and the virtual world of Second Life. The study was guided by two research questions: What are the strengths and challenges presented by each application in terms of aiding authentic task completion? How can the applications be used to support task-based learning in a blended format? A year-long study with students at a UK university utilised semi-structured interviews, observations and in-world ethnography. The research highlights the importance of a number of design principles necessary for effective task-based learning in a blended approach and calls for more research on the type of support required by international undergraduates to aid them fulfil their potential in foreign language environments.

scholarly journals Exploring Online Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Business English Teaching: A Hermeneutic Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
Ana Mariel A. Moreno ◽  
Constantino T. Ballena
Keyword(s):  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Business English ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
Online Business

This study explored the online Business English teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) to understand its essence in Business English teaching.  It sought to uncover what they thought about PCK in Business English lessons and how they developed their PCK as they engaged themselves in the everyday teaching of Business English. Hermeneutic phenomenology was employed since the purpose of the study concerns the reflection and interpretation of the online Business English teachers' experiences. The participants of the study were six online Business English teachers from one ESL Company in the Philippines catering to business professionals. They were chosen through homogeneous purposive sampling. The data collection included in-depth interviewing following semi-structured interviews and observations to gather rich descriptions of the participants' reflection and interpretation of their experiences. The data were analyzed using the six-step data analysis of Smith et al. (2021) due to the interpretive nature of the study. The results of the analysis revealed that the online Business English teachers thought of PCK as knowledge of strategizing, knowledge of Business English as the language in the workplace, and knowledge of Business English being distinct from General English. Additionally, the findings reported that teachers developed their PCK through several sources such as their encounter in the field, growth processes, and perceived need for further PCK development in Business English teaching. A creative synthesis captures the essential themes. Despite the online Business English teachers’ patent consciousness of their PCK in Business English, they still demonstrated the need to be exposed more to the business field and broaden their knowledge of business phrases and expressions.  Teacher interaction with various types of students, and feedback from senior colleagues helped develop and widen their PCK in Business English.

scholarly journals Employee-Athletes: Exploring the Elite Spanish Athletes' Perceptions of Combining Sport and Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén Moreno ◽  
José L. Chamorro ◽  
Cristina López de Subijana
Keyword(s):  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Elite Athletes ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Dual Career ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Subjective Perceptions ◽  
Dual Careers ◽  
Research Questions

Researchers have studied the athletes' dual careers with the aim of helping them to combine the sport and the academic–vocational sphere. Most of this research has addressed the study–sport combination, but there is a lack of studies on the work–sport combination. The main objective of this research was to explore the subjective perceptions of Spanish elite athletes when attempting to combine their careers as professional athletes with a second profession or trade. Further, this study aims to identify the access to facilitating resources and the perception of obstacles and barriers to the development of a dual career. A qualitative approach was chosen to address these research questions. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was carried out on a sample of 18 elite athletes, and the data were collected using semi-structured interviews based on a set of superordinate and subordinate categories. The results showed that the athletes interviewed possessed valuable resources such as the transference of sports values to the work sphere. However, important barriers were highlighted such as the perception of sport institutions as absent entities in the work–sport combination. Thus, the study of this type of dual career seems to be one of the challenges facing the interested scientific community for the coming years.

scholarly journals The Implementation of 2013 Curriculum in English Teaching: Stories From Rural Areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Afrianto Daud ◽  
Heri Gunawan
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
National Examination ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
High Diversity

This study aims to document how the 2103 curriculum has been implemented by English teachers in a high school located in a rural area in Riau province. This research in particular investigates the implementation of Scientific Approach by English teachers in Bunga Raya Siak regency. The study is specifically aimed at investigating two research questions: (1) how the scientific approach has been implemented in the classroom and (2) what problems the teachers face during the implementation. Three English teachers were selected as participants of this study using total sampling technique. Since the study employed mixed method, the data consisted of quantitative and qualitative entities. The quantitative data were obtained from a questionnaire (survey) while the qualitative ones were gained through semi-structured interviews. The results revealed that the teachers have implemented the scientific approach relatively well. This can be seen from the results of the survey in which the overall mean score calculated was categorized ‘very good’. However, the interview data shows that all teachers experienced some problems in implementing this new curriculum. In general, the problems can be classified into four: (a) insufficient English teaching hour; (b) the students’ high diversity in terms of ability; (c) discrepancy between curriculum and national examination contents; and (d) lack of the facility.

Different Forms of Work Satisfaction

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Büssing ◽  
Thomas Bissels
Keyword(s):  
Work Satisfaction ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Work Situation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Global Satisfaction ◽  
Evaluative Processes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Level Of Aspiration

The extended model of different forms of work satisfaction ( Büssing, 1991 ), originally proposed by Bruggemann (1974) , is suggested as a distinctive qualitative approach to work satisfaction. Six forms of work satisfaction—progressive, stabilized, resigned satisfaction, constructive, fixated, resigned dissatisfaction—are derived from the constellation of four constituent variables: comparison of the actual work situation and personal aspirations, global satisfaction, changes in level of aspiration, controllability at work. Preliminary evidence from semi-structured interviews with 46 nurses shows that the dynamic model is headed in the right direction (qualitative differentiation of consistently high propertions of satisfied employees, uncovering processes of person-work situation interaction). Qualitative methods demonstrated their usefulness in accessing underlying cognitive and evaluative processes of the forms, which are often neglected by traditional attitude-based satisfaction research.

Reading Materials Development through Task-Based Language Instruction Approach for Business Administration Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Citra Hasan ◽  
Busmin Gurning ◽  
Amrin Saragih
Keyword(s):  
Business Administration ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Business English ◽  
Materials Development ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Basic Competencies ◽  
Business Administration Students ◽  
Instruction Approach ◽  
Administration Students

This research aims to develop the materials of reading by conducting need analysis in order to meet the needs of business administration students. The method of research was a research and development (R&D) by Borg and Gall which are modified in to three main cycles, namely: evaluation and needs assessment, materials development, and materials validation. The study found that the existing materials of reading II are not match with the needs analysis result. Thus, the researcher added 13 more basic competencies of the syllabus and materials of reading related to the learners needs and learning needs. Keywords: Business English; Materials; Reading; Task-Based Language Instruction Approach

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