scholarly journals Strategi Dalam Pembelajaran Bahasa Indonesia Di Sekolah Dasar Daerah Terpencil Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 276
Author(s):  
Rince Jalla Wabang ◽  
Lenny Nofriyani Adam
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Remote Area ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Remote Island ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Teaching Learning

Bahasa is one of the important materials taught in Indonesian schools for the important roles in our daily lives. The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of learning in a remote island in Flores. The method used is qualitative descriptive with a naturalistic approach and case study. This research was conducted in several places in a remote area on the island of Flores, East Nusa Tenggara. The result shows that Bahasa language learning in the remote area of Flores island is not maximal enough. Primary school teachers are still applying the conventional learning techniques and they do not want to be role models for the teaching-learning process. 

scholarly journals Krashen Revisited: Case Study of the Role of Input, Motivation and Identity in Second Language Learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Bailey ◽  
Ahmed Kadhum Fahad
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Target Language

Stephen Krashen has a long and enduring legacy in the field of second language acquisition. His “Input Hypothesis” was among the very first attempts to create a coherent theoretical account of second language learning. Krashen argued that learners can acquire language through the process of comprehending it. While elements of his model have been extensively critiqued, this idea has endured and offers teachers a clear mandate to provide learners with abundant opportunities to making meaning of the target language. Utilizing a case study of an English language learner, Krashen’s model is challenged and enriched by considering the role that motivation and identity play in learning. Teachers tapping into an important source of learner motivation, role models drawn from the local community or broader society, can inspire and energize students’ studies and help them visualize a life in which a second language plays a vital role. Building upon Krashen’s idea of the importance of language teachers and programs creating robust reading programs for a sustained engagement with second language print resources, the authors propose to expand his vision and include all manner of multimedia and technologies. However, such a program can only succeed if teachers mediate their learners’ social identities and motivations for sustained second language learning.

scholarly journals Museums as Learning Spaces: A Case Study of Enhancing ESP Students’ Language Skills in Kuwait University

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Munirah AlAjlan
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
Kuwait University ◽  
Teaching Learning

A number of studies have looked at the use of videos, audios, worksheets, and games as tools in language teaching/learning. Some studies have recommended art galleries as a space for language learning. This study investigated the use of museums for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) language learning. The study focused on engineering students studying in their third year at Kuwait University. The study aimed to provide an approach aimed at helping ESP instructors to teach materials to students in a fun, creative way. The study employed 11 engineering male students in a fieldtrip to one of the two science museums in Kuwait. Students were asked to write a narrative journal about their experience at the museum. The results showed that students’ narratives were written creatively, following the narrative structure block. The results also showed that it may be useful to introduce this type of learning to ESP courses because the museum has a great deal of information to exhibit, unlike traditional ESP books, which present limited scientific information. The study suggests that ESP (and ESL) courses should implement museum visits because such excursions have a significant impact on students’ language learning.

scholarly journals Mobile Devices in Technical and Engineering Education with Focus on ESP

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Simonova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Mobile Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning

Mobile devices have become widely accepted and exploited didactic means on all levels of education and in all subjects to appropriate extent, including foreign languages. This study focuses on their use within technical (i.e. bachelor) and engineering (i.e. master) higher education in Informatics and Management study programmes at the Faculty of Informatics and Management (FIM), University of Hradec Kralove (UHK), Czech Republic, particularly focusing on comparison of general subjects to English for specific purposes (ESP). Therefore, following questions were set to be researched: (1) What types of mobile devices do students possess?, (2) What purposes do students use mobile devices? and (3) What is students´ feedback after mobile devices implementation in ESP and other subjects is? The case study was exploited to describe the state in mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) at FIM and students´ feedback was collected by the questionnaire on this approach to teaching/learning. The results show Czech students are sufficiently equipped by mobile devices so that these can be implemented in the process of teaching/learning of all subjects, including ESP.

scholarly journals Krashen Revisited: Case Study of the Role of Input, Motivation and Identity in Second Language Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 540-550
Author(s):  
Francis Bailey ◽  
Ahmed Kadhum Fahad
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Target Language

Stephen Krashen has a long and enduring legacy in the field of second language acquisition. His “Input Hypothesis” was among the very first attempts to create a coherent theoretical account of second language learning. Krashen argued that learners can acquire language through the process of comprehending it. While elements of his model have been extensively critiqued, this idea has endured and offers teachers a clear mandate to provide learners with abundant opportunities to making meaning of the target language. Utilizing a case study of an English language learner, Krashen’s model is challenged and enriched by considering the role that motivation and identity play in learning. Teachers tapping into an important source of learner motivation, role models drawn from the local community or broader society, can inspire and energize students’ studies and help them visualize a life in which a second language plays a vital role. Building upon Krashen’s idea of the importance of language teachers and programs creating robust reading programs for a sustained engagement with second language print resources, the authors propose to expand his vision and include all manner of multimedia and technologies. However, such a program can only succeed if teachers mediate their learners’ social identities and motivations for sustained second language learning.

scholarly journals Enhancing Willingness to Communicate through Team Building: A Marriage of Theory and Practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
John Harper
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Willingness To Communicate ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Learning Anxiety ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
And Task

<p><em>Closely related to the well-researched areas of motivation and language-learning anxiety is the area of </em><em>w</em><em>illingness </em><em>t</em><em>o </em><em>c</em><em>ommunicate (i.e., WTC). Many researchers (e.g., Clément, Dörnyei, &amp; Noels, 1998; Liu &amp; Jackson, 2008; MacIntyre &amp; Doucette, 2009) have conducted studies concerning the factors surrounding learners’ willingness or unwillingness to communicate in a second language. The emphasis of such research has been on causes and not on solutions. This paper, through a study of the existing literature, examines the causes of a lack of WTC. It then argues that some well-known techniques and methodologies, by promoting team building, are well suited to enhance WTC. The paper concludes that the traditional warmup activity, the case-study method, cooperative learning techniques, and task-based learning techniques, when implemented with team building in mind, may aid in increasing WTC.</em></p><p><em><br /></em></p>

Case Study Research on Language Learning and Use

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 233-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Duff
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Teaching Learning

Case study research has played a very important role in applied linguistics since the field was established, particularly in studies of language teaching, learning, and use. The case in such studies generally has been a person (e.g., a teacher, learner, speaker, writer, or interlocutor) or a small number of individuals on their own or in a group (e.g., a family, a class, a work team, or a community of practice). The cases are normally studied in depth in order to provide an understanding of individuals’ experiences, issues, insights, developmental pathways, or performance within a particular linguistic, social, or educational context. Rather than discuss constructs, hypotheses, and findings in terms of statistical patterns or trends derived from a larger sample or survey of a population of language learners, as in some quantitative research, a qualitative case study of a person presents a contextualized human profile. Case study has contributed substantially to theory development, generating new perspectives or offering a refutation or refinement of earlier theories in applied linguistics by analyzing linguistic, cultural, and social phenomena associated with children, adolescents, young adults, and older adults.In recent years, the purview of case studies in applied linguistics has expanded to include many previously underrepresented topics, linguistic situations, theoretical perspectives, and populations. This article provides an overview of some traditional areas of coverage and then newer foci in terms of methodology, thematic areas, and findings pertaining to language learners in transnational, multilingual, and diaspora contexts especially.

scholarly journals Exploring students’ reactions when working teaching materials designed on their own interests

2015 ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Patricia Kim Jiménez Niño
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Main Role ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Teaching Learning

The current article describes the findings of a qualitative, descriptive-case study which aimed to explore the reactions of a group of students, after using didactic materials designed according to their interests. The population consisted of a group of fourteen EFL learners who started fifth level in the extension area, at Instituto Internacional de Idiomas (IIDI) of UPTC. A diagnostic survey was applied at the beginning of the process, in order to verify the issue. The study was framed under action research principles aiming at articulating possible solutions to some observed classroom problems related to students’ attitude in front of the English learning. The instruments used to collect data were a diary, students’ artifacts, and a final survey. The findings evidence that it is relevant to take students’ interests into account when planning a course since they can become the motor to encourage and improve the teaching- learning process; however, this is not enough, students’ commitment plays the main role.

scholarly journals Deep Learning Feature Extraction for Brain Tumor Characterization and Detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Otman Basir ◽  
Kalifa Shantta
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Tumor Characterization ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Attribute Extraction

Deep Learning is a growing field of artificial intelligence that has become an operative research topic in a wide range of disciplines. Today we are witnessing the tangible successes of Deep Learning in our daily lives in various applications, including education, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, military, and automotive, etc.<strong> </strong>Deep Learning is a subfield of Machine Learning that stems from Artificial Neural Networks, where a cascade of layers is employed to progressively extract higher-level features from the raw input and make predictive guesses about new data. This paper will discuss the effect of attribute extraction profoundly inherent in training<strong> </strong>approaches such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Furthermore, the paper aims to offer a study on Deep Learning techniques and attribute extraction methods that have appeared in the last few years. As the demand increases, considerable research in the attribute extraction assignment has become even more instrumental. Brain tumor characterization and detection will be used as a case study to demonstrate Deep Learning CNN's ability to achieve effective representational learning and tumor characterization.

scholarly journals Does Play Help to Learn Vocabulary? A Case Study on Primary School Teachers’ Attitude of Dhaka City in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Alpona Shirin
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Dhaka City ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Teaching Learning

This study focused on teachers’ attitude towards using games in teaching-learning activities of learning vocabulary. The purpose of this research is to explore teachers’ attitude to the use of a game for learning vocabulary of the students. A qualitative study was conducted with 12 teachers of Azampur Government Primary School of Dhaka city, Bangladesh to gain in depth knowledge of the issues. An everyday game of children named ‘Tic-tac-toe’ was chosen for teachers to teach vocabulary rather traditional process of memorizing. Then, semi-structured focus group interviews were used as tool to collect data from teachers after observing students playing the game. Data was then analyzed for thematic contents by standard content analysis framework which yielded six major themes such as play-based teaching strategy, language development, classroom environment, learning by doing approach, acceptance and barriers on adopting play-based strategy. Overall, findings showed positive attitude towards using game for learning vocabulary of a foreign language. The implications of this study imply that the themes can be effective in classroom practice of Bangladeshi classroom.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship Education in Mathematics Education for Future Primary School Teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-99
Author(s):  
Anita Summer
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The University

Abstract Teachers act as role models and through their activities are active co-designers of future generations. Independent thinking and taking responsible, sustainable actions form the basis for a vibrant society. Entrepreneurship skills can already be fostered in primary school children. This requires well-trained primary school teachers. The following text deals with the contents of “Entrepreneurship Education and Mathematics”, which the curriculum provides for primary school children as well as for students of primary school education. In a case study the author describes the implementation of a course at the University College of Teacher Education Vienna/Krems as taught since 2015.

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