scholarly journals The use of slang words in online learning context of EFL class

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Rizky Lutviana ◽  
Siti Mafulah
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Classroom Context ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Online Class ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Students Attitudes

Abstract During Covid-19 pandemic teachers and students in Indonesia adapt to continue learning by implementing online learning. Online learning creates a new way of communication between teacher and students in online classroom context. This way of communication makes both teacher and students employ new strategy in communication, one of which is by using slang words in online class. This study aimed at investigating the use of slang words by 34 EFL students in Translation online class during 1 semester. This study employed descriptive qualitative in which the source of data is the transcript of students’ chat in WhatsApp Group (WAG) during 6 months. Additionally, questionnaire was used to collect the data about students’ attitudes toward the use of slang words. It is found that students used 32 slang words from both English and Indonesian, most slang words used were influenced by popular slang words used in social media. Students mostly used slang words when (1) chatting with friends in discussing informal topic such as holiday, make up class, and connection problem; (2) expressing feeling; (3) addressing their friends’ names; (4) discussing lesson; (5) responding teacher’s question, and (6) greeting the teacher. Students’ attitude toward the use of slang was positive, they explained that they used slang words in online class to make learning atmosphere more alive and relaxed and those make them easier to understand the lesson. However, students limit the use of slang words when chatting with teacher, most students consider impolite to use slang words as freely as when they chatted with their classmates.online learning, slang words, EFL class

scholarly journals STUDY HABITS AND LEARNING STYLES OF VOCATIONAL STUDENTS IN THE EFL LEARNING CONTEXT

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
N.K.A. Sudianthi ◽  
M.H. Santosa ◽  
N.L.P.E.S. Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Study Habits ◽  
Vocational Students ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Face To Face Learning

This study aimed to identify study habits during the online learning and face to face learning, the dominant learning styles of the students, find out whether there are differences of study habits in online learning and face-to-face learning, the association between learning styles and study habits, and the constraints of EFL students to have good study habits in online learning. The design of the study was embedded mix method research design. The sample of the study was 205 students in Hotel Department in SMKN 4 Denpasar who were chosen randomly. The data were collected by using close-ended and open-ended questionnaires. The result of the study showed that there were differences between study habits in online learning and face-to-face learning. In online learning, students had moderate study habits, while in face-to-face learning they had good study habits. The dominant learning styles were kinaesthetic and there were low associations between learning styles and study habits. The were some constraints to have good study habits from parents, teacher, students and school.

scholarly journals Students Attitude towards Online Classes at Undergraduate Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-458
Author(s):  
Farzana Yousaf ◽  
Sonia Rafique ◽  
Shumaila Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Visual Display ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Educational Delivery ◽  
Student’S Attitude

During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a good time to welcome the introduction of technology and its latest offerings to make educational delivery more effective and make it more productive with online learning. A sample of 100 students was selected to collect data. The sample was randomly selected. The focus of this concept was to determine whether students' attitudes towards online classes were based on their online learning experience. Student’s attitude towards online classes based on their tested experience. The attitudes of the students in the online class were also investigated. Adaptation to classroom and self-study, high cost of online classes, access to electronic exams, a well-designed curriculum, easy Internet access, easy-to-use online classroom visual display, and familiarity with the teacher in a good student experience.

scholarly journals EFL Students Affective Attitudes towards Distance E-Learning Based on Moodle Platform during the Covid-19the Pandemic: Perspectives from Dr. MoulayTahar University of Saida, Algeria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Djamel BENADLA ◽  
Mohamed Hadji
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Affective Attitudes ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The University

The practice of the online learning system in Algeria is novel. However, with the spread of Covid 19, Algerian universities have been compelled to undertake remote and digital teaching. The University of Dr. MoulayTahar in Saida has arbitrarily hastened in implementing E-learning as an alternative teaching measure to maintain both positive educational outcomes and keep students safe and healthy. This research purports to examine how the University of Dr. MoulayTahar in Saida has used Moodle platform to facilitate the teaching process during the Covid 19. This paper, therefore, stresses the issues of distance e-learning that challenge both teachers and students alike. The researchers attempt to answer the following question: What are the affective attitudes of EFL students towards distance learning assisted with Moodle Platform during the Coronavirus? To supply an adequate answer to the raised question, the researchers have selected a sample of 157 participants. The researchers collected data through a questionnaire and delivered copies to the participants. The findings revealed that both the teachers and the learners were not well prepared for an online learning experience. That there are more disadvantages than advantages. The results of the research conveyed that the technical skills, the teachers’ lack of experience as well as the social situation of the students have made E. learning a complex process. The analysis also revealed that Master students have negative attitudes towards e-learning, and they would prefer face-to-face interaction in the classroom and handouts more than virtual learning.

scholarly journals Modeling Online Classroom Interaction to Support Student Language Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 446-457
Author(s):  
Sulistyani Sulistyani ◽  
Rika Riwayatiningsih
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Learning Condition ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
Published Research

For many years, teacher-student interaction has been indicated to considerably affect student learning. In recent years, research concentration has moved from attempting to evaluate the potent ways of classroom interaction for student learning and how it can be developed. Due to the intricacy of the classroom interaction procedure, the answer to this question is profoundly contingent upon some reasons, such as the learning condition. The aim of this project is to study the classroom interaction process in an online learning context in which English is learned as a foreign language.  This is review research employing content analysis technique we intend to examine the published research articles to find out the teachers’ strategies/tools and the contribution of the strategies to students’ language learning in online classroom interaction. This can build up an understanding of the most effective techniques to develop the students’ involvement with the learning process.  The result of the analysis is that most teachers use synchronous and asynchronous online classroom interaction and blended learning in which teacher-students, student-student, student-teacher, and student-learning sources are met through discussion. This strategy is mostly preferred by teachers to give students a chance to get involved in communication, collaboration, interaction, and participation. This strategy is believed to be able to engage students in developing language learning opportunities; therefore, this can be a good model for better classroom practices. 

scholarly journals Tracking Saudi EFL Students’ Reflections of Online Learning During Coronavirus: Different Rounds

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al Shlowiy
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Virtual Tools ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Reflective Questions

The sudden shift into online learning due to COVID-19 has produced many challenges and new educational approaches across all educational systems. Language learning systems were enforced to utilize fully remote education solutions. Responding to COVID-19 is a crucial investigation to find out the challenges, barriers, suggestions, concerns, and deficiencies of teaching English in Saudi Arabia. It also assists in developing the Saudi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context in the future and support its students, teachers, and policymakers. This study tracks the influence of this shift on the EFL students in a Saudi high school. Data collection depends on reflective questions sent to the students through the survey and WhatsApp Group three times during the pandemic: April 2020, October 2020, and April 2021. The results show that students faced several threats, ambiguities, and deficiencies that are classified into: (a) students’ emotions, (b) learning environment, (c) student characteristics, and (d) deficiencies and needs. The students gradually acquired experience to deal with those issues and cope with their frustration. Then, they performed in either positive or negative ways depending on their acceptance of the online learning context. The study ends with some implications to efficiently use different virtual tools in the EFL context.

scholarly journals The Correlation between Silence Phenomenon and EFL Student Online Class

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-74
Author(s):  
Alimin Adi Waloyo ◽  
Zahrah Qurota’ Ayu Nurrohmah
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Online Class ◽  
Optimal Outcomes ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
New Type ◽  
The University

In order to eliminate the spread of the Corona Virus, the students have been being required to study from homes either synchronously or asynchronously. It is commonly known asan online class. It has been being done to cut the spread of theCOVID-19 virus. This new teaching approach needs EFL students to adjust their way of learning. Also, the online class creates some challenges, such as limited interaction, low motivation, internet connection issues, etc) for EFL learners in their learning process because teachers and students have less interaction. This situation is called a silence phenomenon. Due to this was a new type of issue in EFL teaching and less investigated research, the researchers conducted the study to investigate the factors and solutions of the silencing phenomenon faced by EFL students during an online class. This study employed a case study research method.The subjects of this studywere tenstudents of English Language EducationDepartment students, 2017 academicyear at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM). The researcher collected thedata through the interview technique.The interview was applied, so the researchers obtained rich and in-depth data. The finding of this studyshowed that students’active participation during online classes was very low.That low participation was caused by several aspects: individual, teacher,cultural, technological, and domestic. The students could implement various ways to minimize the students’ reticence in the online class. This research hopefully provides different views to make teachers' online classes fun and interesting, so English learning can obtain optimal outcomes.    

scholarly journals DESIGNING DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN ENGLISH ONLINE LEARNING

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Sri Yuliani ◽  
Dicki Hartanto
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
English Class ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

The covid-19 outbreak has led to many opportunities and chances for teachers and lecturers to create many media for online learning. The purpose of this research discusses 1) to design Digital storytelling in online learning, 2) to study the implementation of teaching English by using digital storytelling, and 3) to find out the practicality of digital storytelling for pre-service teacher students. This research uses d research development model developed by Alessi and Trollip (2001), which consists of three stages; the first stage is planning, the second stage designs, and third is development which focuses on designing digital storytelling to find more about the impact of digital storytelling as an online learning media process for English teaching material. The sample was 180 junior high students to get the needed analysis data, eight pre-service teacher students implemented the digital storytelling in the online classroom, and two evaluators to assess the appropriateness of digital storytelling to be used by pre-service teachers as it is found in this research that designing digital storytelling showed practically on how digital storytelling was designed, developed and applied in English class. The pre-service students successfully implemented digital storytelling, and the appropriateness was high, which can be used in the online teaching process

scholarly journals Online Learning in the Time of Crisis: A Study of EFL Students’ Attitudes

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
Mustafa Fuzi Elshawish ◽  
Jalal Ali Belshaikh
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Learning Modes ◽  
Students Attitudes

Abstract This article discussed the importance of utilizing online learning during times of crises with special emphasis on the situation in Libya. In spite of the dangerous current situation i.e., the wide spread of a deadly Corona Virus, educational institutions (schools, universities, and academies) in Libya are still based on traditional procedures of learning, i.e., they adopt the traditional way of face-to-face classes and meetings. Although there have been some attempts of using blended learning, still most of the institutions are stuck with old methods. The current situation in the country since the beginning of the unrest in 2011 and recently with the emergence of a sudden outbreak of a deadly disease called Covid-19 caused by a Corona Virus shook the entire country and called for an urgent intervention. However, because of the fragile situation and the decrepit infrastructure in Libya, challenges to the education system are huge. This article highlighted the perceptions of a group of postgraduate students of English on online learning and also included the Advantages, Disadvantages, Opportunities, and Barriers (ADOB) analysis of e-learning modes in the time of crisis. The findings revealed that access to online learning in Libya was hindered by many challenges, and consequently students perceived online learning as inefficient. The paper also provided some suggestions for academic institutions of how to deal with challenges associated with online learning.    

scholarly journals Enquiry into the Online Class Intervention during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case at Shari Higher Secondary School, Paro, Bhutan

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
Bak Bir Rai
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
School Closure ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Status ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Teaching Learning

This paper is a first attempt to study the challenges of online teaching, learning and assessment for teachers and students during the COVID-19 school closure, at Shari Higher Secondary School, Paro. The intervention was on the adoption of online learning as a response to COVID-19, mode of learning presumed as alternative-that need reconsideration and redressing students’ attitudes to this mode of learning. The study was a mixed method approach (both qualitative and quantitative) in nature and used purposive sampling. Data were collected from the students who were actively participating in online classes and all the teachers. The quantitative data was collected using the survey questionnaires as tool to understand the status of online learning in the school. The qualitative study encapsulated the teachers and students perceptions towards the online teaching learning in the school and was collected through open ended questions. Responses from the survey were analyzed using SPSS- descriptive and correlation. The study revealed that for an effective delivery of online teaching, learning and assessment, the mode of instruction needs to be altered, prioritized curriculum needs to be adopted, teachers need to make adjustments in teaching strategies, and students have to be more responsible.

scholarly journals Online Learning and Teaching Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Bangladeshi Students Receiving China’s Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Juan Dong
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Chinese Teachers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Time Gap

While facing the COVID-19 pandemic attack worldwide, international students are forced to turn to online instruction for academic study. Based on a longitudinal ethnography with a cohort of Bangladeshi students who study in English-medium degree program at software engineering, this study reveals a series of challenges confronting both Chinese teachers and Bangladeshi students for their online interactions. Data were collected through online classroom observation, semi-structured interviews, audio-recording and online interactions. From the perspective of Chinese teachers, they lacked of control on their students’ class participation given the poor network infrastructure in Bangladesh and the time gap between China and Bangladesh; in terms of Bangladeshi students, they felt frustrated in access to Chinese-mediated online teaching applications due to their insufficient Chinese proficiency; their inaccessibility to operate their subject learning also made the online learning tedious. Based on the findings, the study offers several suggestions to respond to teachers and students’ difficulties and challenges in online lessons and sheds some lights on improving online education.

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