scholarly journals Developing Writing Materials Based on Eclectic Approach for Indonesian EFL Learners

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Kurniasih Kurniasih ◽  
Henny Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Material ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
R And D ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Eclectic Approach ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
Preliminary Study

<p>This study aims at developing writing materials based on Eclectic Approach for Indonesian EFL learners. The material is mainly developed and used for teaching essay writing for the third-semester students in the English Department, University of Islam Malang. It is also expected that the materials lower their anxiety as the findings of the preliminary study. This R and D research adapted development model proposed by Borg and Gall with the following procedures: need analysis, developing writing materials, expert validation, revision I, try out, revision II, and final product.  The final product of this research is an instructional material for Writing III course which was developed by considering students' needs, levels, suggestions, and feedback from experts. It also made used of the principles of Eclectic approach to lower their anxiety in writing essay, such as providing much exposure toward the target language with less pressure, integrating the good sides of various teaching techniques, using real-life situation to make learning more comprehensible, considering the students' needs, teaching and introducing contextual grammar and vocabulary, and integrating all language skills.</p>

scholarly journals Role Play Activities: An Innovative Approach to Teaching Speaking Skills in an ESL Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Nurhamimi Togimin ◽  
Haliza Jaafar
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Esl Classroom ◽  
Speaking Skills

Encouraging students to speak during classroom activities is an effective strategy to improve their acquisition of the target language. Activities related to real life situation such as role play, debate and simulation provide substantial rehearsal and practice and they allow students to not just learn phrases, but also learn how to communicate in various circumstances. Recent studies have revealed that students who are exposed to learning using role play activities improve significantly in speaking competency. Hence, the aim of this study is to investigate how role play activities in an ESL classroom can be an innovative approach in improving students’ speaking skill. A total of nine undergraduate students from the Faculty of Computing in a public university in the Southern region of Malaysia were involved in this study. The main purpose for choosing the students as participants of the study was due to their low English proficiency based on their MUET results. The instruments used in this study were observation checklist and questionnaire. All the findings were tabulated and analysed qualitatively (observation checklist) as well as quantitatively (questionnaire). From the analysis carried out, it was evident that the students made positive improvement particularly in fluency, comprehension, context, and interactive communication. Besides that, the students felt that role play activities had brought positive effects on their English-speaking skills as obtained from the results of the questionnaire. Thus, it can be deduced that role play activities do have positive effects on students’ English-speaking skills.

scholarly journals The Concordance between EFL Learners’ Linguistic Sequential Development and the Curricula of Formal and Informal Learning Settings: An Analytical Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Jalal H. Albaqshi
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
College Of Technology ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
Functional Simulation ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
Authentic Environment ◽  
Technical Terms

<p>This research explores the sequence of content in ESP curricula to our learners’ linguistic development and to authentic situations. This study has been conducted in Alahsa College of Technology, Saudi Arabia. Methodology used was an analysis of an ESP textbook in corpus-based approach and matching the units of the textbook to students' needs analysis of observed real life situation in a car workshop. Results show that the content of the textbook, to some extent, meet the course objectives and students' needs in technical terms with some shortage in expanding the activities to be a functional simulation of an authentic environment regarding conversational and written skills. <strong></strong></p>

scholarly journals The Effects of Explicit/Implicit Instructions on the Development of Advanced EFL Learners’ Pragmatic Knowledge of English: Apology Speech Act

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Pasand Shark
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Placement Test ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Pragmatic Knowledge

The current study explored the effects of explicit and implicit instructions on the development of advanced EFL learners’ pragmatic knowledge in terms of apology speech act. A total of 10 English native speakers and 40 advanced EFL students participated in this study. The Iraqi Kurdish EFL learners were selected from grade 12 in British International School in Erbil/ Iraq and their level was determined by Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) proficiency test. These 40 participants were divided randomly into two; explicit group (EG) and implicit group (IG) Later, they were provided a Multiple-choice Discourse Completion Test (MDCT) as a pre-test, which consisted of 10 different situations of apology and were based on the participants’ real-life situation, each situation included 3 options and only one answer could be selected which considered to be the most appropriate answer to them. The aim was to show if there were any significant differences between EG and IG. The English native speakers were given the same (MDCT) and were asked to choose the most appropriate answers. After the treatment, (EG) and (IG) were provided the same MDCT as a post-test. The findings revealed that the results of EG and IG were significant and they showed improvements after the treatment, and the EG outperformed the IG in post-test and delayed-test.

scholarly journals AN ECLECTIC APPROACH IN SYLLABUS DESIGN: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF ONE-TO-ONE TEACHING INDONESIAN FOR SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-210
Author(s):  
Hanna Sundari ◽  
Ira Miranti ◽  
Agus Sulaeman
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Eclectic Approach ◽  
Speakers Of Other Languages ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Syllabus Design ◽  
One To One

The industry of BIPA (Indonesian for foreigners) has extensively increased both at home and overseas. As a result, its teaching needs to be well-planned and organized. Supported by the view that no best method for all, eclecticism can be selected as approach to teaching. This paper is purposed to describe the initial stages of syllabus design particularly for one-to-one teaching Indonesian using eclectic approach. Carried out by descriptive research as part of research and development design, non-structured interview, observation, and open-ended questionnaire were as instruments to collect the information about learner and previous teaching process. Using a framework of syllabus development by Graves, need analysis and first draft syllabus were taken place. The need analysis reveals the learner characteristics and need of learning, such as age, gender, motivation and expectation. Moreover, grounded by the result of gathered information from need analysis, the developed syllabus is then a combination of task-based approach of language learning and structural-based syllabus which embraces accuracy and fluency as well as covers the features of eclectic system. 

scholarly journals The Impact of Socio-Pragmatic Instruction on the Performance of Iraqi EFL Learners in the Compliment Response Strategies

لارك ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (13) ◽  
pp. 368-390
Author(s):  
Mazin Jasim Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Communication Breakdown ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
The Impact

        The  purpose of the present study is to examine the impact of  the instruction  in the English sociopragmatic  awareness among  Iraqi EFL learners in the speech act of complimenting responses . It is well-known that sociopragmatic aspects of  language use vary across different languages and cultures .Such aspects map out  the socio-cultural norms and conventions as well as the strategies that underlie the pragmatic performance of different language speakers in a variety of target language situations . Being a teacher for more than ten years in an Iraqi university , the researcher  has  noticed that Iraqi EFL learners entertain a low ability to communicate effectively in responding to the speech act of complimenting , despite the fact that many of them have a perfect dominion of the target language grammar rules . However, it seems that L2 teachers often overlook pragmatics, which constitutes a crucial element of language ability of L2 learners   ; this might be attributed to the difficulty of its teaching . The resulting lack of pragmatic competence of L2 learners can lead to pragmatic failure  and , more importantly , to a complete communication breakdown . It is hypothesized   that Iraqi EFL learners are not proficient in responding appropriately to compliments  when put in real-life situations due to their inadequate  pragmatic competence .Hence , it is very necessary to provide them with socio-cultural  knowledge incorporated  into the EFL classroom if we are aiming at fruitful communication .The second hypothesis states that socio-cultural knowledge plays a significant role in enhancing Iraqi EFL learners' performance in responding to compliments in English appropriately .The present study has shown that Iraqi EFL learners perform  significantly different forms of compliment responses  from those produced by native speakers of English in terms of quality . The results reached at validate the hypothesis put forward , and call for the importance  of  instructing Iraqi EFL learners concerning socio-cultural norms and conventions of L2 they are studying .                                                                              

Negotiation of Meaning of Indonesian EFL Learners in Casual Conversation: An SFL Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Fadhila Yonata
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Exchange Structure

Communicative interaction is demanded by all levels of EFL learners. To prepare them to comply with this purpose, engaging them to deal with the real-life conversation using the target language may have beneficial effects on their second language acquisition process.  However, the way learners negotiating meaning in an understandable way and how they position themselves as the appropriate role of the speakers are still rarely studied, especially in the Indonesian teaching and learning context. This study aims to reveal what type of commodity is being exchanged by graduate learners (3 females and 1 male) when they are assigned to have an unplanned casual conversation. The study further analyzes the nature of the exchange structure of EFL learners' casual conversation seen from the Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective. The data were taken from audio recordings of casual conversations and then transcribed as the written data. The conversation was then divided into clauses as the unit of analysis. In employing a spoken discourse analysis framework, interactive analysis was implemented to discover exchange structure. The results show the exchanged commodity is information through statements. It indicates that as magister students, they always show their knowledge off, and intimacy sometimes matters as the reason for informative conversations. The speakers' role also has been successfully achieved by the speakers since their ability to position themselves as initiators or responders to keep the conversational flow.

scholarly journals Fun Meets Knowledge: English Enrichment through Camp America

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Stella Prancisca
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Target Language ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Language Community ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Singing Games

American Corner (Amcor) of Tanjungpura University is aware of the need to provide its EFL learners with an English community which facilitate the learners with English speaking atmosphere namely Camp America. Through Camp America program, the participants obtain some crucial learning benefits such as the opportunity of English interactive fun activities in a variety of settings like singing, games, and seminars. Also friendly engaging conversations with native speakers and local fluent English speaking instructors or mentors. Camp America becomes a helpful alternative to tackle limited opportunities of EFL teachers in providing their students with English community and native speakers. Through which the participants can benefit from both recreational English learning and direct engagement with authentic English speaking space that provides participants both target language community and American culture as well as media of enhancing their integrated language skills that they can apply them into a real life practice.

scholarly journals A Survey of the Issue of Generalizability in Task-based Language Assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 884-890
Author(s):  
Majeed Noroozi
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Language Assessment ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
The Real ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
Assessment Performance ◽  
The Cost

The use of authentic tasks in Task-Based Language Assessment seems to facilitate the extrapolation of assessment performance to the real-life situation. The question arises as to how effective Task-Based Language Assessment is in predicting test-takers’ performance in the real-life situation based on their task performance in the assessment settings and what proposals there are to improve the generalizability of Task-Based Language Assessment. The study draws upon Bachman and Palmer (1996) and Douglas’s (2000) frameworks in order to identify the fixed and varied characteristics of assessment tasks and conditions in the Target Language Use (TLU) situation. These frameworks function as a template by presenting an organized list of the items to compare and contrast the assessment tasks with the real-life target tasks. The present study proposes standardizing the fixed conditions present in both the assessment and the TLU situation, such as setting and equipment. However, since the standardization of the varied conditions could undermine the extrapolation inferences at the cost of improving the reliability of assessment, the study concludes that the assessment procedure should standardize a set of short tasks or observation conditions that are representative of the TLU domain rather than just one specific type of task or condition.

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