scholarly journals Discovering the Impact of National Language use in L2 learning on the Proficiency of Learners

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (II) ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahsan ◽  
Muhammad Saeed Nasir ◽  
Noshaba Younus
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
National Language ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
L2 Learning ◽  
Administrative Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Degree Level

Discovering the impact of national language use in L2 learning on the proficiency of learners at degree level was the focus of this research; in order to find out a clear comprehension of the current subject matter, the research aimed at 577 learners who were learning English at graduation level in different public sector colleges and universities of the Southern Punjab, Pakistan. For this study, the researcher used a questionnaire as a data collection tool. The data analysis was done using SPSS (statistical package for social sciences) version 23. The researcher analyzed the data using descriptive analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA), T-Test and Cronbach's alpha. The findings of the present research depicted that the students exhibited extremely positive and constructive perceptions regarding the use of national language in the second language classroom. The majority of the respondents gave preference using Urdu in specific situations for enhancing their proficiency in specific reasons such as while discussing course policies, learning about grammar and its usage in L2 classroom, attendance, and other administrative information.

scholarly journals Exploring the Effect of Learners' Age Variation and Their Perceptions on the Responses about Mother Tongue Use in L2 Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 42-53
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahsan ◽  
Noshaba Younus ◽  
Muhammad Naeem
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
L2 Learning ◽  
Grammar Rules ◽  
Age Variation ◽  
Administrative Information ◽  
Degree Level

The purpose of the current study was to explore the effect of learners' age variation and their perceptions on the responses about mother tongue use in L2 learning at degree level. To find out an obvious understanding of this subject matter, the study focused on 577 L2 learners, for the sake of data collection questionnaire war used as a research tool. The data were analyzed through SPSS (statistical package for social sciences). Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, Analysis of variance (ANOVA), T-Test and Cronbach's alpha. The results of the study indicated that the undergraduate learners showed highly positive perceptions regarding the use of mother tongue in the L2 classroom. The majority of the undergraduate respondents preferred using mother tongue in certain situations for specific reasons such as while learning about grammar rules and its usage in the target language classroom, discussing course policies, attendance, and other administrative information, explaining some difficult concepts, to give directions about exams and in introducing the aim of the lesson, to discuss tests, quizzes, and other assignments appropriately.

scholarly journals Reconnoitering the Impact of Motivation on Teachers and Students to Use L1 in L2 Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol V (III) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahsan ◽  
Zahoor Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Gulfraz Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Administrative Information ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the current study was to explore the impact of motivation on teachers and students to use L1 in the L2 classroom. To find out an obvious understanding of this subject matter, the study focused on the 156 teachers and the 577 students who were teaching and learning English at graduation level in different public sector colleges and universities of the Southern Punjab, Pakistan. Two questionnaires were used for data collection. The data were analyzed through SPSS (statistical package for social sciences). Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, Analysis of variance (ANOVA), T-Test and Cronbach's alpha. The results of the study indicated that the learners and the teachers showed highly positive perceptions regarding the use of L1 in the L2 classroom. The majority of the respondents preferred using L1 in certain situations for specific reasons such as while learning about grammar and its usage in the L2 classroom, discussing course policies, attendance, and other administrative information, explaining some difficult concepts, to give directions about exams and in introducing the aim of the lesson, to discuss tests, quizzes, and other assignments appropriately at BS level

scholarly journals Role of Siraiki in Teaching/Learning English at Graduation Level: A Case Study from the Southern Punjab, Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 532-543
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahsan ◽  
Zahoor Hussain ◽  
Noshaba Younus
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
English Language ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Learning English

The focus of the present research was to find out the Role of Siraiki Language in Teaching/Learning English Language at graduation Level. By this study the researcher attempted to expose the intentions for which the students and instructors make use of Siraiki in their English language classroom inside and outside activities and in the same way, to show the actions and the situations in which they select for not using their L1. To explore a clear comprehension of the current subject matter, the research targeted on the 577 students and the 156 teachers. Data was collected through questionnaires. The data was examined through SPSS (statistical package for social sciences) 23 version. Data were inspected using descriptive analysis, Analysis of variance (ANOVA), T-Test and Cronbach's alpha. The findings of the present study showed that the students and the teachers indicated highly positive perceptions concerning the use of Siraiki language in EFL classroom.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Source Language in Spanish Translations: A Survey on English Counterfactuals ‘Should have’

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-159
Author(s):  
Isabel Repiso
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Past Participle ◽  
Modal Verbs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Reference Corpus ◽  
Word Translation ◽  
The Impact

The present article shows that the most frequent way of translating Should have + Past participle in Spanish is the word-by-word translation Debería haber. This preference is not coherent with the language use of natives at three levels: (i) the marginal role of modal verbs to express the speaker’s subjectivity in Spanish; (ii) the preferred use of modal verbs in the past participle position (e.g., No hubiese debido tener libros); and (iii) the predominant use of the pluperfect subjunctive as a prompting tense for counterfactual readings. Our survey is based on 1.7  million-word Social Sciences corpus covering 8 essays, 4 political biographies and 2 dystopian novels. In all, 9  sentences containing should have + past participle were analyzed. The translations were crossed with a reference corpus in Spanish containing 154 million words (CREA). The translators’ preference by Debería haber has an effect in the output texts’ readability since it implies a reversal in the frequencies of the Spanish constructions pertaining to the irrealis semantic domain. Our results provide empirical cues to prevent the word-by-word translation Debería haber, such as avoiding infinitive periphrastic constructions or favoring subjunctive mood’s tenses.

scholarly journals The Economic Analysis of Fish Farming Business due to the Intervention of Community Direct Aid in Muaro Jambi Regency, Jambi Province, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Darlim Darmawi ◽  
Jafrinur Jafrinur ◽  
Novirman Jamarun ◽  
Dwi Yuzaria ◽  
Roni Pazla
Keyword(s):  
Survey Methods ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Political Policy ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Impact

This study analyzes the existing fish farming economic aspects' due to Community Direct Aid (CDA) intervention in the fish production center in Muaro Jambi Regency, Jambi Province. The research methodology uses survey methods. The data collection tool uses a questionnaire survey, and data analysis uses descriptive analysis, mathematical analysis, and income analysis. As a result, the fish farming of catfish farmers can generate income in a total of Rp. 660,272.410,- with the ability to generate income in 511% and efficient in using production costs. The implications of government political policy intervention on farmers as the activator subject of the economic aspects of fish farming business raise six items (60%) have positive effects, and four items (40%) have adverse effects. In conclusion, the income of fish farming in conditions that can generate overall income. The impact of government policy intervention on farmers as the driving subject of aquaculture's economic aspects.

scholarly journals Estonianness (lith. ‘estiškumas’) in Lithuanian from the perspective of economic linguistics

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 359-375
Author(s):  
Jolanta Zabarskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
National Language ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Sociocultural Consciousness ◽  
The Impact

Processes are taking place in the 21st century that are altering the role of language and society’s attitude towards language. The virtualisation of the world, the influence of the media, and the processes of globalisation are all driving a shift in the role of language. This has made linguistics, as well as other humanities and social sciences, turn back to neuroscience and a focus on cognitive processes.The interaction between linguistic processes and real-life evolution has two axes, with semantic structure analysis playing an important part on the linguistic plane, and analysis of the impact of language on real-life processes. The economic linguistics approach makes it possible to tie the predominant sense elements of any concept to the linguistic worldview of the national language and the sociocultural consciousness of the actual language community.The objective of this article is to introduce several linguistic ideas by revealing: 1) the method of reconstruction of deep semantic structures – the ‘semantic dowry’ analysis; 2) the method of identifying the predominant sense elements of a concept in the sociocultural consciousness of an actual language community based on the approach of economic linguistics. In order to demonstrate how this method works, the article identifies the predominant sense elements of the concept estiškumas (‘Estonianness’) denominated by the lexemes estas/estė/estai (‘Estonian’, N, SG-M/SG-F/PL) and estiškas/estiška (‘Estonian’, ADJ, M/S).Kokkuvõte. Jolanta Zabarskaitė: Eestist leedu keeles. Lekseemist estiškumas (‘eestilik’) leedu keeles majanduslingvistika vaatepunktist. 21. sajandil käimasolevad protsessid muudavad nii keelte rolle kui ka ühiskonna suhtumist neisse. Maailma virtualiseerumine, meedia mõju ja globaliseerumisprotsessid põhjustavad keele rollide muutumise. See on sundinud keeleteadust nagu ka teisi humanitaar- ja sotsiaalteadusi pöörduma neuroteaduste juurde ja keskenduma kognitiivsetele protsessidele. Keeleliste protsesside ja reaalse maailma evolutsiooni vahelisel vastastikmõjul on kaks telge: tähendusstruktuuri analüüs, mis mängib olulist osa keelelisel tasandil, ning keele mõju analüüs reaalse maailma protsessidele. Majanduslingvistiline lähenemine võimaldab siduda ükskõik millise mõiste peamised tähenduselemendid riigikeele keelelise maailmapildi ja tegeliku keelekogukonna sotsiokultuurilise teadvusega. Käesolevas artiklis tutvustatakse 1) semantiliste süvastruktuuride rekonstrueerimise meetodit ning 2) majanduslingvistilisel lähenemisel põhinevat meetodit, mis võimaldab tuvastada mõiste peamisi tähenduselemente tegeliku keelekogukonna sotsiokultuurilises teadvuses. Kirjeldamaks valitud meetodi rakendumist, selgitatakse lekseemide estas/estė/estai (‘eesti’, N) ning estiškas/estiška (‘eesti’, ADJ) näitel mõiste estiškumas (‘eestilikkus’) peamisi tähenduselemente.Märksõnad: eestilikkus; majanduslingvistika; semantika; tähendus; alltähendus; diskursus

scholarly journals Exploring the Influence of Teachers' and Students' Mother Tongue on the Use of National Language in L2 Teaching/Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 156-168
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahsan ◽  
Muhammad Saeed Nasir ◽  
Tahira Asgher
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Cultural Factor ◽  
National Language ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teaching Learning

The purpose of the current study was to explore the influence of teachers' and students' mother tongue on the use of national language in L2 teaching and learning. For a comprehensive understanding of the issue, the study focused on 156 teachers and the 577 students who were teaching and learning English at graduation level in different public sector colleges and universities of Southern Punjab. Two questionnaires were used for data collection. The data were analyzed through SPSS (statistical package for social sciences). Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, Analysis of variance (ANOVA), T-Test and Cronbach's alpha. The results of the study indicated that the teachers who have Saraiki as their mother tongue have a high inclination toward the use of it in their classroom setting due to the socio-cultural factor such as their multilingual aptitude and their emotional attachment with their mother tongue.

scholarly journals COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN ECOTOURISM AND IMPLICATIONS ON SOCIAL IN LANGKAWI ISLAND, MALAYSIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-187
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fakruhayat Ab Rashid ◽  
Muhammad Aslam Abdul Aziz ◽  
Azimah Abd Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

The ecotourism sector in Malaysia is a tourism industry that can give various impacts in various aspects such as economic, social, and environmental. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the factors and effects of local community involvement in the ecotourism industry on Langkawi Island. A total of 160 questionnaires were distributed randomly to the community around Chenang Beach and Pekan Kuah, Langkawi Island. Data obtained through questionnaires were analyzed using the software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Among the types of data analysis used by the researcher in the effort to test the objectives of the study are such as reliability analysis, frequency analysis, and descriptive analysis. The results of this study found that the factors of local community involvement in the ecotourism industry on Langkawi Island are heavily influenced by variables such as the source of income (56.30%), employment opportunities (38.80%), poverty eradication (1.90%), and want to increase purchasing power population (3.1%). Meanwhile, the results of the analysis of the impact of local community involvement in the ecotourism industry on Langkawi Island found that most respondents chose to have an impact on social such as opening job opportunities to increase income (mean = 4.48), and be able to attract more tourists (mean = 4.55). KEYWORDS: Ecotourism, factors, effects, Langkawi Island, SPSS

scholarly journals Variable impact of Malaysia's national language planning on non-Malay speakers in Sarawak

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su-Hie Ting
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
National Language ◽  
English Usage ◽  
International Standing ◽  
National Language Policy ◽  
The Impact

The study examined the impact of the national language policy on the language use of three main ethnic groups in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The data analyzed was based on a sociolinguistic survey on language use in six domains that involved 937 Malay, Chinese and Iban adolescents from three major towns in Sarawak. The results showed that the use of Bahasa Malaysia exceeded English usage for all three ethnic groups, showing the success of compulsory education in the national language. However, the language planning has greater impact on the Iban than on the Chinese who are shifting away from the ethnic languages of the Chinese sub-groups to Mandarin Chinese. The availability of an alternative standard language with international standing which also functions as a symbol of cultural solidarity compromises the impact of the national language policy.

scholarly journals Exploring the Influence of Teachers' Experience on the Responses about L1 use in L2 Teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (II) ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahsan ◽  
Noshaba Younus ◽  
Muhammad Naeem
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
L1 Use ◽  
Teaching Grammar

The focus of the current research was to explore the influence of teachers' experience on the responses about L1 use in L2 teaching. To investigate an evident and contemplative comprehension of this topic or subject matter, the available research targeted the 156 teachers who were practising teaching English at graduation level in different public sector colleges and universities of the Southern Punjab, Pakistan. The data collection source applied for the study was a questionnaire. Data were examined using SPSS (statistical package for social sciences) 23 version. Data was examined with the help of different data analysis techniques such as descriptive analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA), T-Test and Cronbach's alpha. The outcome of the immediate study showed that the teachers displayed a highly positive sense about the use of native language in the foreign language classroom. Most of the teachers adopted using L1 in certain occurrences for solid reasons, such as while teaching grammar and its usage in the target language classroom. Foreign language teachers were extremely inspired to use L1 while teaching short questions and summaries, letter writing and paraphrasing the text in different classes of graduation.

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