scholarly journals PERCEPTIONS OF SPEECH COMPETENCES IN FIRST AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (Percepcija govornih kompetencija u materinskome i stranome jeziku kod učenika završnih razreda srednje škole)

2019 ◽  
Vol X (28) ◽  
pp. 203-224
Author(s):  
Ivana Odža ◽  
Mirjana Matea Kovač
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Speech Disfluency ◽  
Insufficient Knowledge ◽  
Speaking Skills

The paper examines the attitudes of secondary school students, e. g. grammar school and craftmanship secondary school, toward their own language competences in the native (Croatian) and foreign (English) language. The testing instrument is a questionnaire with statements compiled according to questionnaires used to study attitudes toward the native and / or foreign language. The aim of the research is to observe the level of awareness of the respondents about their own language competences. The results of the statistical analysis indicate that the students of both populations are satisfied with their speaking skills in both languages. They also claim to recognize their own errors, as well as the errors and speech disfluencies of others. Grammar school students, unlike students from the craftmanship secondary school, find the introduction of a course that would further develop speaking skills useful. The obtained results are not in line with the dominant curricular guidelines for teaching the native language, especially those related to the area of speaking competences, emphasizing the need to strengthen the basic, spoken, and consequently written competences of students. The reasons for such attitudes could be explained by insufficient knowledge of the underlying features of highly developed communication competence and consequently of insufficient awareness of their own, as a necessary prerequisite for successful interaction in the contemporary society. The research results point to the necessity of acquiring a more objective perception of students about their own language competences. Keywords: speaking competences; speech errors; speech disfluency; students’ attitudes.

scholarly journals Investigation the attitudes of secondary school students towards the use of saying and words of wisdom in learning English at secondary level in Gaza

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-199
Author(s):  
Wafaa Ibrahim Alnajjar ◽  
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Reem Yahya Mahmoud Shehadh
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
School Students ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Secondary Female ◽  
Learning English

This paper examined the attitudes of secondary school students towards the use of saying and words of wisdom in learning English as a foreign language in secondary schools in Gaza. Saying and words of wisdom play a significant role in language learning as a part of gaining cultural knowledge. In addition, this study attempted to find out whether they could motivate students to learn English then improve language acquiring through time. 40 secondary female EFL learners were assigned in questionnaires and interviews. Through observation, the researcher convinced that saying and words of wisdom is an important segment in the English Language, and it is a useful piece that has been used to spread wisdom and truths about life. The study reveals the effectiveness and higher rate of retaining of learning vocabulary through the strategy of sayings and words of wisdom compared to the traditional method.

scholarly journals Secondary school students’ attitudes to phrasal verbs

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-94
Author(s):  
Dorota Góreczna
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Phrasal Verbs ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Upper Secondary Schools

Phrasal verbs are an essential, though difficult to teach and learn, part of the English language. Although phrasal verbs are commonly used by native speakers, for English learners they pose a considerable challenge as far as their acquisition and use are concerned. The aim of this study is to examine students’ attitude towards phrasal verbs taught at the B2 level in upper-secondary schools, and to analyse the significance of these multi-word verbs. The paper presents an excerpt of a survey conducted among secondary school students, which examined their understanding of phrasal verbs and analysed students’ opinions about the importance of acquiring these demanding multi-word verbs.

scholarly journals Home reading effective organization as independent work form during foreign language teaching in conditions of forced isolation

XLinguae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-269
Author(s):  
Marina R Zheltukhina ◽  
Larisa L. Selenskaya ◽  
Galina N. Ostrikova ◽  
Ekaterina A. Redkozubova ◽  
Olga O. Chernova
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
General Education ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
School Students ◽  
Home Reading ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Independent Work

The article is devoted to the study of the effectiveness of organizing independent work in a foreign language lesson in high school using the example of home reading in a remote format in a situation of forced isolation. The situation with the coronavirus pandemic and forced isolation requires a rethinking of the process of teaching foreign languages, the adaptation of traditional methods and the development of new methods for remote work. The article discusses the importance of students' independent activities in the process of teaching a foreign language. The peculiarities of formation of communicative competence in the process of learning a foreign language are revealed. It describes the process of organizing home reading in English lessons, and analyzes the practical formation of communicative competence in the process of independent work in English lessons on home reading in a remote format. The specifics of the organization of home reading in the English language lesson at the level of basic general education based on the English Language educational and methodological complexes (EMC) (6th grade) and the tutorial Home reading is established. The theoretical significance of the study results is to replenish the idea of the effectiveness of the process of organizing home reading and the formation of communicative competence among secondary school students on the materials of home reading lessons in conditions of forced isolation. The practical value of the work lies in the analysis of a universal teaching manual for the formation of communicative competence in a remote format as part of independent work in English lessons for secondary school students in the aspect of home reading on the material of short stories.

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