Hypermedia Authoring as a Vehicle for Vocabulary Development in Middle School English as a Second Language Classrooms

Owing to the importance of listening comprehension among the four basic second language acquisition skills, considerable attention has been given to the pedagogic method of improving listeners’ proficiency. In China, there exist some problems in English listening teaching in Senior Middle Schools. Professor Wang Zhongyan said “In listening teaching, it is not unusual that teachers just play records without offering any hints”. In listening teaching, listeners are only viewed as passive receivers without any hints. After listeners listen to a passage once or twice, teachers check the answers, and then play the tape sentence by sentence. However, listening comprehension is an active process. The importance of developing students’ listening competence in Senior Middle School English Teaching is obvious. So far much work has been done at home and abroad to look for ways to facilitate students’ listening competence.

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Sociolinguistic Influence in the Use of English as Second Language Classroom: Seeing from OGO’s Perspective

ELSYA : Journal of English Language Studies ◽

10.31849/elsya.v1i1.2538 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 28-32

Author(s):

Lana Hasanah ◽

Siska Pradina ◽

Almira Hadita ◽

Wella Cisilya Putri

Keyword(s):

Middle School ◽

Second Language ◽

High School Students ◽

Middle School Students ◽

Regional Government ◽

School Students ◽

English As Second Language ◽

Junior Secondary Schools ◽

Language Classrooms ◽

Science And Education

This paper aims to provide a brief overview and review of the research conducted by Ofodu Graceful Onovughe under the title Sociolinguistics Inputs and English as Second Language Classrooms published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education. Using descriptive qualitative analysis, this paper tries to understand what sociolinguistic influences are most significant from the researchers' perspective. The sociolinguistic influence in language acquisition and the use of English as a second language in the classroom are the main focus of this study. This article is intended to provide a brief review of the sociolingistics influences of the most significant use of second language in the classroom. The findings in this study see that the research of Ofodu Graceful Onovughe using the design of this study adopted survey research with the population taken consisted of all secondary school students at Akure Regional Government of Ondo, Nigeria. The number of students in the sample was 240 high school students who were deliberately selected from 6 schools randomly. Used for data collection is a questionnaire of 14 items designated to obtain the information needed. The instrument trials were also carried out in this study to community junior secondary schools in Ekiti State. From the 5 existing hypotheses, the findings reveal that parent work is one of the significant sociolinguistic influences on the use of English in middle school students, other findings also reveal that gender, ages, religion, and student classes will not significantly influence the use of English in middle school students in their classrooms. Therefore, the findings of this study will illustrate whether the articles "Sociolinguistics Inputs and English as Second Language Classrooms" published by Canadian Center of Science and Education written by Ofodu Graceful Onovughe can be replicated in the same field or simply become a reference reading in the field of sociolinguistics.

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