scholarly journals Role of Literary Texts in Improving Writing Skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Aasma Nijabat ◽  
Rafia Razaq ◽  
Naheed Ashfaq
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Improving Writing ◽  
Esl Learners ◽  
Esl Classroom

The current paper deals with the identification of the role of English literary texts in ESL classroom intended for the improvement of writing skills at elementary level. Qualitative approach was used in this study. Data was collected through document analysis and open-ended questionnaires. Six teachers who taught literary texts in ESL classroom were selected to fill the questionnaires. Twenty specimens of ESL learners’ classwork were analyzed using ESL Profile Composition (Jacobs, Zinkgraf, Wormuth, Hartfiel, & Hughey, 1981, p.30). This research offered promising results regarding the beneficial role of literary texts in improving writing skills. It also paves the way for future researchers to further investigate the role of literary texts in the learning of English language.

Improving Process Writing with the Use Authentic Assessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Muhammad Noor Bin Abdul Aziz ◽  
Nurahimah Mohd Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Study Data ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Process Writing ◽  
Interview Session ◽  
Language Classroom

<p>The paper discusses on how process writing is improved with the use of authentic assessment in an English Language classroom. Eleven primary school children from Year 4 in a rural school in Sabah are the participants of the study. Data were collected by observing them during the English Language lessons and at the end of the series of observations, an interview session was conducted. The results of the study revealed thatusing authentic assessment to assess young learners’ writing skills is beneficial and effective in helping them to write better in the English Language classroom. The presentation will therefore provide suggestions for the use of more authentic assessment in the classroom, particularly in English Language teaching and learning.</p>

Tom Stoppard, New Historicism, and Estrangement in Travesties

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zekiye Er
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Incomplete Knowledge ◽  
Tom Stoppard ◽  
The Past ◽  
Linear Approach ◽  
Language And Literature

New historicism rewrites history from different viewpoints in order to prove that the past is inaccessible, and all historians can do is to work on incomplete knowledge, aware of the fact that a teleological, linear approach to their subject is misleading. In this study, Zekiye Er aims not only to analyze Tom Stoppard's Travesties from a new historicist stance, but also to utilize a new historicist approach to an understanding of what Stoppard is doing in the play, in the light of the striking parallels between Stoppard's technique and the new historicist critics' methods of analyzing history and literary texts. She concludes that Stoppard himself plays the role of a new historicist while writing a brilliant comedy of ideas. Zekiye Er received her PhD for a dissertation on Stoppardian drama from Ankara University in 2004. She has been working as a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature of Gaziantep University since 1993.

scholarly journals التعليم العالي تجديد في التعليم العالي: نشر الديمقراطية اللغوية في تدريس اللغة

لارك ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (36) ◽  
pp. 257-249
Author(s):  
د. إيمان علي الراشد
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Study Data ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
University Lecturers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Case Study Data

ABSTRACT The present study is a focus on the importance of linguistic democracy in English Language Teaching (ELT). The paper discusses the need for utilizing democracy in the educational practices in language teaching. The study is a qualitative case study. Data were collected using interviews, classrooms observations and fieldnotes. The present study examines the conceptions of three participants, university lecturers who were chosen from three faculties, on the role of democracy in language teaching. Additionally, the paper presents the impact of the lecturers' conceptions on their practices in classrooms. In accordance with the obtained data, it was observed that there is a limited knowledge on understanding the role of democracy in language teaching. This was clearly manifested in the classroom practices.

scholarly journals Role of Teachers in Developing English Reading and Writing Skills at Elementary Level in Azad Jammu and Kashmir

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-160
Author(s):  
Dr. Nazir Haider Shah ◽  
Dr. Ziarab Mahmood ◽  
Dr. Muhammad Ishaq
Keyword(s):  
Writing Skills ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Development Of Language

The main purpose of the study was to evaluate the role of English teachers in developing reading and writing skills at the elementary level. The study was descriptive, and the survey method was used for the collection of data. All the elementary English teachers of District Kotli were the population of the study. The researcher selected 256 teachers through a simple random sampling technique. A questionnaire-based on a five-point Likert scale was developed to collect the data from the elementary school teachers. The reliability of the instrument was measured, and it was found 0.790. The researcher applied mean and standard deviation for analyzing the data. It was found that the elementary teachers did not encourage students to use simple past tense for describing pasts events. It is recommended that for the development of language skills, teachers can use different forms of text vocabulary proficiency through classroom reading, and different forms of genres and texts. Moreover, teachers may provide different picture books and other visual and instructional material in other to encourage writing skills in elementary schools.

The effect of critical viewing on the critical writing skills of the translation studies students

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-113
Author(s):  
Dilara Demirbulak ◽  
Kübra Bodur
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Main Component ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Essay Test

Developing translation students’ critical writing skills is an important issue in academia since they are expected to be critical thinkers and contribute to the field of study. The most important precursor of critical writing is critical reading which is an active, probing, and recursive approach to interpret and use the information and ideas from the text. Meanwhile, keeping in mind the vast explosion of mass media products and technology, critical viewing is unavoidable serving the same purpose of hard-copy texts. Moreover, in recent years, the role of literature as the main component and material of its original texts has accelerated as a teaching of critical thinking and writing rather than a final goal. This paper aims to examine the effect of critical viewing and reading of literary texts on the critical writing skills of undergraduates of the Department of Translation and Interpreting. “Ennis - Weir Critical Thinking Essay Test”, designed by Ennis and Weir in 1985, was used to identify the impact of critical viewing and reading on critical writing skills. In this quasi-experimental study ANOVA, Kruskal- Wallis, and T-test were used to analyze the impact of critical viewing and reading on the critical writing skills of the 30 undergraduates.

scholarly journals Convergence of SMS language in Formal Writing by ESL Learners at Higher Secondary Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 3190-3198
Author(s):  
Asma Kashif Shahzad, Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Vowel Deletion ◽  
Written Assignments ◽  
Esl Learners

The acquaintance of teenagers with the advent of time-economical and an advancedinteraction mode has threatened the English language's standard form.This research explores the phenomenon of mixing SMS language in ESL learners' writing skills regarding the choices of lexical and morpho-syntactic items and the presence and absence of SMS features at higher secondary level in Bahawalpur.Two questionnaires have been administered to collect data for quantitative analysis. The data  has been collected from 80 ESL learners and 50 ESL teachersat the Intermediate level in private and government colleges sectors in Bahawalpur. Content analysis of 15-20 recently sent SMS has been conducted through text dictionaryof 80 ESL learners.The study shows the violation of standard norms of the English language, i.e., contractions, vowel deletion, punctuation mistakes, use of letters and symbols observed in SMS, and written assignments collected from ESL learnersof both sectors. Although SMS has its radicaleffects in the form oflearners' negligence, carelessness, syntactic ignorance, and absence of teachers' guidance, teaching methodology, and educational context are also the cause of learners'inept written work.

scholarly journals Language Learning Strategies Used in Improving Writing Skills by Selected Form 4 ESL Learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nor Azah Sarip@Khalid ◽  
Wan Nazira Che Nor Nor ◽  
Nor Nadiah Mazelan Mazelan ◽  
Norizarina Mohd Khalid Khalid ◽  
Nordiana Salim Salim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Improving Writing ◽  
Esl Learners

scholarly journals EMPOWERING ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS IN MILLENNIAL ERA: THE ROLE OF ENGLISH PROGRAM FOR BIDIKMISI STUDENTS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
English Program

This study aims at exploring how BIDIKMISI students at the State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Kudusperceive the empowerment of their academic writing skills through English programs undertaken by the campus.The study anchors in a qualitative research. Personal interviews, observation and documentation were used togather data. The result reveals that the strategies and ways of empowering academic writing cover developingcognitive skills of students by giving them academic literacy, activities of problem solving, and innovation thatwill attract them to use writing as systems of representation and communication. Another way of empoweringacademic writing done by lecturers is by collaborating to other English lecturers particularly those who teachReading in enhancing the academic writing skills of students at IAIN Kudus. Thus, the role of English programsis considerably meaningful for the acquisition of English language skills of BIDIKMISI students particularly inacademic writing skills. Furthermore, they are able to elicit a number of materials and information related toacademic writing including writing foundations, writing stages, writing elements, accuracy in writing, researchingand writing, academic reality, and articles publication. Interestingly, they are pursued to do a research and writejournal articles. This study suggests that lecturers should actively use technology and social media in millennialera such as Facebook, Blog, Instagram, and Youtube to engage students in the process of teaching academicwriting.

scholarly journals The role of metaphorized verbal combinations in presenting the mental behaviour of a person in contemporary British prose

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 150-156
Author(s):  
Alla Diadechko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Basic Ideas

Metaphors, being a special cognitive and semantic device, demonstrate the flow of the human thought. Among all parts of speech the verb can be singled out for its powerful ability to metaphorize. The paper addresses those verbal metaphorizers which come up in the contemporary literary English language to predicate the nouns related to human mental behavior. The contextual approach applied to the whole study has proved some basic ideas of the cognitive theory of knowledge. The study has identified some basic cognitive abilities, powers, states, feelings and emotions, and the ways they are presented in the literary texts in order to be guessed and understood by the readers.

scholarly journals READING AND WRITING POEMS IN ENGLISH: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES AT A BRAZILIAN PUBLIC SCHOOL

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 1331-1352
Author(s):  
Layssa Gabriela Almeida e Silva Mello
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Lexical Knowledge ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Reading Activities

ABSTRACT This study, presenting an experience with eighth-grade students at a Brazilian public school, in Goiânia, Goiás, shows students’ ability to collaboratively read and write poems in English. A poem was selected from the Indian-born, Canadian poet Rupi Kaur’s book The sun and her flowers (KAUR, 2017) to discuss and reflect on themes such as love and loss. Firstly, a theoretical reference on the importance of literary texts for English language teaching and the role of collaboration is presented to provide a theoretical basis for this pedagogical practice. The pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading activities are then described and the students’ written productions, based on Rupi Kaur’s poem, are also presented. Through these activities, students enhanced their lexical knowledge of the English language and their creativity, and also interacted with their colleagues to reflect on current issues.

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