scholarly journals Observable Signals of Motivation in Teaching-learning Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-59
Author(s):  
Muhammad Umer Azim ◽  
Zaheer Hussain ◽  
Azhar Munir ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
English Language ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Cognitive Domains ◽  
Group Activities ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Teaching Learning

The current study focuses on the identification of the observable signals of motivation as perceived by the language teachers in the teaching-learning process. This phenomenon is worth studying as it can open new dimensions for conducting research on motivation and engagement in the field of applied linguistics. It can be very helpful for teachers in assessing their students’ motivation. Data was collected for this phenomenological study through questionnaire, interviews, and focus group discussion. The sample consisted of twenty-six English language teachers. The data were analyzed through thematic analysis. The observable signals of motivation were categorized in the behavioral, emotional, and cognitive domains. The results identified that ‘asking probing questions’, ‘eye contact’, ‘asking for extra resources’, ‘loving and respecting teachers’, ‘coming on time’, ‘completing classroom tasks quickly’, ‘enjoying group activities’, and ‘suggesting topics to teachers’ comprised the observable signals of motivation. The majority of the teachers agreed on observing most of these signals. Teachers can use these signals to assess the motivation of their learners and future researchers can use the findings of this research for conducting further research.

scholarly journals ‘Observable Signals’ of Motivation in Teaching-Learning Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Umer Azim ◽  
Zaheer Hussain ◽  
Azhar Munir ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
English Language ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Cognitive Domains ◽  
Group Activities ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Teaching Learning

The current study focuses on the identification of the ‘observable signals’ of motivation perceived by the language teachers in the teaching-learning process. This phenomenon is worth studying as it can open new dimensions  for conducting research on motivation and engagement in the field of applied linguistics. It can be very helpful for teachers in assessing their students’ motivation. Data were collected for this phenomenological study through questionnaire, interviews and focus group discussion. The sample consisted of twenty-six English language teachers. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The ‘observable signals’ of motivation were categorized in the behavioral, emotional, and cognitive domains. The results identified that asking probing questions, eye contact, asking for extra resources, loving and respecting teachers, coming on time, completing classroom tasks quickly, enjoying group activities, and suggesting topics to teachers were comprised the ‘observable signals’ of motivation. The majority of the teachers agreed on observing most of these signals. Teachers can use these signals to assess the motivation of their learners and future researchers can use the findings of this research for conducting further research.

An Analysis of Language Teachers’ Beliefs in Their Teaching Learning Process

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Dini Handiani
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning

Language teachers play a very important part in language education and learning. What they do in classroom is a reflection of what they know and believe about issues related to their professional practices. Their knowledge and beliefs provide them with the underlying framework guiding their teaching learning process related to the content, approach, and evaluation of teaching and learning. The objective of this paper, therefore, was to examine the beliefs of language techers in teaching learning process. Based on the discussions and conclusions, it is recommended that the English language teachers  need to have clear  beliefs about their teaching learning process, and be very much willing to improve the language pedagogy through self-reflection/self-study. Key words: teaching learning process, beliefs

scholarly journals Learning Strategies Employed in English Language: Perceptions and Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pitambar Paudel
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
English Language ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Teaching Learning

Learning strategies are the key tools to determine the approach for achieving the learning goal. They are included in different phases of teaching learning process. They are usually tied to the needs and interests of students to enhance their learning efficiency. This article aims at exploring perspectives and practices of learning strategies in learning English language. For this, phenomenological descriptive qualitative research was conducted with a class of 48 students of Bachelor in Education at a constituent campus, under Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Both the class of the students and campus were selected purposively to meet the requirement of phenomenological study. Thirty classes were observed as a participant as well as teacher and from the same group of the students only ten students were interviewed. Then, the data from both the sources were triangulated, interpreted and analyzed descriptively. From this study, it was interpreted that students employed various strategies to learn different language skills and aspects. The study revealed that students felt difficulty in selecting proper learning strategy for learning grammatical rules due to many exceptional cases and listening skill due to their less time devotion on it while the felt ease to select and employ proper strategies in learning vocabulary.

scholarly journals TRACES OF CRITICAL SPIRITUAL PEDAGOGY IN INDONESIAN EFL TEACHERS’ CHRISTIAN-BASED CLASSES

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Aurelia Melinda Herka Puspita ◽  
Joseph Ernest Mambu
Keyword(s):  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Basic English

The incorporation of critical pedagogical (CP) perspectives into ELT classrooms has been widely discussed in ELT literature, but how English language teachers in Indonesian schools integrate them in their lessons has not been sufficiently documented. This study aims to investigate to what extent CP perspectives are integrated within the learning process to teach four basic English skills, although the teachers were not familiar with CP. Two in-service English teachers from a private junior high school in Central Java, Indonesia, filled in a questionnaire designed to identify their pedagogical identity. They were also interviewed and observed to further investigate their responses in the questionnaire and to explore the realization of the CP practice. The data was classified based on the components of critical language pedagogy proposed by Crookes (2013). The results showed that as students’ wholeness was acknowledged, the learning process integrated cultural and critical contents to teach a particular language feature. During the learning process, there was a great deal of the inclusion of spiritual values as a way of demonstrating the students’ criticality.

scholarly journals A Classroom-Based Assessment of EFL Academic Essay Writing Class: Who Gets the Benefits?

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Asri Purnamasari
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Teacher Trainees ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
English Language Teachers

Classroom-based assessment (CBA) has been implemented globally at many levels of educational system such as in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Singapore, as well as in Africa. In Indonesia, CBA might effectively be implemented in all stages of education since this way of assessment offers improvement in the teaching and learning process. This essay explores the design and implementation of CBA, which focuses on academic EFL essay writing for teacher trainees in Indonesia. Based on my reflection on taking English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Academic Essay Writing class, I found that applying a classroom-based assessment could give two benefits. The first is for the improvement of the teaching and learning process in order to reach the study objectives. The second is to facilitate the study program for creating qualified and competent English language teachers in the area of producing competent academic essay writings.

scholarly journals An Investigation into the Level of Burnout in Secondary School English Language Teachers and their Perception of Prevention of it

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 133-138
Author(s):  
Ziaullah ◽  
Dr. Farooq Nawaz Khan ◽  
Dr. Shazia Kanwal
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
English Language ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
School Level ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Country Level ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning

Research on burnout gained popularity in the 1970s but in the last three decades’ research about burnout gained immense popularity (Hedden, 2005, Harmesh, Laurenz, Maulana & Veen., 2018). Frudenberger (1974) defined the term (Burnout) for the first time who opined that when there are too many professional demands with limited resources and rewards, it causes a sense of chronic stress and failure. The current research study was undertaken to find out the level of burnout among secondary school English teacher and also their perception of prevention from burnout. The data from the respondents were collected through CBI inventory to measure their level of burnout and its effects on teachers at the secondary school level in district Swat. An open-ended 7 items questionnaire was used to identify the perception of the teachers about preventing them from burning out. The population for this study is comprised of government secondary schools’ teachers (230) male-only from which the sample group was selected through systematic sampling techniques. The reliability coefficient was measured through the Cronbach alpha method the= .00000. All the respondents used the categories indicating a low level of burnout and the average score of all the respondents is below 40 in most of the categories of burnout.  The study recommends that the school management should take preventive measures to help teachers fight burnout on a school level and larger scale (directorate level) organizations should help teachers maintain balance in their work so that they do not fall victim to burnout. The study is of immense importance for the wellbeing of the teachers and the effective teaching-learning process. To be able to generalize the findings of the study, it is recommended for future researchers to undertake it on a larger scale such as provincial or country level. Moreover, the current research has been conducted only among male secondary school teachers. It would be interesting to see the research-based results across both genders.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Beliefs on Students’ Home Language as a Resource in EFL Classroom

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-126
Author(s):  
Uma Nath Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Home Language ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning

This is the age of multilingual turn. It advocates the inclusion of indigenous languages that the children bring to school from home as resource. At present, use of students’ home language as a resource in teaching and learning of a new language has become a vexing issue. The teachers’ beliefs on any issue determine the types of teaching learning activities that they use in the classroom. In this context, this paper aims at exploring the Nepalese English language teachers’ beliefs regarding the use of students’ home language in English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom, and why or how they form their respective beliefs. For this, I collected data from five ‘Grade ten’ English language teachers of different community schools in Kathmandu, taking in-depth interview with them. The data were analyzed qualitatively creating themes. The analysis shows that the English language teachers regard home language as a resource in EFL classroom, and they do so on the basis of their own theoretical understanding and practical experience in teaching.

Facilitating ELT through Moodle and Google Classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (10) ◽  
pp. 506-518
Author(s):  
Binoy Barman ◽  
J. Karthikeyan
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Virtual Interaction ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning

Now-a-days many English language teachers are resorting to what is called “blended teaching/learning” in an endeavor to incorporate information technology into their pedagogical practices. They often use virtual platforms like Moodle and Google Classroom to supportand supplement their physical classroom teaching, which transcends the routine constraints of traditional educational system. In their capacity, teachers and students may engage in necessary interactions “anytime anywhere”, adding extra momentum to the teaching-learning process. English language teaching (ELT) may be specially facilitated by such features as constant connectivity, anytime feed-backing, assignment creation, submission and grading, file sharing, virtual interaction and collaboration, etc. Here is an attempt to delineate some important features of Moodle and Google Classroom, two useful technological tools, in the light of the author’s experience as a teacher.

English language teachers’ literacy competence in literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Prasetyo Hazairin Eko ◽  
Kurniati Victa Sari Dwi ◽  
Kusuma Adhi
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
School Students ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive

The study was carried out to describe English teachers’ literacy competence in English literature which had a very important role in the teaching of English language through literature to strengthen character educational values. The study applied descriptive statistics in the forms of frequencies “to describe and summarize the data.” In reporting the data, percentages were used (Leavy, 2017: 111). The respondents of the study consisted of fifteen English language teachers working for five senior high schools organizing special interest classes in languages. The techniques for collecting data were questionnaires and FGD (focus group discussion). The data were analyzed by using quantitative descriptive techniques consisting of central tendency and percentage analysis. The results of the study showed that all the teachers got between two and fourteen credits in literature from their undergraduate colleges. Their reading hours in literature after graduation did not show any regular base. This was particularly due to the fact that the portion of literature materials to be taught to the students was very limited. Thus, they thought that it was not necessitated to develop literary competence to support their teaching activities. However, all of them agreed that the teaching of literature to high school students was important and useful to improve their language skills as well as their character educational values.

The Use of the Telegram Application as an Information-Sharing Tool

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150024
Author(s):  
Suha AlAwadhi ◽  
Maryam Dashti
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Information Sets ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning

This study explored the use and acceptance by sixth-grade Kuwaiti English language teachers of the Telegram application as an information source and a knowledge-sharing tool that enables users to easily find, store and share useful learning information and enhances their teaching–learning practices. A mixed method approach was employed that included data triangulation: observation, a survey and a focus group to empirically reveal the results. The findings revealed that Telegram application was an effective source of textual and non-textual information as well as an information-sharing tool that saved time, effort and costs and overcame time and place limitations. Telegram’s various information sets allowed for the generation of innovative ideas, which improved the effectiveness of the teaching methods and accelerated language learning. The results of this study can assist information specialists to work collaboratively with teachers to plan and design information content for Telegram to support schools’ curriculum, complement teaching practices and develop learner’s information literacy skills.

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