scholarly journals SELF-LEARNING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS IN THE CREDIT SYSTEM HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Thanh Minh To
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Credit System ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Language Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Students

As the result of the research work on self-learning of foreign language students in the credit system held at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, this article has firstly searched for problems facing the students in studying by themselves, secondly determined a number of things the students are supposed to do with patience and finally raised some suggestions to the teaching staff, the departments of foreign languages and the university in order to improve the students’ ability to conduct their self-learning, bettering their expected learning outcomes. The result indicates that despite their growing awareness of how significant self-learning is, the students neither have enough time nor maintain the time consciously planned for self-learning. Negatively affecting the students’ self-learning are their five subjective factors: lack of adequate time for self-learning, failure in search for appropriate methods of learning, lack of basic knowledge on given subjects, lack of self-belief to conduct their learning successfully, and lack of motivation as well as determination to study by themselves; among the five objective factors hindering the effects of self-learning are the students’ inability to get access to academic resources, their instructors’ lack of attention to share experience in and provide guidance on self-learning, the students’ long time spent on class meetings, lack of space, especially on campus, quiet enough for self-learning, and lack of equipment specialised for foreign language learning. It has been highlighed that only if (1) the students proceed their self-learning however difficult it is, (2) the teaching staff play their dual role in organsing and controlling the students’ self-learning, and (3) the foreign language departments as well as the university actively support teaching and learning activities can the students’ self-learning turn out to be fruitful.

scholarly journals PERCEIVED SATISFACTION WITH UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIAN AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS. TWO PERSPECTIVES ON MEDICAL EDUCATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 547-551
Author(s):  
Liana Dehelean ◽  
Ana Maria Romosan ◽  
Ion Papava ◽  
Radu Stefan Romosan ◽  
Papazian Petru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Future Career ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Language Students ◽  
Foreign Language Students

Background: In Romania, foreign medical students have the possibility to learn the same curricula in Romanian, English, or French. The purpose of the study: To compare students’ satisfaction with training and future career opportunities from the perspective of Romanian and foreign students. Methods: The study was conducted for terminal year medical students divided into two samples, Romanian and foreign language students. The participants were invited to fill in a satisfaction questionnaire about their professional training and to express preferences for future career. Results: Foreign students were more satisfied with the lectures and the teaching staff. They attended optional lectures more frequently in comparison with Romanian students. Foreign students were more inclined to attend medical conferences and to enroll in PhD programs. While Romanian students were more inclined to consider emigration, foreign students prefer to practice in their native countries. Conclusions: Compared to their Romanian colleagues, foreign students were more engaged in educational and research activities.

scholarly journals Defining in English : a tool to measure writings abilities

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Purificación Sánchez ◽  
Pilar Aguado Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Placement Test ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Language Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Language Students

Drawing conclusions, comparing and contrasting, defining, explaining reasons and purposes, speculating and verifying, inferring and implying and other patterns of writing organisation, are the very matter of communication, whether in the form of everyday conversation or more highly specialised uses of language. These functions of language could be used to measure foreign language students' capability in different skills, writing for instance. This paper deals with the ability to write definitions, as an alternative to essay writing, of the students of English Language in the 1st year of English Philology at the University of Murcia. They were asked to define 10 words accurately chosen from the vocabulary lists published by Nation (1999). The results obtained have been used as a parameter to measure their writing ability. Significant correlations have been found between the marks obtained in the Oxford Placement Test performed at the beginning of the semester and those in our test based on definitions. We propose that definitions be considered as a parameter to check the writing abilities of the students and as a complement to the Oxford Placement Test

scholarly journals ONLINE FOREIGN LANGUAGES LEARNING AT THE UNIVERSITY AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

InterConf ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 148-160
Author(s):  
Alina Slobodaniuc
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
Online Language Learning ◽  
Language Students ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Language Students

The main purpose of this article is to assess the phenomenon of online language learning during the pandemic and to analyze the survey on the opinion of foreign language students who have expressed their views about the difficulties encountered and the solutions they consider appropriate in order to improve this process in the Republic of Moldova.

scholarly journals Establishing criteria for evaluating lecturers’ competences: solutions for improving quality of lecturers at University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU -HCM

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
Bui Ha Phuong
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

In the higher education environment, lecturers play an extremely important role in higher education of universities. Assessing the higher education quality based on many standards such as the training program, the facilities, the teaching staff, the supporting staff to the learners, the measures of quality improvement, ... In which, improving the qualified lecturers who meet the training needs and implementing the strategic goals of each university is as one of the requirements important. Assessing lecturers' competences is considered one of the mandatory requirements for measuring the quality of university education. The assessment of lecturers' competences is based on a variety of criteria, in which the competences of teaching, scientific research and community service are considered the core competences of the lecturer. The paper presents the necessity of proposing criteria for assessing lecturers' competences. Besides, the paper also analyzes some of the basic criteria for assessing lecturers' competences. Then, some solutions are proposed to apply these criteria in assessing the competences of lecturers at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University-Hochiminh.

Taking off with CALL

ReCALL ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Brian McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
The Past ◽  
Language Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Language Students

Over the past two years, the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Wollongong (Australia) has developed a range of software, primarily for use with beginner foreign language students. This article looks at the project from three angles: a brief survey of CALL software produced; discussion of some of the elements which have combined to make the project successful; comments on the integration of CALL into the teaching program.

scholarly journals Improving the quality of lecturers at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU-HCM

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. first
Author(s):  
Le Thi Truc Ngoc
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training

The quality of education and training is determined by many factors including the quality of human resources, especially teaching staff. They do not only play the role of teachers, experts in the field of expertise, but also are advisors, lecturers who are also leaders in renovating the curriculum and teaching methodology to meet educational goals of the University and the society, etc. However, in addition to the achievements in human resource development, the quality of the teaching staff remains inadequate, failing to meet the needs of the University and the society in the context of globalization. Therefore, to overcome the limitations and improve the quality of education and training, it is urgent to need specific and comprehensive solutions to improve the quality of lecturers at higher education institutions in general and at USSH, VNU-HCM in particular. Therefore, in this article, the author presents: 1/ Some difficulties and limitations in improving the quality of teaching staff at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City; and 2/ Proposing some solutions to improve the quality of USSH lecturers to contribute to improving the quality of education and training to meet the needs of international integration in the current period.

Advantages and Challenges of Using OERs in Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-96
Author(s):  
Nives Mikelic Preradovic ◽  
Kristina Posavec
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Direct Teaching ◽  
Language Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Corpus Tools ◽  
Foreign Language Students

This chapter attempts to draw conclusions about the extent and modality of corpora use in teaching less commonly taught languages, based on the teachers' experience with their foreign language students, their use of corpora and corpus tools to prepare teaching materials, and based on their use of the corpora in the direct teaching process. The advantages and challenges of using OERs in teaching less commonly taught languages across different language learning levels discussed in this chapter are the result of detailed analysis of the preferences and needs of teachers at Croaticum (Centre for Croatian as a second and foreign language – CFL at the University of Zagreb), which is considered the largest and central institution for teaching CFL. The results are also based on the analysis of existing Croatian language corpora and the literature about these corpora.

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