scholarly journals Students’ Perceptions of Textbooks in Moroccan High Schools

Author(s):  
Sana Sakale

The objective of this study is to reveal the different perceptions, practices and problems related to speaking skills in Moroccan secondary education in general. The sample of the study consisted of students coming from different schools in the academy of Rabat-Salè-Zemmour-Zaer area. The results revealed a discrepancy between classroom activities, textbooks activities and the objectives of the guidelines set for the teaching of speaking in Moroccan high schools. The results also showed that the thematic importance, thematic variety and the preference of listening-focused textbooks including listening to songs are found to be what students perceive to be their most significant inclinations. The study concluded with a number of pedagogical implications for the teaching/learning process.

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Syarifah Dahliana

Students’ motivation contributes to the successful teaching learning process as it determines self-engagement and participations in the classroom. Encouraging students’ motivation, then, becomes important for the teacher to achieve the teaching goal and to provide a meaningful learning process for the students. This research is aimed to discuss responsive pedagogy in encouraging students’ motivation to learn and participate in classroom learning process. One English speaking class becomes the object of the observation. The interviews with the teacher and some students were also part of data collection in order to obtain information about the students’ motivation in learning English speaking, teacher’s teaching strategy, and classroom interactions. The findings indicate that classroom activities are crucial in motivating students’ responsive learning. In addition, the teacher’s competency in creating a conducive environment and leading an interactive communication are the ways of the teacher influence students’ motivation in learning process.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Muhammad Safdar Bhatti

English has won the status of International language. The quality of our expression depends on our use of speaking skills. The importance and value of speaking English have been accepted worldwide. In Pakistan, Teaching English was mainly focused upon reading and writing skills. But in today’s world, listening and speaking skills have become much more important than in the past. Recently, the value of role-play in the classroom situation has become mandatory to make the teaching-learning process easy, attractive, and interesting. The implementation of role-play was expected to be an effective way to improve the learners’ speaking skills. So in the present study, the focus is on this matter whether the use of role play can be beneficial in bringing a positive change in the teaching-learning process of speaking skills for elementary level learners. The collective problems of the teachers and students during speaking English were the main focus of the study. 360 students and twenty teachers of Bahawalpur region participated in this study. Pre-test, post-test, and questionnaire were used as a tool to collect the data from the respondents. The findings of the study showed that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test results. It was suggested that speech practice with the help of role play should be encouraged at the elementary level.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Wahyu Mimbar

Babul Maghfirah Is one Of junior high Schools located in Aceh Besar which gives high attention to Arabic Learning In This Rase, It is one of 13 Junior high Schools In Aceh Besar which still Implements School-Based Curriculum (KTSP) in Teaching learning process. That is why, the write intended to conduct a Research under the title “ The Analysis of Arabic Material in School-Based Curriculum design” The present research was aimed to Find Out : 1) The Obstacle Faced by the Teacher in transferring the material in school-Based Curriculum design, 2) The Strength and weakness Of School-Based Curriculum method, and 3) The analysis of Arabic learning from cognitive, effective and Psikomotor view in School-Based Curriculum design. Descriptive Qualitative design was used in this research so that the writer used Questionnaire, Observation, and Interview to collect the data needed. Furthermore, all students (24 students) of grade VIII were become the sample of this research. After Conducting the research, it was Found that : 1) most of the Teachers had lack understanding toward the School-Based Curriculum it self. It was caused by the Curriculum was not a perfect design and still need a futher development: 2) Lack of understanding in “Nahwu and Qawai’id” material was one of the weakness of KTSP in cognitive. It made The Students hard to master the method of giving the line, gathering new vocabularies and expression. Thus, it led them to be unable to speak Arabic, Affectively, the Students were more exsited to learn Arabic with School-Based Curriculum design, in psikomotor aspect, the writer found that students had good Capability in Performing “ istima’kalamQira’ah and Khitabah”. They also tonded to motivate each other. 3) After Conducting observation, Interview and Questionnare, It was also found that the Material of Arabic Language in School-Based Curriculum did not meet to Students need.


Author(s):  
ANNA MICHNIUK

Anna Michniuk, Rodzice a nowomedialne wspomaganie współczesnej polskiej szkoły (raport z badań) [Parents and new media in modern Polish schools]. Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej, nr 23, Poznań 2018. Pp. 249-266. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-391X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ikps.2018.23.15 The article presents some of the conclusions of the research carried out in 2016 among the junior high schools located in lubuskie voiewodship. One of the subjects of the research was the parents of new media support for modern school assess. The text presents parents’ opinions on the new media activity of students, support of new media in the teaching – learning process, building contact between the school and parents and also (auto)promotion of the school. The article also contains a short description of the new media activity of parents of contemporary teenagers and characteristic of the media world in which modern parents were brought up.


Author(s):  
Yuliana Friska ◽  
Iwan Setiawan

This study aimed to investigate students’ perception towards the National Examination (Ujian Nasional/UN) and its positive and negative effects (washback). The study was a qualitative research using a survey method. It involved XII-grade students who had taken the examination from some vocational senior high schools in East Ciputat, South Tangerang, Banten, i.e. SMK Triguna Utama, SMK YMJ and SMK Moh. Husni Thamrin. A questionnaire was therefore constructed to elicit their beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and/or opinions regarding the UN. The findings showed almost all of the students believed that National Examination could increase their learning intensity, or, in other words, UN could motivate them to study harder. However, there was also revealed that the students doubted and questioned the effectiveness and importance of UN in creating better teaching learning process. These thus indicated that National Examination had positive as well as negative washback on teaching learning activities of  XII-grade students of some vocational senior high schools in South Tangerang.


Author(s):  
Atin Prihatin ◽  
Sudiyanto ◽  
Hermanu Joebagio

Evaluation is divided into several kinds, one of which is formative evaluation. Formative evaluation is appropriately used because the process involves students directly in the learning process and is able to improve students' conceptual understanding. The qualitative data were taken from a field research consisting of: 1) observations, observing the students' activities during teaching-learning process and their learning activities while doing evaluation; 2) Interviews, the techniques used were open interview, the interview conducted with the informants using interview guides and documentation analysis. From the results of the case study, some problems were found. To overcome the problems, a model of formative evaluation needs to be developed in order to provide fast feedback for the students and the teachers. The purpose of this research is to make formative evaluation model for ICT (Information and Communication Technology) learning in Vocational High Schools. The design of the research was research and development of a formative evaluation model. The instruments used were questionnaires for product feasibility tests including book review validation, pre-learning quiz instruments, post-learning quiz instruments and product-segment models. Based on the results of qualitative data, interviews were conducted to both students and ICT teachers, and documentation recorded. It was found that 90% teachers had not done formative evaluation system well. On one hand, the results of quantitative data analysis show that the results of student learning, especially ICT subjects were still relatively low. From the above data, it can be concluded that it is necessary to do research on the development of formative evaluation model to improve student learning outcomes in Vocational High Schools.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 69-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Bahadur Thapa

Teacher training helps to increase teaching and learning process in the classroom. Its impact in classroom situation brings a good result in all teaching learning process and children’s overall development. However, in spite of the intensive teacher training, the public school’s achievements seem poor day by day in the context of Nepal. Many factors play the role to transfer the training skills to the classroom successfully. The effect of training in teaching and learning denotes the betterment of overall situation of classroom activities. So this article highlights on the existing situation of teacher training and the transfer of its skills in the classroom. Academic Voices, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012, Pages 69-73 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/av.v2i1.8292


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