scholarly journals Perfect disguises

2021 ◽  
Vol XV (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Kristina Goodnight ◽  
Rick de Graaff ◽  
Catherine van Beuningen
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
English Classrooms ◽  
Teacher Reflections ◽  
Spoken Interaction

Dutch secondary school pupils seldom speak the foreign language in class, citing anxiety as a primary factor (Haijma, 2013). Implementing improvisational drama techniques (IDTs), however, could help ameliorate this situation by generating positive affective reactions, such as confidence and joy, and in turn stimulate pupils to speak. The concept IDT in this study contains two key elements. Firstly, participants take on roles in fictitious situations. Secondly, the activities must elicit spontaneous speech as to offer language learners opportunities to practice real-life communication, which is central to the goal of this research. The question driving this study was: What types of IDTs induce positive affective reactions among pupils and, as such, have the potential to stimulate spoken interaction in FL classrooms? The study yielded 77 IDTs associated with positive affective reactions through a literature review and an analysis of student teacher reflections on their IDT use in their English classrooms. This combined evidence lends credence to the conception that it could be the essence of improvisational drama that generates positive reactions, rather than the type of activity—the essence being an invitation to enter a fictional world, combined with the improvisational element that readies learners for spontaneous interactions.

Comparing the ‘phrasicon’ of teenagers in immersive and non-immersive settings

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amélie Bulon
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Interdisciplinary Project ◽  
French Speaking

Abstract Foreign language learners’ phraseological proficiency remains problematic, even at advanced levels (e.g., Meunier, 2012; Meunier & Granger, 2008; Siepmann, 2008). While the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) method is believed to facilitate foreign language learning by fostering input, interaction, and output, little attention has been paid to the phraseological competence of CLIL learners. The present study aims to fill this gap as it is framed within an interdisciplinary project on CLIL in Belgium and specifically focuses on the phrasicon, i.e. the phraseological lexicon, of 5th year French-speaking secondary school learners of English in immersive (CLIL) and non-immersive (NON-CLIL) settings. The paper reports on (1) an analysis of the variety/range of the phrasicon and (2) an overview of phraseological accuracy. The analyses are based on a corpus of written productions of 180 learners. The findings of this study indicate higher frequency, range and accuracy in the phrasicon of CLIL learners.

scholarly journals Mediation in Peer Interaction

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Saraswati Dawadi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Peer Interaction ◽  
Peer Interactions ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Regular Classroom ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
High Level

This article examines the strategies used by the high-level English as a foreign language learners to mediate understanding in peer interactions. The data was generated from peer interactions of post graduate level students in their regular classroom. It was found that the students were able to understand communicative intent of their peers and provide support to each other; they worked collaboratively and co-constructed knowledge. They used different strategies to mediate understanding. The major strategies included: repetition, elaboration, definition, contextual cues, scaffolding, paralinguistic cues and real life examples. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v19i1-2.12079   Journal of NELTA, Vol 19 No. 1-2, December 2014: 47-55  

scholarly journals Cinema as a didactic tool in the secondary school foreign language classroom: French

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-147
Author(s):  
Imad Boussif ◽  
Estefanía Sánchez Auñón
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Teaching Unit

The seventh art forms an essential part of the students’ daily lives; additionally, it has been asserted that it is a highly advantageous didactic tool for high school foreign language learners. Thus, the purpose of this empirical study is twofold: to explore high school learners’ perception on the didactic exploitation of films in the French classroom, and to determine whether or not the cinema-based approach is as beneficial for high school French students as it seems. Accordingly, a cinema-based teaching unit was put into practice in two high school French classrooms and, afterwards, the thirty-five participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire in order to examine their views on this methodology and analyse its effects on their language learning process. The results obtained have revealed that high school French students have a very positive opinion on the cinema-based approach and that this method is motivating and helps learners to enhance their linguistic and sociocultural competences.

scholarly journals Effects of Tasks on Spoken Interaction and Motivation in English Language Learners

2016 ◽  
pp. 34-55
Author(s):  
Nubia Patricia Carrero Pérez
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Spoken Interaction ◽  
Oral Interaction ◽  
Or Task

Task based learning (TBL) or Task based learning and teaching (TBLT) is a communicative approach widely applied in settings where English has been taught as a foreign language (EFL). It has been documented as greatly useful to improve learners’ communication skills. This research intended to find the effect of tasks on students’ spoken interaction in English and motivation towards speaking English in the classroom. Thirty-five adolescent tenth grade students from a public school in Bogota, Colombia, participated in the study. They reported positive influence of tasks in their English oral interaction improvement as well as on their motivation towards speaking English in the classroom.

scholarly journals Teaching russian phraseology with the component of color term “black” to philology foreign students

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Chernova ◽  
Elena Lelis ◽  
Svetlana Baranova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Regional Geography ◽  
Color Term ◽  
The Russian Language

The study of phraseology is an advanced direction of teaching methods of Russian as a foreign language. Any non-native speaker embarking on a study of Russian is faced with the problems of understanding the phraseological units that the Russian language is replete with. Language learners experience particular difficulties when using phraseological units with the color designation component “black” in a real-life communicative situation. The problem of understanding the phraseology of the Russian language is associated with the fact that representatives of different countries have knowledge of the phraseology of their native language that encompasses regional geography, linguoculturological, national concepts, which often do not coincide with similar phenomena in the Russian environment. This paper scientifically substantiates the methodological system for working with phraseological units in the study of Russian as a foreign language. It presents a system of scientifically grounded assignments for foreigners to learn Russian as a foreign language.

scholarly journals LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS ON TEACHING TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-26
Author(s):  
Kemalettin DENİZ ◽  
Yunus Emre ÇEKİCİ
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Language Usage ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Course Material

Language functions can be defined as humane purpose of language usage and the act occurring from language usage. Teaching a foreign language that aims to prepare the students to form communication in the target language focuses on language functions from 1970s to today. Language funtions that was specifically developed in the scope of teaching English as a foreign language have formed a basis for Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. In the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, it is stated that language functions that are based on real life communicational situations ought to be taught but rather predetermined language structures. Accordingly, an education based on language functions has been adopted in the programmes reformed on teaching Turkish as a foreign language. However, there is no language functions framework that can be used as a source for teaching Turkish as a foreign language, is developed by scientific methods and includes the structure, usage and cultural elements. The purpose of this study is to develop a programme on teaching Turkish as a foreign language, to prepare course material and to prepare a language functions framework that suits cultural elements, structure, functioning and usage of Turkish in order to be used in the assessment and evaluation studies. Literature review and document analysis methods has been used nn the qualitative model and situational patterned study. Subsequent to literature review, oral and written document analysis and expert consultation, “Language Functions Framework for Teaching Turkish As a Foreign Language” has been formed. In the scope of “information inquiry and explanation”, “attides/emotions inquiry and explanation”, “persuasion”, “socialization”, “prevention and retrieval of communication errors” and “structuring the discourse” functions, 46 functions and142 subfunctions has been determined. Keywords: Language functions, teaching functional language, teaching Turkish as a foreign language, Common European Famework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), Language Policy Programme Education Policy Division Education Department Council of Europe.

Pragmatics in CLIL

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-494
Author(s):  
Nashwa Nashaat Sobhy
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
School Programs ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Request Strategies

Abstract This study is a mixed-method, cross-sectional study that compares the acquisition of request modification in the productions of two secondary school groups (15–16 years old) in two school programs: content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and traditional mainstream (non-CLIL). A total of 192 requests were gathered from both groups by means of an elicitation instrument (a Written Discourse Completion Test – WDCT). The requestive pragmatic moves (external and internal modifiers and request strategies) were analysed according to their pragmatic functions (softeners and aggravators) and a data-driven taxonomy of request modification was elaborated in line with previously developed taxonomies (Blum-Kulka et al., 1989; Alcón Soler et al., 2005) for the data analysis. The results showed that both groups share similarities typical of foreign language learners. Nonetheless, significant statistical differences between them indicated that the CLIL group had a fuller repertoire of request modification strategies, yet their sociopragmatic knowledge is questioned.

scholarly journals Implementation of a Thematic Analysis Method to Develop a Qualitative Model on the Authentic Foreign Language Learning Perspective: A Case Study in the University of Northern Cyprus

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 544
Author(s):  
Mohsen Mortazavi ◽  
Afshin Davarpanah
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Qualitative Model ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Saturation

Environmentally friendly occasions allow foreign language learners to further concentrate on realizing their extensive knowledge of the English language. Exercises and activities performed in foreign language classes have been criticized for a lack of authenticity, which prevents language learners from learning the real-life usage of language. In this paper, we developed a qualitative model based on the thematic analysis method (TAM) to distinguish the efficacy of research strategies. The number of participants was defined based on theoretical saturation. To collect the data, 18 participants were selected from the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in Cyprus. The selection of participants was according to their involvement in research-based projects. Theoretical saturation occurred after 15 semi-structured interview forms from participants; however, we selected three extra participants to obtain more reliable results. The reliability of the qualitative model was explicitly illustrated by colleagues who were experts in this field by reviewing and analyzing the proposed model with previous models. It was concluded that the two principles of motivation (principle 11) and provision of collaborative opportunities (principle 4) had the highest frequencies, of 22.47% and 19.66%.

scholarly journals Imagined Communities and Identities in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Learning: A Literature Review

JET ADI BUANA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Vu Anh Luong ◽  
Thao Quoc Tran
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
English Language Learning ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Efl Learning

Imagined community and identity have been recognized as critical aspects in English language learning. Imagined community refers to the ideal community that learners wish to get engaged in, while imagined identity refers to the ideal self that language learners wish to become in the future. However, there is a scant research on these two notions in relation to English as a foreign language (EFL) learning. To that end, this paper aims to present the literature review of the contemporary theories on imagined communities and identities in EFL learning. It first discusses the imagined communities regarding the functions, community of practice, notions of imagined communities and concepts of imagined EFL classroom communities. It then scrutinizes imagined identities in terms of poststructuralists’ theory, English language learners’ identities, notion of imagined identity and EFL learners’ imagined identity. This paper is hoped to provide a timely and needed conceptual framework for other relevant constructs (e.g., English language learning investment) in English language learning.

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