scholarly journals Square Talks®: A Mobile App to Support EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Ima Normalia Kusmayanti ◽  
Retno Hendryanti
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Development ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Survey Result ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Improving Teaching And Learning

In recent years, mobile-based game language learning has proliferated due to its promising prospects and positive impacts in improving teaching and learning outcomes in English vocabulary development. With this phenomenon, Square Talks® was developed specifically to aid EFL beginner learners with their English vocabulary. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the game app in developing the learners’ English vocabulary development. This study employed a quantitative approach focusing on 34 EFL beginner learners. The focus has been on how effective the game app was statistically and overall experience of using the game app. Data were collected through vocabulary tests and a survey. The test results showed that Square Talks® has improved the subjects’ English vocabulary development with the t-value of the test results is -19.93 indicating a significant effect in increasing the subjects’ English vocabulary development. The survey result revealed positive acceptance toward playing Square Talks® in terms of effectiveness (4.49), usability (4.34), and satisfaction (4.52). Therefore, Square Talks® can be considered to be an alternative learning tool to facilitate EFL beginner learners’ vocabulary development.

scholarly journals The Effect of Integrating Mobile Application in Language Learning: An Experimental Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Trixie Mae Mengorio ◽  
Remart Dumlao
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Test Results

Innovation in Language Teaching Methodology should address the needs and demands of the 21st century learners and the birth of Mobile Aided Language Learning created abundant possibilities for the field of language education. This study investigates the effect of the Mobile Application: Moodle in teaching ESL learners. A quasiexperimental research with 100 respondents in Junior High School at Rizal Technological University-Laboratory High School of the Academic Year 2017-2018. The research data were gathered from the pre-test and post-test results during the betatesting activity and Focus Group Discussion conducted among the experimental set during the 4th grading period. Experimental Set used the Mobile Application: Moodle in their daily classroom discussion and activity tasks. Results shows that there is an increase with the performance of the Experimental Group compared to the Controlled Group test results. Also, the students in the experimental set express positive feedback about the integration of Mobile App in teaching and learning process. The study suggests that with further research and development of the program, it will enhance the possibility of MALL acquisition in teaching ESL Keywords: mobile aided language learning (MALL); e-learning; m-learning; mobile applications

The Implementation Of Make A-Match Model In Social Science Learning To Improve Student Learning Outcomes In Class IV SDN 115 Manado

2019 ◽  
Vol Volume 2 Nomor 2 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Match Model ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
Improve Student Learning

There is a tendency in the education field today to return to the idea that children will learn better if the environment is created naturally. Learning will be more meaningful if children "experience" themselves what they are learning, not 'knowing' it. Target-oriented learning of material mastery proves to be successful in short-term 'remembering' competitions, but fails to equip children to solve problems in long-term life. The problems that would to be studied in this study are: (a) how is the improvement of Social Science learning outcomes by applying the Make A-Match Model to it? (b) how does the Make A-Match Model apply towards the learning motivation? The objectives of this study are: (a) want to know the improvement in Social Science learning achievement after the implemetation of the Make A-Match Model. (b) want to know the effect of Make A-Match Model towards students’ motivation of the subject after it is applied. This research is used two rounds of action research. In each round consists of four stages, namely: design, activity and observation, reflection and revision. The target of this research is the fourth grade students of Mongodow. The data obtained in the form of formative test results, observation sheets of teaching and learning activities. From the results of analysts obtained student achievement has increased from cycle I to cycle II namely, cycle I (65%), cycle II (83%). The conclusion of this research is the Make A-Match Model of Social Science learning could positively influence the motivation of learning of central students, and this learning model could be used as an alternative to Social Science learning.

Improving The Student's Classroom Student's Reasoning Ability In Mathematics Lesson Through Problem Solving Efforts At Sdn 13 Kubang

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-158
Author(s):  
Zulfetriani Zulfetriani
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Maximum Value ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Daily Test

Basic education aims to provide basic skills to learners to develop their lives as individuals, community members, citizens and members of the human race and prepare learners to follow the next education. Primary education is organized to develop skills attitudes and provide the basic knowledge and skills necessary to live in communities and prepare learners who are eligible for secondary education (UU Sisdiknas No. 20 Year 2003 article 13). In teaching and learning activities, a teacher would have hope of desire for learners can get the maximum value possible, in accordance with the learning objectives created or desired but what can be in word, reality. For special mathematics subjects, field findings such as EBTANAS, summative test results and daily test scores and report scores indicate that the learners' learning outcomes are still below the numbers that may be unsatisfactory in both low and class high. From some study results and opinions of experts, the low mathematics learning outcomes of students is not because they are not able to perform calculations, but because they do not understand the problems contained in the problem. Hudoyo (in Laily Hasbullah: 2000: 1) states that questions related to numbers are not so difficult for learners, but the problems that use sentences are very difficult for learners who have less or less ability.  

scholarly journals Teaching and Learning Vocabulary: What English Language Learners Perceive to Be Effective and Ineffective Strategies

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Seyyed Hatam Tamimi Sa’d ◽  
Fereshte Rajabi
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Strategy Training ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
English Language Teachers

Vocabulary constitutes an essential part of every language-learning endeavour and deserves scholarly attention. The objective of the present study was three-fold: 1) exploring Iranian English language learners’Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLSs), 2) examining language learners’ perceptions of vocabulary learning, and 3) exploring Iranian English language teachers’ Vocabulary Teaching Strategies (VTSs). In total, 145  intermediate learners of English as a foreign language, consisting of 114 males and 31 females aged 15 to 27, participated in the study. The triangulated data were collected using three tools: questionnaires, interviews, and class observations. Sixty-seven learners (31 females and 36 males) filled out a 56-statement questionnaire, adopted and adapted from Takač (2008) and translated into Persian. The questionnaire comprised two parts, enquiring as to the learners’ VLSs and the teachers’ VTSs. The findings indicated that females and males differed significantly in their reported VLSs and their teachers’ use of various VTSs. Additionally, 78 learners were interviewed as to their perceptions of effective and ineffective VLSs as well as VTSs. The findings revealed that the most effective VLSs were reported to be: a) reciting, repeating and listening to words, b) using words, and c) memorising words while the most effective VTSs revolved around: a) explanation, b) repetition, and c) dictation. The observations also confirmed the findings obtained via the questionnaire and interviews. In general, the findings are indicative of the limited repertoire of vocabulary acquisition techniques employed by Iranian EFL learners, hence the need for strategy training in how to acquire vocabulary. 

A Digital Future of Diversity, Connectivity, and Sustainability

2022 ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Shanru Yang
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Mobile Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Chinese Language Learning ◽  
The World

In a mobile society where information and knowledge become accessible to anyone, anywhere, and anytime on the internet, online education has been transformed fundamentally. By the end of 2020, Mandarin Chinese was taught to over 20 million people in over 180 countries around the world. By critically reviewing 15 recent studies from 2013 to 2021 on mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) in teaching and learning Chinese as a second or foreign language (CSL/CFL), this chapter emphasizes the need for pedagogical diversity in goals, practices, and context. In the second theme of ‘connectivity', the new theory of online education connectivism is applied to evaluate the official Chinese language learning mobile app named ‘e-Learn Chinese'. In the final theme of ‘sustainability', it demonstrates an ecosystem of MALL through an ecological perspective based on a critical discussion of the mostly reviewed ten mobile language learning apps, which could innovate sustainable pedagogies in a life-long learning society.

scholarly journals The Effects of Audio- visual Recorded and Audio Recorded Listening Tasks on the Accuracy of Iranian EFL Learners’ Oral Production

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Pooya Drood ◽  
Hanieh Davatgari Asl
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Oral Production ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
And Control

<p>The ways in which task in classrooms has developed and proceeded have receive great attention in the field of language teaching and learning in the sense that they draw attention of learners to the competing features such as accuracy, fluency, and complexity. English audiovisual and audio recorded materials have been widely used by teachers and students, and have been the important resources of teaching and self-study. Nowadays, the environment we are living in is abundant with audio visual input and we as teachers ,thus, should be aware of the fact that environment can change students’ behavior towards language and language learning .What effects do these materials have on English speaking ability? The objective of this study is to find out whether there is difference in Iranian EFL learners’ accuracy in both audiovisual recorded (videos, movies ,etc.) and audio recorded tasks. For this purpose, 40 students of intermediate level were chosen and then were randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups each of which was under different listening tasks. (Audio visual- and audio only). Data analysis showed that the group which was trained under AV listening tasks showed different effects on students’ accuracy, compared to the other group positioned using audio recorded. Based on the results of this study, it is imperative that teachers consider the types of activities and methods that can have influence over language learners’ speaking ability.</p>

scholarly journals Motivating EFL Students with Conversation Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1138
Author(s):  
Austin Gardiner
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Computer Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Strategic Reading ◽  
System A ◽  
Efl Students

Motivating learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to improve their speaking fluency is challenging in environments where institutions emphasize reading and listening test performance. The focus tends to shift to strategic reading and listening first in order to attain acceptable test results, often at the expense of communicative competence. Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is well positioned to assess and develop communicative competence for EFL learners, and to motivate them to speak. This article introduces the Objective Subjective (OS) Scoring system, a CALL system which sets clear immediate goals on the path to better communicative competence with data from videoed conversation sessions. It motivates learners to improve on their data in every consecutive conversation session, whereby an environment is created which facilitates conversation practice as well as individual error correction.

scholarly journals Penerapan Metode JIGSAW untuk Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Bahasa Indonesia Siswa Kelas V SD Negeri 010 Beringin Jaya

GERAM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Eny Asriani
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Learning Problem ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Fifth Grade Students ◽  
Jigsaw Method

The author discussed the Indonesian language learning problem by incorporating the cooperative type jigsaw method in the teaching and learning process. The purpose of this study was to improve the learning outcomes of fifth-grade students at Beringin Jaya Elementary School using the jigsaw cooperative method. This research was conducted on the fifth-grade students of SDN 010 Beringin Jaya, with a total number of 20 students consisting of 12 female students and 8 male students. This research was conducted in 2 cycles starting from the end of March to May 2016. The results of the study showed that each cycle of teacher activity increased. It is seen that the teacher activity score in the first cycle got a score of 19 in the good category, and in the second cycle got a score of 23 categorized very well. Student activities from activities, in the first cycle, got a score of 20 categorized very well, and in the second cycle got a score of 22 very good categories. Additionally, the improvement of student learning outcomes was seen clearly, in the first cycle was 83.33%, while in the second cycle 91.66% of students completed. Thus, the use of the jigsaw cooperative method in Indonesian language learning can improve the learning outcomes of fifth-grade students of SDN 010 Beringin Jaya.

scholarly journals Do Black Lives Matter in Japan?: Teaching Race in EFL

2020 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Michael Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
The World ◽  
Variable Success ◽  
Materials Used

Politically polarizing issues are generally avoided in ELT materials. However, as political divides grow wider around the world, it is the responsibility of teachers to tackle these tough topics and inform their students about them. In this study, I conducted a 2-month unit on American slavery for Japanese high school EFL learners (N = 31). The goal was to impart to students the historical knowledge necessary to understand race relations in America today and then apply those lessons to their own lives. The film Twelve Years a Slave (McQueen, 2013), the accompanying graded reader (Rollason, 2014) and a teacher-made workbook were the main materials used. Each step of the unit is introduced and student learning outcomes are analyzed. Test results and response papers indicated that students were largely able to acquire the target language and understand the text but had variable success in comprehending the themes and deeper concepts of the unit. 政治的に意見の分かれる題材は、一般的に英語教授法の教材としては避けられてきた。しかし、政治的分断が世界で広がる中、教師が生徒にそれらの難しい題材を提示し、考えさせることは教師の責務であるといえる。本論では、日本人高校生の英語学習者（N=31）に対して、米国の奴隷制度について2ヵ月間の授業を実施した。目的は、米国における人種間の関係性を理解するために必要な歴史的知識を生徒に伝え、そこから得られた教訓を生徒自身が活かすことができるようにすることである。映画『それでも夜は明ける』(McQueen, 2013)、その関連の段階別リーダー本（Rollason, 2014)、教師作成のワークブックを主な教材として使用した。授業の各段階を紹介し、学習成果を分析する。試験結果と感想文からは多くの生徒が目的言語を習得し、文章を理解することができたが、授業の主題とより深いコンセプトの理解についてはばらつきがあることが示された。

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