Teaching, Learning and Education: Panacea for the Acquisition of English Language as Second-Language in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omodewu Oluwatosin Omosolape
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Teaching Learning

scholarly journals The Predictability of Iranian EFL Teachers’ Emotional Quotient (EQ) with Their Job Satisfaction

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Pantea Khoshnoodfar ◽  
Pantea Pahlavani
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Second Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Job Satisfaction ◽  
Second Language Teacher Education ◽  
Emotional Quotient ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Teaching Learning

As teacher education and teacher related issues are under the attention in the past decade in second language (L2) teaching /learning; this research investigated the predictability of Iranian EFL teachers’ emotional quotient (EQ) with their job satisfaction. To this end, 90 EFL teachers at English language institutes in Tehran province were selected as the participants. The needed data was gathered by the use of two standardized questionnaires (filled by the participants): EQ and teacher job satisfaction questionnaires. First of all, the normality of the gathered data was checked through using SPSS version 23. Then, the Spearman coefficient of correlation was used to find whether there is any relationship between the participants’ EQ and job satisfaction.  The results proved the two variables had a statistically significant and positive correlation with each other. In the next step, the researchers opted for the multiple regression analysis to achieve the research objective. The present study was a quasi-Experimental including a cause and effect design. The predictor was the independent variable (EQ) and the predicted one was the dependent variable (job satisfaction). The findings illustrated a statistically significant and positive predictability of Iranian EFL teachers’ EQ with their job satisfaction. The results of the present research would be useful for second language teacher education courses. It was proven that, since teachers’ EQ can control their job satisfaction, the findings of the present paper could be beneficial in teacher training issues and teacher education.

Phonetic Symbols in Contemporary Pronunciation Instruction

RELC Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 003368822094343
Author(s):  
Jose A Mompean ◽  
Jonás Fouz-González
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Literature ◽  
Pronunciation Instruction ◽  
Teaching Goals ◽  
Teaching Learning

This article explores the potential of phonetic symbols in pronunciation teaching/learning, with a focus on English language teaching (ELT). After a brief contextualisation of current views of pronunciation instruction in the second-language (L2) teaching literature, the paper reviews some of the potential advantages of, conditions for, and alternatives to their use together with research-based evidence. The exploration then focuses on the use of phonetic symbols for pronunciation instruction in contemporary linguistically superdiverse contexts, marked by shifting teaching goals, as well as accent varieties, ELT learner profiles, learning/teaching environments, and notions of L2 English. The discussion concludes with some suggestions as to how to use phonetic notation in contemporary ELT instruction.

scholarly journals EFFECTS OF ANXIETY IN LEARNING SECOND LANGUAGE: A STUDY ON THE PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shazia Inayat Ali, Saba Shakeel, Farheen Shakir
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
English Language ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Teaching Learning

The main purpose of the study is to investigate the causes of anxiety which effect among the students of English language at secondary level. The data has been collected from the 100 students of secondary level of public schools using a survey questionnaire comprised of 24 items. There are 18 towns in Karachi for this study; as a sample frame New town was selected. The total of particepants100 as the samples size was selected through purposive sampling group of 50 female and 50 male students from public schools. All dimensions are reliable, it is confirmed by reliability analysis. The adopted questioner grouping has been confirmed by the outcomes of the factor analysis. One sample test also shows the significant difference. At last, the regression analysis indicates a significant relationship between student language learning anxiety, classroom environment, the teacher’s role and test anxiety. The research suggests a strong intervention by the second language teachers to provide a conducive environment to the students. The teacher must try their level best to create an effective teaching learning process and the teacher training institutions should teach the strategies to reduce the test anxiety among the students.

scholarly journals Manual Didáctico En Braille Para El Aprendizaje De Inglés Básico De Los Estudiantes No Videntes De La Asociación Aprodvich De La Ciudad De Riobamba

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Luis Oswaldo Guadalupe Bravo ◽  
Marco Antonio Bravo Montenegro ◽  
Alberto Fabián Altamirano Pazmiño ◽  
Enrique Jesús Guambo Yerovi ◽  
Gabriel Isaac Orozco Yanez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
English Language ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Basic English

The objective of the present research is the elaboration and application of a didactic manual with communicative strategies to develop Basic English for students of the Provincial Association of the Visually Impaired of Chimborazo (APRODVICH). The didactic manual seeks to provide techniques and instruments that support the Teaching Learning process of a second language according to the specific needs of the group under study. It becomes a progressive and systematic teaching instrument consisting of six units that include vocabulary activities, basic structures and use of questions that were applied in the classroom with the accompaniment of the teacher. The research has a quasi-experimental, correlational, descriptive, explanatory, applicative, field and bibliographic design. The technique of direct observation was used with the application of checklists and questionnaires reviewed and endorsed by academic peers that allowed the evaluation of the knowledge acquired in students such as spelling, pronunciation and comprehension. The sample was evaluated in two instances—pre and post—and the results were tabulated, analyzed, interpreted and contrasted which determined the progress and significant development in pronunciation, use of the verb structure To-Be and whquestions of the English language in blind students.

scholarly journals The influence of teaching media in learning English language

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3/S) ◽  
pp. 208-211
Author(s):  
Saodatkhan Khodjaeva
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Teacher Needs ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Learning Language

This article is devoted to the study of the issue of teaching media in learning language. The use of mass media to teach language in authentic context represents a double challenge for language teachers. Teaching media is one of important part in delivering the subject. Especially for the students as second language learners. Teacher needs to have media as strategy to attract the students to learn English in order to reach the goal of teaching learning.

scholarly journals Assessment of Language Laboratory and Teaching and Learning of English Language Pronunciation among Undergraduate Students in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
AKPAN, FIDELA COSMAS
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Laboratory ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Teaching Learning

The study made an assessment of language laboratory and teaching and learning of English language pronunciation among undergraduate students in Nigerian tertiary institutions. In order to carry out this study, specified research objective was developed from which and used for the study. The research design for this study is an Expost Facto design. The population of this study consisted of all HND II students in Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, Ikot Ekepene in 2019/2020 academic session. The sample size for the study is 302 respondents, representing 10% of the student population. The Multi-stage sampling was used to select the respondents. The instrument was validated by two research experts. Data from the completed questionnaires was subjected to percentage analysis. The findings showed and concluded that there is significant effect of language laboratory and teaching and learning of English language pronunciation among undergraduate students in Nigerian tertiary institutions. The study recommended that, Since lecturers quality was significantly related to students’ achievement in English Language pronunciation, lecturers should possess the requisite qualifications before being recruited to teach. Furthermore, the English language lecturers should adopt better teaching strategies during the teaching-learning process.

scholarly journals Assessing the Performance of Students in Communication Skills: A Case Study of Two Public Universities in Sierra Leone

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 30-41
Author(s):  
John Dauda ◽  
Steven Sylvester Bockarie
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
English Language ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
English Textbooks ◽  
Teaching Learning

The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of students in Communication Skills in two tertiary institutions in Sierra Leone – the Eastern Technical University and the Njala University. The introduction of Communication Skills into the curriculum of teacher training institutions is viewed as a reaction to the poor performance of students in the written and spoken use of the English Language. However, the introduction of Communication Skills at tertiary institutions is yet to remedy the situation. To guide the study properly, some objectives were developed. These include; an investigation of the extent to which English is used by lecturers and students in the institutions, an examination of students' attitude towards the learning of Communication Skills, an investigation to time allocation to the teaching of the subject, and an examination of the pedagogical capabilities of the Language studies departments of both institutions with regards their personnel, teaching methodologies, and the teaching/learning resources. The result of the study revealed the following: that students speak English seldom in class and within the campus and also very seldom in their homes; that Krio and other Sierra Leonean languages are widely spoken in these institutions as does the English Language; that the credit hours allocated to the teaching of the subject is insufficient; that students find some aspects of Communication Skills Challenging; and that although both institutions have general libraries, these libraries are not very well stocked with English textbooks.

scholarly journals The language learning assessment using technology for the second language learners

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
G. Menaka ◽  
G. Sankar
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Teaching Learning

Teacher education refers to the policies and procedures designed to equip prospective teachers with knowledge, attitudes, behaviors’ and skills they require to perform their tasks effectively in the classroom, school, and wider community. The term ‘teacher training’ seems to be losing ground to ‘teacher education’. In the era of globalization, when the world is changing so fast, the teaching field is also not unaffected. The approach of second language teaching that is ELT (English language teaching) has undergone a sea change. The “drill and practice” method is now considered to be rudimentary. Now, there are electronically sophisticated machines which have entered teaching-learning setting. Machine–assisted learning or e-learning is indeed an innovation in ELT. Even students find this new way of learning a second language to be amazing. Using language games is an efficient way of learning a second language.

scholarly journals Puzzling Hybrid, Hybrid Puzzling

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Robert C Kleinsasser
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Teaching Learning

This paper further develops information from a plenary address given during the inaugural UHAMKA International Conference on English Language Teaching (ELT) and Computer assisted language learning (CALL) (UICELL 2017) in Jakarta, Indonesia, November 23, 2017. This article encourages inquiry into hybrid (blended, connected, etc.) and second language acquisition (SLA) research, teaching, and learning. Panoramic sketches survey current hybrid research and practice. Heeding Fishman and Dede’s (2016) advice, readers will be challenged to consider shifting from “educational evolution to transformation and disruption” and “investing in a robust, flexible infrastructure of people and tools” (pp. 1320-1321). Second language (L2) acquisition elements will offer potential to broaden the edges of various landscapes of L2 teaching and learning (e.g., face-to-face, online, and hybrid), while offering avenues of innovative research potential for hybrid types of investigations, in general. Readers will be enjoined to consider macro- and micro- issues where they can puzzle about the creation and development of vibrant (L2) hybrid (blended, connected, etc.) teaching, learning, and research agendas.

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