scholarly journals A Narrative Case Study of Chinese Senior High School English Teachers’ Emotions: An Ecological Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Sun ◽  
Liu Yang

Teacher emotion research is of great significance to teachers’ teaching effectiveness, professional development, and physical and mental health. Taken from an ecological perspective, this narrative case study used purposeful sampling to select two Chinese senior high school English teachers as research participants. Various data collection methods were used, including narrative framework, teacher interview and teacher reflection log, to describe the emotional episodes of Chinese senior high school English teachers before and after collective lesson presentation, trial teaching, and formal teaching in a teaching improvement project. The purpose of this collection of data was to explore the dynamic emotional development process and characteristics of Chinese senior high school English teachers in the interaction with ecological systems and those ecological factors that may influence their emotional development. Results indicated that the two participants developed 68 emotions: 39 positive and 29 negative emotions. At exosystem, they developed the most emotions (28 emotions). Teacher emotion changed with time quite obviously. They evolved from positive to negative and, finally, predominantly positive. Personal antecedents, contextual antecedents, and teachers’ emotional capacity are the main ecological factors that may influence the development of teacher emotion. Based on the research findings, implications for teachers’ professional development and teacher education were also provided.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 564-570
Author(s):  
Saima Maulana ◽  
BAI DONNA ALIMAN ◽  
ZAIDA ULANGKAYA

This study sought to determine the Senior High School English teachers’ teaching practices in terms of punctuality, attendance and its relationship to students’ academic performance. Specifically, it determined the Senior High School English Teachers’ level of punctuality and attendance; the Senior High School Students’ level of academic performance in English; and the significant relationships of the teachers’ level of punctuality and attendance and their Senior High students’ level of performance in English. The study used the descriptive-correlational survey method. The respondents of the study were the twenty four (24) teachers of the twelve (12) senior high schools of Maguindanao, Philippines. There were two (2) Senior High English teachers that were chosen randomly from each senior high schools of Maguindanao. It has a total of twenty-four (24) Senior High English Teachers. In every teacher, there are 10 senior high school students chosen randomly with a total of two hundred forty (240) senior high school students. The immediate supervisors of the teachers from the twelve (12) secondary schools answered the research problem number 1, while the final grades in English of the two hundred forty (240) senior high students were taken from their English teachers to answer the research problem number 2. The respondents of this study were chosen randomly using lottery. Pearson’s Product - Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to determine the significant relationship of the level of punctuality and attendance of the English teachers to the students’ level of academic performance. Based on the findings of the study, it is concluded that the Senior High School English Teachers’ level of teaching practices is influenced by their punctuality and attendance. It further concluded that teachers’ punctuality and attendance contributed to students’ level of academic performance in English.   Keywords: Senior High School English Teachers, Punctuality, Attendance, Students’ Academic Performance


2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Ihsan Nur Iman Faris

AbstractCultural contents contained in reading passages need to be treated carefully due to their influence to shapethe readers’ points of view. Since a test can include reading passages, careful selection of reading passages should also be conducted in a test development. This research is aimed at investigating what cultures are contained in the reading passages of the tests developed by the English teachers in a senior high school and the reasons why the reading passages were included. The methods employed in this research were textual analysis and case study. The data for textual analysis were collected from 24 reading passages from the tests developed by the English teachers of a senior high school in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia. The information related to the problems of inclusion of cultural contents in the tests was collected from an interview. Among 24 reading passages in the tests, 10 reading passages were culture-neutral, while 14 reading passages contained cultural items.The findings show that in 14 reading passages, the culture contained are the target culture (40%) in the forms of naming, place, and season, the international culture (40%) in the forms of naming, place, and season,and the source culture (20%) in the forms of naming and place. Theunbalance proportion of the source culture can influence the readers’ mindset and the result of the test due to familiarity issue of the materials. Regarding why this proportion is found in the tests, the teachers were not aware of the cultural content issue. Therefore, the proportion was not intentionally made. The unawareness of teacher can lead to the inclusion of inappropriate cultural contents in the tests. Hence, based on the findings, it is recommended that teachers be more aware of cultural contents in reading passages and develop a test with a more balance proportion of cultural contents in reading passages.Keywords: Cultural contents, the source culture, the target culture, the international culture, reading passages. AbstrakIsi budaya yang terkandung dalam wacana harus diperlakukan dengan hati-hati karena bisa mempengaruhi sudut pandang pembaca. Dikarenakan tes mencakup wacana, pemilihan wacana secara hati-hati juga harus dilakukan dalam pengembangan tes. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyelidiki budaya apa yang terkandung dalam wacana-wacana di dalam tes yang dikembangkan oleh guru bahasa Inggris di SMA dan alasan mengapa wacana tersebut dimasukkan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis tekstual dan studi kasus. Data untuk analisis tekstual dikumpulkan dari 24 wacana dari tes yang dikembangkan oleh guru bahasa Inggris dari SMA di Cianjur, Jawa Barat, Indonesia. Informasi yang berhubungan dengan masalah masuknya isi budaya dalam tes dikumpulkan dari wawancara. Di antara 24 wacana tes, 10 wacana netral dari budaya, sementara 14 mengandung temuan budaya. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa dari 14 wacana, budaya yang terkandung adalah budaya target (40%) dalam bentuk penamaan, tempat, dan musim, budaya internasional (40%) dalam bentuk penamaan, tempat, dan musim, dan budaya sumber (20%) dalam bentuk penamaan dan tempat. Proporsi budaya yang tidak imbang dapat mempengaruhi pola pikir pembaca dan hasil tes karena berkaitan dengan tingkat pengetahuan terhadap materi. Mengenai mengapa proporsi ini ditemukan dalam tes, guru tidak menyadari masalah konten budaya. Oleh karena itu, proporsi tidak sengaja dibuat. Ketidaksadaran guru dapat menyebabkan masuknya isi budaya yang tidak pantas ke dalam tes. Oleh karena itu, berdasarkan temuan, disarankan bahwa guru menjadi lebih sadar akan isi budaya dalam wacana dan mengembangkan tes dengan menjaga keseimbangan proporsi isi budaya dalam wacana.Kata kunci: Isi budaya, budaya sumber, budaya target, budaya internasional, wacana.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-439
Author(s):  
Adaninggar Septi Subekti

This article reports a community service activity conducted to give training to Senior High School English teachers in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on academic writing, especially on formulating research questions of their Classroom Action Research (CAR). The training was a part of series of training conducted by the lecturers of the English Language Education Department of Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana (UKDW) at regular Senior High School Teacher Professional Development Forum (MGMP) meetings. It was conducted to answer the teachers’ needs to conduct educational research for their professional development and career advancement as regulated by the government. The training on formulating research questions in CAR was divided into two sessions. The first session was lecture session in which relevant theories, practical suggestions, and examples regarding research questions were presented to the participants. This session, despite resource-person-led, could be interrupted with immediate questions from the teacher participants, allowing a more dynamic discussion. The second session was workshop session in which the participants practiced formulating research questions based on their respective teaching contexts with a close guidance from the resource person. Based on a reflective evaluation on the training, several conclusions on what had gone well and what needed to be improved are also presented along with several suggestions regarding possible follow-up trainings in the future.


Author(s):  
Usep Syaripudin ◽  
Siti Aisyah

This research observed and analyzed the implementation of character education in English classrooms. It sought to find out how English teachers develop and select materials and strategies for implementing character education in their classroom, how the English teachers implement and integrate character education in their classroom, and what factors the teachers found to be the inhibiting and supporting system for implementing character education in their school. Three teachers from three schools – a public vocational school, a public senior high school, and a religious-based public high school – participated in this research as the respondents. The purpose of involving three different type of schools was that this research needed to observe the implementation of character education in three different settings. By implementing multiple case study, this research gathered data through interview and observation. This research found that teachers in the two schools – vocational and senior high school – begun the implementation of character education by developing a plan consisted of what character they need to develop and what materials that triggered students’ interest. Moreover, this research also found that the two schools share similar strategies in implementing character education as follows: using authentic materials, verbal instructions, and cultural approach. Meanwhile, in the religious-based senior high school, the teacher did not specifically develop and select materials intended to implement character education since the school had already subjects and extracurricular programs in religion teaching and intended to develop students’ character. Lastly, this research found that the three schools share similar supporting and inhibiting factors in implementing character education namely lack of good examples in school, family, and community, lack of partnership between school, parents, and community member, and lack of commitment among the school community members to support the character education in school. And the supporting system they had were that the schools had already developed code of conducts, rules, and extracurricular programs intended to develop students’ character.


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