scholarly journals TURKISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS TO THEIR PERCEIVED ACHIEVEMENTS AND FAILURES IN LEARNING ENGLISH

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-173
Author(s):  
Sevgi GÖKÇE
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Public University ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Turkish University Students ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Controllable Factor ◽  
Learning English

This study aimed to look into Turkish learners’ examples of success and failure, and attributions to their perceived achievements and failures in learning English as a foreign language. Data were collected from 41 students majoring in physics, metallurgy engineering and paramedics at a public university in Turkey. An open-ended questionnaire was translated into Turkish and delivered to the students to obtain data. Research findings firstly showed that one-third of the participants did not recount an example of success or failure, which might point out learners’ lack of self-awareness and self-assessment. Furthermore, their examples of success and failure mainly were grade-oriented. This finding might display the influence of the Turkish educational system focusing on academic achievement which is primarily evaluated by exam results. Secondly, students were found to attribute both their achievements and failures to effort as an internal and controllable factor. Another important factor was found to be motivation; hence the importance of motivating university students who claimed their own responsibility for success and failure arises.

scholarly journals Advantages of authentic assessment over traditional assessment while teaching English to university students majoring in non-linguistic subjects

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-293
Author(s):  
Irina Evgenyevna Abramova ◽  
Elena Petrovna Shishmolina ◽  
Anastasia Valeryevna Ananyina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Self Assessment

The paper analyzes existing approaches to assessing the results of teaching foreign languages to the university students majoring in non-linguistic subjects with a special focus on the advantages of authentic assessment. The authors stress the state-level need to develop and implement effective assessment tools for ESL university teaching, and substantiate the effectiveness of authentic assessment for increasing students motivation to learn English. They identify advantages of authentic assessment, including a possibility to track individual students learning progress, to effectively use peer assessment and self-assessment, to focus on students performance indicators, to create a success effect, and to present actual teaching and learning results or personal development achievements in the form of presentations, projects and other tangible accomplishments. The paper describes a unified system of control, assessment and evaluation of ESL teaching and learning results, developed by Foreign Languages for Students of Humanities Department at Petrozavodsk State University (Russia) for modeling a foreign-language environment and enhancing students language socialization. The authors give a detailed account of establishing procedures for the assessment of speaking and writing skills, and analyze a didactic potential of a foreign language portfolio as one of authentic assessment tools. They come to the conclusion that peer assessment, self-assessment and other authentic assessment methods help to shift the focus from teaching to learning and create optimal conditions for student-centered education process.

scholarly journals Improving L2 Oral Accuracy and Grammatical Range Through Self-Assessment of Video Speech Drafts

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Martin Javier Caicedo Pereira ◽  
Jhonny Alexander Lozano Bermúdez ◽  
Luis Alfonso Vanegas Medina
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Scoring Rubrics ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
English Speaking

This action research study examines the effect of self-evaluation on grammatical range and grammar accuracy on the English speaking performance of 27 foreign language university and pre-university students enrolled in three different language centers, in three different cities in Colombia. Participants were asked to record themselves answering different IELTS-type tasks for four times during a 6-week period and score and reflect towards their performance using IELTS-type analytical scoring rubrics and journals. Researchers used journals to register impressions, thoughts, and judgments observed during the process. The findings led to conclude that learners highly benefit from applying self-assessment techniques using videos of their production and a language benchmark to compare with in the improvement of their oral language accuracy and grammatical range.

Learning English for Technical Purposes

2011 ◽  
pp. 169-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Dragemark
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Online Tutoring ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
Learning English

This chapter presents some research findings in the area of self assessment,obtained from the European Leonardo Project: Learning English forTechnical Purposes (LENTEC), carried out 2001–2003. In this project,upper-secondary vocational students solved problem-based learning casesin a virtual environment. The project aimed at stimulating upper-secondaryvocational school students from six different European countries to improvetheir English-language skills. It also aimed at helping foreign-languageteachers to develop their skills in online tutoring. A validation study wasundertaken and the results underscored that students need time andpractice to assess their own results. According to students and teachers, amajority of the students became more aware of their own language-learning development. The teachers in the project developed a new teacherrole where some of the responsibility for assessment moved from them to thestudents themselves. This not only motivated the students but also gave themadded time for actual language learning.

scholarly journals Rainbows amid Downpours: University Students’ Goals in Learning English during Digital Experiments

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-95
Author(s):  
Cathy Mae Dabi Toquero ◽  
Swen Joshryll C. Acebes ◽  
Jaizele B. Melitante ◽  
Nikki T. Tuble
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
State University ◽  
Authentic Assessments ◽  
Pedagogical Skills ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Implications ◽  
Learning English

University students are susceptible to the constantly shifting online milieu during the pandemic. Linguistic isolation can present more difficulties as students lack authentic social communication in classes online. This study examined the hopes and goals of university students in their English learning course during emergency remote learning. Third Year Pre-Service teachers of a state university in the Philippines served as participants in this study. Through content analysis of 28 student-responses of the English Modules, the research findings demonstrate the significance of hopes and goals of the university students in learning English during the pandemic. Amidst the digital experiments, students portray hopes and goals of developing their pedagogical skills in English and broadening their linguistic skills despite linguistic isolation. Students' goals in the course are to improve their language skills, develop in-depth knowledge in English, achieve better grades, and become effective potential teachers.   As they aim to achieve those goals amid metaphorical downpours, university students reflect on the purpose of the course to equip them for lifelong learning that may develop ethical value, morality, and sense of vocation in their chosen profession. Despite having to confront the difficulties of learning online, their hopes and aspirations spark a burning desire to engage in intellectual and linguistic battles in learning English during pandemic and post-pandemic. Academic implications include for teachers to integrate authentic assessments for experiential language learning and for students to sketch a visual career plan outlining how students may achieve their goals as future educators.

scholarly journals Analysis of Errors Made by Iraqi University Students in the Area of English Relativization System

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Abbas Naethel
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Error Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Relative Clause ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In ◽  
Learning English

This study aims at giving an account of an analysis of errors made by Iraqi university students in the area of English Relativization system. It focuses mainly on dealing with the investigation of the syntactic errors committed by Iraqi students in English relative clause. This causes a major problem for university students learning English as a foreign language. This comes from the students' interlingual and intralingual strategies. This also indicates that the university students seem to depend on the target language (TL) system rather than on that of the native language (NL). The technique used is an error analysis which Wilkins (1972) highlights its value in giving "greater understandings of the difficulties that learners face, and will perhaps assist in the development of pedagogic strategies." (p. 206). After analyzing and interpreting the errors made in the 100 students' compositions, some recommendations are given.

scholarly journals "Excuse my Misunderstanding": Using Intercultural Approach to teach English as a Foreign Language in France

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 696-709
Author(s):  
Stella Anne Achieng
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Classroom Participation ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Intercultural Experience ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
English Program

In France, the intercultural approach has been largely associated with teaching French as a Foreign language due to the multicultural and multilingual nature of the classes. There is very little research on the use of such an approach in teaching English as a Foreign language. This is due to the fact that the majority, if not all the students,  share a similar culture and common linguistic codes.  The intercultural experience, in that case, is encountered through the English program as presented by the teacher, who in most cases is also French. This paper examines the use of the intercultural approach in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to French learners (middle school /university students) by a foreign teacher and the consideration of social representations (stereotypes) as a strategy to develop classroom participation in verbal communication. It discusses theoretical understanding of the intercultural approach and how this approach could be used in practice by drawing examples from the teacher and the learners' experiences. Data was collected through participatory observations and questioning. The research findings will show that using social representations as a strategy in intercultural approach can be instrumental to the development of verbal communication.

University student strategies to cope with anxiety in learning English

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Joppi Rondonuwu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Private University ◽  
University Student ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Student Anxiety ◽  
North Sulawesi ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
English Major ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Learning English

This article has been prepared to report a quantitative study that revealed the strategies of students of English major and non-English major to cope with anxiety in the learning of English as a foreign language, including the description of student anxiety in learning English and strategies to cope with English learning. The respondents consisted of 173 students from English major and 173 students from non-English major of a private university in North Sulawesi Province.  The validated adapted constructs of the questionnaire, namely strategies and anxiety, were originally proposed by He and Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope respectively. The research findings showed that both English major and non-English major students had no significant difference in their strategies to cope with anxiety in learning English and in their level of anxiety in learning English. However, there were four strategies to cope with anxiety in learning English which significantly contributed to the anxiety in learning English as a foreign language.

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