scholarly journals A Washback Study on Portfolio Assessment

ELT in Focus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
Putri Kamalia Hakim ◽  
Mansyur Srisudarso
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Alternative Assessments ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Learning English

The latest developments in the field of learning English as a foreign language have encouraged language teachers to use more authentic and realistic assessments. This situation makes portfolios as alternative assessments increasingly popular. As the popularity of the portfolio grows, questions among assessment developers have also arisen. They question whether the portfolio really is a proper assessment. In this study, the researcher investigated the wash-back effect of portfolio-based assessment. She observed the instructional process in a translation and a writing class to see how the two types of portfolios were used. This qualitative analysis study also studies by triangulating the data with the support of data from interviews and questionnaires. Researcher then classified the opinions and reflections of students and lecturers obtained from the interview and questionnaire responses. The findings suggest the use of a portfolio is indeed appropriate for use in writing and translating subjects. Portfolio-based assessments generate positive washback effect on the learning process.

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES OF VERBS IN ENGLISH AND ALBANIAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 2245-2249
Author(s):  
Suzana Ejupi ◽  
Lindita Skenderi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Grammatical Categories ◽  
Learning English

Working with English learners for many years, gives you the opportunity to encounter linguistic obstacles that they face while learning English language as a foreign language. Additionally, teaching for 13 years and observing the learning process, it enables you to recognize the students’ needs and at the same time, detect linguistic mistakes that they make, while practicing the target language. During my experience as a teacher, in terms of teaching and learning verbs in general and its grammatical categories in specific, it is noticed that Albanian learners find it relatively difficult the correct use of verbs in context and even more confusing the equivalent use of verbs in Albanian. Since verbs present an important part of speech, this study aims to investigate several differences and similarities between grammatical categories of verbs in English and Albanian. As a result, the Albanian learners of English language will be able to identify some of the major differences and similarities between the grammatical categories of verbs in English and Albanian; overcome the usual mistakes; gain the necessary knowledge regarding verbs and use them properly in English and Albanian.

scholarly journals ՎԱՐԺՈՒԹՅՈՒՆՆԵՐԻ ԿԻՐԱՌՈՒՄԸ ԱՆԳԼԵՐԵՆԻ՝ ՈՐՊԵՍ 3-ՐԴ ՕՏԱՐ ԼԵԶՎԻ ՈՒՍՈՒՑՄԱՆ ԳՈՐԾԸՆԹԱՑՈՒՄ / USE OF EXERCISES IN TEACHING/LEARNING ENGLISH AS A THIRD FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-127
Author(s):  
SIRANUSH GHAZARYAN
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Negative Interference ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Learning English

The article touches upon the problems of teaching English as a third foreign language in higher educational institutions of the Republic of Armenia. The students’ mother tongue, in this case, is Armenian. Russian is the first foreign language and French is the second one. Considering the fact that the students’ 2nd (French) and 3rd (English) foreign languages have significant similarities that can cause both positive transfer and negative interference, the teaching/learning process of English should be organized by paying special attention to the similarities and taking into account certain peculiarities. Accordingly, the use of correctly selected exercises can help in organizing the teaching/learning process more quickly and effectively. The author also introduces some “dangerous” language phenomena that may bring about undesirable interference in learning English after French. In addition, a number of exercise samples are provided that might be used to develop the students’ lexical, grammatical and phonological competences in teaching/learning English as a third foreign language.

scholarly journals Utilizing Robotics for Learning English as a Foreign Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 01013
Author(s):  
Dimitris Ziouzios ◽  
Antonios Chatzisavvas ◽  
Akrivi Chaschatzi ◽  
Nikolaos Baras ◽  
Tharrenos Bratitsis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Educational Robotics ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Learning English

In recent years, Information and communications technology (ICT) has become a fundamental element of almost all aspects of formal and non-formal education. Educational Robotics (ER) as an ICT subfield has triggered many studies of ER educational utilization as the training of a new foreign language. This paper aims at highlighting another perspective of knowledge, utilizing the ER for learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). It presents educational scenarios explaining how the robot can be involved in the learning process.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Perception of Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom

EL LE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Cucinotta
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Classroom Climate ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Motivational Strategies ◽  
Language Classroom

Motivation can determine success or failure in second language learning process, however there is a limited number of published investigations dedicated to motivational strategies in a European context. The purpose of the present study is to replicate Cheng’s and Dörnyei’s (2007) research to test the validity of their findings in a different cultural milieu. 101 foreign language (FL) and second language (L2) teachers were asked to rate a list of 47 motivational strategies according based on the degree of importance they perceived. In addition, they were also invited to specify how they acquainted with each strategy. The results of the study suggest that, even though the use of motivational strategies is decidedly context-dependent, the prevailing importance of some strategies might be cross-cultural. In particular, strategies related to classroom climate could also be considered as preconditions to employ further strategies. The highest-rated strategies are also indicated as acquired mostly through experience, which highlights the far too little attention that motivational strategies have so far received in education programmes for the formation of language teachers.

scholarly journals Collaborative tasks and learning occasions in English as a foreign language

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 837-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marília dos Santos Lima
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Dialogue ◽  
Learning English

The study reported here forms part of a program of qualitative research focusing on the use of collaborative tasks in learning English as a foreign language in Brazil. The research examines the concept of collaborative dialogue (SWAIN, 2000), understood as dialogue that constructs linguistic knowledge within a sociocultural view of language learning. The results indicated that the learners reflected upon the target language, tested hypotheses and reformulated their production in order to promote mutual comprehension in the learning process. The results also revealed that the interaction established during the production of the collaborative dialogue stimulated foreign language learning as the students noticed linguistic gaps in the target language, and sought solutions together.

scholarly journals A Classroom-Based Assessment of EFL Academic Essay Writing Class: Who Gets the Benefits?

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Asri Purnamasari
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Teacher Trainees ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
English Language Teachers

Classroom-based assessment (CBA) has been implemented globally at many levels of educational system such as in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Singapore, as well as in Africa. In Indonesia, CBA might effectively be implemented in all stages of education since this way of assessment offers improvement in the teaching and learning process. This essay explores the design and implementation of CBA, which focuses on academic EFL essay writing for teacher trainees in Indonesia. Based on my reflection on taking English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Academic Essay Writing class, I found that applying a classroom-based assessment could give two benefits. The first is for the improvement of the teaching and learning process in order to reach the study objectives. The second is to facilitate the study program for creating qualified and competent English language teachers in the area of producing competent academic essay writings.

scholarly journals How do foreign language teachers motivate students in language learning?

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
Diana S Rahman ◽  
Wening Sahayu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Visual Method ◽  
Intrinsic And Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Instrumental Motivation

Motivation is one of the keys to success in the language learning process. It is a crucial factor for students in learning a foreign language, and the teachers’ ways to motivate students are also essential. This study aims to investigate language teachers’ ways in motivating students in learning foreign languages. The participants in this study are eight foreign language teachers including English, Arabic, and French teachers. Data were collected through open-ended questionnaires with the teachers. The results of this study showed that most of the foreign language teachers motivated the students in learning a foreign language by sentences (verbal) and this method encouraged students’ instrumental motivation. Next, referring to the time of motivation, four teachers motivated the students at the beginning of each learning process, meanwhile three teachers gave motivations at the beginning and at the end of each learning process. Finally, referring to the types of motivation, only two teachers (i.e. French teachers) could identify motivation types of learners, which are in the form of internal, external, intrinsic, and extrinsic motivation. Meanwhile, other teachers (i.e. English and Arabic teachers), did not mention specifically the names of the motivation types that they knew. To conclude, most of the teachers of this study did not motivate their students maximally in the classrooms. Consequently, this study offers some methods to motivate learners in learning foreign languages, those are the Verbal Method (VM1) and the Visual Method (VM2), and they are further discussed in the paper.

scholarly journals AL-KHUDHU' 'ALA MABDA`I AT-TA`ADDUBI FI ISTIRATIJIYYATI AT-TAWASHULI LADAI AL-MU'ALLIMAH ATSNA`A TA'LIMI AL-LUHGAH AL-'ARABIYYAH FI MA'HAD "AL-MUNAWWARAH" BI JOMBANG

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Lailatul Qomariyah ◽  
Akhmad Sauqi Ahya
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Declarative Sentence ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Interactive Model ◽  
Teaching Learning

This research examines the obediencepoliteness strategies in the teaching learning process.The study focuses on obediencepoliteness strategies in the teaching learning process of Arabic class at Islamic Boarding School in Al Munawaroh. This research is conducted by qualitative case approach. The data of this research is the speech acts of teacher. The data collected is taken from recording observation and interview and is analyzed by interactive model analysis.The findings consist of the obediencepoliteness strategies in the teaching learning process of Arabic class at Islamic Boarding School in Al Munawaroh with two strategies. A direct strategy is used to express functions of: commanding with fiil amar, advising with isim fiil amar "لابد"  dan "عليك", forbidding with لاالناهية+فعل مضارع. A indirect strategy is used to express functions of: commanding with declarative sentence, and forbidding with imperative sentence. With this study, it is expected that The foreign language teachers prefer to use direct strategies rather than indirectly to make meaningful learning.تناول هذا البحث موضوع الخضوع على مبدأ التأدب في استراتيجية التواصل لدى المعلمة أثناء تعليم اللغة العربية. ويستهدف هذا البحث الكشف عن استراتيجية التواصل لدى المعلمة الخضوع على مبدأ التأدب في معهد "المنورة. والمدخل في هذا البحث هو المدخل النوعي بدراسة الحالة المتعددة. والبيانات لهذا البحث هي الأفعال الكلامية لدى المعلمة. وجمعتها الباحثة من ملاحظة بالتوثيق والمقابلة. وحللتها بطريقة الطراز التفاعلي (Interactive Model). والنتائج لهذا البحث هي: 1)الخضوع على مبدأ التأدب في استراتيجية التواصل لدى المعلمة في التفاعل الصفي أثناء تعليم اللغة العربية هو استراتيجية مباشرة وغير مباشرة. واستخدام الاستراتيجية المباشرة بثلاث وظائف وهي: (أ) الأمر بصيغة فعل الأمر، (ب) النصيحة بصيغة اسم فعل الأمر "لابد" و "عليك"، (ج) النهي بصيغة لا الناهية+فعل مضارع؛ واستخدام استراتيجية غير مباشرة لها بوظيفتين (أ) الأمر بصيغة الخبر؛ (ب) النهي بصيغة فعل الأمر. ومن أهم توصيات الدراسة هي لابد للمعلم أن يستخدم استراتيجية مباشرة وغير مباشرة موافقة بسياق التعليمية. إن معلمي اللغة الأجنبية يفضلون أسلوب التوجيه المباشر من الأسلوب غير المباشر لجعل هذه العملية التعليمية التعليم ذي المعنى.

scholarly journals ENCOURAGING STUDENTS TO HAVE POSITIVE ATTITUDES TOWARD LEARNING ENGLISH

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismail Sangkala
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Attitudes Toward Learning ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Learning Language ◽  
Learning English

In foreign Language learning context, there are various factors that influence the learning process such as motivation, attitudes, anxiety, learning achievements, aptitudes, intelligence, age, personalities, etc. The matter of learner’s attitude is acknowledged as one of the most important factors that impact on learning language. This study looks into the concept of attitude as one of the major affective factors for success in learning a foreign language.

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