scholarly journals Exploring Readiness of Teachers Toward Remote English Teaching Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Ni Luh Ayu Gunawati Karuniasih
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Teaching Context ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Readiness Level

Remote English teaching becomes a trend during the pandemic of Covid-19 outbreak. Schools in Indonesia are forced to conduct teaching and learning activity remotely during Work from Home (WFH) regulation. However, not all teachers were ready to teach virtually. This study aimed at investigating the teachers’ and students’ readiness toward remote English teaching. The subject were the English teachers at SMAN 1 Kubutambahan. An explanatory sequential mixed-method design was implemented in this research. The data were collected through an online survey and followed up with an interview. The data were collected through an online survey and analysed using Ideal Mean score analysis. The survey used a questionnaire which contain four dimensions, namely technology, innovation, people, and self-development to investigate the teachers’ and students’ readiness level.  The research finding showed that English teachers were categorized in the ready category, which means they were ready in conducting remote English teaching. The result of this research can be used as an evaluation for the teacher in order to improve their readiness level in the future.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on Perceptions of English Teachers’ Mediation Between Private University Teachers and Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Zhang ◽  
Sukwoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Private University ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Mediation Theory ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Mediation theory facilitates teachers and students to tackle the barriers in English teaching and learning process. It offers a sound systematic theoretical fort on which teachers could rely, redefines teachers’ roles and functionings in the process of learners’ cognitive development and growing self-regulations. The famous psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1978) raised notions in his ZPD theory, Feuerstein (1980) illuminates capable adults as mediators, and defined twelve main features of mediation, which has empirical study value for English teaching. Thus, through quantitative and qualitative research, this paper aims to investigate the perceptions of English teachers’ mediation between private university teachers and students, analyze and compare the similarities and differences between them. The results reveal that both teachers and students coming from the two private universities have been aware of the importance of teachers’ mediation, however, have different perceptions in the frequency of teachers’ mediation. Teachers’ actual employment on mediation is weaker than their beliefs on the importance of it.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on Perceptions of English Teachers’ Mediation Between Private University Teachers and Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Jiang Lei ◽  
Yuewu Lin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Private University ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Mediation Theory ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Mediation theory facilitates teachers and students to tackle the barriers in English teaching and learning process. It offers a sound systematic theoretical fort on which teachers could rely, redefines teachers’ roles and functionings in the process of learners’ cognitive development and growing self-regulations. The famous psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1978) raised notions in his ZPD theory, Feuerstein (1980) illuminates capable adults as mediators, and defined twelve main features of mediation, which has empirical study value for English teaching. Thus, through quantitative and qualitative research, this paper aims to investigate the perceptions of English teachers’ mediation between private university teachers and students, analyze and compare the similarities and differences between them. The results reveal that both teachers and students coming from the two private universities have been aware of the importance of teachers’ mediation, however, have different perceptions in the frequency of teachers’ mediation. Teachers’ actual employment on mediation is weaker than their beliefs on the importance of it.

scholarly journals Postmodernism Creates Innovative English Teaching Learning by Utilizing ICT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Yustin Dwi Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Education Field

Through comprehensive literature review and an examination of both Postmodernism and ICT, it is proposed that the influences of ICT have acted and continued to act to promote Postmodernism. The development of ICT is utilized by education field for teaching learning process. Many teachers and students utilize the existing of ICT as model of teaching and learning especially English. This study discussed about teachers’ belief and students’ belief in using ICT to have innovative English teaching learning. Qualitative descriptive was used in this study. The data was collected by conducting the interview. The participants were five English teachers and five students that chose randomly. The result showed that both teachers’ and students’ belief in using ICT is to make English teaching learning easier, more interesting, and effective. Keywords:Postmodernism,ICT, teachers’ belief, students’ belief

English Pragmatics in Ecuador

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 723
Author(s):  
Gerardo E. Heras Urgilés ◽  
Jean-Paul Jara Villacreces
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Research Project ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
English Curriculum

Research has revealed that developing the pragmatic ability is a key element for any second or foreign language learner. The present paper aims to shed some light on the issue of pragmatics as part of English teaching and learning in the context of Ecuador. This paper is part of a research project that will involve public high school English teachers of Cuenca, Ecuador. After extensive research, it has been found that even though pragmatics is now part of the new English curriculum in this country, research in this field of linguistics is almost nonexistent.

scholarly journals Educational Policy: Voices from Local English Teachers and Students towards National Exam in Yogyakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Laser Romios ◽  
Nindya Primandita ◽  
Novilda Angela Saragih
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
School Level ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Government

<p class="AbstractText">This study is aimed at exploring the voices of English teachers and students of a state senior high school towards the National Exam policy and its implementation in Indonesia. Several theories of psychology and language learning were applied in this study as the theoretical framework. This study used a descriptive qualitative method. The participants were chosen by purposive sampling technique. The data for this study were garnered through a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) conducted to the selected twelfth-grade students and semi-structured interviews done to two English teachers. Both data were analyzed descriptively. Upon the analysis, two paramount themes prevailed: (1) the negative response towards the implementation and accuracy of National Exam (NE) policy in Indonesia; and (2) unintended impacts of NE policy on teaching and learning activity, students’ motivation, and English Language Learning and Curriculum. This study offers information for the government as the policymaker, school leaders, teachers, and researchers to understand how the NE is implemented at the school level.</p>

scholarly journals Explorations of Beliefs about EFL Teachers’ Roles from Both Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives through Metaphor Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (29) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharihan Shawkat Azeez
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The University

Metaphor acts as a window into comprehending teachers’ experiences through providing insights into complex concepts of teaching and learning. As a result, it plays a crucial role in exploring beliefs about teachers’ roles in the teaching and learning process. To elicit ideas and beliefs which both teachers and students held about the role of English teachers, questionnaires were given to 30 teachers and 85 students in the University of Duhok, English Department. The questionnaire asked the subjects to provide their beliefs about English teachers’ roles by using a sentence completion task “An English teacher is…. because….”. Eight conceptual categories are introduced from the linguistic metaphors and example metaphors for each category are given in the results tables. The eight conceptual categories include: teacher as devotee, teacher as nurturer, teachers as provider / source of knowledge, teacher as cultural transmitter, teacher as authority, teacher as guider, teacher as a friend, and teacher as a nice beautiful soul. All participants expressed the same conceptual categories, but still they use different metaphors to express their views. An interesting feature of these results is that there are some parallel and overlaps of metaphors among different subjects. The findings of this study suggested subtle differences between students’ and teachers’ beliefs. This study will benefit teachers, curriculum designers, and researchers. Researchers may carry out comprehensive studies using metaphor as an investigating tool to better understand both students and teachers’ perceptions of the teachers’ roles. The results will help develop comprehensive and inclusive methods of teaching. Larger samples with variables such as gender, age, different locations, and proficiency of participants should be taken into consideration during future studies.

scholarly journals Improving School Climate for Better Quality Educational Management

10.32698/0182 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syahril Syahril ◽  
Hadiyanto Hadiyanto
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Educational Management ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teacher Work

School climate is a situation formed by a relationship between the principal and teachers, teachers and teachers, teachers and staffs, teachers and students or relationships among students that characterizes a school and distinguishes a school from others.  School climate might influence and determine the success of teaching and learning process at schools.  The school climate consists of at least four dimensions, namely dimension of relationship, personal growth/development, system maintenance and change, and dimension of physical environment.  Based on the studies done in several countries, school climate can be a variable influencing other variables, such as learning achievement, behavior and teacher job satisfaction, teacher work motivation, teacher morale, teacher creativity, teacher work performance, and teacher discipline. So, when the school principal wants to improve those practices, he or she has to make better school climate through common stages namely preliminary assessment, feedback, reflection and discussion, intervention, and finally reassessment.

scholarly journals The Effect of the Online and Offline Blended Teaching Mode on English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Listening Performance in a Chinese Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhong Jiang ◽  
Yingying Chen ◽  
Jiasheng Lu ◽  
Yiqing Wang
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
English Learning ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Young Learners

With the rapid development of digitalisation, multimedia and network-based communication technology, all walks of life are undergoing change and development driven by the application of the internet to conventional industries. Especially because of the outbreak of coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), English teaching and learning modes are undergoing revolutionary changes worldwide (Wong et al., 2020). Online courses and materials have become the norm for students, and combined with offline English learning activities, an online and offline blended learning mode has ultimately emerged (Graham, 2006; Whittaker, 2013). Whereas blended learning has been considered in several contexts, it has been less investigated in the field of blended English learning mode for the listening comprehension ability and emotional experiences of young learners of Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) while doing the tasks. Thus, this study focussed on the achievement and experience of Chinese EFL junior high school students during blended learning using Quizlet software as the online learning tool. This study aimed to explore the following: (1) the effect of the online and offline blended mode on the learning outcomes of students and (2) the experience of students while engaging with blended tasks in terms of their learning interest, attitude, and strategy use in English listening learning. A 4-month teaching intervention involving the online and offline blended mode was conducted in English listening classes. Adopting mixed-methods qualitative and quantitative research, this study examined the engagement process of two classes of students and analysed data from their English listening tests and follow-up in-depth interviews. The results suggested that the blended activity was conducive to enhancing the listening performance of students. Moreover, the attitudes of students toward English listening learning shifted from a relatively negative engagement to a more positive one. Meanwhile, the interest of students grew and their learning strategies became more diversified. These findings have implications for English teaching and learning activity design for young learners.

scholarly journals NEW DIMENSIONS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING “BY DOING” IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT OF EDUCATION

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Daniela Tamo ◽  
Aljula Jubani ◽  
Mimoza Gjokutaj
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Pilot Work ◽  
The One

Efforts are being made in many educational settings to find out the most effective ways of assuring quality of the teaching and learning process. In the framework of continuous reformation of the education system in Albania, many initiatives have been taken aiming at improving the quality of the teaching and learning process WHERE?? IN THE AREA OF???? . Several ambitious projects have been piloted. One of them is related to setting the teaching and learning process in a pragmatic global context. This project was piloted in some areas of Albania. It aimed at applying some new principles of teaching and learning by simultaneously setting teaching and learning in four dimensions: that of time (present, past, future), space, problems (environment, human rights, etc.) and internal. Teaching was based on the use of interactive, all inclusive techniques and strategies. As a result, the interactive profile of the teacher is strengthened and the quality of students’ learning has improved as well. This project is supported by the Institute of Global Education in Canada This article brings a picture of the impacts of this initiative, which are related with the best student outcomes, change of values and attitudes about life, new approaches for the world and the active participation in important social roles. This pilot work has led to a new objective, namely the one of establishment of a new teacher profile in the global area and of the new roles it should take in the course of both teaching and learning. Data and thoughts of teachers and students related to such findings are described in the current article. Key words: dimensions, Global Education, new pilot, principles, quality.

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