scholarly journals Motivating Role of Assessment and Feedback in Teaching English to Students of Non-Linguistic Specialties

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-148
Author(s):  
Kseniya S. Potovskaya ◽  
Kseniya A. Sekret
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Opinion Poll ◽  
State University ◽  
English Classes ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Feedback Strategies

This article presents a study of the motivating role of feedback and assessment in language learning. Within the framework of our research, we surveyed psychological peculiarities of students and their attitude to errors and learning process depending on the feedback strategy applied by the teacher. We also explored types and ways of expressing feedback as well as correction and assessment functions. In order to obtain students’ insights into the motivating role of feedback and to ascertain their preferences for correction, we conducted an opinion poll in a target group of English learners consisting of 150 1-st and 2-nd year students of the Sevastopol State University. The respondents answered based on their personal experience of communication with the teaching staff of the university. The survey showed that the feedback received in the learning environment during English classes strongly affects the level of students’ motivation, but at the same time the majority of students are not afraid of making mistakes as they consider them to be the main factor in their personal and professional development. The study results might help teachers to choose more effective corrective feedback strategies that work best for their students.

scholarly journals Frequent Errors in Consonant Sound Production of Elementary Education Teachers at Visayas State University

E-Structural ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Precious C Domingo
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Sound Production ◽  
State University ◽  
Place Of Articulation ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Nasal Consonant ◽  
Consonant Sounds

Abstract. Pronunciation is essential in language learning; thus, English learners as a second language should strive for articulateness in sound patterns in English. This study aimed to determine the commonly mispronounced consonant sound of the Bachelor of Elementary Education students of the Visayas State University according to the manner and place of articulation. The instrument used in the study is the Golden-Fristoe Test of Articulation, which is composed of 44 words containing the different consonant sounds in English. The study results revealed that most consonant sounds misarticulated by the respondents were fricatives /z/, the nasal consonant sound /m/, the fricative sound /ð/, the affricate /dz/. With respect to the place of articulation, most consonant sounds misarticulated by the respondents concerning the place of articulation were alveolar /z/, the velar consonant sound /m/, the interdental sound /ð/, the post-alveolar /dz/. With these results, it is expected for the Filipino English language teachers to focus on teaching the alveolar and labiodental fricatives in teaching the consonant sounds because most students failed to articulate these sounds correctly.Keywords: English language, consonant sounds, pronunciationAbstrak.  Pelafalan sangat penting dalam pembelajaran bahasa. Oleh karena itu, pelajar bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa kedua harus berusaha keras untuk mengartikulasikan pola bunyi dalam bahasa Inggris. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bunyi konsonan yang sering salah diucapkan pada mahasiswa S1 Pendidikan Dasar Universitas Negeri Visayas menurut cara dan tempat artikulasi. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Golden-Fristoe Test of Articulation, yang terdiri atas 44 kata yang berisi bunyi konsonan yang berbeda dalam bahasa Inggris. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa bunyi konsonan yang paling banyak salah artikulasi oleh responden adalah bunyi konsonan / z /, bunyi konsonan nasal / m /, bunyi frikatif / ð /, afrikat / dz /. Sehubungan dengan tempat artikulasi, sebagian besar bunyi konsonan yang salah diartikulasikan oleh responden mengenai tempat artikulasi adalah alveolar / z /, bunyi konsonan velar / m /, bunyi interdental / ð /, post-alveolar / dz /. Dengan hasil tersebut diharapkan para pengajar bahasa Inggris Filipina dapat fokus dalam mengajarkan frikatif alveolar dan labiodental dalam mengajarkan bunyi konsonan karena sebagian besar siswa gagal mengucapkan bunyi tersebut dengan benar. Kata kunci: bahasa Inggris, bunyi konsonan, pelafalan

The role of second language in higher education: A case study of German students at a Dutch university

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidy Zijlmans ◽  
Anneke Neijt ◽  
Roeland van Hout
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Main Language

AbstractThis article reports on an investigation of the challenges and benefits of university students taking a degree course in a language other than their mother tongue. Our study was conducted from the point of view of the non-native students themselves, and our primary concern was the role of language. We investigated the academic achievement of German students studying in a Dutch-English academic environment. Dutch is the main language of instruction, and English the main language of the literature used. In search of predictors for successful learning of Dutch (our first research question), LexTALE tests were administered to determine linguistic competence in the students’ first language, German, and their second language, English. In addition, we collected data on their educational background and language learning history. None of the LexTALE scores stood out as ‘the’ predictor for success in learning Dutch; German was a slightly better predictor than English. The best predictor appeared to be the students’ general educational level, expressed in mean grades for final exams in secondary education. We then studied the role of proficiency in the foreign languages needed for academic success. Language data on L3 Dutch were gathered at the start and were compared to study results after the first six months and at the end of the first year. The level of Dutch as a second language correlated with study results, expressed in ECTS; the correlation was even higher with mean grades on exams. This indicates that language proficiency does play a role in study success.

scholarly journals Development of cooperation in Belarus and formation of personnel potential of the Belarusian State University in the 1920s

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Siarhei M. Khodzin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
State University ◽  
Scientific Schools ◽  
The Status ◽  
The University ◽  
University Science

The relevance of the problems of cooperative construction in the formation of Belarusian scientific schools is determined. The role of the Belarusian State University in the development of problems of cooperation in the 1920s is characterised. The activity of S. L. Pevsner as a representative of the economic thought of the 1920s is studied. In the perspective of «history through personality», the problems of the formation of the personnel potential of Belarusian State University are revealed. The relations between the management and the teaching staff of the university, the status and issues of material well-being of teachers invited to Belarusian State University are characterised. The conclusion is made about a significant personnel shortage and the presence of serious competition in the personnel sphere of university science in the 1920s with the development of higher education in the USSR.

scholarly journals The Effect of Teacher’s Corrective Feedback Through Online Conferencing on Elementary Students’ English-Speaking Confidence

STEM Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-77
Author(s):  
Yun Hui Jo ◽  
Yun Joo Park
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Students ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Target Language ◽  
English Classes ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Conversational Interactions ◽  
Speaking Confidence ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Teacher Data

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of teacher's corrective feedback through online conferencing on elementary students' English-speaking confidence. This study was conducted for 4 months from August to December 2020. There were 6 participants, aged 8 to 13 enrolled in a private education institute where they attended English classes using mobile devices. During this case study, the students were asked to use English, learners’ target language when interacting with their teacher. When learners struggled to understand the teacher’s English instructions, the teacher guided them in Korean. All the classes were video-recorded and transcribed by the teacher. Data were analyzed in order to examine the progress of participants’ voluntary English production stimulated by having conversational interactions with the teacher. The findings were as follows. First, participants’ anxiety level was high in the beginning. Second, they were able to speak English words, give their opinions in English, and join the conversation in English with the teacher. Lastly, feedback from the teacher through conversational interactions helped learners understand how to speak in English better and build up confidence. As a result, it is necessary to interact with the teachers and peers using learners’ target language to improve English communication skills.

scholarly journals The Motivation of University Students of International Relations to Learn English

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Zarina Markova ◽  
Dessislava Yaneva
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
L2 Motivational Self System ◽  
Language Learning Motivation ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Motivational Profile ◽  
Ideal L2 Self

This article reports on the findings of a study investigating the motivation of Bulgarian undergraduates of International Relations to learn English as a second language (L2). First, we consider language learning motivation in the context of three influential theoretical developments in research on motivation. Then, we report on a small-scale survey aiming to define the motivational profile of students of International Relations through the lens of the L2 Motivational Self System. The analysis of the survey data reveals similarities with findings of previous research as regards the favourable attitude towards English language learning, the prominent role of the ideal L2 self in the motivational pattern, and some doubt over the relation between the ought-to L2 self and the intended learning effort. The study results also indicate relations between travel orientation and the ought-to L2 self, and between the two types of instrumental motivation which have not been reported in previous research. These motivation peculiarities are explained through the specifics of the surveyed group that refer to students’ aspirations and potential careers in international relations.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Corrective Feedback Strategies in Assessing Essay Writing

2018 ◽  
pp. 208-212
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Error Correction ◽  
English Language ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Esl Teachers ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Written Corrective Feedback ◽  
Feedback Strategies ◽  
English Language Teachers

Feedback has been an important topic of discussion in language learning. Although research on written corrective feedback is available, there is little research on the specific strategies employed by teachers in order to provide feedback on their students’ essay writing. This paper reports part of a larger research. One of the objectives of this study was to explore corrective feedback strategies employed by the English as a second language (ESL) teachers and English language expert raters when assessing their students’ written essays. This study used qualitative case study which involved 12 participants. Data were collected through interviewing nine English language teachers and three English language expert raters to obtain their pedagogic practices in providing written corrective feedback. The strategies identified are based on Ellis’s typology of strategies for providing written corrective feedback. The findings showed that the preferred written corrective feedback strategy used by the teachers and raters was Metalinguistic Corrective Feedback with Direct Corrective Feedback and Focused Corrective Feedback used by only a few of them. This study has pedagogical implications in that it explains the ESL teachers/expert raters’ pedagogical attitude and practices towards error correction and their preferred written corrective feedback strategies in dealing with error correction.

Acts of Identity: Typical and New English Learners

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Laurel Kamada
Keyword(s):  
English Learners ◽  
English Learning ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Japanese Children ◽  
Cultural Symbol ◽  
English Classes ◽  
Japanese Learners ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Double Minority

This plenary explores the notion of ‘English as an ideology’ in Japan rather than just as a means of communication or a school subject, where local English usagefunctions as a cultural symbol of globalization. Emerging notions of English learning/usage in Japan as acts of identity highlight the changing role of English. I examine the construction and deconstruction of English, not only of typical Japanese learners/users of English, but also of a new growing sector of atypical Japanese nationals from families of mixed-parentage (Japanese and non-Japanese) who stake claim to diverse ethnicities. How do half/double (minority Japanese) perform “acts of Englishing” whileresisting, altering or celebrating their multiethnic, multilinguistic identities? What ideologies/stereotypes do typical (majority Japanese) children take to elementary school English classes with them? How do they construct/perform identities of themselves as Japanese, and images of non-Japanese-looking people in Japan? 本講演では、単なるコミュニケーションの手段や学校の教科としての英語というよりは、日本における「イデオロギーとしての英語」の概念について検討する。というのは、日本における英語の使用は、グローバリゼーションの文化的な象徴として機能しているからである。最近、日本では、英語の学習や使用は、acts of identity (アイデンティティー活動)という概念として把握されつつあるが、これは英語の役割が変わってきていることを浮き彫りにしている。私はここで、「典型的な」日本人の英語学習者・使用者だけでなく、最近その数が増加している「非典型的な」（日本人と非日本人の）多様な民族の特徴を持つ両親の下で育った日本国籍保持者による英語の構築と脱構築について検討する。（少数派の日本人である）「ハーフ」「ダブル」は、彼らが持つ多民族や多言語のアイデンティティーに抵抗したり、修正を加えたり、あるいは享受しながら、どのようにacts of Englishing (英語の言語活動)を実践するのだろうか。「典型的な」（多数派の日本人の）子どもたちは、小学校の英語の授業に、どんなイデオロギー・ステレオタイプを持ちこむのだろうか。また、彼らは、日本人としての彼ら自身のアイデンティティーや、日本に暮らす日本人に見えない人々のイメージとしてのアイデンティティーを、どのように作り上げ、実践するのだろうか。

СOMMUNICATION COMPETENCE OF A PEDAGOGUE AS A DOMINANT VALUE: POSTMODERN CONTEXT

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
N. E. Bulankina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Teaching Staff

The problem of this article concerns the value of the communication skills and competence that has steadily risen on the Communicative Stock Exchange over the past ten years due to both global challenges of the modernity, and the current status of Russian public education development in terms of introducing culture of communication into everyday lessons. The purpose of this study is to substantiate the need for the required competence of teachers across all subjects at Regional Destination of cross-border characteristics, and to fill in the gap in the management of current professional education of a pedagogue. Scientific exposition and introduction to the problem will set out the theoretical background of technology, pedagogy and knowledge content of culture of communication and the rational for using it not just in language learning, but in all learning that is based on the ideas and principles of regional and axiological approaches to improving the methodology and scientific support of the tutorials intended for in-service teachers and teaching staff of regional consulting centers. The results of this research cover a) the constructs of the regional project the focus of which is on three main areas of supplementary techniques for doing, being and facing daily difficult situations of communication with others within the routine of the Regional Methodology Centers; b) the answer to the question of how to improve language education, both teaching and learning, spoken communication skills, understanding of text, etc; c) the tutorial practice support for the management of which the Institute Departments are responsible. This comprehensive model of the management of the Regional Methodology Centers presents a number of practical pieces of advice which have focused on the creation of the right atmosphere, both on the role of the pedagogue and the role of the most cooperative students/teachers, on the need of careful planning, timing and preparation during lessons using modern techniques (drama, project works, online and offline activities, business games, modern lesson and its criteria, etc ) for improving the presentation of activities in the regional development spaces, etc. In conclusion the article presents some ideas for further research of the possibilities of the Regional Consulting Centers in improving teachers’ presentation activities in terms of languages for special purposes in the communicative professional spaces.

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