A Genre-Register Analysis of a Tourism Brochure Written by Students in an EMI University Context

2018 ◽  
pp. 246-263
Author(s):  
María del Mar Sánchez Pérez ◽  
María Enriqueta Cortés de los Ríos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Explicit Teaching ◽  
Text Genre ◽  
English Medium Instruction ◽  
Register Analysis ◽  
Specialized Texts ◽  
University Classrooms

Research conducted at university level reveals that students usually have difficulties in performing cognitive and discursive operations involved in the production of academic and specialized texts, which aggravate when these activities are developed in non-native language. The purpose of this chapter is to analyze a tourism brochure written by students in an English-Medium Instruction (EMI) higher education context from a combined genre-register approach. Particularly, it aims to examine the students' main strengths and weaknesses when writing this particular text genre. A compilation of 37 tourism brochures written in English by Spanish university students is analyzed qualitatively according to an analytic rating scale inspired by Friedl and Auer (2007). Results show that students perform better in terms of register, whereas significant deficiencies regarding genre and discourse are found. This reveals that explicit teaching of discourse and genre issues in university classrooms is necessary in order to help students produce higher-quality specialized texts.

Classcraft as a Resource to Implement Gamification in English-Medium Instruction

2022 ◽  
pp. 1033-1049
Author(s):  
Irene Rivera-Trigueros ◽  
Maria del Mar Sánchez-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
English Medium Instruction

The exponential growth of English-medium instruction (EMI) programs in higher education has driven to the search for new and innovative teaching resources and techniques to facilitate the teaching and learning of disciplinary content matter through a non-native language. During the last years, gamification has emerged as a great tool when it comes to foster students' motivation and, consequently, favour their learning. There are numerous ways of introducing gamification in the classroom and a high number of resources and tools available for teachers to design and implement gamification proposals. One of these tools is Classcraft, an online role-playing platform that allows the teacher to turn the classroom into a real role-playing scenario. This chapter will explore the benefits of including gamification—and more specifically Classcraft—for EMI in higher education. Exhaustive guidelines are described in order to serve as a base for EMI lecturers to implement gamification in their courses.

scholarly journals The training process of citation and the needs of university students

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Mª Porto Castro ◽  
Cristina Pérez Crego ◽  
Mª Josefa Mosteiro García ◽  
Álvaro Lorenzo Rey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Academic Rigor ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
University Classrooms

En la Educación Superior se requiere superar un número considerable de objetivos y tareas para alcanzar las competencias de propias de cada titulación y no todo el alumnado logra este objetivo con rigor académico, siendo el plagio un recurso utilizado en la realización de los trabajos académicos, de ahí la importancia de este fenómeno y la necesidad de tomar medidas que puedan erradicar este tipo de acciones. En este trabajo, utilizando una metodología cualitativa y a partir de las respuestas de alumnado universitario a la pregunta sobre cómo evitar el plagio se intentó  comprender la importancia que los/as estudiantes otorgan al plagio y como lo conceptualizan, a partir del análisis e interpretación de las respuestas a: qué importancia tiene el proceso formativo en citación para ellos/as, quién debe ser el responsable de esa formación, dónde y cuándo se han de realizar esas acciones formativas, cómo debe desarrollarse el proceso formativo y motivos por qué motivos esta formación es imprescindible en el haber del alumnado. Los resultados indican que el alumnado considera que una buena formación en citación se convierte en una herramienta clave de la que se debe hacer uso para evitar el plagio en las aulas universitarias. In higher education, a considerable number of objectives and tasks need to be exceeded in order to achieve the competences of each degree and not all students achieve this goal with academic rigor, being Plagiarism a resource used in academic work, hence the importance of this phenomenon and the need to take measures that can eradicate this type of action.  In this paper, using a qualitative methodology and based on the answers of university students to the question on how to avoid plagiarism, an attempt was made to understand the importance that students attach to plagiarism and how they conceptualize it, from the analysis and interpretation of the answers to: the importance of the training process in citation for them, who should be responsible for that training, where and when such training actions should be carried out, how the training process should be developed and the reasons why this training is essential to the students' lives. The results indicate that students consider that a good training in citation becomes a key tool that should be used to avoid plagiarism in university classrooms.

Classcraft as a Resource to Implement Gamification in English-Medium Instruction

2020 ◽  
pp. 356-371
Author(s):  
Irene Rivera-Trigueros ◽  
Maria del Mar Sánchez-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
English Medium Instruction

The exponential growth of English-medium instruction (EMI) programs in higher education has driven to the search for new and innovative teaching resources and techniques to facilitate the teaching and learning of disciplinary content matter through a non-native language. During the last years, gamification has emerged as a great tool when it comes to foster students' motivation and, consequently, favour their learning. There are numerous ways of introducing gamification in the classroom and a high number of resources and tools available for teachers to design and implement gamification proposals. One of these tools is Classcraft, an online role-playing platform that allows the teacher to turn the classroom into a real role-playing scenario. This chapter will explore the benefits of including gamification—and more specifically Classcraft—for EMI in higher education. Exhaustive guidelines are described in order to serve as a base for EMI lecturers to implement gamification in their courses.

Challenging the Multidimensional Conception of Perceived Person-Environment Fit

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Julian M. Etzel ◽  
Gabriel Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Substantial Proportion ◽  
Unique Variance ◽  
First Order ◽  
Person Environment Fit ◽  
Order Factor

Abstract. In the current study, we examined the viability of a multidimensional conception of perceived person-environment (P-E) fit in higher education. We introduce an optimized 12-item measure that distinguishes between four content dimensions of perceived P-E fit: interest-contents (I-C) fit, needs-supplies (N-S) fit, demands-abilities (D-A) fit, and values-culture (V-C) fit. The central aim of our study was to examine whether the relationships between different P-E fit dimensions and educational outcomes can be accounted for by a higher-order factor that captures the shared features of the four fit dimensions. Relying on a large sample of university students in Germany, we found that students distinguish between the proposed fit dimensions. The respective first-order factors shared a substantial proportion of variance and conformed to a higher-order factor model. Using a newly developed factor extension procedure, we found that the relationships between the first-order factors and most outcomes were not fully accounted for by the higher-order factor. Rather, with the exception of V-C fit, all specific P-E fit factors that represent the first-order factors’ unique variance showed reliable and theoretically plausible relationships with different outcomes. These findings support the viability of a multidimensional conceptualization of P-E fit and the validity of our adapted instrument.

ANALYSIS OF THE APPLICATION OF DISTANCE EDUCATION IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF AMAZONAS

2020 ◽  
pp. 37013-37019
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
University Education ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Education Students

No teaching method has evolved as much as distance education, in the state of Amazonas this would not be different, especially in higher education. Distance Education is a modality where the student is separated from the teacher and uses several communication technologies around all his learning. The methods used were bibliographic, documentary and quantitative. The researched environment was the capital city of Manaus and the municipality of Maués, with the application of the closed questionnaire aimed at higher education students. Our objective was to question certain nuances as their benefits and challenges for those who study Distance Education in the different locations of the State of Amazonas. The result was the realization that among its many advantages in the execution of education, time is considered the main one, and the loss of deadlines its greatest disadvantage, besides the concept of distance education is already well known by university students. Thus, it is well known that with the passing of time and with the progress of the state's modernization, distance education is gradually becoming the most practical means of teaching.

Tolerance and Control. Developing a language policy for an EMI university in Uzbekistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-237
Author(s):  
Andrew Linn ◽  
Anastasiya Bezborodova ◽  
Saida Radjabzade
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
The Other ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Language Ecology ◽  
English Only ◽  
English Medium Instruction ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

AbstractThis article presents a practical project to develop a language policy for an English-Medium-Instruction university in Uzbekistan. Although the university is de facto English-only, it presents a complex language ecology, which in turn has led to confusion and disagreement about language use on campus. The project team investigated the experience, views and attitudes of over a thousand people, including faculty, students, administrative and maintenance staff, in order to arrive at a proposed policy which would serve the whole community, based on the principle of tolerance and pragmatism. After outlining the relevant language and educational context and setting out the methods and approach of the underpinning research project, the article goes on to present the key findings. One of the striking findings was an appetite for control and regulation of language behaviours. Language policies in Higher Education invariably fall down at the implementation stage because of a lack of will to follow through on their principles and their specific guidelines. Language policy in international business on the other hand is characterised by a control stage invariably lacking in language planning in education. Uzbekistan is a polity used to control measures following from policy implementation. The article concludes by suggesting that Higher Education in Central Asia may stand a better chance of seeing through language policies around English-Medium Instruction than, for example, in northern Europe, based on the tension between tolerance on the one hand and control on the other.

The Adaptation of Young Rural Buryats to Ulan-Ude's Urban and Educational Space

Inner Asia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Anna Yur'evna Buyanova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Demographic Changes ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Capacity To Change

AbstractThis article explores the repercussions of the demographic changes currently taking place in Buryatia. In particular, it concerns the mass migration of young rural Buryats to Ulan-Ude, in search of a higher education and, eventually, better career prospects. In-depth interviews with a sample of Buryat university students are used to reveal the challenges rural incomers face in adapting to urban life, and the differing strategies they use to overcome them. As these interviews show, the success of a rural Buryat's university career depends on their capacity to change their behaviour and aspirations to fit urban cultural norms.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors among University Students in Beijing, China: An Empirical Study Based on the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 7009
Author(s):  
Jiabin Li ◽  
Xianwei Liu ◽  
Yang Zou ◽  
Yichu Deng ◽  
Meng Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
University Students ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Preventive Behaviors ◽  
Institutional Climate ◽  
Beijing China

Higher education institutions (HEIs), among other social systems, have an irreplaceable role in combating COVID-19. However, we know little about institutional and individual factors that might facilitate university students’ beliefs and behaviors toward preventive behaviors for COVID-19 within the higher education context. Our study applies an extended theory of planned behavior (TPB) model to investigate the structural relationships among the institutional climate, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control and preventive behaviors of university students and to detect the moderating impacts of perceived risk on the structural model. Data were collected from 3693 university students at 18 universities in Beijing, China through an online survey. Structural equation modeling (SEM) and multigroup analysis were performed to examine the empirical model. The results reveal that (1) the institutional climate has a significant, direct effect on preventive behaviors for COVID-19 among university students, (2) the TPB components, namely attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control, partially mediate the relationship between the institutional climate and preventive behaviors for COVID-19, and (3) perceived risk moderates several paths in the model. Theoretical and practical implications are offered, and recommendations for future research are outlined.

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