Machine Translation in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language

2022 ◽  
pp. 35-66
Author(s):  
Yue Guo
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Second Languages ◽  
Second Language Education ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Heated Debate

Due to its rapid development and increasing availability, machine translation is now being used by an increasing number of teachers and students to facilitate their teaching and learning of second languages. This has provoked heated debate over the role of machine translation in second language education among L2 educators. This chapter sets out to provide an analytical overview of the existing body of research on this topic. It is revealed that the controversy and complexity regarding the use of MT for language education are two-fold. First of all, significant differences reside between L2 educators and L2 learners in their general attitudes to, perceived usefulness of, and actual uses of machine translation. Furthermore, among L2 teachers and L2 students respectively, the views, understandings, and uses of machine translation are also divergent.

scholarly journals The Role of Grit in Students’ L2 Engagement in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Due to the rapid development of teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL), on the one hand, and the arrival of positive psychology (PP) in the process of language education, on the other hand, student engagement has been burgeoned and got a noteworthy role in the academic field. The present review attempts to investigate the relationship of grit with students’ L2 engagement, by examining both backgrounds and consequences of grit. Consequently, the effectiveness of findings for policymakers and academic experts is discussed, along with the prominence of strengthening grit in the scholastic contexts in order to cultivate character in learners and improve their prospects.

scholarly journals Perceptions Towards Integrating Desire2Learn System in EFL Teaching and Learning Processes

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Eman Abdel-Reheem Amin ◽  
Faiza Abdalla ELhussien Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Efl Teaching ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Acceptance Model

This study applied the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in investigating teachers and students’ perceptions towards integrating the D2L system to enhance EFL teaching and learning processes at the English language department, Majmaah University. Two close-ended questionnaires were designed to measure the participants’ perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitudes, and intentions to use D2L. To understand participants’ perceptions and the obstacles that may hinder their use of D2L, an interview with open-ended questions were conducted. Data from the questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS. Qualitative analysis of the interview data showed the frequencies and proportions of participants’ responses. The findings indicated that the D2L system is totally accepted by teachers and students. Few problems along with their suggested solutions were grouped, presented and discussed.

Compelled digitalization of language education: challenges of foreign language learning in the electronic environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Liudmila Vladimirovna Guseva ◽  
Evgenii Vladimirovich Plisov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Electronic Environment ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Effective Use

The article defnes the role of digital means in foreign language learning, establishes the reasons for the effective use of digital means and digital technologies, identifes challenges in mastering a foreign language in an electronic environment, as well as the prospects for the digitalization of foreign language education. When studying the issues of emergency off-campus learning organization, the results of surveys of teachers and students conducted in April 2020 at Minin University were used. image/svg+xml

Handbook of undergraduate second language education. Judith W. Rosenthal (Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2000. Pp. 400.

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-281
Author(s):  
D. Bradford Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Second Language Education ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Diverse Student Population

Judith Rosenthal has brought together a wide variety of articles on second language (L2) teaching and learning that will surely interest foreign language (FL) educators in U.S. universities who are struggling to increase or maintain enrollment in their courses or who are seeking new ideas to meet the needs and demands of an increasingly diverse student population. Rather than encourage individual language departments to continue their separate battles for survival, Rosenthal hopes to enhance the “integration” of FL programs in order “to better promote proficiency in more than one language” (p. 353). This volume clearly illustrates how teachers of various languages can collaborate and share experiences in order to find solutions to what are often very similar problems.

“A Gay Agenda”: Troubling Compulsory Heterosexuality in a South African University Classroom

2021 ◽  
pp. 0092055X2110224
Author(s):  
Dennis A. Francis
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Critical Incidents ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Compulsory Heterosexuality ◽  
Teachers And Students

Not only does teaching about gender and sexuality diversity lead to some very interesting and often emotionally evocative, pedagogical exchanges; it can also create challenging issues for teachers and students alike. This article focuses on what happens when a module that addresses compulsory heterosexuality and schooling is broached in an undergraduate sociology class. More importantly, it offers an analysis of the critical incidents and tensions that pay specific attention to how power, knowledge, and emotion feature in teaching and learning. Using antioppressive and affect theories, this article offers an analysis of how we might understand pedagogical practice, especially as it relates to addressing the power of normative heterosexuality in a university classroom. With reflections emerging from the module, I argue for more sociological theorization and analysis of the role of affect in pedagogies that seek to advance liberatory teaching and learning in the area of anti-heterosexism education.

Technology

2013 ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Rita Gravina ◽  
Helena Pereira-Raso
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning Strategies ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Social Networking Tools

Collaboration is an important aspect of how our world functions today and an element at the core of rich learning opportunities. The role of educational institutions is one that provides provoking settings so that learning is deep and sustained well beyond the classroom walls. Learners are currently in a paradigm where they are able to learn at all hours of the day; they are no longer in a framework where learning is exclusive to a classroom. Teachers and students at The Bishop Strachan School are exploring this through the various uses of teaching and learning strategies and enriching these strategies with Web 2.0 applications. This chapter will present early explorations in the school with Wiki pages, social networking tools, such as NINGs, interactive timelines, and real-time applications, such as Google apps. Each of the cases provides an authentic learning experience for students and moves the student’s work out into the world.

Going beyond Audio

2011 ◽  
pp. 37-53
Author(s):  
Tony Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Second Languages ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Second Language Education ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Rss Feeds

Podcasting presents exciting new opportunities for delivering pedagogical content, but, for effective learning, teaching second languages and their associated cultural aspects often demands the use of textual and visual components. The flexible nature of distributing information via RSS feeds allows for a variety of approaches to delivering multimedia content. This chapter begins with a discussion of some important questions that must be asked at the planning stages of any multimedia podcasting project, followed by several strategies for incorporating multimedia content into podcasts, including situations where each strategy might be appropriate and some of the pros and cons of each approach. Also discussed are some issues related to copyright, and some ways that educators can legally obtain free content to use in their podcasts. The chapter closes with a look at some unanswered questions related to the use of multimedia content in second language education.

Process, outcome and language education

1987 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Moore
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Process Writing ◽  
Common View ◽  
Group Relations

Abstract This paper explores the differences and common ground in the process writing approach and the procedural or process approaches to language teaching put forward by various British applied linguists. Although some important differences exist between the two “process approaches”, particularly in the role of research data as a basis for proposing teaching methods, they have a common view of teaching and learning. This paper argues that, despite giving some useful insights, these approaches devalue, in varying degrees, teaching, meaning and group relations. It is concluded that Australian educators would do well to be less dependent on proposals emanating from overseas and to take their own and others’ theorizing and practices more seriously.

scholarly journals Estudio Descriptivo De La Autonomía Motivacional En El Alumnado De Educación Secundaria De La Provincia De Benguela (Angola)

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
José Francisco Ferreira ◽  
María Pilar Cáceres Reche ◽  
Arturo Fuentes Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Context ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Conception Of Teaching ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive

The study of motivation has a very important role in understanding of school success. The teachers and the education of parents and tutors are the key elements that influence the motivational dynamics for student learning, which is a crucial aspect to self-regulate the learning process in a positive way. This research aims to analyze the influence of the school context on the development of the motivational autonomy of Secondary Education students in the municipality of Baía Farta, Benguela province, Angola. For this purpose, a quantitative descriptive methodology was developed through a Likert scale questionnaire administered to teachers and students. The total sample of the study consisted of 650 students (60.1% men and 39.9% women) and 72 teachers (54.2% men and 45.8% women). The main results point to the commitment and active participation of students through motivational strategies that are implemented through the activities planned by the school. Creating a supportive environment for the student to be motivated requires the development of a role of the guiding teacher, guide and support in the teaching and learning process, as opposed to a traditional conception of teaching more closed and hierarchical.

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