Teaching English Grammar in a Hybrid Academic ESL Course

2021 ◽  
pp. 229-251
Author(s):  
Tülay Dixon ◽  
MaryAnn Christison
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Hybrid Design ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Hybrid Instruction ◽  
Hybrid Course ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Course Effectiveness ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Learner Perceptions

This study investigates whether hybrid instruction can positively affect the development of learners' knowledge of English grammar and editing skills, as well as whether learners have positive perceptions of the hybrid design. The study was conducted in two sections of an English grammar and editing skills class. One section was designed as a hybrid course while the other was a traditional face-to-face (f2f) class. To determine the effectiveness of hybrid instruction, a quasi-experimental design with a pre- and posttest was used. To investigate learner perceptions of the hybrid design, learners were asked to complete a questionnaire and participate in a focus group. The results indicate that after the treatment there were negligible differences between the two groups in terms of their knowledge of English grammar and editing skills. The learners had positive perceptions of the hybrid design and offered some suggestions for improving course effectiveness.

Teaching English Grammar in a Hybrid Academic ESL Course

2018 ◽  
pp. 149-169
Author(s):  
Tülay Dixon ◽  
MaryAnn Christison
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Design ◽  
Hybrid Instruction ◽  
Hybrid Course ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Course Effectiveness ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Learner Perceptions ◽  
Positive Effect

This study investigates whether hybrid instruction has a positive effect on the development of students' knowledge of English grammar and editing skills, as well as whether learners have positive perceptions of the hybrid design. The study was conducted in two sections of an English grammar and editing skills class. One section was designed as a hybrid course, while the other was a traditional face-to-face (f2f) class. To determine the effectiveness of hybrid instruction, a quasi-experimental design with a pre- and posttest was employed. To investigate learner perceptions of the hybrid design, learners completed a questionnaire and participated in a focus group. The results indicate that there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of their knowledge of English grammar and editing skills after the treatment. The learners had positive perceptions of the hybrid design and also offered some suggestions for improving course effectiveness.

scholarly journals Learning Effectiveness Using Different Teaching Modalities

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 65-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Carrol ◽  
Molly Burke
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Online Instruction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Course Evaluations ◽  
Learning Effectiveness ◽  
Final Examination ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Course Effectiveness ◽  
Face To Face Instruction

There is much discussion about whether online instruction is as effective as face-to-face instruction.  To address this question, a comparative study was made of two sections of an MBA  organizational theory course, one taught online and the other face-to-face. The content covered by both sections was the same with similar assignments and a common final examination. There was little difference between the sections on the results of the final examination or the student course evaluations. This study suggests that neither modality is more effective than the other with regard to student achievement or their perceptions of course effectiveness. 

scholarly journals The Effect of Blended Learning by Using Edmodo in Teaching English for Nursing Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Roudlotun Nurul Laili ◽  
Muhammad Nashir
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
T Test ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Learning By Using

Due to the developments of social networking in education, teachers have to provide the innovative techniques and select the best way in teaching learning process in classroom, especially in learning English as a foreign language so that the students are interested and eager to learn English. Edmodo as one of online learning media is believed to present an effective solution in the teaching English. This research investigates the effectiveness of blended learning by using Edmodo in teaching English for nursing students. This research used quasi experimental research design. It begins from conducting homogeneity test, deciding the experimental group and control group. Then, it was continued by giving activities to the control class using face to face learning and giving treatments to the experimental class that was using blended learning (combine face to face learning with online learning/Edmodo), then giving the same post-test to both classes. The result indicated that there was a signifcant effect of teaching English in blended learning by using Edmodo on nursing students. It is proved by the value of signifcant column of t-test table and the result is 0.000 which was lower than 0.05. Abstrak  Seiring perkembangan jejaring sosial dalam pendidikan, guru harus memberikan teknik inovatif dan memilih cara terbaik dalam proses pembelajaran di kelas, terutama dalam belajar bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa asing sehingga siswa tertarik dan bersemangat untuk belajar bahasa Inggris. Edmodo sebagai salah satu media pembelajaran online diyakini menghadirkan solusi efektif dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris. Penelitian ini mengkaji efektivitas pembelajaran campuran dengan menggunakan Edmodo dalam mengajar bahasa Inggris untuk mahasiswa keperawatan. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian quasi experimental. Dimulai dari melakukan uji homogenitas, menentukan kelompok eksperimen dan kelompok kontrol. Kemudian dilanjutkan dengan memberikan treatmen kepada kelas kontrol menggunakan pembelajaran tatap muka dan perlakuan ke kelas eksperimen yaitu menggunakan blended learning (menggabungkan pembelajaran tatap muka dengan pembelajaran online/Edmodo), kemudian memberikan post-test yang sama untuk keduanya. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa ada pengaruh yang signifkan dari kombinasi mengajar tatap muka dengan Edmodo terhadap kemampuan bahasa Inggris mahasiswa keperawatan. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan nilai kolom tabel t-test yang signifkan dan hasilnya adalah 0.000 yang lebih rendah dari 0.05 Keywords:  Edmodo; Blended Learning; Teaching English

The Hierophanic Facets of the Seraphic Hymns

Trictrac ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petru Adrian Danciu
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Material World ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The People ◽  
Musical History ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One

Starting from the cry of the seraphim in Isaiahʹ s prophecy, this article aims to follow the rhythm of the sacred harmony, transcending the symbols of the angelic world and of the divine names, to get to the face to face meeting between man and God, just as the seraphim, reflecting their existence, stand face to face. The finality of the sacred harmony is that, during the search for God inside the human being, He reveals Himself, which is the reason for the affirmation of “I Am that I Am.” Through its hypnotic cyclicality, the profane temporality has its own musicality. Its purpose is to incubate the unsuspected potencies of the beings “caught” in the material world. Due to the fact that it belongs to the aeonic time, the divine music will exceed in harmony the mechanical musicality of profane time, dilating and temporarily cancelling it. Isaiah is witness to such revelation offering access to the heavenly concert. He is witness to divine harmonies produced by two divine singers, whose musical history is presented in our article. The seraphim accompanied the chosen people after their exodus from Egypt. The cultic use of the trumpet is related to the characteristics and behaviour of the seraphim. The seraphic music does not belong to the Creator, but its lyrics speak about the presence of the Creator in two realities, a spiritual and a material one. Only the transcendence of the divine names that are sung/cried affirms a unique reality: God. The chant-cry is a divine invocation with a double aim. On the one hand, the angels and the people affirm God’s presence and call His name and, on the other, the Creator affirms His presence through the angels or in man, the one who is His image and His likeness. The divine music does not only create, it is also a means of communion, implementing the relation of man to God and, thus, God’s connection with man. It is a relation in which both filiation and paternity disappear inside the harmony of the mutual recognition produced by music, a reality much older than Adam’s language.

Peningkatan Pengetahuan Calon Pengantin Melalui Konseling ASI Eksklusif di Kecamatan Darul Imarah Aceh Besar

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Agus Hendra Al-Rahmad
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Exclusive Breastfeeding ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Random Assignment ◽  
Nutrition And Health ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Child Stunting ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Breastfeeding Counseling

Background : Scaling Up Nutrition movement is a global effort to strengthen our commitment and accelerating action plan to improve nutrition, particularly the handling of nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life is exclusive breastfeeding and it until 24 months. One of the way is with exclusive breastfeeding counselling that can reduce stunting. The counseling is addressed to brides who need special attention in improving the nutrition and health. Objective : The aim of research to improve knowledge about exclusive breastfeeding counseling the bride through the use of leaflets. Method : This quasi-experimental study was a sample of 30 person a brides with non-random assignment, the variable a knowledge obtained through interviews using questionnaires while the method of counseling does face to face with an exclusive breastfeeding leaflet. The data was analyzed by dependent t-test. Result : The results showed exclusive breastfeeding counseling can improve knowledge bride (p= 0,000) with a mean difference is 6,13 and a deviation is 3,71. Conclusion : Increase of knowledge among ‘bride-to be’ about exclusive breastfeeding could be improved through the use of exclusive breastfeeding leaflet. Each health center must be in collaboration with Office of Religious Affairs to have exclusive breastfeeding counseling, and set one of the priority programs in the prevention of child stunting.   Keywords: Bride, counseling, knowledge of exclusive breastfeeding

Giving and Promising

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Yves Lacoste ◽  
Oliver O’Donovan
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Present Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Given

Giving and promise must be thought together. Being-in-the world entails being-with the other, who is both “given” and bearer of a gift promised. But any disclosure may be understood as a gift; it is not anthropomorphic to speak of “self-giving” with a wider reference than person-to-person disclosure. Which implies that no act of giving can exhaust itself in its gift. Present experience never brings closure to self-revealing. Yet giving is crystallized into “the given,” the closure of gift. “The given” is what it is, needing no gift-event to reveal it. But the given, too, is precarious, and can be destabilized when giving brings us face to face with something unfamiliar. Nothing appears without a promise of further appearances, and God himself can never be “given.”

The effect of face-to-face and virtual prenatal care training of spouses on the pregnancy experience and fear of childbirth of primiparous women: A controlled quasi-experimental study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1357633X2110241
Author(s):  
Zari Doaltabadi ◽  
Leila Amiri-Farahani ◽  
Seyedeh Batool Hasanpoor-Azghady ◽  
Shima Haghani
Keyword(s):  
Prenatal Care ◽  
Fear Of Childbirth ◽  
Virtual Training ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Care Training ◽  
The Mean ◽  
And Control ◽  
Primiparous Women

Introduction The spouse has a special role in promoting the health of mothers and infants during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. Women's health during pregnancy requires the participation and cooperation of their spouses. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the effect of face-to-face and virtual prenatal care training of spouses on the pregnancy experience and fear of childbirth of primiparous women. Methods This is a quasi-experimental clinical trial that was conducted on primiparous pregnant women referring to three prenatal clinics in Tehran, Iran. Sampling was done by available method and pregnant women were divided into three groups of face-to-face training ( n = 35), virtual training ( n = 35), and control ( n = 33). The content of training program in the virtual and face-to-face groups was similar and included; nutrition during pregnancy, emotional support, fetal growth and development, advantages and disadvantages of vaginal delivery, planning for delivery, infant care, and danger signs for infants, which were presented in four sessions. The samples in the control group did not receive any training. In the 18th and 20th weeks of pregnancy, the demographic information form, pregnancy experience scale, and version A of the Wijma delivery expectancy/experience questionnaires were completed, and once again in the 37th and 38th weeks of pregnancy, the pregnancy experience scale and version A of the Wijma delivery expectancy/experience questionnaires were completed. Results There was a statistically significant difference in the mean score of pregnancy experience after the intervention between the face-to-face training and control groups ( p = 0.001). There was a statistically significant difference in the mean score of uplifts between the two groups of face-to-face training and control ( p = 0.01), and also between virtual training and control groups ( p = 0.02). There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups of face-to-face training and control in terms of and hassles score after the intervention ( p = 0.04). There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups of face-to-face training and control ( p = 0.02) and also between virtual training and control ( p = 0.04) in terms of the mean score of fear of childbirth after the intervention. Conclusion The results of this study showed that teaching prenatal care to spouses of primiparous women by face-to-face and virtual methods can be a useful intervention in improving the pregnancy experience and reducing the fear of childbirth among primiparous women.

scholarly journals The transferability of handwriting skills: from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibault Asselborn ◽  
Wafa Johal ◽  
Bolat Tleubayev ◽  
Zhanel Zhexenova ◽  
Pierre Dillenbourg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Situation ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fine Motor ◽  
Skills Transfer ◽  
Short Text ◽  
Latin Script ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Cross Lingual

AbstractDo handwriting skills transfer when a child writes in two different scripts, such as the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets? Are our measures of handwriting skills intrinsically bound to one alphabet or will a child who faces handwriting difficulties in one script experience similar difficulties in the other script? To answer these questions, 190 children from grades 1–4 were asked to copy a short text using both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets on a digital tablet. A recent change of policy in Kazakhstan gave us an opportunity to measure transfer, as the Latin-based Kazakh alphabet has not yet been introduced. Therefore, pupils in grade 1 had a 6-months experience in Cyrillic, and pupils in grades 2, 3, and 4 had 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5 years of experience in Cyrillic, respectively. This unique situation created a quasi-experimental situation that allowed us to measure the influence of the number of years spent practicing Cyrillic on the quality of handwriting in the Latin alphabet. The results showed that some of the differences between the two scripts were constant across all grades. These differences thus reflect the intrinsic differences in the handwriting dynamics between the two alphabets. For instance, several features related to the pen pressure on the tablet are quite different. Other features, however, revealed decreasing differences between the two scripts across grades. While we found that the quality of Cyrillic writing increased from grades 1–4, due to increased practice, we also found that the quality of the Latin writing increased as well, despite the fact that all of the pupils had the same absence of experience in writing in Latin. We can therefore interpret this improvement in Latin script as an indicator of the transfer of fine motor control skills from Cyrillic to Latin. This result is especially surprising given that one could instead hypothesize a negative transfer, i.e., that the finger controls automated for one alphabet would interfere with those required by the other alphabet. One interesting side-effect of these findings is that the algorithms that we developed for the diagnosis of handwriting difficulties among French-speaking children could be relevant for other alphabets, paving the way for the creation of a cross-lingual model for the detection of handwriting difficulties.

scholarly journals Cyborg activism: Exploring the reconfigurations of democratic subjectivity in Anonymous

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 1543-1563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Asenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
World Views ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Strategic Politics ◽  
Partial Integration

This article develops the concept of cyborg activism as novel configuration of democratic subjectivity in the Information Age by exploring the online collectivity Anonymous as a prototype. By fusing elements of human/machine and organic/digital, the cyborg disrupts modern logics of binary thinking. Cyborg activism emerges as the reconfiguration of equality/hierarchy, reason/emotion and nihilism/idealism. Anonymous demonstrates how through the use of contingent and ephemeral digital personae hierarchies in cyborg activism prove more volatile than in face-to-face settings. Emotions appear as an essential part of a politics of passion, which enables pursuing laughter and joy, expressing anger and experiencing empowerment as part of a reasoned, strategic politics. Anonymous’ political content reconfigures nihilist sentiments, frustration and political disenchantment, on one hand, with idealist world views, on the other. This enables the cohabitation and partial integration of a great diversity of political claims rooted in various ideologies.

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