scholarly journals AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA AND THE ACQUISITION OF EFL VOCABULARY

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (48) ◽  
pp. 269-281
Author(s):  
Biljana adić-Bojanić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Audiovisual Media ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
The World

English language vocabulary is not static and unchangeable, especially because it is constantly enriched as the world changes. All this is reflected in audiovisual media, which people around the world can access easily via the cinema, TV or the internet. Since authors like Hopkins (2013), Israel (2013), Kabooha (2016), Kuśnierek (2016), Li and Brand (2009), Peters et al. (2016), Rodgers (2013) and Shing and Yin (2014) have found that audiovisual media can contribute to second language acquisition, the aim of this research is to establish if and to what extent they influence the acquisition of vocabulary of English as a foreign language among high school students in Serbia. In order to obtain the data, we examined the frequency and manner of use of audiovisual media in a questionnaire and collected the data on vocabulary knowledge in a test. The research was conducted in a grammar school and the informants were 99 second and fourth-grade students. The data were coded and statistically processed in SPSS 20.0. It was established that those students who spent more time using audiovisual media had a positive attitude towards them and achieved better results on the vocabulary test.

scholarly journals Receptive vocabulary measures for EFL Costa Rican high school students

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Damaris Castro-García
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Receptive Vocabulary ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
School Students

<p>The study offers a glimpse of the current situation of foreign language education in the Costa Rican context from the perspective of vocabulary knowledge, particularly passive vocabulary size. Students from two institutions participated: one school implements Content Based Teaching while the other follows traditional, Foreign Language Teaching instruction. This research aims to describe the receptive vocabulary profile of students and to compare the vocabulary levels of students between two gender groups and under two types of English language teaching. These measures are established following the idea originally presented in Paul Nation’s (1983, 1990) Vocabulary Levels Test. In this case, Schmitt, Schmitt and Clapham’s (2001) Version 2 test was used to define passive vocabulary levels. Finally, the results of this analysis are compared to results for similar population samples in other studies.</p>

scholarly journals Pelatihan Keterampilan Menulis dalam Korespondensi Berbahasa Inggris, Menerjemahkan serta Keterampilan Menggunakan Grammarly, Google Translate, dan Google Drive di Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan KSATRYA, Rawasari, Jakarta Pusat

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-126
Author(s):  
Elfa Setiawan ◽  
Dinda A Rahman ◽  
Rudi Kristanto
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Business World ◽  
Translation Tools ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
Google Drive

The development of the world of education in the 21st century is now entering an era marked by the onslaught of the information technology revolution and the formation of the economic order and global relations, thus demanding an output of educational outcomes and outcomes that are in line with the demands of the world of work. The ability to communicate both in Speaking and writing is one of the abilities that must be mastered by everyone.The purpose of this Community Service Activities is to provide understanding and skills to vocational students in improving English language skills, particularly written communication skills in the business world as well as practical skills in translating documents documents or articles in English. The achievements of this service are increasing knowledge, insight, and English correspondence skills among vocational high school students, optimizing the use of online-based English Learning Tools such as Google Translate, Grammarly and Google Drive. The training activity was held for 4 hours on October 30, 2019, in the form of lectures, question-answers, and hands-on practice using Translation Tools. There were 22 trainees, class XII students of SMK Ksatrya, Cempaka Putih Barat, Central Jakarta. Based on the feedback from the participants, the training activities are very good and beneficial for them.This activity is not only limited to the training but is expected to be the beginning of the collaboration between the STIAMI Institute and the Ksatrya Vocational School in the future, to conduct other English language training with different topics or themes.

scholarly journals Difficulties in the Development of English-Language Competence in Reading in High School Students of General Secondary Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Iryna V. Vlasiuk
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
School Students ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
English Competence

The relevance of the study is conditioned by the growth of intercultural communication in modern post-industrial society, resulting in the need to change opinions on the development of foreign language competence in school-age students for its effective improvement and further use in professional activities. The purpose of the study is to determine the features of the development of English language competence in reading in high school students of general secondary education and to find methods of overcoming difficulties in the process of mastering a foreign language. In the process of the study, the author used general scientific theoretical methods, including methods of analysis, synthesis, generalisation, and classification. Based on research results of Ukrainian and foreign scholars, the study characterised the basic opinions on the development of foreign language competence in reading, in particular, in high school students. The study defines the term “reading” and considers its main categories, such as types of reading, levels of comprehension of the text, general personal skills for perfect command of reading in a foreign language, etc. It was found that the main difficulties in the development of English competence in reading in high school students are general language, including spelling, and psychological, based on the lack of motivation to learn the language. Tips for English teachers are presented, focused on improving the development of English competence in reading in students, including the use of authentic materials, information technology, as well as the use of practical exercises that help improve reading aloud. The authors see the prospects for further research in the empirical substantiation of methods for overcoming the difficulties of developing English-language competence among high school students

scholarly journals A Study on EFL Higher Education Student’s Ability to Analyze Grammatical Simple-Past and Past-Perfect Tenses

Tamaddun ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Sitti Halijah ◽  
Muhammad Basri Dalle ◽  
Oky Cahyo Sakti Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
English Language ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
School Students ◽  
Language Outcome ◽  
Language Competency

This study attempts to determine the students` Ability to Analyze the Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses. The authors used the descriptive method in this study. The population of the research were the fifth semester students of Faculty of Literature UMI Makassar in academic year 2018/2019. The sample of the study consisted of 20 students and were chosen through random sampling method. The istruments used were two kinds of instrument namely objective test and questionnaire to acquire data on their analytical capability of the simple past and past perfect tenses. Findings revealed that the ability of the fifth semester students was deemed as fair. This depicts that the students` ability to analyze Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses is 59, 20 which was condidered as fair. The problems found faced by the students ability to Analyze the Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses were; (1) sometimes students were confused in analyzing simple past and past perfect tenses due to the lack of basic knowledge, (2) there were many students who did not have rich vocabularies after they graduated from high school, (3) they had forgotten the pattern of the tenses, and (4) students were still having difficulties to differentiate between simple past and past perfect tenses. The implication of this study is that fresh graduates of senior high school are still lacking the necessary requirements to fullfil the standard English language competency which leads to poor language outcome of the Indonesian high schools today. Hence, the study srongly suggests that it is essential to pay special attention on senior high school students’ second language acquisition before continuing their study in Higher Education.

scholarly journals PERCEPTIONS OF SPEECH COMPETENCES IN FIRST AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (Percepcija govornih kompetencija u materinskome i stranome jeziku kod učenika završnih razreda srednje škole)

2019 ◽  
Vol X (28) ◽  
pp. 203-224
Author(s):  
Ivana Odža ◽  
Mirjana Matea Kovač
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Speech Disfluency ◽  
Insufficient Knowledge ◽  
Speaking Skills

The paper examines the attitudes of secondary school students, e. g. grammar school and craftmanship secondary school, toward their own language competences in the native (Croatian) and foreign (English) language. The testing instrument is a questionnaire with statements compiled according to questionnaires used to study attitudes toward the native and / or foreign language. The aim of the research is to observe the level of awareness of the respondents about their own language competences. The results of the statistical analysis indicate that the students of both populations are satisfied with their speaking skills in both languages. They also claim to recognize their own errors, as well as the errors and speech disfluencies of others. Grammar school students, unlike students from the craftmanship secondary school, find the introduction of a course that would further develop speaking skills useful. The obtained results are not in line with the dominant curricular guidelines for teaching the native language, especially those related to the area of speaking competences, emphasizing the need to strengthen the basic, spoken, and consequently written competences of students. The reasons for such attitudes could be explained by insufficient knowledge of the underlying features of highly developed communication competence and consequently of insufficient awareness of their own, as a necessary prerequisite for successful interaction in the contemporary society. The research results point to the necessity of acquiring a more objective perception of students about their own language competences. Keywords: speaking competences; speech errors; speech disfluency; students’ attitudes.

scholarly journals Using Interactive Games for the Teaching of Question Tags: Insights from an English Language Course In Indonesia

EDULANGUE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-67
Author(s):  
Meiva Eka Sri Sulistyawati ◽  
Lady Diana Warpindyastuti
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
English Language ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
School Students ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
Oral Test ◽  
Games Teaching

Learning foreign language has been the part of our educational systems. It has been taught from the early stage of education. However, there are still many difficulties in learning. And there are many challenges for the teachers to make it as a fun learning. This research aims is examine how can the interactive games can help the students to understand about questions tags better and can be used in the daily conversation. Meanwhile, the observed population that was used for the research was the students of English For All (EFA) English Course in Cirendeu, Tangerang Banten. The students were Junior High School students. The writers used the descriptive qualitative methods as using interactive games which was using oral test and conversation activities to learn how much their improvement in understanding about question tags.   Keywords: Question Tags, Interactives Games, Teaching

Measurement of Attitudes Regarding Foreign Language Skills and Its Relation with Success

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 310
Author(s):  
Tülin Acar
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Students Attitudes

<p>The aim of this research is to determine the attitudes of secondary level students regarding the skills in English as a Foreign Language and to compare the level of relationship between the academic success at English and the attitudes measured. Attitudes and success levels of the students of secondary education regarding their language skills were found to be high. A significant relationship at a linear low level was observed between the academic success of the students and their attitudes towards English language skills. In this study, the attitudes of high school students measured according to their gender concerning their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills, showed difference in favor of female students. Again, high school students’ attitudes towards writing, speaking and listening skills except for the attitudes towards reading skills do differentiate according to the type of school in which they receive education.</p>

scholarly journals The Predictive Effects of Gender and Academic Discipline on Foreign Language Enjoyment of Chinese High School Students

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Huang ◽  
Guiying Jiang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Statistical Variations ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Facilitative Role

Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) plays a facilitative role in FL learning and its contributing factors have been the object of scholarly attention in the Positive Psychology approach to second language acquisition (SLA). The present study examined the predictive effects of gender and academic discipline on overall FLE and each of its subcomponents in a specific Chinese EFL context. Statistical analyses based on a sample of 1,718 high school students showed that: (1) female students scored significantly higher in overall FLE, FLE-Private, and FLE-Atmosphere than their male counterparts, but no significant difference was found in their FLE-Teacher; (2) students of Humanities and Social Sciences scored significantly higher in overall FLE, FLE-Teacher and FLE-Atmosphere than students of Natural Science, though no significant difference was identified for FLE-Private. Reasons for the statistical variations and their implications were also discussed.

Development of collocational competence of students on the basis of electronic linguistic corpus

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Vitaliy Klochikhin
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
General Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
School Students ◽  
Lexical Unit ◽  
Search Results

We discuss the use of the linguistic corpus as a means for the development of collocational competence of students. We reveal the contents of the concepts of “lexis” and “lexical skill”. Lexical skills are divided into receptive (word perception) and productive (word use). We distin-guish the operations that underlie the lexical skill and the stages of the formation of the lexical skill. We define the skills for attaining mastery of language competence in high school students, according to the main general education program in the “English language” profile. In accordance with the modern trends of education computarization, the skill of working with corpus technology is worth to notice. In connection with the rapid development of a foreign language, there are doubts about the relevance of lexical data of educational literature, since its creation takes more than a year. Therefore, the electronic linguistic corpus is seen as the most effective means in solv-ing the problems of learning foreign language vocabulary. We review and analyze the definitions of the linguistic corpus and concordance given by previous researchers. Based on the analysis of previous works on this topic, the following didactic features of the electronic linguistic corpus are highlighted and described: a) multilingualism; b) the ability to search for specific information; c) contextual search results; d) the diversity of functional text types; e) sorting the search results; f) the relevance of the text data; g) accessibility on the Internet. In addition to the didactic features above, we add multi-level resources feature. The methodological functions of the linguistic corpus that determine its use in foreign language vocabulary teaching are identified. Collocation is singled out as a lexical unit, which plays the most significant role in the construction of the speaker's speech. Paper reveals the meaning of the terms “collocation” and “collocational competence”. After analyzing the scientific literature, we establish that knowledge of collocations increases the fluency and diversity of speech, which are necessary requirements in the modern communicative approach in teaching foreign language. The need to study collocations determines the development of collocational competence.

scholarly journals Towards a Zero Tolerance on Gender Bias in the Moroccan EFL Textbooks: Innovation or Deterioration?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Mechouat Karima
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
New Teacher ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Pedagogical Innovation ◽  
Positive Representation ◽  
Gender Based

Gender discriminatory discourses and practices have been a worldwide concern. The present paper addresses a major feature of gender depiction in the Moroccan English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks officially approved by the Ministry of Education and compulsory for high school students. Adopting a feminist theoretical approach, the study has quantitatively and qualitatively processed the gendered dialogues along with the related illustrations embedded in four EFL Moroccan textbooks, in addition to the gender roles assumed throughout different contexts (occupational/family roles, interests, activities). The textbooks were selected on the basis of their common themes and the different publication dates, starting from 1990 to 2005. The main aim is to see whether the English textbook designers adopt a gender-based approach as a preliminary initiative for pedagogical innovation, or they implicitly and explicitly use them to disseminate discriminatory discourses. The study reveals that women’s positive representation is persistently deteriorated in the Moroccan EFL textbooks. This stands against all steps towards pedagogical innovation and reinforces the traditional gender ideology. It suggests the urgent need for more pedagogical improvement at the level of gender representation in the Moroccan EFL textbooks. More importantly, is the need for all teacher training centres to prepare new teacher generations ready to use sexist texts constructively. The results’ implication is instrumental to the learning materials’ revision. It is also useful for all English language practitioners, textbook designers, and pedagogical experts addressing the challenge of adopting a gender-based approach as a way to open all avenues for pedagogical innovation.

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