Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Webquests in Junior High School English Classes in Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Amini ◽  
◽  
Masoud Asgari ◽  
Zahra Asgari
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
High School English ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
English Classes

scholarly journals Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Webquests in Junior High School English Classes in Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Mahdi Amini, Masoud Asgari, Zahra Asgari
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
High School English ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Isfahan Province ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
English Classes

Webquest is an Internet-based learning and teaching tool, within which is a process involving students and teachers to use it for educational purposes. As an educational tool, the webquest has gained popularity in the education field across subjects and settings and is generally well-received by both teachers and students. Many junior high school English teachers use webquests to support modern teaching methods to improve students’ instructions and learning processes in new opportunities of using webquest resources in English classes, as well. This study aimed at investigating the advantages and disadvantages of using webquests in Iranian junior high school English classes. This study also examined the application of webquests to motivate high school English teachers to teach more efficiently and provided the learners with a wonderful situation to learn English well. The present descriptive-analytical study was conducted in 2019 in four cities of Isfahan Province, Iran. The participants included 16 Iranian English teachers chosen based on the stratified random sampling method from junior high schools. The questionnaires and interviews were used to collect the data and the participants’ insights about the advantages and disadvantages of using webquests in their English classes. Many English teachers considered webquests helpful and believed that it could help students do duties better and that the teachers could teach English more effectively and meaningfully. Webquest resources, likewise, help teachers work in groups and share ideas associated with the school curriculum.

scholarly journals A concrete methods book for Junior-High School English.

1921 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-180
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
High School English

scholarly journals Research on Strategies to Effectively Promote English Reading Teaching in Junior High School

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Haohao Xu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
School Students ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Reading Teaching

Reading is not only one of the purposes of English teaching, but also an important way of English learning. Students’ knowledge of English reading enables them to read effectively. At this time, students’ reading focus will gradually shift from learning to using English to obtain information and experience the real purpose of English reading. The traditional junior high school English reading teaching can’t meet the requirements of the new curriculum reform and helps students achieve their initial learning goals. Based on the basic theoretical knowledge of English reading teaching, this article analyzes the problems encountered by teachers and students in the process of English reading teaching, and puts forward the corresponding countermeasures, hoping to promote the level of junior high school students’ English reading teaching.

scholarly journals Culture teaching in EFL classes: Teachers’ beliefs, attitudes, and classroom practices

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-257
Author(s):  
Lucky Amatur Rohmani ◽  
Erna Andriyanti
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Junior High ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
High School English ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

It is inevitably believed that culture teaching is the pivotal feeling of integrating culture into the teaching of a language, including in the EFL setting. This study aims to explore the English teachers’ beliefs, attitudes, and the reflection of their beliefs and attitudes on the teaching syllabi. The sequential explanatory mix-methods design was applied in junior high schools in Ngawi. The data were obtained from 144 English teachers’ answers to a questionnaire and interviews with six teachers. Then, the data were analysed by using descriptive statistics, the independent sample T-test, and the Mann-Whitney test. The results indicated that the majority of junior high school English teachers believed in the importance of incorporating culture into their teaching of the language taught and students’ learning process. Moreover, both state and private junior high school English teachers showed similar beliefs and attitudes related to culture teaching. When they taught English, the culture associated with that language had also been taught so that the misconception of learning the language can be minimized. The result of teachers’ practices strongly indicates that the English teachers in Ngawi had implemented the teaching of culture and inserted various cultural elements in the process of their teaching and learning in the EFL classes.

scholarly journals Research on Junior High School English Reading Class Based on the Principle of Timing and Thorndike’s Three Laws of Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 962
Author(s):  
Yefan Ni ◽  
Jingjing Lu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Junior High ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The Law ◽  
Interesting Learning ◽  
Contemporary Education

Thorndike was a famous American psychologist in the early 20th century. Based on the hungry cat box experiment, he proposed three famous learning laws in 1911: The Law of Readiness, the Law of Exercise and the Law of Effect. With the reform of contemporary education -- the rise of quality-oriented education and the popularity of task-based teaching, Thorndike's three Laws of Learning have played an important theoretical support for our contemporary research. At the same time, we also see a huge research prospect and correlation between educational psychology and English teaching methods. This paper intends to study the efficiency and interesting teaching of a junior English reading class, and solve the research problems caused by the combination of Thorndike's three Laws of Learning and the principle of timing. By using the methods of questionnaires and interview, the author collected the effective data and information concerning high efficiency and interesting learning in junior high school English reading class.

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