Factors Associated in EFL Learning Process Bachelor’s Degree in education at UNAPEC University, Dominican Republic

Author(s):  
Santa Cabrera ◽  

Education in the Dominican Republic is regulated by the Ministry of Education, in accordance with the General Education Law 66-97, which guarantees the right of all the inhabitants of the Dominican Republic to education. In pre-university level curricular design, English is one of the nine subjects taught in public school, so that learning English from an early age (5th grade of primary school) is part of the purpose. of said design. Dominican schools, however, most public schools begin their first contact with the English language, students are approximately between 9 and 10 years old, which translates into a certain delay in coming into contact with this language. According to what was published on February 11, 2013 by the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic entitled: «Identification of advances in the scientific and literary disciplines associated with the area of Foreign Languages that must be taken into account for the revision and updating of the curriculum . », Final Product, it is proposed that learning foreign languages responds to a fundamental need in the training of the citizen of these times, since it develops the communicative competence of students so that they can understand and express themselves efficiently, orally and in writing, with members of other societies in different contexts. Likewise, respect and appreciation of one's own cultural identity and that of other societies, as well as plurality, both in the local and global environment, is encouraged. Likewise, learning a foreign language contributes to the personal development of students because: It facilitates the search and processing of information and a more efficient use of Information and Communication Technologies. -It expands the cultural universe of the individual, by enabling greater exchanges of artistic, scientific, historical and technological productions that humanity has been building. It facilitates access to more and better opportunities in the educational, labor and professional areas. -Favors the development of linguistic and met linguistic awareness, concept formation, logical reasoning, creativity, and skills. All these reasons create the perfect environment so that the development of language skills is of vital importance not only for students, but for all Dominican citizens.

Author(s):  
Iryna Sereda

Corrective and educational work is considered as a system of complex measures of psychological and pedagogical influence on various features of anomalous development of the individual as a whole, since each defect negatively affects not only a separate mental function, but also reduces the social adaptation of the child in all its manifestations. In the technological aspect, the correctional and educational process has its own specificity, depending on the particulars of the child and the chosen learning option for her. In general education, modern methods and technologies typical for the educational process of a secondary school can be effectively applied: technology of upbringing a successful person, collective creative affairs, personal development technology, training, interactive, information and communication technologies, etc. In the case of a complex defect in a child, or a combination of several defects, when training is conducted in a compensatory-adaptive or abolition variant, the leading advocates are medical correction and health-saving technologies. Separately allocated technologies which can be successfully applied at any type of training, for example, gaming and technologies of art therapy. The effectiveness of the correctional direction of education can be assessed by the following criteria: qualitative and quantitative easing of the structure of the defect; correction of defects and transition of corrected defects to positive opportunities of the child; conscious use of the children's experience; accumulation and positive change in personality properties.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (21) ◽  
pp. 78-90
Author(s):  
Luis Ricardo Rojas ◽  
Jenifer Rueda Varon

Bilingual indigenous students who attend public schools around the country are to develop English language skills as part of the suggested curriculum created by the Colombian Ministry of Education. This is the case of the Embera Chamí students in Florencia, Caquetá whose conditions for learning English differ from those of monolingual Spanish students. The purpose of this study is to analyze the difficulties and the advantages of learning English through task- and project-based learning in bilingual indigenous students. The analysis of the study was developed through the method of systematization of experience. Results suggest that the two learning approaches enhanced indigenous students’ speaking skills and facilitated vocabulary recognition. However, the students mentioned being more interesting in learning English for specific purposes.


2006 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN BORKOWSKI ◽  
MAREE SNEED

Drawing on their legal expertise and their experience working with public school districts, John W. Borkowski and Maree Sneed discuss the controversies surrounding the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). They acknowledge that its principal benefits lie in its recognition of the right of each child to learn and be assessed by high academic standards, as well as in the act's requirement that test results be disaggregated by race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, and English language learner status. However, they critique the act's imposition of untested, federally mandated remedies driven by ideology rather than by scientific, educational research. These unproven, federally mandated remedies, along with inconsistencies in state and local implementation, are potentially more harmful than helpful. Finally, the authors examine the federal funding needed to implement additional tests, accountability measures, and the proven reforms necessary to improve educational outcomes. They argue that adequate funding has not been provided for these purposes, and that federal funds allotted for NCLB implementation should reflect the increases in resources necessary to improve public education and should be used for appropriate remedial measures designed and implemented at the state and local level. Borkowski and Sneed remain hopeful that with appropriate and consistent assessments, locally driven educational improvement measures, and adequate federal funding, NCLB can fulfill its promise to ensure educational equity for all students in American public schools.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Cimermanová

Abstract The study of foreign languages is obligatory for all pupils in Slovakia, where the first foreign language is English. Conforming to integration legislation, pupils with special educational needs (SEN) are taught in mainstream classes. Foreign language teachers, however, lack training and where not prepared how to apply teaching methods and techniques for pupils with SEN in the regular language learning class. In the study presented, 187 elementary school teachers filled out questionnaires dealing with integration of pupils with SEN and possible inclusion of learners with disabilities in Slovakia and a group of 56 university FLT students - teachers-to-be. Teachers are not forced and/or encouraged to take part in in-service courses or other education on how to teach these pupils. The pre-service teachers are offered courses on SEN teaching, however, these are not compulsory and mostly general education oriented. The majority of in-service and pre-service teachers felt that pupils with SEN should be taught in regular education class. The article also describes the current situation concerning integration of students with SEN using the official statistical data.


SEEU Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-206
Author(s):  
Alma Lama

Abstract Teachers always try to give their best to educate all students that have been entrusted to them! Knowing that everybody has the right to learn and be well educated, the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology after the war took considerable actions in an effort to promote inclusive education in the Kosovo education system (Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, 2007). However, teachers are facing different challenges while trying to teach students with mild or moderate specific learning difficulties together with those who don’t have learning difficulties. Understanding specific learning difficulties may not be hard but handling it is a great challenge. So what are specific learning difficulties? This research studies specific areas of inclusive education based on the difficulties students have while learning English Language, how to deal with these difficulties, how can inclusive practices within the school help, what practical teaching approaches can be used, what teaching methods are used or can be used in the inclusive classes in order to come to a conclusion of what can be done more about inclusiveness and understand the importance of inclusive education not only in the centers where the work is done but throughout Kosovo. Remember: Students with specific learning difficulties are just like you and me, they just have a different learning style!


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (22) ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Sergii Sharov ◽  
Oksana Filatova ◽  
Valentyna Biliatska ◽  
Nadia Yankova

The article provides a quantitative analysis of the online courses which can be used for student training in the humanities. It is noted that the development of in-formation society influenced the ways of educational activities organization, the process of obtaining new knowledge and competency formation. Under the con-ditions when online education, blended and distance learning are considerably relevant, massive open online courses are an effective tool for learning and self-development. It was found that training in the humanities plays an important role in personal development of the future specialist. It involves the development of social competence, communication culture, leadership skills, as well as skills of conflict avoidance, teamwork, etc. The effectiveness of training in the humanities is influenced by active teaching methods, interactive technologies, and various means of information and communication technologies. The authors analyzed both the English-language (Coursera, Udemy, Edx) and Ukrainian-language (Prometheus, EdEra, OUM) online platforms. The article provides a quantitative analysis of online courses according to various directions in the humanities on each of the platforms. As of October 2021, we identified 4,769 free and fee-paying courses. The largest number of online courses for training in the humani-ties is presented on the Udemy platform (4,295 courses), the smallest number – on all Ukrainian-language platforms together (45 courses).


Author(s):  
Karina Alekseevna Melezhik ◽  
Aleksandr Dem'yanovich Petrenko ◽  
Danuta Mikhailovna Khrabskova

The subject of this research is the influencing factors of information and communication technologies upon the theory and practice of teaching English language in the institutional and noninstitutional environments. The object of this research is the analysis of structure and content of Android and iPhone applications. Special attention is given to the development of mobile services as a prevalent model of using information and communication technologies, which open the possibility for individualized range of hyperconnectivity regulated by resource of a personal phone. The authors examine distance learning, which allows implementing innovations and creativity, employs new technologies, performs social task on expansion of technologically uniform educational space. The main conclusions are as follows: 1) of e-learning pedagogy requires the results of pedagogical practice in both, institutional and noninstitutional programs and courses; 2) the modern online learning of English language features new methods of implementation of hyperconnectivity in the Internet on the basis of technological and pedagogical innovations, active interactions and common culture. The scientific novelty consists in the statement that the use of distance learning is especially relevant on the current stage of modernization of education system, as it incorporates innovation technologies of teacher-student interaction. The current situation is characterized by the long-term trends associated with globalization socioeconomic relations, as well as by COVID-19 pandemic that requires taking immediate and radical measures in order to ensure protection of educational community from possible disastrous consequences in record time. The primary task of the authors consists in the analysis of relevant aspects of using information and communication technologies of teaching foreign languages, namely mobile applications, as well as in substantiation of the thesis on transition from collective connectivism towards individual hyperconnectivity in the educational process.


2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-287

The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons for parents' reluctance to register their children in public education and their preference for private education in kindergarten in the State of Kuwait. The study used the analytical descriptive methodology, and 311 questionnaires were randomly distributed to parents of children in private schools. This study found some recurring reasons for refraining from general education as follows: (a) The curriculum in public education does not include teaching foreign languages, (b) The frequent absence of children in public schools because of the lack of awareness of parents about the importance of the kindergarten stage, (c) The non-serious attitude of the Public Education Department in implementing the educational goals, (d) The inability of teachers to apply the curriculum in public education sector and understand the nature of the kindergarten stage, (e) The lack of after-school service programs and overcrowding of the students in public schools. The study recommends reducing the number of students in public schools, teaching foreign languages, like English, and raising general awareness among the teachers so that they would teach effectively. Keywords: Private Education; public education; kindergarten; reluctance to education; education; government education


Author(s):  
Iván Bravo Antonio ◽  
Lucía Herrera Torres

Las instituciones escolares constituyen el lugar idóneo en el que enseñar a convivir a nuestros jóvenes y, por ende, dotarles de las habilidades sociales necesarias que contribuyan a su pleno proceso de desarrollo social y personal (Ramírez; Justicia, 2006). El objetivo principal del presente trabajo es analizar el grado de relación existente entre diferentes dimensiones de la conducta de los alumnos de Educación Primaria (desajuste clínico, desajuste escolar, ajuste personal e índice de síntomas emocionales) y su percepción de la convivencia escolar. Para ello, participaron 546 alumnos de Educación Primaria de dos colegios públicos de la ciudad autónoma de Melilla. Entre los resultados hallados, se pone de manifiesto una relación positiva entre las dimensiones clínicas de la conducta y diferentes aspectos que obstaculizan la convivencia escolar. También, entre ajuste personal y diferentes elementos que favorecen la convivencia. Se discute la pertinencia de incluir, por su carácter preventivo y de desarrollo del individuo, el trabajo de las habilidades sociales dentro del currículum de Educación Primaria. ABSTRACTSchools are a suitable place in which to teach living together to children and young people young and, therefore, to provide them with the social skills that are necessary to contribute to full social and personal development (Ramírez; Justicia, 2006). The aim of the present work is to analyze the extent of relationships existing among different dimensions of behavior in Primary Education students (clinical maladjustment, school maladjustment, personal adjustment, and emotional symptoms index), and their perception of living together at school. To this end, 546 Primary pupils from two public schools in the autonomous city of Melilla took part. Results showed positive relationships between clinical dimensions of behavior and certain aspects that hamper harmonious living together at school. They also revealed positive associations among personal adjustment and some elements that favor living together. The importance of including work on social skills in the Primary curriculum, in view of their preventive character, and of the development of the individual, is discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Olga P. Pinchuk ◽  
Svitlana G. Lytvynova ◽  
Oleksandr Yu. Burov

The article studies the problems of introducing a synthetic learning environment in the practice of education. The modern views on the essence of the learning environment and its new forms based on information and communication technologies are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to a range of issues that are united in the English-language publications as a "synthetic environment", which is considered in two aspects – artificial environment and synthetic as is formed due to the synthesis of the real physical world and the results of simulation and modeling. There are considered issues of trends in usage of game-based learning and modeling as cognitive technologies, as well as of social networks as a synthetic environment of social development. Conclusions are drawn: synthetic learning environment becomes an independent subject of learning through the expansion of its content and didactic power, transformation of the individual as a recipient of knowledge into the synthesizing element of the educational process in the metaverse.


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