scholarly journals Anxiety and Perceived English and French Language Competence of Education Students

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Cameron Montgomery ◽  
Thomas Spalding
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
French Language ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Mixed Heritage ◽  
Heritage Students ◽  
Self Assessments ◽  
Manifest Anxiety

The authors examined manifest anxiety and perceptions of English and French language competence among Anglophone (n = 35), Francophone (n = 29), and Mixed-heritage (n = 34) elementary education (60%) and secondary education (40%) students (80% female) in their second, third, or fourth year of study at the Faculté Saint Jean (University of Alberta). Participants assessed their language competence differently in English and French. Francophone and Mixed-heritage students felt equally competent in the two languages, but Anglophone students reported much higher language competence in English. Manifest anxiety and self-assessments of language competence were related only among the Anglophone group, with high levels of manifest anxiety associated with both low self-assessments of French language competence and high self- assessments of English language competence—the two being correlated with each other.

scholarly journals Needs Analysis English For Specific Purposes (ESP) For Vocational Pharmacy Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 724-733
Author(s):  
Abd. Syakur ◽  
H.M Zainuddin ◽  
M. Afif Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
Active Communication

Increased development of study programs in vocational education programs that are predicted to be a solution to increase human resources in Indonesia. This also underlies the improvement of English language competence in Indonesia as outlined in Minister of Education and Culture Decree No. 096/1967 December 12, 1967. The Ministry of Education and Culture developed the communicative abilities of English vocational education students who needed help listening, reading, writing and speaking. This study discusses the analysis of the needs of English courses (ESP) for educational students who need analysis of targets and learning needs. Data obtained from questionnaires and interviews. The results of data analysis about active communication skills (35%), grammar difficulties (25%), being able to read (25%) difficulty in content (10%) and writing (5%).Introduction to basic pharmacy (20%), prescription pharmacy (20%), Health and drugs (20%), Healthy lifestyle (20%) and microbiology and pharmacy (20%). The English language used in technology is English Media (40%), crosswords (20%, dialogue content (20%) and multiple choice (20%). The results of the study constitute an analysis of needs and targets referred to as part of the English learning process The results of the analysis of learning needs and the achievement of learning English obtained by students both reading, writing, grammar and other needs in order to prepare themselves to meet their needs going forward.

Language competence, identity construction and discursive boundary-making: Distancing and alignment in domestic migrant worker narratives

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (262) ◽  
pp. 97-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Ladegaard
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Boundary Making

AbstractMany people in developing countries are faced with a dilemma. If they stay at home, their children are kept in poverty with no prospects of a better future; if they become migrant workers, they will suffer long-term separation from their families. This article focuses on one of the weakest groups in the global economy: domestic migrant workers. It draws on a corpus of more than 400 narratives recorded at a church shelter in Hong Kong and among migrant worker returnees in rural Indonesia and the Philippines. In sharing sessions, migrant women share their experiences of working for abusive employers, and the article analyses how language is used to include and exclude. The women tell how their employers construct them as “incompetent” and “stupid” because they do not speak Chinese. However, faced by repression and marginalisation, the women use their superior English language skills to get back at their employers and momentarily gain the upper hand. Drawing on ideologies of language as the theoretical concept, the article provides a discourse analysis of selected excerpts focusing on language competence and identity construction.

Special Speciation

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-147
Author(s):  
Lyn L. Countryman ◽  
Jill D. Maroo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Speciation Model ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Elementary Education Students

Considerable anecdotal evidence indicates that some of the most difficult concepts that both high school and undergraduate elementary-education students struggle with are those surrounding evolutionary principles, especially speciation. It’s no wonder that entry-level biology students are confused, when biologists have multiple definitions of “species.” We developed this speciation activity to provide clarity and allow students a hands-on experience with a speciation model.

Analysis of EFL Learners’ Integrative and Instrumental Motivation Factor at English Language Education Undiksha

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Made Surya Mahendra ◽  
Ni Luh Putu Eka Sulistia Dewi ◽  
Ida Ayu Made Istri Utami
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Education Students ◽  
English Language Education ◽  
Motivation Factors ◽  
Integrative Motivation ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Learning English

This study aimed (1) to analyze motivation’s factor that affects English Language Education Students in achieving learning English both in instrumental and integrative motivation; (2) to analyze the major factor of motivation that affect students; and (3) to analyze how the major factor of motivation influence the students in achieving their goal in learning English. The survey was employed as a method of data collection through questionnaires and interviews. Both instruments consisted of instrumental and integrative motivation, which each dimension involves three factors of motivation. The results showed that English Language Education students were affected by six motivation factors. Those are academic, social, economic, attitude toward learning the target language, attitude toward the target language community, and desire to learn the target language. Among those motivation factors, the academic and attitude toward learning the target language were the major factor that affects students in achieving their goal in language learning.

Modern methods of teaching the english language in higher educational institutions in Russia

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
I.N. Gornostaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
English Language ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Multimedia Presentations ◽  
Interactive Teaching ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Effective Organization

The article discusses the possibilities of using methods of teaching English in higher education from classical to interactive ones. Special attention is paid to the role of the teacher in the formation of language competence and the effective organization of the learning process. The article proves the importance of introducing into the educational process such interactive teaching methods as work in small groups, preparation of projects and multimedia presentations, training, and brainstorming.

PELATIHAN BAHASA INGGRIS BAGI MAHASISWA AKPARTA SURAKARTA

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-225
Author(s):  
Eka Susylowati ◽  
Ika Oktaria ◽  
Arini Hidayah ◽  
Yunita Widiyantari ◽  
Anik Astuti
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Community Service ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
English Language Skills

This study aims to train English language skills for Akparta students to be proficient in English. The research methods used include presentations, lectures, observations and discussions. The results showed that the level of English mastery of the Surakarta Akparta students had progressed in speaking English. Community service activities carried out at Akparta Surakarta are helpful for students to improve their English language competence so that students can become professional tourism workers

Translation and Its Affects

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-215
Author(s):  
William A. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
French Language ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Vanity Fair ◽  
Good Morning ◽  
Do So

Vanity Fair (1848) famously opens with a departure. As Becky Sharpe flounces off from Miss Pinkerton's academy, she takes leave of her patron by telling her “in a very unconcerned manner … and with a perfect accent, ‘Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux.’” Miss Pinkerton, we learn, “did not understand French, she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing up her venerable and Roman-nosed head … said, ‘Miss Sharp, I wish you a good morning’” (7). This performance of befuddlement on the part of a respectable schoolmistress bespeaks a whole collection of Victorian cultural norms about language competence in general and about the French language in particular. Even though the action is set in a period when Becky's speaking “French with purity and a Parisian accent … [was] rather a rare accomplishment” (11), the novel was written for a mid-nineteenth-century audience that could mainly count on middle-class young ladies to have acquired this degree of refinement—or at least to aspire to do so.

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