scholarly journals STUDENTS’ TRANSLATIONS OF ADJECTIVAL COMPOUNDS: A CORPUS ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isidora M. ́Wattles ◽  
Biljana B. Radić-Bojanić ◽  
Isidora M. Wattles
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Morphological Structure ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
Language Students ◽  
The University

The aim of the paper is to analyze English language students’ translations of adjectival compounds and examine various linguistic choices, given the structural differences between English and Serbian. The research relies on a students’ corpus compiled at the University of East Sarajevo and observes the students’ translations of three texts from English into Serbian. A total of nine adjectival compounds with a similar morphological structure was excerpted (brick-faced, hand-carved, pint-sized, real-life, self-conscious, self-possessed, self-reliant, small-featured, tree-lined). Their translations might prove to be problematic for various reasons such as lack of translation equivalents, culture-specific lexemes, or differences in structural characteristics of the two languages. The paper thus provides the morphological and semantic analyses of the source vocabulary, lists the offered translations, and categorizes the adequacy of translation in the target language. Some pedagogical implications are offered in the conclusion.

scholarly journals Creativity In The Use of Translation Microstrategies By Translation Students At The University of Bahrain

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Nuri Ageli
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Source Text ◽  
News Agency ◽  
Language Students ◽  
A Minor ◽  
University Of Bahrain ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Translator

This study aims to examine University of Bahrain graduating translation students’ use of creative microstrategies in rendering into English a news text and compare it with the translation of a Bahrain News Agency professional translator. The study seeks to identify the students’ creative microstrategies based on the classification proposed by Anne Schjoldager’s‘ (2008) model of macrostrategies.  The participants were 15 English language students with a minor in translation who were expected to graduate in the semester during which the study was conducted. They were required to translate a news text from Arabic to English in order to reveal the creative microstrategies used  and then their performance was compared with that done by a professional translator employed by Bahrain News Agency (BNA)and published on its official website . The findings of the study have shown that translation students are inclined to focus more on the syntactic microstrategies rather than on the semantic and pragmatic ones when processing and rendering the source text into the target language. Unlike the professional translator, students' lack of negotiation with and deeper analysis of the text has deprived their performance to a certain extent from the  creativity required in translation and rendered it into a mechanical exercise.  

scholarly journals The Role of Learning Resource Centers at the Northern Border University in Increasing the Academic Achievement in English Language Courses

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Yaser Mohammad Al Sawy
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
English Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Strategic Resources ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
Language Students ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Constitutive Factor ◽  
The University

The study aims at understanding the relationship between the use of IT applications in the Learning Resources Centers (henceforth, LRCs) at the university and increasing the academic achievement of the English language students at the Faculty of Education and Literature at the Northern Border University? The researcher relied on the research methodology of the field study, which allowed him to collect the views of a random sample of the English language learners at the university to measure and analyze the effectiveness of the use of IT within the LRCs. The study showed that the IT within the LRCs is one of the most important strategic resources at the level of educational institutions and the main factor in the development of its sectors. There is an interest from the Northern Border University on upgrading and supporting the IT infrastructure, especially in education for it is the basis for community development. A high proportion of English Language students at the university are keen on using and applying many of the technological learning media within the LRCs as a constitutive factor in understanding mental processes such as visualization, thinking, learning and creativity which is the first step towards knowledge and innovation.

scholarly journals What Makes an Effective English Language Teacher? The Life Histories of 13 Mexican University Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Nicholas Bremner
Keyword(s):  
Life Histories ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Student Teacher Relationship ◽  
Inductive Methods ◽  
Being There

This study examined the educational life histories of 13 students at a Mexican university in order to gather their perspectives of effective language teaching. Most previous studies on students’ perspectives of language teaching have used quantitative and deductive methods, whereas this study employed qualitative and inductive methods. The main methodological approach was the ‘life history’ approach, and the specific methods were two extended interviews and an innovative ‘timeline’ activity. In total, 77 examples of effective (and ineffective) teachers emerged from the 13 students’ life histories. The study revealed three major findings. Firstly, teachers’ language knowledge and proficiency were not mentioned as important characteristics of effective language teaching, although several students did make reference to teachers’ command of language when it was perceived to be missing. Secondly, students generally favoured more ‘modern’ approaches (engaging, active, real-life skills, immersion in the target language), as opposed to more ‘conservative’ approaches (unappealing, passive, overly theoretical, lack of immersion in the target language). Thirdly, students emphasised the importance of a positive student-teacher relationship, and greatly appreciated the teacher being there to provide them with personalised attention. Notably, the students tended not to value autonomous learning, preferring teachers to be close to them to help them with their problems in class. Two main implications for practice were suggested. Firstly, a general consensus has been reached regarding several key characteristics of effective language teaching, strengthening the argument that these characteristics should be listened to, and acted upon, by teachers and educational decision-makers. Secondly, the study makes a strong case for future research to utilise more qualitative, inductive methods when investigating students’ perspectives.

scholarly journals Elementary English Language School Teachers Self Evaluation: A Case Study from Real Life Application

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. p64
Author(s):  
Salwa H. Al Darwish
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Female Teacher ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Teacher Trainees ◽  
Public Elementary Schools ◽  
Teacher Trainee ◽  
Central Tool

Self- evaluation is a central “tool” to express how we know what we do when we teach, and as we make decisions on our own while we teach, self- evaluation has the power to help us link knowledge and theoretical information and to use each area of expertise more professionally. This paper will discuss primary school English Language teacher trainee’s self- evaluation which will be carried out between the instructor (researcher/ mentor) and the student teacher trainees. This study aims to explore the benefits of the process of self-evaluation during the student trainees while teaching English as a foreign language in public elementary schools in the form of the practice classes (Practicum Course). Another purpose of this research will be to find out more about students’ perceptions, problems and difficulties of teaching the target language (English) to young learners in order to find the instrument that will help the teacher trainees to better prepare, monitor and evaluate their own teaching through the self-evaluation and peer evaluation. The chosen instrument for this research will be observation for each individual by the instructor (mentor) and the teacher trainees, followed by a questionnaire distributed among the teacher trainees. The sample will consist of 30 female teacher trainees. Each participant is assigned four classmates to be observed and evaluated; followed by the mentor observation and evaluation for each teacher trainee. The results were not similar between the teacher trainees and the mentor.

scholarly journals Defining in English : a tool to measure writings abilities

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Purificación Sánchez ◽  
Pilar Aguado Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Placement Test ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Language Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Language Students

Drawing conclusions, comparing and contrasting, defining, explaining reasons and purposes, speculating and verifying, inferring and implying and other patterns of writing organisation, are the very matter of communication, whether in the form of everyday conversation or more highly specialised uses of language. These functions of language could be used to measure foreign language students' capability in different skills, writing for instance. This paper deals with the ability to write definitions, as an alternative to essay writing, of the students of English Language in the 1st year of English Philology at the University of Murcia. They were asked to define 10 words accurately chosen from the vocabulary lists published by Nation (1999). The results obtained have been used as a parameter to measure their writing ability. Significant correlations have been found between the marks obtained in the Oxford Placement Test performed at the beginning of the semester and those in our test based on definitions. We propose that definitions be considered as a parameter to check the writing abilities of the students and as a complement to the Oxford Placement Test

scholarly journals My Teaching Philosophy with Particular Reference to Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Nehal Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Philosophy ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

<p><em>It has been due on my part to share my own teaching philosophy with my colleagues in the University in general and other language instructors engaged in this noble profession. Needless to say, creating our own teaching philosophy is an innovative practice and it should be a meaningful part of us as second/foreign language teachers since it states our teaching/learning vision and wisdom, observations, experiences, goals, beliefs, level of professionalism and self-development among many other things. However, in real life situation, we do not often implement all our innovative ideas that we possess in our teaching philosophy. The main objective of the present study is to share my decades of experiences as a language instructor as a student of linguistics as well as an English language instructor. </em></p>

scholarly journals Gamification in English language classes: a comparative study within the LWB-UFS context

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 5719-5732
Author(s):  
Nayara Stefanie Mandarino Silva ◽  
Elaine Maria Santos
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Teacher Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Language Students ◽  
Regular Classes

Considering the need to engage and motivate English language students within the context of the Language without Borders (LwB) program at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), gamification or the use of game thinking and mechanics in real life contexts was applied in a class from a 48-hour course. In this paper, this gamified class is analyzed and compared to a non-gamified one. We also investigate how students perceive the experience in comparison to the regular classes. The methodology employed is a qualitative teacher-research based on action research. Finally, we conclude that even though 100% of the students think that the gamified class is better, they feel just as motivated in non-gamified ones.

Impact of Language-Oriented Extracurricular Activities on Academic Achievement in Language Preparation Schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunus YILDIZ
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Preparatory Schools ◽  
Special Approach

English as a Foreign Language (EFL) requires learners’ exposure to what educators call the language skills: reading, speaking, writing and listening. Language teachers’ aim is to make students acquire language skills to ensure achievement both in oral and written communication.  Language teachers at Preparatory Schools try to do their best to teach those students who did not reach the level of target language skills that would enable them to study in that language. According to observations, the researcher came to conclusion that those students have difficulty reaching the proficiency level needed for study in the language at their departments for the following year need a special approach, additional to their curriculum studies. The idea was instead of giving abundant homework to students to be completed, it is better to draw their attention to English language-oriented extracurricular activities (ECAs). Via these activities students will use the language beyond the classroom, have sufficient real-life-like practice, but, on the other hand, be devoid of the stress typical for both classroom and first contacts with people not speaking one’s native language. This, hopefully, will also let students increase students’ level of language skills. The experimental research, in which 34 students of Ishik University (Iraq, Erbil) were involved, the idea was confirmed.

scholarly journals Teaching speaking in large classes: Crossing the barriers

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 72-89
Author(s):  
Nargis Chowdhury ◽  
Sabrina M Shaila
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Large Classes ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Classroom Language ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Innovative Techniques

The modern theories, approaches and methodologies regarding classroom language learning perceive learning as an interactive process. In countries like Bangladesh, where English is a foreign language, one common phenomenon is that the teachers have to deal with large classes. This paper tries to focus on how the English language teachers deal with large classes at the tertiary level, especially when they are conducting classes to practice and evaluate speaking skills of students. A survey was conducted on 52 English language teachers working at different private universities to find out the problems teachers face when the carry on and observe speaking classes. The study finds that students’ less exposure to the real life interaction in the target language, their nervousness, influence of the L1, adverse social environment along with other problems tend to hamper the smooth ongoing of the class. But as most of the teachers consider large class as a challenge rather than a problem, so they attempt to utilize different new methods of teaching speaking in classrooms. The authors of this paper suggest some innovative techniques and methods found to be effective and fruitful in large classes. Stamford Journal of English; Volume 6; Page 72-89 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sje.v6i0.13904

scholarly journals RELATIVE CLAUSE TRANSFER STRATEGY AND THE IMPLICATION ON CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS HYPOTHESIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 452
Author(s):  
Sudarsono Sudarsono
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
English Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
The University

Foreign language learners may transfer their previous language properties into that of the target language either positively or negatively. The present study was designed to investigate the transfer strategy from the Indonesian relative clauses to the English ones. It was a descriptive study. The data were collected from the theses submitted by the Master's Program students of English Language Education to the university. The study found out that most students relativized subjects successfully but frequently failed to relativize the object of which Indonesian could not do it. The students were not found relativizing indirect objects, oblique, and comparison of which Indonesian did not permit. In conclusion, the study supported the strong contrastive analysis hypothesis. 

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