scholarly journals Promoting Intercultural Competence of Thai University Students through Role-Play

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanoknate Worawong ◽  
Kanjana Charttrakul ◽  
Anamai Damnet
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
English Education ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Thai University

The current situation of international communication in globalization context requires intercultural competence (IC) to achieve successful communication (Crystal, 2003). Concerning this intercultural competence, non-verbal communication (NVC) plays a key role to indicate the success of having intercultural competence. On the other hand, Thai Ministry of Education (MOE) has launched the CEFR for the country policy in English teaching and learning (Ministry of Education, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to present major results of an investigation of intercultural competence, that is, the NVC. An innovative program implemented in this study is the CEFR and project- based activities (the CEFR-PBA). The study also examines Thai university students’ attitude towards this innovative class. This paper discusses the IC students learned from role-plays. The participants of the study were 44 students of third year English Education at a Thai Rajabhat University. Research method applies action research (Burns, 1999) and case study (Yin, Case Study Research: Design and Method, 2003). Data collection gained was from 1) videotape recordings of students’ role-play, and 2) the questionnaire. Data analysis for video recordings employed a NVC rating scale evaluated by native-speaker raters; while means, percentage, and SD were used for the questionnaire. Grounded theory’s color coding (Strauss & Cobin, 1990) will be utilized in analyzing the qualitative data from raters’ additional comment. Findings revealed students’ NVC performance were both appropriate on body movement and position as well as vocalic communication. Moreover, their attitude towards the CEFR-PBA was positive.

scholarly journals A Mixed-Method Case Study: Is there Only the Pictorial Input that Affects Word Retention?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Watcharee Paisart ◽  
Watjana Suriyatham
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
T Test ◽  
Recall Protocol ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Word Retention ◽  
Metacognitive Processing ◽  
Thai University

This mixed-method case study was conducted to probe how a set of pictures had an influence on a group of EFL university students’ retention of English words. Seven Thai university participants, enrolling in the course of English for Service Industry, were voluntarily engaged in the study. They took a pretest of 45 words they learned in class through the use of pictorial input for one semester, and right after the posttest, they recalled how they could remember the words in an individually stimulated recall protocol session. The result of T-test from Wilcoxon sign-ranked test showed that the pretest and posttest scores were significantly different at the 0.05 level. Interestingly, the qualitative accounts from the stimulated recall revealed that apart from the pictorial input the participants learned in class, they also employed other strategies to help them memorize the vocabulary. The findings from the study; therefore, shed lights on cognitive-metacognitive processing and strategies an individual EFL learner adopted, and most importantly, on how teachers can encourage their learners to orchestrate them and make the best use of pictures in order to learn ESP vocabulary effectively.

scholarly journals LISTENING COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTIES; A CASE STUDY OF EFL STUDENTS IN LISTENING CLASS

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Asep Hardiyanto ◽  
Mutia Tanjung ◽  
Sigit Suharjono
Keyword(s):  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
English Education ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Message Content ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
High Level

Listening skill in English is one of the most important skills in communication and educational process. However, listening skill is a skill that is not easily mastered by all non-native speaker students. The students need to know and understand the difficulties in listening process. Therefore, the current study aims to investigate the difficulties faced by the students dealing with listening comprehension. This research is a descriptive qualitative research with case study approach that examines six students in third semester of the English education study program in Universitas Muhammadiyah Kotabumi with three different proficiency levels: low, moderate, and high level. The results of this study showed that students with low level faced difficulties with unfamiliar words (message content), speed of speech (speaker), and lack of vocabulary (listener). Then in moderate level students felt difficult in the speed of speech (speaker) and noises (physical settings). Meanwhile, students with high level faced difficulty with the long spoken text (message content), variety of accents (speaker) and noises (physical settings). It can be concluded that the listening comprehension difficulties encountered by the students at tertiary level are different depending on their proficiency in English. Therefore, the implication of the current study is that the lecturer need to consider the information revealed in this study in order to be able to overcome the difficulties faced by the students.

scholarly journals Perspectives: Toward the Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications for Japanese English Teachers

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Komiya Samimy ◽  
Chiho Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
English Education ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Curricular Innovation ◽  
Japanese English

Although CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) was introduced into Japanese English education in the mid-1980s under the initiative of the Monbukagakusho (the National Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan), the implementation of CLT has been challenging for Japanese English teachers. This article explores possible sources for the difficulties that CLT has caused in Japan. It examines factors such as Japanese sociocultural, political, and educational contexts that have significant influence on curricular innovation. This article further argues that the underlying assumptions of CLT that are based on the native-speaker competence model are not compatible with the contexts of Japanese English education because these assumptions include native-speaker competence as a primary goal of second language acquisition. Recognizing the current status of English as an international language, the authors propose an alternative model based on the notion of intercultural communicative competence (Alptekin, 2002) and discuss how the model of intercultural communicative competence can be applied to Japanese English education. １９８０年代半ばから、文部科学省の指導の下で日本の英語教育にコミュニカティブ・アプローチが導入されているが、コミニュカティブ・アプローチの実践は日本の英語教師にとって依然として困難な試みである。本論はコミュニカティブ・アプローチが日本にもたらしている問題の要因を探るために、カリキュラムの改変に影響を及ぼす日本の社会文化的、政治的、教育的状況を検討する。さらに、母国語話者のコミュニケーション能力を前提とするコミュニカティブ・アプローチは、ネイティブのコミュニケーション能力を第二外国語習得の主な目標とする点で日本の英語教育に適さないと論じる。最後に、現在英語が果たしている国際語としての役割を認識した上で、異文化コニュニケーション能力の概念に基づくモデルを新たに提案し、このモデルがどのように日本の英語教育に応用できるのかを検討する。

scholarly journals STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVE OF USING ROLE PLAY TO DEVELOP SPEAKING SKILL

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Almira Mulyana
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Role Play ◽  
English Department ◽  
Ibn Khaldun ◽  
Know How ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Made In

This research was aimed know how was speaking skill was developed through a method based on students’ perspective. This was a qualitative design study by giving a questionnaires , interview, and observation to the English Department students. The data were collected from sixteen students from Faculty of Education majoring English Education at Ibn Khaldun Bogor University. The aims of this research is to find what the students’ perspective of role play method and what the effect that they felt from the method after they learned it. The instrument of this research is questionnaires form made in Google form. The data were analyzed by the researcher and the result of the research showed that more than 80% of Ibn Khaldun Bogor University students majoring English Department agree that Role Play method can be a fun method of learning to develop students' speaking skill. They conclude that role play has many positive impact on their speaking skill such as they felt more confident, their vocabulary increased, pronunciation they became much better.

scholarly journals Thai University Students’ Use of Yes/No Tokens in Spoken Interaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kornsak Tantiwich ◽  
Kemtong Sinwongsuwat
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Topic Shift ◽  
Interactional Functions ◽  
Spoken Interaction ◽  
Linguistic Framework ◽  
Thai University

Adopting the interactional linguistic framework, the study aimed at exploring the range and frequency of interactional functions of yes/no tokens used by Thai university students of A2 proficiency in their English conversation, and contrasting their use with that of English native speakers (ENSs). The data was derived from 83, two-three party role-play conversations of approximately three–five minutes long obtained from conversation classes that were transcribed and analyzed. The findings revealed the students’ use of yes tokens in the following order of functional frequency: acceptance, confirmative response, positive alignment, acknowledgment, topic shift and self-confirmation. By contrast, no tokens were employed most often to disconfirm/disagree, followed by doing disappointment, restatement and negative alignment. Additionally, the students appeared to overuse yes tokens to fulfill certain functions for which ENSs usually deployed other expressions, and had difficulty giving grammatical short answers with the tokens. Furthermore, unlike ENSs, they often used these tokens alone, repeatedly or redundantly with other expressions of the same functions. It was suggested that students be made aware of grammatical expressions that can co-occur with yes/no tokens in giving short answers, and especially of a wider range of expressions commonly used in a specific context and various contexts in which an expression can be appropriately used.

scholarly journals Intercultural Interaction in English: Taiwanese University Students’ Investment and Resistance in Culturally Mixed Groups

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402094186
Author(s):  
Shu-Wen Lan
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Reflective Journals ◽  
Intercultural Interaction ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Local Students ◽  
Mixed Groups ◽  
Repeated Contact

Despite increased diversity on campuses worldwide, research has documented a lack of intercultural interaction among university students. Culturally mixed groups have been found to be a promising means of promoting the rich, repeated contact necessary for intercultural interaction, but hardly any studies of local students’ perceptions of such groups have been conducted in the newly internationalized universities in Asia. Through the lens of an expanded model of investment, this study analyzes reflective journals and interviews with Taiwanese college students to examine their perceptions and experiences of culturally mixed groups. Findings indicate that the majority resisted non-native to non-native speaker intercultural interaction in these groups. This resistance was driven by their pro-standard English ideologies, traceable to the earliest stages of their English education, which promoted native-speaker models and unrealistic imagined communities of native-like speakers.

scholarly journals Multimedia-Assisted Learning in a Flipped Classroom: A Case Study of Autonomous Learning on EFL University Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (24) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Eko Aprianto ◽  
Oikurema Purwati ◽  
Syafi'ul Anam
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
English Education ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Successful Completion ◽  
Education Department

This current study purposed to investigate the use of multimedia-assisted learning in a flipped classroom for fostering the students’ autonomous learning on EFL University. The students are encouraged to learn independently by having multimedia learning sources and they are also stimulated to find their difficulties in the learning process. Meanwhile, teacher and students are discussing the solution from the students’ difficulties during their independent learning in the classroom. The successful completion of pre-learning depends on the students’ responsibilities and motivations. 15 students of the English Education department were involved as the participants in this study. The data were collected through observation, questionnaire, and semi-structured interview. The finding of this study showed that a flipped classroom by using multimedia-assisted learning helps the students stimulate their autonomous learning because the students feel free to explore their creativity through an independent learning atmosphere without any tension

scholarly journals “Puppetry and Opera Are Striking.” Students’ Experiences of Collaboration and Curiosity in Puppetry Opera as a Case Study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suvilehto Pirjo
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
University Students ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Literary Arts ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Centres

This paper will focus on the possibilities of puppetry and opera in early childhood education studies (ECE), and among children in day care in a class of twenty 4−5-year-olds. The research centres around 200 university students in the middle of a project on opera and puppetry in their ECE programme. Opera is about strong emotions (see Trevarthen 2012, 263), and puppetry is a vehicle to make feelings visible (Lintunen, 2009, Majaron 2012, 11, Scheel, 2012). Puppetry and opera can be used in collaboration, and they are combined in this ECE programme as a part of the university studies in drama and literary arts. A method called Pritney has been created to realize the project. The theoretical background consists of puppetry and literary arts. The paper will present some findings from cases in which puppetry and opera have been used experimentally with ECE students, and subsequently with kindergarten children. There is a need for collaborative encounters during the processes of puppetry and opera. Based on the observations and remarks of university students doing their puppetry and opera project, this paper considers the value of conveying puppetry and opera to a child audience as a stimulation for curiosity and emotions. All this reflection is followed by the examples of practice in ECE studies. Performing opera with puppets is beneficial. In summary, the artistic experiments created by puppetry and opera are valuable in transferring cultural heritage and creating aesthetic and pedagogical moments. There is also a short consideration of a project called “Rinnalla−Hand in Hand” (2018−2020) funded by Finnish ministry of education, in which the Pritney method is further developed (see also Suvilehto 2019).

scholarly journals The Impact of Javanesse Language to English Pronunciation Error: How and Why?

ELT-Lectura ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahmatika Kayyis ◽  
Ulfah Putri Intan Sari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Education Department ◽  
English Pronunciation ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this research is to investigate how and why Javanesse language has impact on to English Pronunciation Error? The design of the research was a case study in the form of qualitative research using the principle of contrastive analysis to analyze the data. The participants were chosen regarding to Javanese native speaker who learn English for the foreign language in semester three and five of English Education Department in STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung. Recording pronunciation test and interview were used to collect the data. Phonetics transcription online were used to find the error and transcribe it into phonetics symbol. As the findings, this research focuses on 50% errors. Javanese committed errors on /d/, /b/, /p/, /g/, stressing words at the middle, last. Morever, their problem in long vowel, voiced consonant, stressing word at the first, middle, and last, and falling and rising intonation as the result of their Javanese language. Moreover, the error were also influenced by age. Despite of the impact of mother tongue to English pronunciation was strong enough. Some method and technique can be applied to reduce students‟ problem in pronouncing English words.

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