“Teaching Strategies and Techniques to Motivate Students Learning English in the Preparatory Schools – Qatar”, an Action Study

Educational process has a great impact on the motivation of the learners, and these incentives (motives) are under the control of the teacher who directs the educational process. Accordingly, this action research is carried out to examine the effectiveness of certain teaching/ learning strategies and techniques applied for grade nine students chosen from Fatima Al-Zahra Preparatory School- Qatar to raise their motivation for learning English language. The findings show that external motivations (extrinsic) are among the most important factors in the success of learning English language, which are compensatory factors in the absence of the spontaneous desire to learn that language. The selected students have undergone varieties of active learning strategies, resources and tensive use of modern technology. The methods that are implemented in this study, include the designed questionnaire and the official exams sheets conducted on the targeted students. However, both qualitative and quantitative approaches are used to analyze the data. The present study shows that the students are academically weak in English language, not well motivated to learn English, the learning strategies, resources, and techniques utilized in the classroom proved to be effective to motivate the students and are reflected on the academic performance of the students. Therefore, the data analysis of the success ratio among the targeted students has shown an increase from 41.5% to 91.5% after the application of new strategies and techniques.

Impact of Formative Assessment Practices on Student Motivation for Learning the English Language

This study aimed at exploring the impact of formative assessment practices on student motivation for learning the English language. As Leahy, Lyon, Thompson, and Wiliam (2005) stated, education needs to change its function from collecting the results of right or wrong, and to encourage teachers in gathering information that will affect the educational decisions. This study is a non-experimental, correlational study, to describe the relationship between formative assessment practices and motivation for leaning. The instrument used was a questionnaire on high school students from public and private schools, who were selected randomly by stratified sampling. They belonged to three major high schools of Durres, Albania. The findings of this study showed that factors like strategic questions used by the teacher during formative assessment, student’s portfolio, self-assessment, and peer assessment affected positively the motivation for learning the English language. The results of the regression equation revealed that from four independent variables, the factor that had the greatest impact on motivation for learning were strategic questions used by the teacher during formative assessment, followed by self-assessment, peer assessment and student’s portfolio. This study identified ways of intervention to promote motivation for learning the English language. The study will contribute in the Albanian context showing how assessment practices made an impact on student motivation. It will help educational institutions and policy makers, foreign language teachers in improving the assessment practices to promote student motivation in learning the English language.

The Employability and Career Development of Finance and Trade College Graduates

Employability is a vital aspect for human development in career fields. In order to explore the factors affecting the employability of finance and trade graduates in higher vocational colleges, the researchers focused on human development in educational settings and conducted a piece of quantitative research within nine higher vocational colleges. The study uses descriptive statistical analysis to demonstrate the sample structure, using t-test, rank sum test, and chi-square test to assess the variables. It also adopts exploratory factor analysis to identify the classification of both educational practice and employability. Then, a multivariable linear regression model was adopted to examine the relationships between three main factors as well as the employability and career development of finance and trade graduates. The findings imply that the soft skills and basic skills of finance and trade college graduates have immensely improved through educational practice; graduates with high motivation for learning could enhance their soft skills and more internships or club engagement brings stronger professional skills. Based on these results, higher vocational colleges, enterprises, policymakers, teachers, and finance and trade graduates will benefit from the findings related to the reform of educational practice for strengthening graduate employability and human development. The originality of this paper is the conceptual evolution of finance and trade college graduate employability, as well as the empirical analysis on educational practice, student engagement, and family background affecting their human development.

Analysis of Literary Situation and Reconstruction of the Writing Subject in Literary Education by Educational Psychology

Educational psychology focuses on the laws of change in the knowledge, skills, and individual psychology of the educatees in the process of education and teaching. Writing teaching is a key and difficult point in literature teaching. Nowadays, it is common for students to be afraid and tired of writing in school literature education. In view of these problems, the present work optimizes the teaching mode of writing from the perspective of reconstructing the writing subject. Through literature research and interdisciplinary analysis, a questionnaire is designed to analyze the literary situation and the reconstruction of writing subjects in literary education. The questionnaire is aimed at three aspects, namely the hidden educational effect of teachers’ personality charm, the influencing factors of students’ psychology and students’ learning effect, and the influencing factors of psychology of the communication between teachers and students and teachers’ teaching effect. Then, the changes of students’ performance in literary class in these three aspects before and after using the teaching strategy of writing subject reconstruction are analyzed. Finally, the changes of students’ grades in the literary course are investigated. In this experiment, a total of 400 questionnaires were distributed, and a total of 389 questionnaires were collected. The survey results show that the number of students who feel the classroom atmosphere is active increases by 10%, the number of students who listen carefully and take notes increases by 7%, and 45% of students have improved their grades. Besides, after the implementation of the teaching strategy, most students change their attitude to the literature course, become more active, and significantly improve their motivation for learning. This study has a certain reference value for the analysis of literary situations and the reconstruction of writing subjects in literary education from the perspective of educational psychology.

DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING BOOK FOR DYSLEXIA THROUGH LEARNING STYLE INTERVENTION ASSISTED BY AUDIO VISUAL MEDIA AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ABSTRACTThe purpose of the study wasto develop textbooks for dyslexia through learning style intervention assisted by audio-visual media for elementary school students. This research is Research and Development. The subjects in this study were dyslexic students at SDN Brambang Karangawen Demak with a total of three of the third grade students. The result of the study is that the type of teaching book needed an audio-visual-assisted with link and video barcode that related to the students’ learning style. Each chapter has three video links, namely visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles. The teaching book material consists of reading, writing, drawing, directions, and story. The reason for using the teaching book is that children don’t have learning resources or books to practice reading and writing as their handbooks. Audio-visual aided teaching book are expected to be more interesting for dyslexic in order to they have a motivation for learning. The conclusion of study is based on teachers and students’ need analysis. They want to the development of teachingbooks for dyslexic children through learning style interventions assisted by audio-visual media. It is needed to help reading difficulties, especially for dyslexic children.Keywords: Teaching book, Dyslexia, Leraning style, Audio Visual Media

MOTIVATION FOR LEARNING AND ENGLISH CONVERSATION THROUGH FILM MEDIA WITH DUBBED AND SUBTITLED METHODS

The key to inspiring pupils to study and communicate in English is to provide engaging educational media and effective learning methods. One of the most intriguing is the use of cinema media as a teaching medium. The film tells an intriguing story in the style of graphic animation and includes auditory sound to captivate students who want to learn English. Furthermore, effective learning strategies can help students understand what they are being taught. One of the learning approaches that can be utilized to urge students to communicate in English is to use dubbing and subtitling. Dubbing is a technique for imitating the voices of actors in films who perform certain parts. Because they appear to be acting out film dialogue scenes depicted by actors, this helps increase pupils' interest in conversing in English. The method of showing film dialogue at the bottom of the screen is known as subtitles. In other words, as a tool for students to absorb the material supplied, teaching media and learning methods are linked and mutually beneficial. Students can be helped to engage in language learning while also being motivated to speak in English using effective and efficient media and approaches.

Projects in Computer Science Training – An Example with Numerical Series

When it comes to teaching computer science, working on software projects is a quite natural pedagogical approach. Its main advantage is the increased motivation for learning, which arises from the opportunity to immediately see the application of acquired knowledge. In this paper, the authors share their experience of creating a project in computer science for high school students, making a cross-curricular connection with mathematics. Emphasis is placed on interactive teaching methods in the classroom.

Pedagogical conditions for the formation of motivation for sports activity in a children's dance group

In the modern world, more and more attention is paid to the sports development of the child. Sport not only develops a child’s physical abilities, but also his moral and strong-willed qualities that will help overcome life difficulties in the future. Therefore, it is necessary to form motivation for learning and sports activities in children from an early age. The purpose of the article is to identify pedagogical conditions for the formation of sports motivation in children. The research methodology is an activity approach that sets the benchmark for the inclusion of a child in a variety of areas of emotionally saturated socially recognized and socially approved activities. A teacher is an authority for pupils in the case when he is as passionate about his subject as possible and has the deepest knowledge and is demanding to do his job. Observing the work of coaches shows that they do not always pay due attention to the motivation of students. When a child learns successfully, he is praised by both the coach and parents, he is set as an example to other children. Moreover, in a group where the coach’s opinion is not just decisive, but the only authoritative opinion that everyone takes into account, these aspects come to the fore.