scholarly journals Improving EFL Students' Speaking Proficiency and Motivation: A Hybrid Problem-based Learning Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ali Mohamed Kassem
Keyword(s):  
Proficiency Test ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Standardized Curriculum ◽  
Positive Effect

The present study used a Hybrid Problem-Based Learning (H-PBL) approach for teaching a Speaking Course to the First-Year students of the English Department at Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Previous research has proved the currently inappropriate teaching approaches and the lack of motivation to be the most significant reasons for EFL students' poor speaking proficiency. The lack of motivation is due to the traditional, rigid and tedious teaching techniques adopted in speaking classrooms and partly due to the standardized curriculum of the speaking course where there is no scope for instructors to change their teaching approach or introduce new ideas in the curriculum. The H-PBL approach has been proved to be an effective model for teaching language skills; however, the existing literature still lacks an actual action plan or a methodology to introduce this approach as a pedagogical remedy for motivating EFL students and improving their speaking proficiency. The study addressed this gap by recommending the use of H-PBL approach in EFL speaking classes. The study used a pre-post speaking proficiency test, a students' motivation questionnaire, interviews and observation sheets as data collection tools. Results revealed that the H-PBL approach has a positive effect on improving the students' speaking proficiency, students' motivation significantly increased and, eventually, students tended to be more self-directed and independent. Instructors also applauded the use of H-PBL approach but recommended adapting the curriculum and the teaching strategies to support this approach.

scholarly journals Qualitative Development of Students’ Digital Skills by Integrating a Spreadsheet Software in First Year Introduction to Engineering and Seminar Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Aziatul Niza Binti Sadikin ◽  
Azizul Azri Bin Mustaffa ◽  
Hasrinah Binti Hasbullah ◽  
Zaki Yamani Bin Zakaria ◽  
Mohd Kamaruddin Bin Abd Hamid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Learning Skill ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Spreadsheet Software ◽  
Development Of Students

The Introduction to Engineering (ITE) and Industrial Seminar and Profession (ISP) courses conducted at School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, are integrated courses which implement the Cooperative Problem-based Learning (CPBL) methods in the same semester. Based on this integrated courses, the main aim of this paper is to investigate the qualitative impact of spreadsheet hands-on seminar on the first year students' digital skill. At the beginning of the semester, students are given sustainability-based project to work on, which requires them to collect and to report the data in a series of presentations and written reports. In order to present those data, they need to use analysis tools such as a spreadsheet software. The students are introduced with some in-depth applications of the Microsoft Excel software through the seminar sessions in the ISP course. With the knowledge that the students gain, they are expected to implement it in the CPBL project. A qualitative approach has been adopted to implement the study. Student’s reflections were used as the data source to identify common attributes that they have managed to gain from seminar sessions. This study has found that all students had primarily learned about digital skills. They perceived hand-on activity during the seminar as a good platform to acquire knowledge on basic calculation and developed learning skill on Excel. Moreover, students recognized the skills they are learning will be useful in other courses and future careers.

The role of self-regulation in the professional choice of a personality

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
С.А. Лысуенко
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The University

В статье обсуждаются вопросы, связанные с особенностями профессионального выбора выпускников общеобразовательных организаций. Представлены результаты исследования, позволяющие определить роль осознанной саморегуляции активности молодых людей, оказавшихся в ситуации профессионального выбора (на примере студентов педагогического вуза). В исследовании приняли участие 302 студента первого курса, обучающихся по направлению подготовки 44.03.01 «Педагогическое образование». В качестве инструментария были использованы методика «Мотивация учения студентов педагогического вуза» С. А. Пакулиной и М. В. Овчинникова и опросник «Стиль саморегуляции поведения» В. И. Моросановой. Данные, полученные в процессе исследования, были структурированы, обработаны и проинтерпретированы с применением математических методов. Было установлено, что студенты первого курса, совершившие при поступлении в вуз профессиональный выбор с учетом своих интересов и склонностей, обладают сформировавшейся потребностью продумывать способы своих действий и поведения для достижения намеченных целей, а план их действий отличается детализированностью и развернутостью. Также им свойственны самостоятельность при проектировании способов достижения индивидуальных целей, гибкость в случае возникновения непредвиденных обстоятельств, развитая адекватная оценка себя и полученных результатов. По итогам исследования был сделан вывод о том, что наличие сформированной системы осознанной саморегуляции произвольной активности у индивида, находящегося на этапе выбора профессии, позволяет совершить более правильный профессиональный выбор, что, в свою очередь, является одним из условий актуализации профессионально-личностного потенциала. The article discusses issues related to the peculiarities of the professional choice of graduates of public education organizations. There are results of the study presented, which allow us to determine the role of conscious self-regulation of the activity of young people who find themselves in a situation of having to make a professional choice (on the example of students of a pedagogical university). The research involved 302 first-year students studying in the field of training 44.03.01 «Pedagogical Education». As research tools, the «Motivation of teaching pedagogical university students» methodology by S.А. Pakulina and M.V. Ovchinnikov and the questionnaire «Style of self-regulation of behaviour» by V.I. Morosanova were used. The data obtained during the research were organized, processed and interpreted using mathematical methods. It was found that first-year students who, upon entering the university, made a professional choice more consciously, taking into account their interests and inclinations have a well-developed need to think through their actions and behaviour to achieve their goals and their action plan is detailed. They are also characterized by independence in designing an action plan to achieve individual goals, flexibility in the situation of unforeseen circumstances, an advanced adequate assessment of themselves and the results they achieved. As the main conclusion, the following is formulated: the possession of a developed system of conscious self-regulation of arbitrary activity in an individual who is at the stage of choosing a profession allows him to make an adequate professional choice, which, in turn, is one of the conditions for the actualization of professional and personal potential.

scholarly journals EFL STUDENT’S PROBLEMS WITH PARAGRAPH WRITING AT TAY DO UNIVERSITY, VIETNAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thi Tra My Ly ◽  
Thi Thuy Hang Nguyen ◽  
Thi Minh Uyen Phan ◽  
Thi Thuy Ha Dinh ◽  
Thuy Vi Huynh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Grammatical Structures

This paper studied problems in EFL students’ paragraph writing. The research participants were first-year students of English in Tay Do University (TDU). To achieve the desired aims of the current study, the researcher combined both qualitative and quantitative methods, using questionnaires, interviews, and observations as the main instruments. The researcher used the package of social sciences (SPSS) for analysis. Research results showed that the freshmen at TDU often encountered problems in writing paragraphs. These accounted for grammatical structures, vocabulary, and coherence. Basing on the research results, students could recognize their difficulties when writing and find some new ways to overcome them. It is suggested that teachers should find and update some new teaching methods so as to develop students’ paragraph writing skills. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0920/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals The Impact of Learning Environment on EFL Students’ Academic Achievement: A study of Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting Academic Achievement

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elmakki AMIRI ◽  
Abderrahim El KARFA
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Academic Achievements ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The Impact

It is worth pointing out that learning a foreign language in a multicultural context is a long and complex undertaking. Several factors influence whether or not English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students can accurately perceive and produce the foreign language. These variables can potentially contribute to the success and, or failure in learning and acquiring a foreign language. Given the Moroccan educational system, the research provided minimal insight into the relationship between those factors and language achievement. The present study’s aim, therefore, was to investigate the environmental factors that affect students’ academic performance. It also aimed to find out how these variables affect students’ academic achievements. To achieve this aim, data have been collected via open-ended questionnaires, and interviews addressed mainly to First Year Students of Master Programs, Department of English, FLDM, USMBA-Fez. The findings have shown that students’ academic achievements were significantly positively/negatively linked with the environmental factors, namely societal, home/family and school/classroom variables. The findings also revealed that the more highly sophisticated the social environment is, the more likely it is to foster EFL students’ academic achievements. In addition, the more similarity exists between the students’ cultures, the more successful the learning is. This study also showed that the development of EFL proficiency is a product of contextual factors influence. As such, the study concludes with several implications that brought up for possible effective change in the future to enhance the learning environment atmosphere, boost students’ academic achievements, and, therefore, achieve better results.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Subject “Yakugaku Nyumon” for First-year Students Constructed with Lectures and Problem-based Learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 136 (7) ◽  
pp. 1051-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kouya Yamaki ◽  
Masafumi Ueda ◽  
Kumiko Ueda ◽  
Noriaki Emoto ◽  
Nobuaki Mizutani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students

scholarly journals A Cognitive-Semantic Analysis of Preposition on: An Experimental Study at University of Baghdad

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sura Muttlak Nasser
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Cognitive Semantic ◽  
The University ◽  
Analyze Data

This study is descriptive quantitative research by using a test to collect the data needed. Iraqi English as a foreign language (EFL) students face difficulties in differentiating between using prepositions correctly. This study has been performed in the Department of English at College of Education for Women, University of Baghdad, to diagnosis the difficulties of English prepositions that face Iraqi first-year students at the University since multi-uses and meanings of prepositions. For Iraqi EFL students, prepositions regarded as a problematic criterion. This study aims at examining the problems that EFL students commit mistakes in using English prepositions of place on. It also highlights the causes of those problems. Correct handling proposition is not because most of them have different functions straightforward, and different prepositions have the same uses. For this reason, the researcher adopted pre and post-tests to evaluate the output of the means of the students' results. The researcher used SPSS to analyze data.

scholarly journals EFEKTIVITAS PEMBELAJARAN BERDASARKAN MASALAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN AKTIVITAS DAN KEMAMPUAN PEMECAHAN MASALAH MATEMATIKA SISWA SMA

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Sumarti
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Minimum Standard ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
Answering Questions

During teaching and learning process, the students tended to be passive and the class was dominated by the teacher. This situation made the students’ activity in learning became low as they just memorized the concepts instead of understood them. This research was aimed at improving students’ activity and ability in problem solving in Math through problem-based learning model.This was a classroom action research which was conducted in two cycles. The data of this research was collected through observation sheet and a test. The data gotten then was analyzed descriptively. The result of the research showed that the use of problem-based learning model could improve the first year students’ activity and ability of problem solving in Math at SMA Negeri 1 Pekanbaru. Students’ activities in completing LKS, asking questions to the teachers and peers, answering questions from the teachers and peers, presenting the result of group discussion and drawing a conclusion had been in very good category. In problem solving, the percentage of the students who had gained the minimum standard of achievement (KKM) improved from 61,30% in the first cycle into 82,14% in the second cycle.

scholarly journals The Influence of Intelligence on Student's Speaking Skills

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
Wira Kafryawan ◽  
Abdul Hakim Yassi ◽  
Nasmilah Nasmilah
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Intelligence Test ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Speaking Skills

Intelligence is one of psychological factors which affect the speaking proficiency. Therefore, this study aims at finding out whether or not there is a significant correlation between students’ intelligence and their speaking skills. With regard to the methodology applied in this study, a correlation research was used to determine whether, and to what degree, a relationship exists between two or more quantifiable variables in form of quantitative method. Purposive sampling was used in the correlational research due to the assumption that the selected students were able to give information or data in relation to the research problems based on the research design. Thus, 40 students were chosen as the samples. The study was conducted at the first-year students of SMA Negeri 2 Makassar. Moreover, the quantifiable data were obtained from speaking test based on the Heaton assessment and intelligence test based on the Barret assessment which were distributed to the students. The data were then analyzed by Pearson product moment. The findings showed that there was a significant correlation between students’ intelligence and their speaking skills in degree of high correlation. In other words, the assumption views that the higher intelligence belongs to students the better ability they speak.

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