scholarly journals Multimodal Pedagogies in Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education: Perceptions, Challenges and Strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meryem Laadem ◽  
Hind Mallahi
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Learner Engagement ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Multimodal Pedagogy ◽  
Educational Concept ◽  
Multimodal Information ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Verbal Message

The rapid growth and renovation from print-based to multimodal information has still not received sufficient attention from the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). In fact, a multimodal pedagogy is a new evolving educational concept and practice. It is regarded as a source of creativity and modernity for both teachers and students. It actually refers to the paradigm revolutions in teaching based on what could be useful, effective and relevant to students’ needs and interests and its development will ground the principles of student-centered approach. In essence, multimodal pedagogies work across the linguistic and visual modes to fulfill the purposes of the text and the context in order to appropriately organize, develop information and ideas, and convey meaning. The present paper advocates the need to reconsider ESP through multimodal practice to ensure new opportunities of interactive learner engagement. This means that language learners should learn how to exploit semiotic modes beyond the verbal message in order to effectively enhance their awareness and facilitate comprehension. In short, this paper will briefly define modes, the issues of how multimodal environments can affect ESP and how multimodal modes can have an impact on students’ motivation and teacher-student interaction.

Language Learners and Mobile Technology

2016 ◽  
pp. 22-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh Al-Shehri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Learning Platforms

In order to understand the influence of mobile social media vs. formal learning platforms on creating effective student-student and teacher-student communication channels and linguistic outputs, this study was conducted. Using a qualitative approach, a number of 30 English language university teachers were interviewed. Evidence from their mobile and non-mobile interaction with their students was analyzed to support data from the interviews. The study evaluates the potential of both formal and informal communication mediums to maintain student-centered language learning experience. The study concludes that teachers still need to be aware of the potential of mobile technology and social media for language learning, and that there was a tendency among some teachers to implement formal technology tools for their teaching.

Language Learners and Mobile Technology

2016 ◽  
pp. 713-740
Author(s):  
Saleh Al-Shehri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Learning Platforms

In order to understand the influence of mobile social media vs. formal learning platforms on creating effective student-student and teacher-student communication channels and linguistic outputs, this study was conducted. Using a qualitative approach, a number of 30 English language university teachers were interviewed. Evidence from their mobile and non-mobile interaction with their students was analyzed to support data from the interviews. The study evaluates the potential of both formal and informal communication mediums to maintain student-centered language learning experience. The study concludes that teachers still need to be aware of the potential of mobile technology and social media for language learning, and that there was a tendency among some teachers to implement formal technology tools for their teaching.

scholarly journals Exploring Wordless Feedback Mechanisms in an EAP course in an English-medium University: An Ethnographically-oriented Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Osei Yaw Akoto ◽  
Benjamin Amoakohene
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Feedback System ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Composition And Rhetoric ◽  
Feedback Mechanisms ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Effective Teaching And Learning

Feedback is considered an integral part of the writing process. It has thus engendered the attention of scholars in discourse analysis, applied linguistics, language education, composition and rhetoric studies, and English for Specific Purposes. This attention, however, is heavily tilted towards worded feedback, at the expense of wordless feedback. Thus, this study explored the use of wordless feedback mechanisms in an EAP course in an English-medium university in Ghana. Thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine scripts of students’ essays, and interviews with academics and students constituted the datasets for the study. By doing a qualitative content analysis, we extracted wordless feedback codes from the scripts.  The study yielded that teachers used tick, ring, vertical lines, arrows, question marks, carets, and underline as feedback mechanisms. The responses from the teachers and students on the use of these codes indicated that there were variations at three levels: inter-teacher, inter-student and teacher-student, which resulted to miscommunication in the feedback system. The study calls for a standardized feedback code, and education of teachers and students on this system of feedback for effective teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Top-Up Students Second Language Talk Time through Vlogs

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beena Anil
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Student Collaboration ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teachers And Students

In this technological era, students need a change in everything especially in learning a subject which is considered to be a difficult one for second language learners (SLL). The advent of internet at all levels of learning in the educational arena is a boon to English teachers to improve the communicative skills of students. This paper shows how Vlog (a fusion of video and blog) to be used in an English teaching classroom to improve students’ oral communication. Vlog helps students to practice English even outside the classroom, give instant teacher’s feedback about their performance and can watch fellow students’ performance. This paper discusses how teachers and students can very easily use vlog by understanding the computer mechanism. Keywords: teaching English, communicative skills, Vlog, teacher- student collaboration

ПРАГМАТИЧНИЙ ПОТЕНЦІАЛ НАТИВНОЇ РЕКЛАМИ: ФОРМИ, ТРЕНДИ (НА ПРИКЛАДІ НАТИВНОГО КОНТЕНТУ В СОЦІАЛЬНІЙ МЕРЕЖІ FACEBOOK ЩОДО БРЕНДА ФАКУЛЬТЕТУ ЖУРНАЛІСТИКИ ЗНУ)

2020 ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
V. Kovpak ◽  
N. Trotsenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
The Social ◽  
National University ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

<div><p><em>The article analyzes the peculiarities of the format of native advertising in the media space, its pragmatic potential (in particular, on the example of native content in the social network Facebook by the brand of the journalism department of ZNU), highlights the types and trends of native advertising. The following research methods were used to achieve the purpose of intelligence: descriptive (content content, including various examples), comparative (content presentation options) and typological (types, trends of native advertising, in particular, cross-media as an opportunity to submit content in different formats (video, audio, photos, text, infographics, etc.)), content analysis method using Internet services (using Popsters service). And the native code for analytics was the page of the journalism department of Zaporizhzhya National University on the social network Facebook. After all, the brand of the journalism department of Zaporozhye National University in 2019 celebrates its 15th anniversary. The brand vector is its value component and professional training with balanced distribution of theoretical and practical blocks (seven practices), student-centered (democratic interaction and high-level teacher-student dialogue) and integration into Ukrainian and world educational process (participation in grant programs).</em></p></div><p><em>And advertising on social networks is also a kind of native content, which does not appear in special blocks, and is organically inscribed on one page or another and unobtrusively offers, just remembering the product as if «to the word». Popsters service functionality, which evaluates an account (or linked accounts of one person) for 35 parameters, but the main three areas: reach or influence, or how many users evaluate, comment on the recording; true reach – the number of people affected; network score – an assessment of the audience’s response to the impact, or how far the network information diverges (how many share information on this page).</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words:</em></strong><em> nativeness, native advertising, branded content, special project, communication strategy.</em></p>

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING RECOUNT ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH PEER REVIEW TECHNIQUE

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Surya Rahman Nasution ◽  
Masitowarni Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
School Level ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Thinking Process

Writing, regarded as a thinking process enables language learners to explore and transform their ideas into words in accurate and appropriate ways. Although it has been taught from the Elementary school level up to the higher level of education, English teachers and students encounter various challenges. For students, they still get difficulties in writing a text even after being taught. For teachers, correcting students’ writing increases their workload. Therefore, how to reduce the load of teaching writing and to decrease students’ difficulties in writing have become important problem to solve. Through applying a technique in teaching writing, this research aimed to explore whether the application of peer review technique can improve students’ achievement in writing recount text. The method applied in this research was a classroom action research. The subject of the research was X-4 class SMA Negeri 21 Medan. The instruments of collecting the data were writing tasks as quantitative data while observation sheet, questionnaire sheet, diary notes and interview as qualitative data. The finding showed that Peer Review Technique gives contribution to improve students’ achievement in writing recount text. Keywords: Achievement, Writing, Recount Text, Peer Review Technique

scholarly journals Modeling and Analysis on Teacher-Student Relationship

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Li Xu ◽  
Qi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Model ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Reciprocal Relations ◽  
Modeling And Analysis ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teacher Student Relationship ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Student Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

Although the teacher-student relationship has been addressed in some studies, the cooperation or reciprocal relations between teachers and students have not been explored sufficiently. In this paper, a difference equation model is applied to express the relationship, stability analysis at the positive steady state of the discrete model is done to verify that the performance output is not empty, and hypothesis testing is conducted to show the validity of the model by means of sample data from a college. Then some reasonable suggestions are proposed to improve the performance output of teachers and students.

scholarly journals Conceptions of Learning and Teaching for Faculty Who Teach Basic Science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Carvalho ◽  
Francis C. Dane ◽  
Shari A. Whicker
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Basic Science ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Conceptions Of Learning ◽  
Learner Engagement ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Teacher Centered

Abstract Introduction Conceptions of learning and teaching refer to what faculty think about teaching effectiveness. Approaches to teaching refer to the methods they use to teach. Both conceptions and approaches range from student-centered/learning-focused (active learner engagement) to teaching-centered/content-focused (passive learner engagement). This study explored how faculty teaching experience influenced faculty conceptions and their approaches to teaching. The authors hypothesized that more experienced educators appreciate and apply active learning approaches. Methods The authors used a cross-sectional survey to collect anonymous data from the Basic Science faculty at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTCSOM). The survey included the Conceptions of Learning and Teaching scale (COLT; Jacobs et al. 2012) and demographic information. They assessed instrument reliability with Cronbach’s alpha and examined relationships between variables with correlation and chi-square and group differences with ANOVA. Results Thirty-eight percent (50/130) of faculty responded to the survey. COLT scores for student-centered (4.06 ± 0.41) were significantly higher (p < 0.001) than teacher-centered (3.12 ± 0.6). Teacher-centered scores were lower (p < 0.05) for younger (30–39, 2.65 ± 0.48) than older faculty (50–59, 3.57 ± 0.71) and were negatively correlated with using multiple teaching methods (p = 0.022). However, 83% (39/50) reported using both traditional lectures and active approaches. Discussion Faculty conceptions about teaching showed appreciation for active learning, but a tendency to use traditional teaching methods interspersed with student-centered ones. Teaching experience was not related to faculty conceptions but was related to their teaching approaches. The amount of time dedicated to teaching was related to the appreciation of active learning, and young teachers were more student-oriented.

Teachers as Victims: An Interactional Analysis of the Teacher's Role in Educating Atypical Learners

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Landrum
Keyword(s):  
Regular Education ◽  
Teacher Characteristics ◽  
Student Relationships ◽  
Interactional Model ◽  
Teacher Student Relationships ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Coercion Theory ◽  
Teacher’S Role ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Interactional Analysis

Research examining teachers' standards and tolerance is reviewed with respect to an interactional model of teacher-student relationships. Because interactional models suggest that participants in behavioral interchanges influence each other reciprocally, the implications of teacher characteristics research relative to the mainstreaming of difficult-to-teach students is considered. In particular, the application of coercion theory to the relationships between teachers and students suggests that, just as mothers are often victims in coercive relationships with their problem children, teachers may also become victims of their students and the systems that hold them responsible for educating atypical learners. Finally, the implications of emerging research on teacher characteristics are discussed in light of the increased attention that calls for reform have focused on issues surrounding the integration of handicapped students into regular education settings.

scholarly journals The Ingroup–Outgroup Relationship Influences Their Humanity: A Moderation Analysis of Status and Gender

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matías Arriagada-Venegas ◽  
David Pérez-Jorge ◽  
Eva Ariño-Mateo
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Variables ◽  
High Status ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teacher Student Relationship ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Student Relationship ◽  
Ingroup Outgroup ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Analyze Data

The aim of this study is to examine whether gender and status moderate the teacher–student relationship (TSR) and the perception of dehumanization in teachers and students. A total of 528 participants from a university in Laguna (74% students and 26% professors) completed a questionnaire based on the TSR scale, organizational dehumanization, and demographic variables. PROCESS, a mediation and moderation package, was used to analyze data. The results indicated that ingroup–outgroup relationship significantly influences the perception of organizational dehumanization (p &lt; 0.001). In addition, gender (p &lt; 0.001) and status (p &lt; 0.001) have moderating roles. Specifically, female students are at most risk of perceiving themselves dehumanized, and males with high status (teachers) are less vulnerable to dehumanization. These findings are highly significant for the advancement of knowledge of the intergroup relationship and organizational dehumanization and have practical implications for teachers and students.

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