ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Intercultural Competence in ELT Contexts: A Study of EFL Teachers&apos; Perceptions
Author: Bouslama, Abdelhak
Date: 2018-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cultural Awareness,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Language Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Intercultural Communication,Teaching Methods,Teacher Effectiveness,Barriers,Language Proficiency,Foreign Countries,Global Approach,Citizenship

Intercultural competence (IC) has been promoted by many educationalists as the most exalted type of competence in modern foreign language teaching (FLT). Among the difficulties to incorporate IC into FLT can be due to the fact that teachers may not have sufficient knowledge on the concept. To test this hypothesis, we attempt to answer the following question: how do Algerian English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers perceive the concepts of culture and IC as well as the objectives of the intercultural approach (ICA) in English language teaching (ELT) contexts? The present study proceeds to analyze teachers' knowledge, perceptions and understanding of the concepts of culture, IC and the ICA and seeks to identify any potential deficiencies that may hinder effective IC teaching. The main aim of the study is then to help teacher trainers establish training programs that address more efficiently targeted teachers' needs with regard to IC teaching. This paper will hopefully assist in improving the implementation of IC into FLT classrooms. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with eight teachers and then analyzed thematically. The findings revealed that many EFL teachers displayed a lack of theoretical understanding concerning the ICA and its objectives, which may well impact negatively on their IC teaching practices. Teacher educators therefore need to focus more on updating EFL teachers' on both the theoretical and practical levels that learners are today expected to grow as cultural mediators equipped with a set of skills rather than as native-like proficient language users.
Investigating Teacher Written Corrective Feedback as a Formative Assessment Tool
Author: Said, Khalid
Date: 2018-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Feedback (Response),Written Language,Teacher Student Relationship,Language Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Error Correction,Teaching Methods,Formative Evaluation,Correlation,Writing Evaluation,Writing Instruction,Foreign Countries

The present study seeks to lay the foundations for a firmly-grounded understanding of Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) as a Formative Assessment (FA) tool through student writing. More specifically yet, it is concerned with examining the intricate correlation between Moroccan English Language Teachers' (ELT) attitudes and practices with respect to the way they understand and apply FA by means of WCF on students' written productions. To that end, the study seeks to investigate this issue in the light of the following guiding questions: What beliefs do Moroccan ELT teachers hold about FA and WCF? How do these teachers provide WCF to their students during the writing lesson? To address these questions, we have opted for a mixed method approach that includes questionnaires for 110 teachers, document analysis of 30 writing productions and a follow- up semi-structured interviews with teachers. Date has been interpreted through an Explanatory Sequential Design. Inspired by Lee's (2009) analytical model and Perumanathan (2014) study, major findings have been presented regarding mismatches. These findings have revealed strong mismatches between teachers espoused beliefs concerning WCF, as a formative assessment tool, and their actual classroom practices. Finally, the study sets some implications for teachers, supervisors underlining the implementation of WCF in classroom practices.
University Students Academic Usage of Facebook. Case Study: Licence 2 English Students, Mostaganem University
Author: Ghermaoui, Amel
Date: 2018-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Case Studies,Social Media,Universities,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English for Academic Purposes,Social Networks,Teaching Methods,Learning Processes,Online Courses,Instructional Effectiveness,Student Attitudes,Language Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Barriers,Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students

Last decade has witnessed the rapid popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and College students constitute a large population of Facebook users. Advancement in telecommunication and information technology has resulted in a tremendous impact on teaching and learning. Accordingly, university education has started to benefit from online learning platforms. The revolutionary progress that the internet has known is giving a modern dimension to the teaching process, thus, facilitating university students' learning. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the extent to which Facebook can be an effective means to distribute academic content to university students. Department of English of Mostaganem University is involved in this study. The Study combines quantitative with qualitative types of research. Quantitate research involves distributing a survey in the form of a questionnaire among License 2 students department of English as well as teachers to examine to what extent Facebook can be used for academic purposes. Qualitative research is dedicated to the analysis and observation of students' Facebook group page. The results showed that Students confirm that Facebook is a useful tool to distribute and share academic knowledge yet there are still many obstacles that hinder its use at the university context. On another hand, the present research suggests some helping solutions to enhance Facebook educational use among university students and their teachers. Future research may include a larger population from every Department of Mostaganem University to ensure generalizability of the study's findings.
Towards an Analytical Model in Critical Pragmatics
Author: Al-Hindawi, Fareed Hameed
Date: 2018-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Models,Pragmatics,Teaching Methods,Speech Acts,Racial Bias,Gender Bias,Political Attitudes,Discourse Analysis,North Americans,Language Usage,Social Attitudes

Aspects like power, dominance or ideology affect our choice of words in addition to other contextual factors (such as settings, participants and so on). The power we enjoy as social actors or the ideology we adhere to concerning any issue in life may play a crucial role in our language production or interpretation. Issuing a certain speech act rather than another or producing one impolite form rather than a polite one owning to such aspects falls within the realm of critical pragmatics. It is one analytical methodology where critical issues are examined in terms of the pragmatic phenomena to explore how the latter aid in the manifestation of the former. It attempts to answer this question: what are the most common pragmatic phenomena that reveal how racists or sexists pass on their critical ideologies? It aims to develop an analytical model for critical pragmatics and identify the common pragmatic themes utilized. The study is qualitative. It confines itself to the political discourse in the American context. The analysis of the data proves the workability of the model that has been developed by the study. It also shows that various pragmatic phenomena can be utilized to unravel critical issues.
Rebuild Classroom Teaching Values
Author: Ye, Lan
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Attitudes,Values,Foreign Countries,Social Development,Educational Change,Elementary School Teachers,Student Development,Teaching Methods

Educational activities cannot avoid the issue of value. The research on &quot;new basic education&quot; also discusses contemporary Chinese social development and educational values reform. This article proposes to rebuild classroom teaching values. This value's core concept is: the current value of classroom teaching in China's primary education needs to be transformed from a single transmission of ready-made knowledge presented in textbooks to a generation that can actively and healthy development in contemporary society. Its primary contents are: expand the rich educational value of subjects; reorganize the teaching content according to the realization of the educational value; comprehensively design flexible teaching content
How Does Physical Exercise Affect Academic Performance? The Mediating Role of Non-Cognitive Abilities
Author: Li, Wenye
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Exercise,Academic Achievement,Elementary School Students,Middle School Students,Regression (Statistics),Personality Measures,Personality Traits,Foreign Countries

Previous studies have found that good physical exercise can promote academic performance, but the underlying mechanism behind this lacks large-scale empirical data. Based on this, we used the 2020 Jiangsu Province academic quality monitoring data to construct an OLS regression. Then, the non-cognitive abilities variable was built with the NEO-FFI Theory, and the mediation effect diagram was drawn through the Amos22.0 software. The study found that: (i) Physical exercise brought academic improvement to elementary and middle school students. (ii) The influence mechanism of physical exercise was different between elementary school and middle school. Students at the elementary school were directly and indirectly affected. (iii) In non-cognitive specific dimensions, openness played a significant and great mediating role.
The Role of the Adult Educator in Eliminating Internal Psychological Barriers in Adult Learning
Author: Pastogianni, Maria
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Adult Educators,Barriers,Psychological Patterns,Adult Learning,Teacher Role,Emotional Response,Foreign Countries,Self Esteem

The aim of this research is to examine, on the one hand, the internal learning barriers for adults that are derived from their emotions about their educational programme, and on the other, the role of the adult educator in eliminating these obstacles. Emotions are integrally linked to the learning process and influence the successful outcome of educational goals. As a result of the steadily increasing number of lifelong learning educational programmes, research into the emotions of adult learners is valuable as they differ significantly to those of younger students. At the same time, the role of the adult educator cannot be merely to transmit knowledge, but must also promote and motivate learning. The sample consisted of 102 adults attending either postgraduate programmes or training sessions during the time of the study. The quantitative data collection comprised 92 questionnaires, while the qualitative consisted of 10 semi-structured individual interviews. In this study mixed method design was used, where quantitative and qualitative methods were implemented for triangulation of the results. The research findings indicate that although adult learners do experience feelings of anxiety, insecurity, worry and frustration during their studies, most times, these negative emotions are not so intense as to impede study completion because motivation is a much stronger factor. Regarding adult learners' perception of the role of the adult educator, the findings show discrepancy between what they expect from the instructor and what the instructor is actually doing. The adult learners wanted the instructor to create a positive communication climate and learning environment, adapt the level of teaching to their experiences and abilities, encourage them, employ active participatory learning techniques, as well as have emotional intelligence and express empathy.
The Major and Minor Errors in the Translations of Thesis Abstracts
Author: Dewanti, Anna
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Translation,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Error Analysis (Language),Documentation,Theses,Undergraduate Students,Writing Evaluation,Language Processing,Grammar,Classification,Language Usage,Communications,Social Sciences,Political Science,Foreign Countries

A thesis abstract is an essential part of a thesis since it represents the content of the thesis. In Indonesia, where the abstracts need to be translated into English, a number of translation errors may occur. This study aims at analysing the translation errors in the thesis abstracts and classify the errors into major and minor errors. The data were collected from the undergraduate theses of the Communication Science Department students, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Airlangga. The results show a total of 128 errors, where 79 of them (61.7%) are major errors. In the major error types, the most frequent error type is the Experientially Inaccurate translation (21.1%), followed by the Logically Inaccurate translation (11.7%), and the Interpersonally Inadequate translation (11.7%). Meanwhile, the minor errors only comprise 38.3% (49 errors) of the total errors. The errors include the Minor Grammatical errors (36.7%) and Spelling errors (1.6%). Considering these numbers of errors, it is necessary to pay more attention to the translation of the thesis abstracts because they reflect the content of the theses.
Students&apos; &quot;Virtual Herbarium&quot; -- A Research Project on Plants and Specific Living Environments
Author: Contiu, Andreea
Date: 2021-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Virtual Classrooms,Electronic Learning,COVID-19,Pandemics,Preservice Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,Early Childhood Education,Environmental Education,Student Projects,Plants (Botany),Student Attitudes,Seminars,Foreign Countries

The &quot;Virtual Herbarium&quot; project was carried out during the seminars of Sciences and science didactics, in the second semester of the academic year 2020-2021 (in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impossibility of field trips and the composition of classical herbariums), all the 45 students of the specialisation Pedagogy of Primary and Preschool Education (IF), Nasaud extension of the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, &quot;Babe?-Bolyai&quot; University Cluj-Napoca, being involved. Each group of students created a virtual herbarium with plants specific to a certain world environment. The professor provided them with details, working models, the criteria on the basis of which the evaluation is made. Each group presented their herbarium in front of their classmates, in the seminar organised on the Microsoft Teams Platform. At the end of the research, a questionnaire was applied to receive feedback from students regarding this activity.
ESP Students&apos; Satisfaction with Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ukraine
Author: Avsheniuk, Nataliia
Date: 2021-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Satisfaction,Undergraduate Students,Late Adolescents,English for Special Purposes,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Instructional Effectiveness,Barriers,Distance Education,Electronic Learning,Online Courses,Virtual Classrooms,COVID-19,Pandemics,Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance,Computer Assisted Testing,Instructional Materials,Foreign Countries

This study aims to determine the level of ESP students' satisfaction with online ESP learning courses at three faculties of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The current study examines students' answers to identify their satisfaction in ESP online courses. The study's research questions were divided into four categories: the effectiveness of online ESP learning, the availability of learning material used by ESP instructors, the evaluation of ESP teachers' results, the effectiveness of online testing, and students' difficulties with ESP distance learning. A descriptive statistical method was used to validate the study. The statistics package JASP was used for data analysis. The authors chose observation, literature analysis, a questionnaire provision, and descriptive data analysis as the research tools. The study results show that students are primarily pleased with ESP courses taught online, students fulfil the expected progress in ESP learning performance. It is revealed that the main problems that influence and impact online ESP learning during COVID-19 are related to technical, academic, and communication challenges. Student satisfaction surveys may lead to changes in ESP online learning activities that may, in turn, boost students' outcomes. The results provide valuable insight into students' satisfaction with online learning and pose practical questions for its implementation. As a result, this study is just a preliminary attempt at offering considerate analysis to Ukraine's policymakers.
COVID-19 Pandemic and Apocalyptic Literature: An Analysis of Margret Atwood&apos;s &quot;Oryx and Crake&quot; at the Time of Coronavirus
Author: Akhter, Tawhida
Date: 2021-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Novels,Futures (of Society),Science Fiction,COVID-19,Pandemics,Behavior Change,Attitude Change,Imagination,Scientific Research,Environmental Influences,Natural Disasters,Biotechnology,Technological Advancement,Industrialization,Genetics,Comparative Analysis,Literary Criticism,Conservation (Environment)

Literature has been an imitator of life for generations on this earth, this literature has voiced the voiceless. Recent contemporary and postmodern literary theories have catered to burgeoning notions of logic that go beyond human survival on the planet. Science fiction is a genre of fiction that encompasses imaginative concepts like futuristic scientific-technological settings, faster than light, past and future spatial time travel, the existence of parallel universes and extraterrestrial life etc. An outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by a novel acute respiratory syndrome of coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) occurred in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The outbreak was declared as a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization on 30 January 2020. During this crisis, literature also plays an important role and apocalyptic literature has shown the disastrous consequences if humans didn't stop their behaviour and attitude towards the world. This research project aims to take literature out of the realm of imagination and present the harsh realities of culture. This study revealed how literature represents the truth of the world that science is learning every day, and how certain inventions can have harmful effects if they are not halted in time. This research analysed the novel &quot;Oryx and Crake&quot; in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic and pointed a convincing glimpse of the future. Snowman (protagonist), known as Jimmy before humanity was overrun by science, is trying to live in a world where he might be the last human Snowman tells the tale of how Crake's scientific ambitions contributed to the abolition of human civilization. The researcher emphasizes how the reel depicts reality and how people are to blame for the degradation of their world.
Female Saudi University Students&apos; Perceptions of Online Education amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Altuwairesh, Nasrin
Date: 2021-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Females,Undergraduate Students,COVID-19,Pandemics,School Closing,Online Courses,Student Attitudes,Conventional Instruction,Preferences,Barriers,Foreign Countries,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Technological Literacy,Pedagogical Content Knowledge

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc and caused world-wide disruptions to daily activities, including education. Numerous mitigation measures were taken to slow down the rapid spread of this pandemic. The situation, subsequently, entailed utilizing technology to ensure the continuation of the educational process. The abrupt shift to online education presented significant challenges to teachers and learners alike. Uncovering students' perceptions of their online education experience will help address and deal with these challenges. This study attempted to explore the perceptions of Saudi female undergraduate students of their online education experience amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The total of 241 female students at the College of Languages and Translation at King Saud University in Riyadh answered a multi-item online survey. The results revealed that many of the respondents were happy with their online learning experience, enjoyed learning online and looked forward to their online classes. However, when asked to compare online learning to brick-and-mortar classes, more than half of the participants stated that they prefer traditional, face-to-face learning. The results of this study also revealed that the significant problems students faced in online education related to staying motivated, technical issues and the absence of face-to-face interaction. Despite the many challenges they face when learning online, the most cited advantage for online education mentioned by the participants is that it is more convenient. The results also indicated that this education mode seemed to suit shy students more, as they stated that they participate and ask questions more in online classes.
Formation of the Culture of Working with Information in the Conditions of Distance Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Markiv, Oleksandra
Date: 2021-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Information Literacy,Media Literacy,Mass Media,Credibility,College Students,Skill Development,Internet,Distance Education,Electronic Learning,COVID-19,Pandemics,Foreign Countries

The main purpose of the study predetermines the main issue of the article: to show the importance of formation of a culture of working with information among students during distance learning, which means the ability to evaluate, perceive information, prevent manipulation, distinguish truth from falsehood. The main task is to assess the existing and desired level of this competence, to develop an organizational model of its formation which consists of the following components: goals and objectives, pedagogical conditions and evaluation criteria. The model was implemented simultaneously at the Drahomanov National Pedagogical University and National Technical University of Ukraine &quot;Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute&quot; by teachers of humanities in experimental and control groups (16 people) in three stages: ascertaining, formative and final. A questionnaire and a self-assessment map of the formation of the culture of working with information were developed for the ascertaining stage; purposeful work with students was conducted (special tasks, discussion conversations, discussions) at the formative stage the results before and after the experiment were compared at the final stage in particular. Positive dynamics in the experimental group was noted, the average rate of formation increased. The proposed evaluation criteria - motivational, cognitive and activity ones have demonstrated practical value. It is advisable to recommend their use at other faculties. It is concluded that the organizational model is effective. The prospect of the study is the scientific substantiation of the implementation of the model among a wider range of students and the development of a distance specialized course.