ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Effectiveness of the ADDIE Model within an E-Learning Environment in Developing Creative Writing in EFL Students
Author: Almelhi, Abdullah M.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Instructional Effectiveness,Instructional Design,Models,Electronic Learning,Educational Environment,Creative Writing,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Integrated Learning Systems,College Students,Writing Skills,Writing Instruction

The present research aimed to examine the effectiveness of the ADDIE model as used in teaching online in the LMS of Blackboard® and its facilities such as discussion boards, forums and blogs for improving the creative writing skills of EFL college students. The researcher utilized a quasi-experimental method, involving a pretest, posttest and control group design. Sixty students were randomly selected from freshmen studying in the English department participated in the study and were assigned equally to the research groups. The experimental group was exposed to the e-learning environment, which sought to develop the students' creative writing skills while the control group was exposed to the traditional teaching method. Using a creative writing checklist and a writing test designed to assess the specific features of creative writing (originality, accuracy, self-expression, fluency, flexibility and overall writing performance for assessing creative writing in the research participants, results of t-tests and eta square statistical tests demonstrated that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores gained by the experimental group and those obtained by the control group writing performance post-testing to the good of the experimental group participants. Conclusions and pedagogical implications were forwarded at the end of the article.
A Correlational Study of the English Listening and Speaking Anxiety in Rural Areas
Author: Hamid, Tuan Muhammad Hanif Tuan Ab
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Listening Skills,Speech Skills,Language Proficiency,Classroom Communication,Anxiety,Correlation,Disadvantaged Schools,Secondary School Students,Foreign Countries,Rural Areas

English proficiency amongst Malaysian is debatably on a decline. Possible causes of this phenomenon are extensively argued. Thus, renewed interest towards English language anxiety, an internal factor of learners' level of intensity in listening and speaking skills, can sometimes be overlooked. An investigation was conducted on selected secondary schools' students in Selangor, a state in Malaysia. The schools lacked facilities and meagerly equipped with basic resources and facilities. A total of 311 non-national examination takers students from three different schools were selected. A set of questionnaire were distributed which adopted a composite of foreign language anxiety surveys, measuring their level of anxiety towards the English language classroom according to the four language skills (reading, listening, speaking, writing). The results were measured and the scores were tabulated. A correlation was established between the listening anxiety and speaking anxiety skill from the scores. This finding explored the possibility of reducing language anxiety in two skills by intervening in only one instance which can be helpful in reducing the time spent on managing the English language classroom anxiety. However, further studies should be conducted in order to improve the validity of this result.
Museums as Learning Spaces: A Case Study of Enhancing ESP Students&apos; Language Skills in Kuwait University
Author: AlAjlan, Munirah
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Museums,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English for Special Purposes,Learning Experience,Males,Engineering Education,Journal Writing,Creative Writing,Personal Narratives,Teaching Methods,Field Trips,Undergraduate Students,Creative Teaching,Science Education,English (Second Language)

A number of studies have looked at the use of videos, audios, worksheets, and games as tools in language teaching/learning. Some studies have recommended art galleries as a space for language learning. This study investigated the use of museums for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) language learning. The study focused on engineering students studying in their third year at Kuwait University. The study aimed to provide an approach aimed at helping ESP instructors to teach materials to students in a fun, creative way. The study employed 11 engineering male students in a fieldtrip to one of the two science museums in Kuwait. Students were asked to write a narrative journal about their experience at the museum. The results showed that students' narratives were written creatively, following the narrative structure block. The results also showed that it may be useful to introduce this type of learning to ESP courses because the museum has a great deal of information to exhibit, unlike traditional ESP books, which present limited scientific information. The study suggests that ESP (and ESL) courses should implement museum visits because such excursions have a significant impact on students' language learning.
New Evidence on Teacher Turnover in Early Childhood
Author: Bassok, Daphna
Date: 2021-03-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Persistence,Early Childhood Teachers,Incidence,Teacher Student Relationship,Classroom Environment,Educational Policy

This brief provides a systemwide look at early childhood teacher turnover using data from all publicly funded, center-based early childhood programs in Louisiana, including subsidized child care, Head Start, and pre-kindergarten. It provides new evidence on the prevalence of turnover and explores whether teachers who leave differ from those who stay on a widely used measure of teacher-child interaction quality. Results show that more than one third of teachers leave their program from one year to the next, and the vast majority of teachers who leave are not teaching in another program the following year. Turnover rates are higher among teachers working in child care and with younger children. Compared with teachers who stay, those who leave are rated lower on interaction quality.
Thinking Path Schema of English Translation for Chinese Classics: An Empirical Study on Translation Schema in Translation Courses
Author: Peng, Xiaojuan
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Translation,Protocol Analysis,Video Technology,Poetry,Cognitive Processes,Language Processing,Schemata (Cognition),Psycholinguistics,Student Attitudes,Classics (Literature),Chinese,Scores,Student Evaluation,Classification,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Task Analysis,Undergraduate Students,Foreign Countries

In view of the complicated translation cognitive process, the study investigated and compared students' translation process of Chinese Classics through translation thinking path schema. Seventy-six participants learning translation courses based on parallel level in two classes of one Chinese university, some of them trained for four months intentionally, were involved into some translation experiments with selected ancient Chinese classic poems. By the form of discussions, cooperation, or individual written translation, data were gathered from manuscripts, answer sheets, video recordings, think-aloud questionnaires, reflection papers, and interviews, which were integrated and categorized into the process classification evaluation tables in qualitative and quantitative analysis for the empirical study. Through some visible comparing and contrasted data elucidation, results indicated the obvious advantages of making use of the thinking path schema in Chinese Classics translation among trained students, who have presented more diversified translation thinking courses and superior evaluation scores in general. What's more, author could be regarded as an element considered into the angle of translator, but not an independent angle as other non-Chinese-classic-text translation process, amending the former thinking path schema. Furthermore, the conclusions and amendments after translation experiments could be considered into the dynamic translation process for Chinese classics.
Medical Uncertainty and the Art of Communication: Exploring Modality Applied in Medical Journal Abstracts
Author: Montkhongtham, Napanant
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Medicine,Medical Research,Periodicals,Documentation,Verbs,English for Science and Technology,Journal Articles,Language Usage,Writing (Composition),Authors,Evidence,Morphemes,English for Academic Purposes,English for Special Purposes,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Grammar,Context Effect

Medicine is a science dealing with uncertainty and the art of judging probability. For effective communication, doctors, researchers, or health sciences writers, need to master the use of modality whereby unreal situations can be discussed. How modal verbs -- the most commonly used type of modality applied in the writing of health and medical sciences -- are used in general English can differ from scientific contexts, and within different scientific fields a modal verb may not be used in the same way. This study aims to analyze the use of modal verbs in the abstracts of medical articles published in the past 5 years to enable researchers or medical writers to select the most suitable linguistic devices for their contexts. Modals were discovered to function variously in different parts of medical abstracts, with the highest number in the final part of the abstract structure. In the majority of the abstracts analyzed, usage was found not to be speculation on the part of the author but rather to address the evidence and circumstances. Modals were also found to be context-based and relate to the choices of the tense, voice, reality status, and situation type. The findings can benefit scientific writers and provide EAP, ESP, and EST instructors material for communicative practice.
Undergraduate Student Course Engagement of an Ethnically Diverse Population in Auckland, New Zealand
Author: Brown, Stephen James
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Undergraduate Students,Learner Engagement,Minority Group Students,Foreign Countries,Pacific Islanders,College Freshmen,Student Surveys,National Surveys,Cooperative Learning,Cognitive Development,Racial Differences

Increasing student engagement leads to improved educational outcomes, promotes positive student experiences, and reduces attrition rates. In Aotearoa (New Zealand), Maori students now account for 20% of university enrolments, but first-year attrition rates are approximately 17%. Both Maori and Pasifika students are more likely to drop-out during their first year of study than Pakeha students. To address the question &quot;Are Maori and Pasifika students less engaged than Pakeha students when studying in their first year of university?&quot; we measured student engagement during a compulsory first-year course delivered by a university in Tamaki Makaurau (Auckland). Questions were from the National Survey of Student Engagement, and students identified their ethnicity as either Maori, Pakeha, Pasifika, or Other. Information on the campus of study was also collected. Three scales within the questionnaire were (1) Cooperative Learning, (2) Cognitive Development, and (3) Personal Skills, and both total score, and score for each scale, were compared between ethnicities and across campuses. Total engagement for Maori students was higher than all other ethnicities on all campuses, and at the South Auckland Campus, Maori students scored higher in Cooperative Learning than all other ethnicities. These encouraging scores for Maori students reflect a commitment of inclusion and support for Maori enrolled at this large tertiary education provider in Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. The questionnaire was convenient to use and scales showed good internal consistency. We suggest that regular measures of student course engagement are made so trends can be shown for all student groups enrolled at universities throughout Aotearoa.
Authentic Digital Storytelling as Alternative Teaching Strategy to Develop Speaking Skills in EFL Classes
Author: Arroba, Juan
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Story Telling,Personal Narratives,Technology Uses in Education,Instructional Effectiveness,Teaching Methods,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Undergraduate Students,Foreign Countries,Skill Development,Communication Skills,Speech Skills,Oral Language,Communication Strategies

The research study intends to determine the effectiveness of authentic digital storytelling as an alternative strategy to improve speaking in EFL classes at the university level. The research follows a quantitative paradigm, and a survey was first administered to capture participants' perceptions of the everyday speaking activities employed in classes. Most of the participants acknowledged the importance of authentic communicative strategies to improve oral skills; however, in practice, both teachers and students believed that the strategies used in class are not authentic and communicative at all. Based on the survey results, authentic digital storytelling was introduced to determine if it improves students' oral skills, specifically speaking. A pretest and posttest activity was applied using a rubric that assessed the student's sense of organization, quality of language used, mode of delivery, supporting material used, and the central message's quality to determine the effectiveness of using digital storytelling as a communicative strategy. The significant findings show that authentic digital storytelling significantly improved students' speaking skills; however, its implementation required teachers' willingness to apply novel communicative strategies inside and outside the classroom.
Motivation of Thai University Students from Two Disciplinary Backgrounds Using a Hybrid Questionnaire
Author: Kanoksilapatham, Budsaba
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Learning Motivation,Undergraduate Students,Science Education,Humanities,Majors (Students),Language Attitudes,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Job Skills,Aspiration,Cultural Awareness,Public Colleges,Foreign Countries

The increasing global and local demands to improve citizens' English proficiency have augmented the significance of English education across the entire paradigm. Meanwhile, motivation has been endorsed as one of the pivotal driving forces that propels the success of language learning. This study represents a large-scale motivational study, exploring the role of motivation in learning English among Thai undergraduate students, studying in the disciplines of the sciences and humanities at eight public universities across Thailand. Based on the frameworks by Gardner (1985; 2004) and Dörnyei (2010) and a number of modifications made on their corresponding questionnaires, a hybrid questionnaire eliciting quantitative data was specifically developed to accommodate the context of English language teaching and learning in Thailand. Additionally, a semi-structured interview form was devised to collect qualitative data, complementing the quantitative data. Quantitative data analysis revealed that these two cohorts of students were significantly different as far as the nature of their motivation is concerned. Scrutiny of the interview data demonstrates that both the sciences and humanities students had a common utilitarian goal of employment and professional advancement. However, the humanities students interestingly expressed their aspirations to extend the use of English as a tool to enlarge their cultural repertoire. In light of these results, a number of generalizations could be made, including practical implications for teaching and managing English classrooms of Thai undergraduate students from diverse disciplinary background.
Examining the Moral Foundations of High School Students
Author: Güner, Halim
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: High School Students,Moral Values,Student Attitudes,Value Judgment,Concept Formation,Gender Differences,Scores,Foreign Countries

This research was carried out as Study-1 and Study-2. In both studies, it was aimed to examine the factors that form the foundations of high school students' moral perception. In Study-1, data were collected with the Moral Foundations Questionnaire. In Study-1, high school students saw the concepts of Harm/Care, Fairness, Ingroup/Loyalty, Authority/Respect, and Purity/Sanctity related to morality and formed their judgments on social life basing on these foundations. In addition, it was observed that women got significantly higher scores than men in harm/care and fairness sub-factors. In Study-2, the moral perceptions of high school students were examined with open-ended questionnaire questions. According to the analysis of the results of the answers to open-ended questions, high school students highlighted the fields of social morality and sexual morality. Apart from these two areas, they also touched upon the areas of violent morality and individual morality. Thus, four areas of morality were identified in Study-2. In addition, it was observed that women in social morality and men in violent morality came to the fore negatively. In sexual morality, moral problems of women came to the fore in some codes and moral problems of men came to the fore in some codes. As a general result, it was seen in both studies that the foundations of high school students' moral perceptions were built on similar moral foundations.
The Hierarchy of Thailand and Its Effects on English Language Learning
Author: Young, David
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Social Class,Social Differences,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Cultural Influences,Learning Processes,Social Structure,Educational Change,Language Tests,Scores,Competition,History,Barriers

Despite the numerous reforms that Thailand's educational system has undergone, test scores show that a majority of the population still lacks the ability to use English with the skill required to compete in the international community. While many reasons have been proposed for Thailand's poor ranking, only a small number have looked beyond classroom concerns to the culture in which the problems emerge. This article presents an examination of the ways in which culture affects language learning, as well as focusing upon an aspect of culture that is particular to Thailand, namely the Thai hierarchy. The author traces the origins and history of this division of social class, together with the intertwining concept of &quot;face&quot; to determine how they negatively affect the implementation of educational reform in the realm of English language teaching and learning.
The Hard Teacher&apos;s Leadership Coping to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Chan, Jorge Carlos Aguayo
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: COVID-19,Pandemics,Coping,Teacher Role,Teacher Leadership,Urban Schools,Rural Schools,Internet,Access to Computers,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Teacher Competencies,Foreign Countries,Elementary Secondary Education,Public Schools,Private Schools,Rural Urban Differences,Teaching Experience,Technological Literacy,Educational Attainment,Gender Differences,Planning

Most teachers in Mexico are not experts on Information and Communication Technologies, some rural areas lack a good internet connectivity or even electricity. This context led us to determine: How can teachers keep the pace of educational leadership? and How they cope their teaching task with the COVID-19 pandemic? The sample included 329 teachers from urban and rural zones, 71.1% female and 28.9% male, with a mean age of 38.8 years, working in public (71.7%) and private (28.3%) schools. A self-evaluation template was used to assess the planning, didactical sequence analysis and evaluation competence from the teachers. Our aim was to sketch a teacher's leadership competences profile, specifically in these pandemic times. The results showed than 75.7% of the teachers had an internet access between Good and Very good; on the contrary, 78.4% of the teachers considered that most of their students had between &quot;not very good&quot; to &quot;very bad&quot; internet access. Only a few teachers addressed the didactic planning or followed its development and assessment: I have elaborated and shared with the students indicators of achievement from the didactical sequence (32.8%); I have stimulated processes of reflection upon learning through an instrument (22.5%); I have regularly incorporated and used digital tools and Internet (31.9%); at last, I have established and conducted moments of evaluation, self and formative co-evaluation in which the students have been able to make changes based on the feedback received (30.1%). However, teachers are coping with this pandemic time and it may involve a change in educational strategies towards the future.
Thai Flight Attendants&apos; Intercultural Sensitivity and Topics in Intercultural Communication with Muslim Passengers
Author: Semchuchot, Narudol
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Air Transportation,Professional Personnel,Cultural Awareness,Intercultural Communication,Muslims,Religious Factors,Food,Gender Differences,Individual Differences,Attitudes

Besides English proficiency, intercultural communicative competence is a desirable qualification for flight attendants. An under-researched cultural group of Muslim passengers was the focus of this mixed-method study which investigated Thai flight attendants' intercultural sensitivity and related biographical details. Topics in intercultural communication between Muslim passengers and Thai flight attendants were explored. Data collected from 416 self-rated questionnaires on intercultural sensitivity were completed by a purposively selected sample and were analyzed using chi-square test and frequency count. The interview data from a total of 45 Muslim passengers as well as both Muslim and non-Muslim Thai flight attendants were analyzed based on content analysis. The findings showed that most Thai flight attendants rated themselves with a high score in intercultural sensitivity. The factors significantly associated with intercultural sensitivity were sex, work duration, job position, and being ex-crew at the significance level of 0.05. Qualitative findings suggested that three major topics, which were the concept of halal, religious practices, and some additional topics, should be considered in training on intercultural communication with Muslim passengers through English language teaching (ELT). Implications for both airlines and pedagogy are discussed in this paper.