ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
An Investigation into Teachers&apos; Practices of Teaching Early Reading and Practical Problems in Its Implementation
Author: Desta, Minwuyelet Andualem
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reading Instruction,Teaching Methods,Phonemic Awareness,Phonological Awareness,Barriers,Elementary School Teachers,Elementary School Students,Foreign Countries,Teacher Attitudes,Alphabets,Teacher Education,Teacher Qualifications,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Language Teachers,Language Fluency,Oral Language,Vocabulary Development,Reading Comprehension

The purpose of this study was to investigate practices of teaching early reading, and challenges teachers face in its implementation at the Ethiopian primary schools. The study was carried out in 224 grade two government primary schools found in the Amhara National regional State, west Gojjam zone, Ethiopia, in 2019/2020 academic year. To attain this objective, a descriptive research design was employed. The participants of the study were 112 English language teachers enrolled in the primary schools at Dembecha woreda, Jiga woreda, Jabitehinan woreda, and Bure woreda in west Gojjam zone. Interview, questionnaire, and observation were used to gather data. The findings revealed that teachers failed to practice the teaching of early reading in line with the purposes and principles of teaching early reading. Teachers used traditional way of teaching approach in teaching reading. The study also showed that teachers are deficiently trained regarding phonological awareness, alphabetic principle, reading comprehension, oral fluency, vocabulary, and phonemic awareness. Besides, lack of teachers training, lack of materials, and unrelated educational qualification were major impediments of teachers while implementing teaching early reading. Finally, it was recommended that teachers be given trainings about methods of English language teaching in general, and teaching early reading in particular.
Blended Learning Application in Higher Education: EFL Learners&apos; Perceptions, Problems, and Suggestions
Author: Rianto, Agus
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Blended Learning,Teaching Methods,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Preferences,Student Attitudes,English (Second Language),Educational Benefits,Conventional Instruction,Internet,Barriers,Comparative Analysis,Academic Achievement,Online Courses,College Students,Foreign Countries

This study sought to explore Indonesian university students' perceptions, problems, and suggestions of the application of blended learning in their EFL [English as a Foreign Language] courses. A questionnaire consisting of 6 categories (benefits of online learning, benefits of face-to-face learning, learning assessment, problems in blended learning, suggestions for quality improvement of blended learning, and open-ended questions) was used as the research instrument. The collected data were analyzed descriptively and qualitatively. The results showed that most of the students perceived positively both the online and face-to-face modes used in their blended EFL courses, although they tended to have negative views on certain online technical aspects. Internet connectivity was the main problem and the solution of all technical problems was the main suggestion reported by the students. As this research was conducted only with students from one study program, the results should not be generalized and future research is suggested to be more focused on the comparison of students' preferences for other blended course formats and relate them to students' EFL achievement.
Museum Trip to Enrich Environmental Awareness and Education
Author: Punzalan, Christopher H.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Museums,Curriculum Enrichment,Environmental Education,Consciousness Raising,Situated Learning,STEM Education,High School Students,Foreign Countries,Student Attitudes,Active Learning,Inquiry

Real-world knowledge via exposure activities could be positively enriched with the aid of situated learning. In a way to practice this theory and to revolutionize the educational system, this phenomenological-qualitative research was conducted to analyze how natural history museum supports the interest of STEM students towards the environmental issues. Specifically, this study ought to answer the research questions: how did natural history museum improve the interest of STEM students towards environmental issues?, what are the changes in students' conceptions of learning environmental issues after the museum exposure?, how museums could make environmental issues seem more 'real' and urgent?, what opportunities the students received in meeting museum staff?, and how do students compare what they learn and how they learn environmental issues in formal and informal science settings? Data triangulation technique including observation, semi-structured questionnaire and focus group discussion was administered to 20 STEM students enrolled in a private educational institution in the Philippines through purposive-sampling during the year 2019. The results of the study showed patterns according to the students' individual sensory experiences from the museum visit. The reports of the students were analyzed and emerged in four themes: solving environmental problems by means of education, causes and effects of environmental issues, inquiry-based learning of natural history, and interesting and realistic learning scheme. It was indicated that the natural history museum do support the interest and learning of STEM students towards environmental issues at some aspects.
Developing Writing Module for the Fourth-Semester Learners of English Department at State Islamic Institute of Palopo
Author: Syam, Andi Tenrisanna
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Writing Instruction,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Student Needs,Writing Skills,Teaching Methods,Undergraduate Students,Student Attitudes,Instructional Effectiveness,College Faculty,Writing Teachers,Writing Processes,Writing Evaluation,Evaluators,Models,Islam,State Universities,Foreign Countries

This research aimed to develop an appropriate module based on the writing needs of the learners. The author took the fourth-semester learners of the English Department at the State Islamic Institute of Palopo in the academic year 2018/2019. The author involved 40 learners as her participants. The method of the research was Research and Development. The author used the ADDIE model. The ADDIE model consisted of five stages, namely analysis, design, develop, implementation and evaluation. The instruments of the research were questionnaires and documents. The data were analyzed quantitatively qualitatively. The results of the content, the design, and the media experts validation showed that the module got good and very good category. The writing I module quality based on the learners' response in the field try-out showed that 75% of learners very agree and 25% of learners agree with the materials presented in the module. The result of this research hopefully gives a contribution to some parties, especially to the writing I lecturers and to the other researchers.
Education and Proto Language Maintenance at Orang Rimba in Jambi Province
Author: Rozelin, Diana
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Dialects,Language Maintenance,Language Skill Attrition,Malayo Polynesian Languages,Family Relationship,Vocabulary Skills,Rural Areas,Phonology,Morphemes,Indonesian Languages,Language Usage,Uncommonly Taught Languages,Phonemes,Attendance,Comparative Analysis,Diachronic Linguistics,Language Research,Foreign Countries,Educational Attainment,Native Language,Second Language Learning

This research discussed education and dialectology, examining the relation of Orang Rimba (OR) isolect in three places at Jambi Province. Different levels of education in each group of OR also influence language maintenance at proto-language. Language shift will occur when OR communicate with the villagers. The number of OR children who go to school does not guarantee a language shift. This study's benefit was to find out the proto vocabulary that still maintenance and shifted, to know the status of isolect from each group of OR to find out their kinship relations, and to know that education levels may not always affect vocabulary shifts. Dialectometry formula used from Guitar, Proto Austronesian (PAN) used theory from Wurm and Wilson, Proto Malayic (PM) used opinion from Adelaar. This study used qualitative and quantitative to answer different formulation of the problems. The result was: firstly, lexically and phonologically, the status of OR isolect in Jambi, including three regencies consisted of two dialects, four subdialects, and four speeches. There were 5 proto vocals and 19 proto consonants phonemes of OR in Jambi Province. The result of affixation identification at PM *tAr-; *mAN-; *(mb)Ar-; *-an; and *kA-an found innovation and no relic. Secondly, the reflex of PAN and PM at OR Malay dialect having the highest value in maintaining its proto-language (relics) occurred in DP 5,6 Muaro Jambi Regency. Thirdly, the number of children attending school in the villages of Nebang Parah and Nyogan was higher compared to other OR groups. The number of children attending school was in line with the high percentage of protolanguages used.
Project-Based Learning Implementation to Cultivate Preservice English Teachers&apos; 21st Century Skills
Author: Puspitasari, Evi
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Active Learning,Student Projects,21st Century Skills,Preservice Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,Language Teachers,English (Second Language),Creativity,Thinking Skills,Critical Thinking,Cooperation,Interpersonal Communication,Student Attitudes,Teacher Role,Group Activities,Student Centered Learning,Foreign Countries

The contribution of Project-based Learning (PbL) to 21st century learning skill development has been widely discussed by experts. This present qualitative research aims at exploring how PbL is applied in Lantern School of English Education (LSEE), an undergraduate program in Indonesia that produces an English teacher. In further, this research also looked at how the implementation enhanced the students' 21st century learning skills comprising creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. Considering those objectives, this research stood under qualitative approach and specifically employed case study design in order to investigate a single case which was project-based learning implementation in a particular context. The data were collected from interview, observation, and relevant documents which in this case, reflective essay, syllabus and students' final projects. Observation and syllabus were used to investigate the implementation of PbL in LSEE, interviews and was to gather information about how the implementation cultivated students 21st century skills, while students' works and reflective essay were to triangulate information from the other data collection techniques. After gaining the data, all were analysed using coding process to obtain the embedded themes as findings. The findings showed that the institution implemented PbL through the assessment, classroom activities, teacher roles, and student roles. Based on the students' viewpoints, project-based assessment, group classroom activities, teachers being a facilitator, and students' centeredness were successfully trained their ability on creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. Conclusion and recommendation are also presented after the findings were discussed.
Strategies to Improve Skills to Write Stories: A Case Study in Universities in Tulungagung City
Author: Nurhayati, Dwi Astuti
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Writing Skills,Writing Strategies,Literary Genres,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Undergraduate Students,Text Structure,Sentence Structure,Story Grammar,Picture Books,Error Patterns,Foreign Countries,Interference (Language)

The article discusses the quality of language exploitation performed by the students of the English Language Study Program in the City of Tulungagung in writing English text stories. The data was collected for 4 months, starting May up to August 2020 in IAIN Tulungagung campus in the sense of data collection, through the observation. This study used case study design and involves 43 Indonesian undergraduate students and who were majoring in English. Narrative texts produced by the students were collected to be analyzed using a qualitative approach. Two aspects becoming the focus of discussion are the text structure and the text texture. The former represents how discourse units are selected and arranged in accordance to the narrative format, while the latter is related to how grammar is exploited and how words are selected for the stories. The results show that most of the students are very good in selecting and arranging discourse unit to build the stories. Meanwhile, they still show weaknesses in constructing grammar and selecting words for the stories. In these areas, inferences from Indonesian and Javanese languages happen.
Politeness Strategy in Shanghai Knights Film
Author: Ernovilinda
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Films,Pragmatics,Speech Acts,Intercultural Communication,Cultural Background,Asian Culture,North Americans,Cultural Differences,Linguistic Theory,Communication Strategies

Language is a communication tool for every human being and is used to convey ideas, messages, intentions, feelings, opinions to others or even to meet daily needs. Intercultural communication is a communication that frequently occurs in the community. Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that discusses aspects of language as a communication tool. When combined with culture, intercultural communication that occurs in society can be understood. In order for a speaker's language to be accepted in a society, he needs to fully understand the rules that apply in that society, including an understanding of the appropriate use of certain language functions or speech acts. There is a close relationship between pragmatics and the concept of politeness. Politeness is fundamental in pragmatics because this is a universal phenomenon in the use of language in social contexts. The focus of this research is to identify the politeness strategies used by the two main characters in the Shanghai Knights film, Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon, and analyze them in terms of the cultural background of the two main characters. This is a qualitative descriptive study. The results show that the politeness strategy used is strongly influenced by their cultural background. The strategy used most often is the bald-on record strategy while the Off-record politenses strategy is the strategy that is the least used by the two main characters of the film. This suggests that an understanding of politeness strategies is needed to realize face-threatening actions (FTA). In other words, politeness strategies are used to maintain continuity and success in communicating.
Multivariate Analysis of the Impact of Gender and College Major on Student Levels of Environmental Concern and Knowledge
Author: Goodale, Timothy A.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Multivariate Analysis,Gender Differences,Individual Differences,Majors (Students),Student Attitudes,Knowledge Level,Environmental Education,Conservation (Environment),College Freshmen

Knowledge and stewardship are essential factors in developing perceptions of the environment. This research determines if gaps in environmental knowledge and concern exist between genders as well as students majoring in science and those seeking non-science degrees. Approximately 1,229 first-year university students participated in this study. Environmental concern is measured with the New Ecological Paradigm and the Environmental Concern Scale. Total Environmental Knowledge is measured by a scale of 24 academic questions based on environmental sciences and behaviors. Outcomes of the study determined the strength of interactions between multiple factors such as gender, race, residential status and college major that potentially impact environmental knowledge, actions and behaviors. Findings suggest that females and science majors express higher levels of environmental concern.
The Power of &quot;Screen Time&quot;: Harnessing It to Promote Language and Literacy Learning in Early Childhood and Elementary School
Author: Silverman, Rebecca D.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Literacy Education,Early Childhood Education,Elementary School Students,Electronic Learning,Educational Media,Teaching Methods,Technology Uses in Education,Curriculum Enrichment,Learner Engagement,Family School Relationship

Headlines about the negative effects of screen time may alarm teachers and cause them to worry about using digital media with early childhood and elementary school students. However, the relationship between digital media use and language and literacy learning is complex, and there are, in fact, arguments both &quot;for&quot; and &quot;against&quot; the use of digital media in education. These benefits and drawbacks are important to understand now more than ever. After the coronavirus pandemic forced almost all schools in the United States to close in the spring, educators quickly pivoted to remote learning. Teachers and families are concerned about children's screen time--and about how to most effectively create and use digital materials. Although there is hope for the virus to abate and for students to learn in school, it is also known that, until there is a vaccine, digital media will likely play a significant role in instruction. Because language and literacy development are crucial to all other learning, this article focuses on helping educators maximize that development using screens.
EFL Students&apos; Challenges towards Home Learning Policy During COVID-19 Outbreak
Author: Ariyanti
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Barriers,COVID-19,Pandemics,Online Courses,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Student Attitudes,Family Environment,College Students,Learning Activities,Internet,Access to Education,Foreign Countries

Obviously, the world wide is shocking with pandemic of COVID-19 where it effects to every single part of human lives and everyday activities for sure. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic also has its influence toward education system from lower to upper levels. Both teachers and students feel the impact from the recent pandemic especially in Indonesian context where of course it triggers barriers due to the educational adjustment they have to follow. Therefore, this research is particularly aimed to investigate perception of EFL students toward home learning during pandemic of COVID-19. In-depth interview was applied to eight students of English Department students of University of Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda. Specifically, the in-depth interview is consisted of the students' perception mainly regarding with challenges they faced when having home learning activities during the COVID-19 pandemic up to the recent time. As a result, the researcher found that the students face three major types of challenges including internet connection, healthy reason, and the use of certain online application. Further discussion and fruitful suggestions also provided in this research.
Elements Hindering Vietnamese Tertiary Students&apos; Participation in Group Activities: A Case Study
Author: Tong, Lien Thi My
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Student Participation,Group Activities,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,College Freshmen,Student Attitudes,Language Skills,Speech Skills

Plenty of meticulous research has been conducted to investigate the entire process for implementing group activities in language classrooms. Nevertheless, few detailed empirical investigations have been pursued in the sub-area of what influences the participation of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) students in group discussions. Thus, the present study was conducted to examine the elements impacting the group-work participation of first-year EFL students at University of Languages and International Studies (ULIS), Vietnam National University (VNU). Ten EFL freshmen and four teachers of English participated in the study over a four-week period by attending semi-structured interviews. The findings highlighted a variety of elements discouraging the learners' participation related to themselves, pedagogy, and culture and also revealed internal elements as the most significant.
&quot;My Name Is Matshepo…Mother of Hope&quot;: Examining Hope amid the First-Year Experience
Author: Mason, Henry
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Psychological Patterns,College Freshmen,Student Experience,Academic Achievement,Foreign Countries,Well Being,Predictor Variables,Student Attitudes

Student affairs practitioners have essential roles to play in assisting students in concretising a sense of hope. However, more research is needed to explore the role of hope amongst university students during the first-year experience. This article reports on a mixed methods study that explored hope in the context of the first-year experience. The quantitative phase of the study explored the relationships between hope, flourishing, psychological distress, and academic achievement amongst a sample of 296 first-year South African university students (mean age=20.70, SD=1.30, female=63%). Statistical analyses revealed significant relationships between the constructs assessed. Students who reported high scores on hope also obtained higher academic marks compared to participants who reported lower scores on the same construct. The qualitative phase of the study explored differences in conceptions of hope between participants (N=28, age-range 18-22) who reported high versus low scores on a quantitative measure of hope. Two qualitative themes emerged, namely the trichotomy of hope, and hope-based generalised resistance resources. The findings indicate that students who present with high levels of hope may be more inclined to pursue academic goals and experience a sense of well-being. Implications for student support are discussed, and the importance of promoting realistic hope amid the first-year experience is highlighted.