ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
The Effectiveness of Gallery Run Technique on Saudi EFL Upper-Intermediate Students&apos; Speaking Skill: Learners&apos; Attitudes in Focus
Author: Abdulaal, Mohammad Awad Al-Dawoody
Date: 2021-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Instructional Effectiveness,Foreign Countries,Student Attitudes,Speech Skills,Cooperative Learning,Active Learning,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Secondary School Students

Gallery Run (GR) is a classroom-based dynamic learning technique that promotes higher-order thinking and co-operative learning. This research study examined the influence of GR strategy on Saudi upper-intermediate English as a foreign language(EFL) learners' oral skills. First off, 62 upper-intermediate EFL learners from a language school in Riyadh were opted and randomly sectioned into an experimental group and a control group. Then, the participants in the two groups were given a speaking pretest. The experiment group applied the GR technique in their classroom, whereas the control group received no treatment and continued with an ordinary classroom program. After two-month classes, a speaking posttest was given to the two groups. To analyze the data collected, Independent and Paired Samples T-tests were conducted. The results showed that the experimental group excelled and outperformed the control group. The results also showed that 25.8% and 48.3% of the participants agreed and strongly agreed respectively that the GR technique enhanced their self-dependence. Furthermore, 45% of the participants reported that the ambiance was delightful, which conduced to the amelioration of their speaking competence. Another significant result was that 61.2% and 19.3% of the learners strongly agreed and agreed respectively that GR reduced the levels of loneliness and social anxiety. Furthermore, %58.1 strongly agreed that the GR technique did not put them under any kind of stress, nor did it encourage social loafing. A final finding reported by the 48.4 % of the learners was that GR reduced their alexithymia, social anxiety, and self-monitoring.
Evaluation of Teachers&apos; Implementation of Curriculum Content Areas in Junior Secondary Schools&apos; Science Subject
Author: Agugoesi, Oluchi Janehilda
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Science Teachers,Secondary School Teachers,Science Curriculum,Curriculum Implementation,Gender Differences,Teacher Qualifications,Teaching Experience

This study evaluated teachers' implementation of basic science curriculum content areas in junior secondary schools in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria. Four research questions were posed and three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the conduct of the study. The study employed evaluation research design (survey method). The population of this study consists of 32 Basic Science teachers drawn from 31 state owned Junior Secondary Schools in Nsukka Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria. The sample for the study consisted of 32 Basic Science teachers constituting 100% of the total population size. The instrument for data collection was 37-item questionnaire for teachers titled &quot;Teachers' Implementation of Basic Science Curriculum Questionnaire (TIBSCQ)&quot; developed by the researcher based on Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) curriculum. 32 questionnaires were administered and returned. The reliability of the instrument was tested using Cronbach's Alpha which yielded the internal consistency of the reliability coefficient of 0.927. The data collected from the study were analyzed using means and standard deviations to answer the research questions and t-test was used to test hypothesis one and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test hypotheses two and three at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that gender has no influence in teachers' implementation of Basic Science curriculum content areas. While Basic Science teachers' education qualifications and teaching experiences significantly influenced the implementation of Basic Science curriculum content areas in junior secondary school. It was recommended among others that to improve the academic performance of junior secondary school students Basic Science, government should employ professional, qualified and experienced teachers.
Flexible Learning and Its Effectiveness in Teaching College Subjects amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Arciosa, Ramil
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Learning Strategies,Instructional Effectiveness,College Instruction,COVID-19,Pandemics,Electronic Learning,Distance Education,Foreign Countries,Student Attitudes,Computer Mediated Communication

The aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of Flexible Learning using the three (3) online teaching platforms: (1) Sultan Kudarat State University Electronic Learning Delivery System (SKSU ELEADS); (2) Facebook Group; and (3) Google meet. In the study, descriptive and experimental method was adapted. In descriptive side, where one hundred thirty-eight (138) respondents, a Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEED 2-All Sections) of College Teacher Education(CTE) of Sultan Kudarat State University (SKSU), First Semester, Academic year 2020-2021. The respondents are randomly selected for online survey through Google forms for the Flexible learning in terms of three (3) qualities; Content, Technical and Instructional. In Finale, where the effectiveness of flexible learning is through pre and post-test scheme of almost one month, discussed the chapter 1 of the subject -EDDMATH 2 entitled 'Teaching strategies of Intermediate mathematics' as one major subject of the proponents. The data were analyzed via descriptive mean, comparison of mean and ANOVA as statistical analysis of this study. The results revealed that the difference weighted mean between the pre-test and post-test is 10.16, which signified a clear graphical presentation of positive skewed in all respondents, which signified the effectiveness of flexible learning. In terms of qualities of three (3) online learning modalities like FB Group, Google Meet and SKSU ELEADS, where Google Meet got a highest mean of 3.68, as indicated that respondents need an interactive discussion even though there is no Face to Face(F2F), due to COVID-19 pandemic era. Among the three (3) online learning platforms, Facebook Group(FG) got F (7,6) = 9.617, p &lt; 0.05 and significantly liked among the respondents due to easy accessibility in rural areas.
Muallim Ismail Hakki Bey&apos;s Studies on Less Used Makams
Author: Elitas, Özlem
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: History,Music,Musicians,Musical Composition,Cultural Maintenance,Radio,Television,Futures (of Society),Foreign Countries,Biographies,Administrators,Music Activities

Witnessing the last periods of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Republic, Muallim Ismail Hakki Bey, like some great composers in the history of Turkish music, made important works to ensure that these &quot;makams&quot; are not forgotten by producing new works from &quot;makams&quot; that he noticed were rarely used in his lifetime. This study aims to draw attention to the rarely used &quot;makams&quot; preferred by Muallim Ismail Hakki Bey, who composed works in many forms of Turkish music, and his works in the classical fasil completion tradition. The study is considered important in terms of revealing the composer's effort to transfer the cultural memory of music. In the study, document analysis was made using the literature review method and the works of Muallim Ismail Hakki Bey in the TRT (Turkish Radio and Television) Repertoire were examined. It has been determined that it mostly includes rarely used &quot;makams&quot; and it has been tried to determine the rate of use of these &quot;makams&quot; in the repertoire with numerical data. In addition, the classical fasil completion works in Muallim Ismail Hakki Bey's understanding of composition were mentioned and the efforts of the composer to preserve the connection between the past and the future were emphasized.
The Usefulness of Technology-Based Interactive Methods in Teaching Mathematics and Statistics at the College Level
Author: Bukhatwa, Bothaina
Date: 2022-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Instruction,Statistics,Educational Technology,Computer Uses in Education,Handheld Devices,Telecommunications,Video Technology,Integrated Learning Systems,College Mathematics,Foreign Countries,College Students,Instructional Effectiveness,Student Attitudes,Mathematics Achievement

This study aims to investigate the advantages of implementing multimedia resources in the teaching and learning environment of mathematics and statistics. It examines the use of tablet PCs to create video learning resources. Such practices allow lecturers to provide additional learning support to students via the learning platform Moodle. This paper discusses the experiences of three lecturers in developing a technology-based, interactive teaching method to support student learning. The results found that &quot;solved examples&quot; in the video resources are useful in demonstrating topics about statistics. Furthermore, the paper encourages lecturers to learn from their experiences and develop learning resources to enable students to better engage in the learning process.
Can Google Classroom Be Used as an Alternative for Classroom Teaching?
Author: Nidup, Yeshi
Date: 2022-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Educational Technology,Secondary School Students,Foreign Countries,Access to Computers,Internet,Student Costs,COVID-19,Pandemics

This study explored if Google Classroom (GC) can be used as an alternative for classroom teaching. 316 students (M:120 &amp; F:196), classes ranging from nine to twelve from Phuentsholing HSS in Bhutan responded to the survey. The survey contained quantitative part with close ended questions with the Likert scale and the qualitative questions which was open ended questions. The descriptive analysis was done for quantitative response and simple thematic analysis was done for the qualitative data. The findings indicated that the students had problem with access to Internet and affordability in terms of purchasing the gadgets and paying for the Internet bills. The students were found to be adaptive to this new tool with exploration as they kept using it. Moreover, students agreed that the GC was very much applicable for online teaching and learning as it enabled the continuation of education even when the school remained closed. The study showed that teachers were using different styles to engage the students online for meaningful learning. Some challenges were identified such as high cost of Internet, poor network, students not focusing on their learning, students simply copying assignments without learning anything, time management, teachers simply sending the videos and materials without clear explanation, and no face-to-face interaction for discussion.
Social Studies Textbooks in Turkey in Terms of Citizenship and Human Rights: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Author: Gürel, Davut
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Social Studies,Textbooks,Textbook Content,Citizenship,Civil Rights,Political Issues,Cultural Pluralism,Citizenship Education,Elementary Secondary Education,World Problems,Social Problems,Poverty,Environment,Terrorism,War,Natural Disasters,Democratic Values,Social Values,Economic Factors

Educational institutions play a significant role in today's world, where the concepts of democracy and human rights gain more and more importance day by day. Every country aims to provide the qualifications that its citizens believe they should have via educational institutions. While doing this, it can reflect the current ideology of the period into curricula. In Turkey, as a democratic country, the most important course in which the content related to citizenship and human rights is conveyed at the primary level is the social studies course. In this study, it is aimed to examine the situations of including the concepts of human rights and citizenship in social studies textbooks used in Turkey with critical discourse analysis. For this purpose, text analyzes were conducted using Sketch Engine software. The textbooks were compared with the Turkish web pages in terms of the concepts related to citizenship and human rights, and the use of these concepts in the text was evaluated through a critical approach. The results revealed that the selected textbooks touched on some concepts related to human rights and citizenship very superficially; the treatment of some concepts was not compatible with social realities. It was concluded that it could not be sufficient enough to offer courses with such concepts as women's rights, feminism, gender equality, ethnicity, belief, political rights, and multiculturalism.
Impact of Parent&apos;s Satisfaction on Children&apos;s Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Deepthi Kumari, R. A. D.
Date: 2022-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Parent Attitudes,Satisfaction,Electronic Learning,COVID-19,Pandemics,Distance Education,Elementary School Students,Foreign Countries

The aim of this research is to analyze the impact of parent satisfaction on Children's online learning for Primary Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Independent variables are Child competency, Technical Problems, Duration of online learning, and several assignments. The research method is a quantitative approach with Primary data analysis using Google form. The population in this study was the parents of the Primary school students who are following the Bachelor of Education (Hons) in Primary Education at the Open University of Sri Lanka using a simple random sampling method. Respondents of 102 data analyses were done through descriptive statistics, Pearson Correlation, and Regression and were analyzed using SPSS. By using a structured questionnaire with five Likert scales from strongly disagree to strongly agree measured independent and dependent variables. The results of this study are independent variables had a significant impact on parents' satisfaction with online learning. But Technical Problem was not significant in parents' satisfaction with online learning. The moderation effect explains the association between the following three factors; the number of online assignments, the duration of online learning, and parents' satisfaction. According to the Child competency, Parents were more satisfied with their children's online learning. Researchers may use this article as literature or supplementary material for future research.
Corpus-Based Approach to Generate a Word List for Food Service
Author: Rungrueang, Thanawan
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Word Lists,Food Service,English for Special Purposes,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Computational Linguistics,Web Sites,Information Retrieval,Vocabulary,Word Frequency,Computer Software

Learners preparing to work in the food service industry should be equipped with food service terminology to enhance their communicative potential. The purpose of this study was to create a Food Service Word List (FSWL) to assist L2 learners of English in English for Specific Purposes classrooms. The Food Service Corpus (FSC) with a size of 1,871,271 running words was created by collecting data from four websites relevant to the food service industry, consisting of www.bbc.co.uk/food/cuisines, www.tasteatlas.com, www.escape.com.au and www.edition.cnn.com. The procedure of generating the FSWL comprised three stages: keyword analysis was used to extract the first 814 words with the highest LL values; lexical profiling was used to select words allocated outside the referent word lists; and three experts in the food service industry were asked to give their viewpoints based on their experiences. The results produced the FSWL containing 261 words with a coverage of 8.64% of the FSC. The curated word list can enhance the food service vocabulary range of learners and prepare them for more effective communication in a food service career.
Global Englishes in ELT: Unpacking University English Teachers&apos; Perceptions in Bangladesh
Author: Dhami, Binod
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,College Faculty,Language Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Language Usage,Teacher Education,Faculty Development,Language of Instruction,Dialects

In response to the calls to incorporate Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT), this study explores university English language teachers' perceptions towards Global Englishes (GEs) in Bangladesh. Despite being one of the biggest English learning populations on the globe, a dearth of attention has been paid to studying English language teaching (ELT) and learning in Bangladesh. In this regard, this study explores how university English teachers in Bangladesh perceive the use of GEs in ELT and how those perceptions inform teacher education. Ten university English teachers from two universities based in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, were recruited for the study. Thirty to fifty minutes semi-structured interview was conducted. After developing codes from the transcribed interview texts, themes were generated, and recursive content analysis was performed to derive results. Findings revealed that the teachers preferred to use Inner Circle English (i.e., American or British) in ELT. While participants seemed aware of the emergence of Global Englishes, they suspected a legitimacy of Outer and Expanding Circle Englishes in academia. Furthermore, aspiring to participate in GE-informed teacher professional programs (TPD), participants reported a prominence of inclusion of local culture in ELT.
The Designing of English for MICE: Target Language Needed by the Industry
Author: Varaporn, Savika
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Foreign Countries,Employee Attitudes,Administrator Attitudes,English for Special Purposes,Language Usage,Salesmanship,Sales Occupations,Course Descriptions,Education Work Relationship,Barriers,Meetings,Conferences (Gatherings),Incentives,Exhibits

This paper aims to investigate English target language required in the operation of MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) business in Thailand. Data were gathered from 30 employees and executives who have at least 3-year experiences of working in MICE sectors. The questionnaire, supplemented by a semi-structured interview, was designed to explore situations where the English language is necessary for workers to function successfully in the MICE industry as well as to examine issues that might hinder the successful use of English to perform the required tasks in MICE work. Major findings indicated that productive skills of English in the target situations such as briefing and explaining concepts, scopes, and details of a MICE event and delivering a sales pitch to a client in English were the most important. In addition, problems and challenges that frequently hampered the effective English communication among MICE employees were also specified. Findings from this study yielded useful information and had considerable implications for designing the syllabus and materials in English for MICE.
English for Event Management: A Mixed Methods Study for Needs Analysis and Course Design
Author: Watanapokakul, Sasa
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English for Special Purposes,Hospitality Occupations,Needs Assessment,Curriculum Design,Majors (Students),Undergraduate Students,Foreign Countries,Teaching Methods,Evaluation Methods

English for Specific Purposes plays an important role at the tertiary education level. As the event industry is expanding in many countries around the world, including Thailand, study programs which help prepare young people specifically for a career in the event industry are becoming more sought after. An important component of any such program is an English language course which will equip students with the English skills necessary to succeed in this increasingly globalized industry. In order to design and develop an effective English for Event Management course, opinions regarding what should be included in the course were obtained from the 159 English major undergraduate students in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at a university in Thailand and 15 stakeholders (ESL/EFL teachers, event management teachers, and employers and employees in the event industry) using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The findings of the study provide a wealth of practical information (e.g., instructional approaches, tasks and activities, and assessment methods) that can be further used for designing and developing an English for Event Management course for English major undergraduate students.
Aggressive Language in Literature: A Pragmatic Approach
Author: Kadhim, Hanan Abdul-kareem
Date: 2021-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Aggression,Antisocial Behavior,Pragmatics,Psychological Patterns,English Literature,Language Usage,Interpersonal Communication,Speech Acts,Figurative Language,Linguistic Theory,Verbal Communication,Drama,Literary Devices,Language Styles

Aggression is a negative form of an anti-social behavior. It is produced because of a particular reason, desire, want, need, or due to the psychological state of the aggressor. It injures others physically or psychologically. Aggressive behaviors in human interactions cause discomfort and disharmony among interlocutors. The paper aims to identify how aggressive language manifests itself in the data under scrutiny in terms of the pragmatic paradigm. Two British literary works are the data; namely, &quot;Look Back in Anger&quot; by John Osborne (1956), and &quot;The Birthday Party&quot; by Harold Pinter (1957). This paper endeavors to answer the question of how aggressive language is represented in literature pragmatically? It is hoped to be significant to linguistic and psychological studies in that it clarifies how aggression is displayed in human communications linguistically. Qualitative and quantitative analyses are conducted to verify the findings. It ends with some concluding remarks, the most important of which are: insulting, belittling, ridiculing and threatening are prevalent speech acts; simile, hyperbole, metaphor and repetition appear due to Grice's maxims breaching while the use of taboo words, calling names, or abusive words are the impoliteness strategies that are distinguished in the data.