Teaching English - Science topic

Lafcadio Hearn was born in 1850 on the Greek island of Lefkas (after which Lafcadio is named) to an Irish-born British Army doctor father, and a Greek mother. Two years later, the mother and her son moved to his father’s birthplace in Dublin, but due to her husband’s absence and cultural differences, Lafcadio’s mother became neurotic, and when Hear...

Basil Hall Chamberlain was born in 1850, in Southsea in the naval port of Portsmouth. The Chamberlain family was a prestigious family with ties to the Royal Navy; his father was a rear admiral in the Navy and his mother was also from an old-established family. His maternal grandfather was Captain Basil Hall, a naval captain known for his surveys of...

Multilingualism is increasingly becoming the norm among students and teachers in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) around the globe. Yet, in pedagogies for language domains such as pronunciation, white monolingual native speaker ideologies persist, which view additional language (AL) learners as a deficient versio...

This study examined high school students’ views of their teachers using interpersonal communication in Teaching English as Foreign Language (TEFL). The respondents involved 38 students as reached saturated data, which were taken from six classes taught by two EFL teachers (male and female) at a high school in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia. A s...

This text is a ready-to-use pedagogical innovation program combining teaching English and classes developing creativity in early childhood education. Classes developing creativity are a unique opportunity to implement innovative solutions and ideas to develop language competencies and key competencies, which can be difficult during a standard Engli...

The research investigated the effect of utilizing hologram technology on developing EFL communication skills and the attitudes towards English among middle school students. The Quasi-Experimental approach was adopted (pre/post-test design). The sample consisted of (84) middle school students and was divided into two groups: the experimental (N=42)...

The COVID-19 outbreak throughout the world forced the government of Indonesia to shift academic programs into online mode. The objectives of this study are to describe the teachers' strategies for teaching narrative writing during the COVID-19 outbreak and to find out the teachers' reasons to choose the strategies. Therefore, a qualitative research...

The aims of this study were to: (1) provide teaching materials for students of State Administration, FISIP, and UMSJ in the form of English language modules; and (2) determine the feasibility of teaching materials in the form of English language modules. Research and Development (R&D) research designs, or research that is utilized to create specifi...

In language teaching and learning, we have a lot to select from the world of technology: Radio, TV, CD-ROM, Computers, CALL, the Internet, Electronic Dictionaries, Email, Blogs and Audio Cassettes, PowerPoint, Videos, DVDs or VCDs. The last two decades have witnessed a revolution due to the onset of technology, and it has changed the undercurrents...

The challenge of teaching English to students with low academic achievement is what inspired this line of inquiry. The purpose of this research was to provide an explanation of how the Team Games Tournament was implemented Elementary class in order to improve the English learning outcomes of the pupils. The type of action research that was conducte...

Proverbs are linguistic expressions of cultural truths about people’s values and beliefs handed down from generation to generation. Thus, for cross-cultural communicative competence and effective social interactions with Filipinos, understanding their proverbs would be essential for those working or interacting with Filipinos. This study investigat...

The English teaching method in China has always been test-oriented. With the development of the times, the popularity and importance of English applications have increased rapidly. Traditional English education in China is no longer sufficient to provide adequate support for language development. Many education professionals have recognized and sta...

This research aims to determine how the use of games as a learning tool influences the development of reading skills for the acquisition of new vocabulary in fifth-grade students. To demonstrate that through innovative educational and didactic practices in teaching English, favourable results can be obtained and the barriers that students show befo...

The purpose of this study was to look into how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is used in teaching English language from the point-of-view of English language teachers in Palestine. A quantitative approach was employed to collect data from 780 language school teachers from 260 schools who participated in a course project utilizing IC...

In recent years, as a result of both research discoveries in the fields of foreign language acquisition and learning, the concept of teaching and learning has undergone a significant transformation. English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is a learner-centered approach to teaching English as a foreign language that emphasizes developing communicative p...

1 Introduction Technology is defined as "New machinery and equipment that has been produced using scientific knowledge or methods" in the Cambridge Dictionary. Technology has dominated modern society to the point where it is impossible to ignore its impact, particularly in the area of education. It has become a part of everything that is done in th...

The goal of this study was to investigate methods for teaching English vocabulary to ninth-grade students in private schools in order to identify learning obstacles in the acquisition of vocabulary instruction and to propose suitable solutions. Hence, a phenomenological qualitative research approach was used to accomplish the goals of the study. Th...

The test results (mid-semester and final examinations) of various English courses indicate a clear majority of non-English major undergraduate students studying at the university where the current study was undertaken leave the university after four years without acquiring the required proficiency in English. This condition can deprive them of loca...

In this study, Mime Games, one of the vocabulary teaching methods, was researched and studies were conducted on whether word games are useful or not. As educators, we have witnessed all kinds of students in our lessons, like self-motivated, unrelated to classes, or unwilling. The main purpose of doing this research is to motivate students among the...

Against a backdrop of increasing internationalization in higher education, students and teachers frequently move between learning-to-write and writing-to-learn. For example, in English as foreign/second language (EFL/ESL) classrooms, learning-to-write would be a priority, whereas in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) classrooms, writing-to-le...

Over the last decade or so, the term ‘translanguaging’ has become a new buzzword in education. There is much written about its transformative potential, its innovative practices and its social justice narrative. However, there is surprisingly little written about translanguaging specifically for those of us who teach English as a foreign and second...

This study aims at investigating the language learning strategies used among afghan Post Graduate Students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM when reading academic texts. Oxford's (1990) strategy inventory language learning questionnaire has been used to collect the data. The respondents of the study are thirty Afghan Post Graduate Students from...

In the age of technology development and internationalization, EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction) has been seen as a better method for resolving language problems of non-English students than teaching English in a single subject so as to meet the demand for employability in their future profession. However, EMI implementation is still a conce...

Teaching English is a challenge at some point in the life of English teachers. Sometimes, English teachers’ challenges are tough to deal with. This qualitative study employs a narrative inquiry as to the research design, which aims to determine English teachers’ challenges and coping strategies in teaching English subjects in the new normal. A purp...

The paper aims to see the physical attributes and content of the English Textbook used teaching English to intermediate classes in all public and private colleges in Sindh, Pakistan. It is a need-based and relevant study that matches with the discipline of social sciences subject. The authors employed concurrent research design of the mixed method....

This paper considers the issues facing expatriate instructors teaching English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) graduation seminars (commonly known as the “zemi” in Japan) in Japanese universities and aims to establish better conditions to build Communities of Practice. Since the term “graduation seminar” is widely used globally, and might lead to...

The present study investigated the university practitioners' attitudes towards using computer assisted language learning (CALL) in teaching English language at Islamic Azad universities of Khuzestan Province. This study was also to examine the English as foreign language (EFL) MA and PhD teachers' computer literacy and its effects on using CALL fac...

E-learning platforms are essential tools used widely for teaching and learning English, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. They are also used to communicate and interact with students, assess progress, evaluate assignments, and provide feedback. However, teachers of English face potential barriers when they use such platforms. This study exami...

In responding to neoliberal globalization, the importance of English language education has been strongly emphasized in many Asian countries, including Mongolia, during the past several decades. Despite the nationwide prioritization of English language education in Mongolia, little research has examined the experiences and challenges of English tea...

The issue of knowing a word and understanding the different contexts in which a word might be found in a foreign language, is one that has been regarded as crucial for the comprehension of written and spoken language. For quite some time now teachers in the field of teaching English have argued that it is very difficult to deal with and teach vocab...

This article examines the current status of teaching English in Thailand by providing an overview of the situation, analyzing the Thai EFL context, discussing policy implications, and comparing it with other EFL contexts. The review aims to identify the key issues and challenges faced by English language teachers in Thailand and provide recommendat...

The advancement of information technology like computers and mobile phones provides a favourable external environment for language learning. Technological developments are contributing substantially to educational quality despite their constraints. It is a way to make language learning a part of our everyday lives. This paper introduces the subject...

The learners are placed in an engaging, significant, and real scenario when reading comprehension teaching is contextualized. Contextualization can be achieved by focusing reading lessons and exercises on the context and area of interest of the learners. The study aimed to find out and evaluate the reading skills and comprehension performance of se...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, a lack of decisive leadership from Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) resulted in each Japanese university implementing ad-hoc emergency measures for teaching. Although the majority of universities started teaching online three years later (in 2022), unive...

This study aims at investigating the language learning strategies used among afghan Post Graduate Students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM when reading academic texts. Oxford's (1990) strategy inventory language learning questionnaire has been used to collect the data. The respondents of the study are thirty Afghan Post Graduate Students from...

Drawing on Teng's model of agency (in Autonomy, agency, and identity in teaching and learning English as a foreign language, Springer, Teng, Springer, 2019) and qualitative case studies of 5 teachers and 10 students of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing courses at a Bangladeshi private university, this chapter provides an empirical justifi...

Any university performance is assessed according to the job placement of its graduates who according to the Russian Federal Educational Standard of higher vocational education must acquire professional skills as well as skills of using Russian and foreign sources of information and being active representatives of domestic companies in business deal...

English for accounting is an important subject for students of accounting at Faculty of Economics, Hanoi Open University. The subject aims to provide the students with accounting terminologies, enhance student’s accounting knowledge in English for their future career. As a lecturer of English for Accounting, the author has found out a lot of diffic...

Teaching English seems to discredit literary works status as learning media, even though it has the inherent vigor to increase critical literacy. This is the fundamental case this research envisages to explore how literature as a bridge for critical literacy in the perspective of EFL pre-service teachers. Theoretically, this research is based on th...

This article presents the results of an interpretive case study of three lecturers teaching English at a South African University. The purpose of the study was to explore the lecturers' strategies to decolonize the curriculum succinctly. Purposive, with convenient sampling, identified the three most available lecturers. An emailed reflective activi...

The choice of teaching method will be largely determined by several factors, one of which is the characteristics of the student. Different characteristics of students require educators to always apply variations in teaching methods. Likewise when teaching students with special needs. Students with special needs can study in public schools (inclusio...

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of optimizing the methodology of teaching English to students in the field of physical culture and sports through the using of communicative methods, information and communication technologies, etc. The article proves the need for the formation of communicative and intercultural competence, which will all...

The research purpose is to find out the usage of implementation of Question and Answer method in teaching speaking skill to students. The population of the research is students of SMP Negeri 9 Pematang Siantar, with sample of a class consists of 31 students. This research applies quantitative method to collect data for the research. Researchers giv...

This study aimed at evaluating the culture component of the Algerian secondary school textbooks, from two imbricated theoretical perspectives: critical pedagogy and the modern orientation of teaching English as a lingua franca . .More specifically, it aimed at finding out whether the culture component of the Algerian secondary school textbooks, on...

This paper is based on an invited talk I gave at the Zhejiang University of Science and Technology. In this paper, I focus on preparing student-teachers and novice teachers to teach English at elementary schools and junior high schools. I first introduce the educational context: the national foreign language curriculum for primary and secondary sch...

During the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in the late 2020, online learning has become a coercive solution and a last resort, not just a luxurious option of learning style. The forced sudden transition from face-to-face educational system to online education is an unprecedented phenomenon that represented a challenge in itself, therefore, needed to...

The present study enlightens the Impact of multimedia technique in Learning English Language Skills at Secondary School level. Communicative Skills were taught in numerous methods which were not fruitful to achieve expected level of learning. Particularly the Skills of Listening are not prescribed in the Curriculum. Use of multimedia technique enco...

During the first semester of B.Ed. teaching English Speech, two major problems have arisen. The first problem is that students showed no interest in appreciating the famous English public speaking. Secondly, students who were not speakers in a certain class were doing something more than attending to the speeches, such as reading books, chatting, r...

This study examines English language teachers' perceptions regarding teaching English in single-sex classrooms prevalent in religious vocational secondary schools, high schools, and other vocational and technical high schools in Türkiye. The study employs a qualitative methodology, utilizing semi-structured interviews with eight English teachers fr...

In Bangladesh, English as an international language is taught in primary and secondary schools to build a strong foundation for English learning for children from childhood. The necessity to determine the current situation of English-language learning among secondary school students in Bangladesh and the future of this phase is the sole purpose of...

Teaching English in Junior High School focuses on improving four language skills namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The students are expected to be able to master those four language skills. Improving productive skills is the most important in teaching English. One of the productive skills that have to be improved is writing. However...

The classroom activities refer to the techniques and activities used by the teacher in the classroom to teach the topic of the day. This article is based on the observation of the classroom activities of the trainee teachers while teaching English. In this study, I have presented what actually the trainee English teachers of the basic level schools...

We welcome contributions that celebrate innovative pedagogical practices, interventions and strategies that support EAL/D students in mainstream settings, and we also encourage proposals that look more broadly at the significance and benefits of, for instance, collaboration between EAL/D teachers and subject teachers, professional development, and...

Pandemic situation has altered the face of almost every aspect. Reflections and attitudes toward various things have been changed, it has affected global communication as well, as the last has become more intense and almost inevitable part of our lives. More and more professionals of different fields meet online to share their expertise and listen...

This study aimed to investigate the students’ perception on the use of digital storytelling as a media in learning to speak English at 3rd grade students at Anuban Chumchon Phukradueng School, one of the junior high schools in Loei, Thailand. The method used in this study is a qualitative method. A descriptive qualitative design was employed as a r...

Pronunciation is one of the most significant and unavoidable aspects of teaching English language. Teaching English pronunciation, however, is the most challenging part in the EFL context in Bangladesh. Therefore, the current study investigates the practises and problems of teaching English pronunciation to the students at the secondary level of Ba...

Background: Online language learning has recently gained a reputation in educational research, holding specifically true in English for specific purposes (ESP) courses. However, ESP online learning has not been sufficiently examined in particular disciplines, such as medicine. Objectives: This study investigated the effects of teaching English medi...

This volume focuses on the teaching of English as a foreign language to young learners at primary school. The volume features an introduction that covers essentials of teaching English to young learners from a theoretical, empirical, and neuroscientific perspective while also discussing the notion of a principled mindset, competence development, tr...

She received her Ph.D. from BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, in 2017. Her observations on college students’ endeavors to pen down their ideas led her to choose Scaffolding Writing Skills for Indian College Students as her doctoral research topic. The work has contributed to understanding the importance of learning management systems to maximally impact...

Grammar rule-based learning is frequently emphasized in traditional English classes in Indonesian primary, middle, and high schools. The test-based education system creates classes that produce a type of English that does not appear to be spoken outside of the classroom. As a result, the students struggle to adjust to English by native speakers in...

English is one of the major subjects in all grades (from Grade-I to Grade-XII) in the national education system of Bangladesh. The secondary level of the system covers from Grade VI to Grade X and is supposed to harness the substantial portion of the teaching and learning of English subject. This research aims to discern the challenges, breakthroug...

The Critical Period Hypothesis is still controversial recently, so it cannot be said to be absolutely confirmed to be false. It is more important to realize the significance of application. Although the exact properties of this phenomenon remain unclear and the literature is divided, more and more Chinese mothers choose to teach English or other la...

It is acknowledged that assessment ethics is an integral part of teacher education. Unlike sizable published research on students' perceptions of assessment in higher education, very little is reported on student teachers' perceptions of assessment ethics across university-based teacher education programs. This study aimed to explore Teaching Engli...

Abstrak Menerapkan program berbasis multimedia dalam mengajar kelas berbicara bahasa Inggris dapat memberi siswa sumber daya yang berharga untuk melengkapi studi dan meningkatkan keterampilan kefasihan berbicara. Dewasa ini, perkembangan pengetahuan pembelajar dalam bahasa kedua dan pengetahuan ilmiah tidak lepas dari berbagai fasilitas dan metode...

Modern English instruction must show a developing strategy to motivate and inspire pupils. Introducing games into the teaching and learning process is an option for reducing student boredom. The game of Charade is one alternate teaching strategy that can be used to teach English writing and improve students' writing skills. This study utilized the...

The study aims to explore students’ perceptions of their teacher’s non-verbal communication in teaching English and how nonverbal communication influences students' perception of English teachers' role and performance in the classroom. This study was a descriptive qualitative study conducted at SMAN 1 Soppeng. To achieve the objectives, the data we...

Education isn’t just about normal kids. Education for Tunagrahita child also important for their life. because we don’t know if their skills can make them successful and can follow the competition internationally. Many kinds of rehabilitation children are called these special needs children. Tunagrahita is a child who has a standard IQ of 40-70. A...

Background: People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) need to prevent the further decline of their cognitive functions, and one way to do so is by learning a foreign language. Objective: This study describes the development of a protocol for a novel, non-pharmacological intervention for people with MCI that seeks to prevent or reduce cognitive...

The English language plays a vital role in tourism, particularly in hospitality and hotel management. As a result, there is a need to investigate the English language requirements of this industry and train employees who can perform well both professionally and competently. This prompted us to investigate one of the Hospitality and Hotel Management...

Matching phonemes (speech sounds) to graphemes (letters and letter combinations) was an important aspect of decoding (translating print to speech) and encoding (translating speech to print). However, most early childhood students did not receive explicit training in correspondence phonemography. Difficulties with accurate phoneme production and lac...

English language is widely regarded as the lingua franca meaning that it is the most widely spoken language in the World. This article emerges from the desire to document English language teaching in teacher training institutions in Uganda during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. In particular, it documents the challenges faced and mitigation measure...

In the world of modern technology, where every aspect of life has been slowly adapting to a digital way of functioning, lexicography is also turning to electronic corpora and electronic dictionaries, thus making them available to a larger number of people, especially to younger generations born in the age of digitalization. The work of contemporary...

High school English writing instruction is facing a period of change from a focus on writing results to a focus on the writing process, and from an emphasis on input to an output orientation. Writing, as an important way of assessing English proficiency, is routinely neglected in teaching. Multimodal input writing instruction based on the output-or...

The study identifies and analyzes some of the benefits and pitfalls of e-learning, as well as future-proof solutions. Internet technologies have been included in the English as Foreign Language (EFL) teaching process, providing more convenience for teachers to teach English. In the present E-learning environment of any institution of higher educati...

Grammar is not only an essential component of learning a language, but it is also a challenging topic for foreign language learners. Inductive and deductive methods are two fundamental teaching strategies for grammar, both of which have advantages. The domestic research on this topic began relatively later than the numerous overseas studies on thes...

Language-intensive exposure and immersion can be regarded as key factors in developing proficient language learners. In the context of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), the current research was conducted to compare two modes of teaching English using the Unlock Textbook Series published by Cambridge University Press at Birzeit Universit...

Актуальность рассмотрения представленной проблемы связана с развитием творческого мышления и продиктована изменениями в современном мире. Стремительная скорость технического прогресса требует от личности сформированности компетенций не только профессионального, но и социокультурного и психологического спектра, в числе которых креативность занимает...

The pandemic has changed the way of teacher delivering material to the students. SMP Wahidiyah Kediri has supported the online learning for its students in order to bring new learning experience to the students and also in order to make the teaching learning process better in this new pandemic era. English as one of the compulsory subject at Junior...

Aviation English is a specialized language mainly used in aviation, such as in aircraft maintenance areas. Teaching Aviation English usually faces more challenges compared with teaching general English. It pays more attention to the specific needs of learners and the language in the context. Therefore, this study aimed to discuss the challenges of...

Pronunciation plays a pivotal role in language teaching for communicative purposes. Practitioners, however, are either ignorant or reluctant to teach pronunciation due to insufficient professional training, time restrictions, large classrooms, and excessive language knowledge. This research was conducted to fill this gap. The author carefully synth...

Research on Oral Corrective Feedback, especially related to its factors, has become a topic that is still widely discussed in teaching English because various application contexts will produce different conclusions. That is why it is important to study this topic further where this research aims to test a group by applying a single pretest-posttest...

Pedagogical and developmental perspectives on L2 pragmatics have undergone rapid development in recent years (Attardo & Pickering, 2021; Ren, 2021). However, the application of pragmatics to English language classrooms is still limited since it has not been systematically included in most L2 language courses and materials (Roever, 2021). Pragmatics...

This study was designed to examine the practices in the teaching of listening in Grade 9 EFL classrooms of Mote Secondary School. The study employed a descriptive survey design to attain the objective. The research used 108 Grade 9 students and 6 English language teachers who were teaching English as subjects of the study. To gather proper data for...

Acta Technica Napocensis, Series: Languages for Specific Purposes, Vol. 22, No. 4, U.T. Press, Cluj-Napoca, 2022, ISSN 1454 685X, pp. 107-112

The objective of this study is to develop PowToon as media for teaching at Grade 8 students of SMP N 2 Bangun Purba in speaking transactional text. This research was conducted based on educational research and development (R&D) through six steps, namely: gathering data, analyzing data, designing media, validating by the expert, revising media, and...

Intercultural Competence Assessment (ICA) has recently become a central issue in applied linguistics in general, and language testing and assessment in particular. The present paper aims to investigate the difference between native and non-native assessment experts' beliefs about incorporating ICA in the Language Proficiency Assessment (LPA). Basic...

A number of researches have been done in the world basing on Communicative Approach in teaching English language as a second and a foreign language, Tanzania in Particular. However, the use of this approach in Tanzania is not free of challenges. Thus, this paper tries to enlighten the current challenges that English language learners of primary sch...

Teachers bring various experiences to the classroom, and their beliefs about ‘creative teaching’ or ‘good teaching’ practices are frequently influenced by various factors, including their own teaching experiences, individual motivation, and organizational constraints. This context frames their early efforts to develop creative practices, and recogn...

This study’s main focus was describing adjectives’ characteristics in English and Indonesian. It examined the similarities and differences in the features of adjectives in the two languages through a parallel comparison using the contrastive analysis approach. Data were collected from linguistics books from both languages. The results indicated tha...

With the advances in understanding contemporary instruction and the emphasis on online learning, alternative ways to keep instruction functional are sought constantly. Gamified environments are among the most widespread techniques used to enrich online instructional experiences due to motivation and engagement dimensions. In this context, the resea...

Half of the students had difficulty mastering their English listening skills because the instructional facilities did not adequately cover the learning process and the media and method were uninteresting. This study aims to find out students' perceptions toward the use of YouTube applications implemented in teaching English listening. The sample of...

With the expanding use of English around the world, it is important to understand various stakeholders' attitudes towards it from a Global Englishes (GE) perspective. The GE perspective has challenged native speakerism and recognized the multilingual nature of the English language. In particular, a GE perspective leads to the sustainable developmen...

Since an eventual goal of the study was to develop practical preparation for the pre- service of English language teachers to continuing professional teaching, self-efficacy of teachers in different professional development phases, were investigated as well as their promoting factors and hindrances to understand contextual circumstances. The resear...

It is permanent nowadays the use of the modern techniques in learning and teaching English as a second language acquisition. Many researches have been dedicated for such a goal but unfortunately fewer studies served the purpose of the effect of the mobile phone on acquiring any foreign language.In this study ,we will discuss the benefit of most soc...