Hasil untuk "English language"

P. Mongeon, Adèle Paul-Hus

Bibliometric methods are used in multiple fields for a variety of purposes, namely for research evaluation. Most bibliometric analyses have in common their data sources: Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) and Elsevier’s Scopus. The objective of this research is to describe the journal coverage of those two databases and to assess whether some field, publishing country and language are over or underrepresented. To do this we compared the coverage of active scholarly journals in WoS (13,605 journals) and Scopus (20,346 journals) with Ulrich’s extensive periodical directory (63,013 journals). Results indicate that the use of either WoS or Scopus for research evaluation may introduce biases that favor Natural Sciences and Engineering as well as Biomedical Research to the detriment of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities. Similarly, English-language journals are overrepresented to the detriment of other languages. While both databases share these biases, their coverage differs substantially. As a consequence, the results of bibliometric analyses may vary depending on the database used. These results imply that in the context of comparative research evaluation, WoS and Scopus should be used with caution, especially when comparing different fields, institutions, countries or languages. The bibliometric community should continue its efforts to develop methods and indicators that include scientific output that are not covered in WoS or Scopus, such as field-specific and national citation indexes.

P. Kuhl, F. Tsao, Huei-Mei Liu

B. Seidlhofer

Sabrina Sabrina, Hayatun Nur, Ika Ika et al.

This study explores the optimization of English pronunciation skill through the use of HelloTalk, an AI-powered learning app. The research employed a quasi-experimental design, involving 17 English Department students of Universitas Serambi Mekkah as the research sample. Data were collected through pretest and posttest, assessing the aspect of pronunciation accuracy. After the pretest, a four-week intervention was given to the students through the use of HelloTalk to see if their English pronunciation competence could improve. The data was analyzed statistically using SPSS 16.0, and the statistical analysis showed a significant improvement in their pronunciation skill before and after the intervention, indicated by the mean scores of the pre-test and post-test (49.71 and 79.12, respectively). The findings also showed a strong correlation between the use of HelloTalk and students’ pronunciation skills, particularly after the use of HelloTalk features, such as Partner Matching, Text Chat, Voice Messages, Voice and Video Calls, Moments Feed, and Community Interaction that enable students to engage in direct verbal communication and exchange messages with native speakers of English. Pronunciation Help with voice recognition and Correction Feature also AI-driven features that also contribute to the considerable improvement. This research is expected to contribute to the existing body of literature by providing insight that HelloTalk can be an effective learning tool to increase articulation accuracy in English. Future research could explore the effect of HelloTalk on other pronunciation aspects, such as intonation, stress, rhythm, and pitch.

Mujawazah

This research study aims to explore the management of fun and engaging English learning for students at MI Al Ma’had An Nur, a pesantren-based (Islamic boarding school) elementary school. Considering the unique educational environment that integrates formal education with Islamic values, the research focuses on strategies that align English language learning with the students' cultural and religious context. Through qualitative methods, including classroom observation, teacher interviews, and student feedback, this research indicates effective practices that increase motivation, participation, and language retention. The result shows that games, storytelling, songs, and interactive group activities significantly enhance students' enthusiasm and comprehension. In addition, linking Islamic values to English learning materials can make the learners more comfortable and involved in the classroom process. This research may provide guidance for teachers in similar contexts to develop joyful and appropriate English learning experiences.

Abbas Zarei, Elham Shishegarha

Reducing anxiety in foreign language learning has long been a concern for many teachers. This study focused on exploring the effects of three dynamic assessment models on L2 speaking and listening anxiety. The participants were 120 pre-intermediate Iranian learners of English at a language institute in Qazvin, Iran. The learners were randomly assigned to four groups (three experimental groups and one control group). Before the treatment, the students’ homogeneity was checked using Oxford Placement Test (OPT). Then, all the groups were given listening and speaking anxiety questionnaires as pretests. During 10 sessions, the first group received listening and speaking instruction using Buddof’s Learning Potential Measurement Approach (LPM); the second group was treated with Guthke’s Lerntest Approach; the third group was treated with Testing-the-Limits Approach.  Lastly, the control group was taught conventionally in a teacher-fronted way.  The same questionnaires were given to the participants in the twelfth session as posttests. Data were analyzed using two one-way analysis of covariance procedures. Significant differences were found among the groups’ listening and speaking anxiety mean scores on the posttests after controlling for the initial differences. Those experimental groups that received testing-the-limits and Lerntest approaches had a lower level of listening and speaking anxiety on the posttest. It was concluded that employing dynamic assessment models can decrease speaking and listening anxiety among EFL learners and enhance their productivity. The findings can have important implications for students, teachers and materials designers.

Minasadat Hosseini, Maryam Nasrabadi, Ensiyeh Mollanoroozy et al.

Background: As a public health priority, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is associated with some factors like sleep disorders. Taking this into consideration, this study aimed at investigating the relationship between sleep duration and sleep quality with HRQoL in patients on hemodialysis. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out among 176 patients on hemodialysis who were admitted to the dialysis ward of 22 Bahman hospital and a private renal clinic in Neyshabur (a city in North-East of Iran) in 2021. Sleep duration and quality were measured using an Iranian version of Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and HRQoL was evaluated with the Iranian version of a 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF-12). To analyze the data and examine the independent association of sleep duration and quality with HRQoL, multiple linear regression model was performed. Results: The mean age of the participants was 51.6 ± 16.4 and 63.6% were male. Moreover, 55.1% and 5.7% of subjects reported a sleep duration shorter than 7 h and equal to or more than 9 h, respectively, and the value prevalence of poor sleep quality was reported as 78.2%. Furthermore, the reported overall score of HRQoL was 57.6 ± 17.9. According to the adjusted models, poor sleep quality was negatively associated with the total HRQoL score (B = −14.5, P < 0.001). Shedding light on sleep duration and Physical Component Summary (PCS), the result indicated that insufficient sleep duration (<7 h) had a borderline negative association with PCS (B = −5.96, p = 0.049). Conclusions: Sleep duration and quality have important effects on HRQoL in patients on hemodialysis. Therefore, in line with improving sleep quality and HRQoL among these patients, essential interventions should be planned and performed.

Cuicui Chang, Kai Tang, Yifan Gao et al.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Chordoma is formed from embryonic residues or ectopic chordae and locally aggressive or malignant tumors. We visually analyzed the research tendency and hotspot of chordoma.<h4>Methods</h4>The bibliometric analysis was conducted from the Web of Science Core Collection database over the past two decades. The term and strategies were as follows: "TS = (chordoma) OR TS = (chordoblastoma) OR TS = (chordocarcinoma) OR TS = (chordoepithelioma) OR TS = (chordosarcoma) OR TS = (notochordoma). AND Language: English. AND Reference Type: Article OR Review". A total of 2,118 references were retrieved and used to make a visual analysis by VOSviewer 1.6.15.<h4>Results</h4>The chordoma was on a steady rise and chordoma but remained the focus of scholars and organizations over the last two decades. The Chinese institutions and scholars lacked cooperation with their counterparts in other countries. The citations of documents and co-citation analysis of cited references suggested that M.L. McMaster, B.P. Walcott, P. Bergh, and S. Stacchiotti were leading researchers in this field of chordoma and their papers had been widely accepted and inspired recent researches. Keywords associated with recent chemotherapy, PD-1-related immunotherapy, and SMARCB1/integrase interactor 1 (INI1) in chordoma were a shortage of research and there may be more research ideas in the future by scholars. The research of chordoma will continue to be the hotspot.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Thus, explaining the molecular mechanism and potential role of transcriptional inhibition and immunologic responses to SMARCB1/INI1-negative poorly differentiated chordoma will be available for preclinical experiments and clinical trials and lead to new therapeutic opportunities for chordoma patients.

Tri Yuli Ardiyansah

As pre-service teachers, university students in the education faculty are required to take a teaching practice program to deepen their teaching skills. This study focused on finding the pre-service teachers' perceived readiness in teaching online in the international internship program. The writer distributed a survey questionnaire to the pre-service teachers and applied semi-structured interviews to understand the pre-service teachers' perspectives. The finding was described into four indicators: (1) the pre-service teachers were provided with proper equipment and were equipped with good quality of technical skills for teaching online, (2) from the online teaching-learning experiences gained in the university, the pre-service teachers believed that they were confident with their ability for teaching online, (3) regardless some issues in online learning, the pre-service teachers were prepared with some interactive methods to overcome problems that would occur during the process of online learning, and (4) the pre-service teachers committed that they would organize their time management in online learning and provide a meaningful interaction process. The finding concluded that perceived readiness of pre-service teachers in teaching online was considered an essential aspect in the teaching-learning process. Despite many obstacles that could probably occur, the pre-service teachers were fully equipped with proper tools and strategies to provide interactive online learning activities.

Natalya Kopylova

Currently, the importance and significance of E-learning in Russia is increasing day by day both for students studying in higher educational institutions and for adults who want to improve their qualifications or change their job profile. At the same time, this trend will only increase its momentum in view of the employers’ increasing requirements to the level and quality of the education received, the acquired professional skills in the learning process, the competencies mastered for fruitful future work. The relevance of the chosen topic is that the use of E-learning in the university pedagogical process is one of the urgent innovative tasks of higher education, affecting the entire system of Russian education. E-learning increases the quality of education, promotes the use of modern interactive technologies, allows you to teach all categories of students, regardless of their physical abilities, reduces some pedagogical process costs, increases the image of an educational institution, contributes to the continuation of learning during pandemics. The main research methods were the methods of system analysis, the theory of object-classification modeling of complex systems, design and development of information systems, analytical methods of spatial analysis and modeling, decision support, organization of web access, testing. The work shows the design of an information electronic system for teaching students a foreign language (using the example of English) of the training program “Information Science and Computer Engineering” for the educational program “Space Information Systems and Technologies”, based on the technologies for developing web applications. The modeling of the subject area is considered, the analysis of modeling tools, the requirements for the functionality of the information system are presented. A diagram of use cases for the developed information system is developed. The article presents the developed database, describes its subject area and infological design. The program modules and the general model of the information electronic system for teaching students a foreign language are considered.

J. Milroy, L. Milroy

Deborah Barnum

O. L. Dobrynina

Lexical errors in students’ English writing may be caused by lexical interference, mul­tiple meaning and synonymy of Russian and English words. Russian students studying English as a foreign language often have little notion of the English or Russian word connotation and cannot analyze the word meaning; consequently they make a lot of lexical errors in translating their ideas into English. Typical students’ errors and mistakes include usage of a direct word meaning instead of a figurative one, transfer of the given word collocation into all possible collocations of this word, errors in selecting the contextual meaning of a multiple meaning word. We use some methods in teaching students to analyze the contextual meaning of the word and to find the English word for adequate translation: explanation of some problematic situations, cross-lingual matching and trans­lation comparison. As a result students gain metacognitive skills to classify the obtained information and to organize it into linked structures, to analyze the contextual word meaning, to overcome vo­cabulary disparity and word sense disambiguation.

Tri Rohani, Safnil Arsyad

This study aims at investigating the types of figurative lexicons and the types of meaning of figurative lexicons found in “feature” of The Jakarta Post’s December editions. The methodology of the research used descriptive qualitative content analysis. The findings related to research questions showed that there were thirteen types of figurative lexicons found in “feature” of The Jakarta Post and the most dominant type of figurative lexicon found was simile while for the types of meanings of figurative lexicons found in “feature” of The Jakarta Post, it was found that there were seven types of meanings found in “feature” of the Jakarta Post and the most type of meaning of figurative lexicons found was conceptual meaning.  This means that using simile and conceptual meaning in the news presentation of “feature” in The Jakarta Post were effective in order to help the readers easier in understanding the news presented in The Jakarta Post. Therefore, it is then recommended that teachers can bring this type of authentic material to school so the students are motivated and encourged to learn more things in English especially about figurative language and types of meanings

Rosinda de Castro Guerra RAMOS, Marcus de Souza ARAÚJO, Adolfo TANZI NETO

Em tempos de era digital, a escola e a universidade precisam cada vez mais repensar em incorporar as tecnologias digitais da informação e comunicação (TDIC) às necessidades atuais do aluno.  Daí a importância das TDIC se tornarem elos no ensino-aprendizagem, com a escola e a universidade repensando seus nichos na atualidade, ou seja, professores mudando procedimentos de ensino; currículos menos informativos e mais e flexíveis; aulas menos expositivas e mais desafiadoras; integração de projetos para compreender o quê e o porquê se aprende; alunos como centro da aprendizagem; tecnologias como aliadas e não à margem do processo educacional; entre outros fatores. Nessa direção, a escola e a universidade deveriam ser vistas como um espaço para os alunos aprenderem de forma contínua com o uso das TDIC. Pensando nessas questões é que abrimos a edição do volume deste ano com um número temático dedicado ao uso das TDIC e ao ensino-aprendizagem de línguas. O objetivo é apresentar propostas pedagógicas relacionadas a materiais educacionais digitais, no intuito de trazer contribuições de experiências e de investigação para a área de ensino-aprendizagem de línguas em contextos digitais.

Andi Idayani, Rugaiyah Rugaiyah

Teaching speaking is an important part in the language teaching, as well as the assessing speaking. Therefore, teachers need to use some strategies in conducting the assessing speaking. Based on that issue, this research was aimed at exploring teachers’ strategies in assessing speaking skill. To explore the problems, case study with a qualitative approach was adopted. This research employed observation, questionnaire and interview in collecting the data and involved five teachers from MTsNAndalanPekanbaru. The collected data were analyzed by using flow data analysis process of Miles &Huberman (1994). The findings revealed that teachers apply the strategy of conducting the speaking assessment in the classroom which are started from the way they identify current status of classroom speaking assessment, the purpose of their speaking assessment, types speaking assessment, then selecting the teachers’ strategies of speaking assessment and last, teachers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of classroom speaking assessment. In general, teachers implementing some strategies in conducting the speaking assessment. There were discussion and conversation, question and answer, role play, repetition, etc. This research was expected to broaden teachers’ knowledge about strategies in assessing speaking in terms of the purpose and the type of assessment used, then teachers’ perceptions of speaking assessment.

Orison Marden Bandeira de Melo Junior

<p>This article aims at discussing the role linguistic studies play in literary studies based on the theoretical framework of the Circle (Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and Medvedev) and the implications in undergraduate English Language Teacher Education Programs of adopting the conception of (literary) language propounded by the Russian authors. Methodologically, away from theoretical extremes, viz., formalism and social determinism, not only does it present the proposal for literary analysis suggested by the Circle, by means of which the linguistic material of the work strives for social significance, but, based on this understanding, it also points to some structural elements of the poem<em> El sonavabitche</em> by Gloria Anzaldúa. This poem, selected as a representative of the Chicano Literature, a segment of contemporary American Literature, brings the experience of illegal Mexican workers in the United States close to that of slaves in that country (social significance). These elements referred especially to the crossing of the workers, their “animalization,” and the “hunt” of fugitives. Based on this theoretical-analytical work, we perceived that the study of literature written in English in undergraduate English Language Teacher Education Programs in the confluence between language and literature mobilizes a huge amount of material by teachers and students and that the dialogue between these areas is fundamental to the analysis/understanding of literary works in their original texts, which even allows the knowledge of the language as a system to be enriched.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>the (Bakhtin) Circle, language and literature in the classroom, <em>El Sonavabitche</em>, Language Teacher Education programs.</p>

J. Cenoz

J. Flege, M. Munro, I. R. MacKay

T. Ionin, M. Zubizarreta, S. Maldonado