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ORTESOL Quarterly, 2017
ABSTRACT This paper attempts to account the impact of gamification-based tasks in an EFL classroom to enhance speaking skills. The researcher conducted a problem formulation and a data collection to identify an issue to be solved. At the beginning, the research pretended to deal with the use of electronic devices in the English classroom with an educational purpose. However, after some literature review, the researcher realized that gamification has to do not only with electronic devices but also with other alternatives in which the teacher can avoid constraints concerning the availability of resources. Findings reported that gamification makes a minimal impact on the students’ speaking skills although more research has to be conducted to confirm or to debate the main outcomes of the current study implementing similar proposals under similar conditions. KEY WORDS: gamification, speaking skills, task-based instruction, anxiety, vocabulary, grammar.
The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate teachers’ beliefs about a fundamental aspect of foreign language teaching: grammar. Whilst progressively reinstated in the national curriculum and consistently sustained by foreign languages teachers’ practices, grammar’s perceived irrelevance for assessment criteria of the nationally adopted method of assessment - the General Certificate of Secondary Education – kept it caught in conflicting discourses of policy, linguistic research and teaching practices. Whilst foreign languages policy and practice kept converging towards increasing focus on forms in language education along correspondences with linguistic research, the assessment has remained focused on generic communicative, skill-focused criteria. My small-scale research aimed to find how foreign languages teachers translated grammar teaching policy and possible theoretical guidelines in their teaching practices, by collecting data through interviews, observations and think-alouds. The findings revealed disparate educational contexts, approaches, as well as interpretations of grammar teaching. It led me to realise the necessity to probe further into a much more thorough theoretical and methodological underpinning of foreign languages education. As this study concludes, the secondary foreign languages curriculum has become disapplied, and schools and teachers have been left to devise their idiosyncratic foreign language learning strategies and rationales. As foreign languages teaching becomes anchored in the primary education curricular provision, this research hopes to document the need to frame theoretical and methodological guidelines, a consistent foreign languages education rationale, leading to a consistent and convincing education and provision of future foreign language teachers.
Classroom Action Research Journal: Lembaga Bahasa & Pendidikan Profesional LIA Jakarta , 2015
Abstract: The effect of multimedia on students’ enthusiasm for speaking class (both in class and out of class) is investigated. Pre- and post-student surveys, written comments, and teacher observations are used to record changes in enthusiasm for speaking class during a six-week study period. In this study, the researcher investigated how the integration of multimedia at English Department of Unesa Surabaya would impact English department students’ enthusiasm for speaking class. Enthusiasm for speaking class can be defined as the students’ eagerness to participate in speaking class activities in the classroom, as well as out of classroom. Researcher’s motivation for focusing on multi media is twofold. First, it has twenty four hours available to be accessed by the students. Second, the students are familiar with this multimedia. Today’s English Department students have grown up in a technological world with television, electronic toys, video games, VCRs, cellular phones, and more. They are accustomed to receiving and processing information through multi-sensory sources. The researcher wants to bring technology into his classroom and incorporate it into his speaking class using multimedia computer presentations. Barbara ten Brink (1993) noted, “. . . students look to us [teachers] to prepare them for an increasingly technological world. Fortunately, with videodiscs, we are meeting the challenge by delivering speaking class materials in ways that engage, motivate, and thrill our students.” In this study his students had an opportunity to use assorted multimedia technology as they explored other language skills: listening, reading, and writing. Key words: speaking class, multimedia, and speaking ability.
Cuadernos de ALDEEU, 2018
Grammar instruction has maintained its traditional, form-focused approaches in the Mekong Delta despite the influence of a top-down Vietnamese National Foreign Language Project 2020 (Project 2020), first implemented in 2008. Its official learning outcomes include ‘can do’ statements and the widespread use of performance assessments, particularly at the tertiary level. These changes are meant to promote students’ ability to communicate in such a competency-based curriculum (Richards, 2017). Yet, in universities in the Mekong Delta, the dominance of a grammar-based syllabus continues to inform instruction, both in Bachelor’s and Master’s level coursework. Less than one percent of high school graduates report being able to use English to communicate after seven years of study (Nguyen, 2017). Given Project 2020’s goal enabling the Vietnamese population to communicate globally and in the ASEAN community, a number of root causes for failure are being examined. These include studies that explore materials design, assessment aligning better with outcomes, student motivation, and teacher professional development (Nguyen, 2017; Ho, 2009; Phuong, 2017). This paper addresses the last point: professional development. Universities in the Mekong Delta are in a unique position to experiment with the latest pedagogical approaches and share their findings with English language instructors across the region. This paper defines communicative approaches related to grammar instruction and explores the challenges and overall benefits that adopting the genre-based approach alongside traditional grammar-based instruction. A more balanced instructional approach could lead to more competent language use as an outcome in the Mekong Delta and beyond. Keywords: grammar instruction, communicative approaches, professional development
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