... vocabulary learning? How does learningthe sub-memory strategies help to improve students' vocabulary retention? Howmuchthestudentsobtainthe memory strategieslearnedintheirindependent learning? ... answered for the third research question Howmuchthestudents maintain the memory strategieslearnedintheirindependent learning? ” How were the diaries carried out? In terms of the diaries‘ ... 39 5 The following table illustrates brief information of participants, including their coded name (X1 to X9) and their TOEIC input marks N0 NAME X1 INPUT 220 X2 225 X3 255 X4 30 5 X5 33 5 X6 33 5...
... online learning: Interaction patterns and limiting factors Open Learning, 19(2), 135 -149 Hatch, S (2002) The online university: Thestudents perspective In Winds of change inthe sea of learning ... details of the results Instead, they simply reported that thestudents had not considered interactions with other students important to them or critical to their success inthe course They concluded ... such interactions, the question nevertheless needed to be asked whether distance education students were really interested in interacting with other students enrolled inthe same course Whilst the...
... hard to find native speakers outside of the classroom, who are able to clearly make a sound and interact with opponents intheir English level 24 CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS 3. 1 Findings The findings below ... Considering the substantiality of the these outcomes , the author suggested some beneficial advice, and finalized it with the drawbacks and shortcomings of the thesis Findings gathered from the questionnaire ... consideration Also these findings could be more useful if the Ministry of Education and Training will take further actions In order to help studentsin applying technology in studying of English...
... meaning, encouraging students to express their opinions during the process of learning, and empowering students, in a certain extent, in choosing the content and method of learning All of these help ... language learning? Howtheir beliefs about language learning affect their opinions of the teacher‟s role and student‟s role inthe English language classroom? Howtheir beliefs about language learning ... as their usual learning activities at home Like Activities Dislike F % F % 2 .3 1.7 At home F % 0.4 51 14.9 0 .3 34 14.2 53 15.5 1 .3 8.4 3. 8 12 3. 5 13. 5 10 4.2 4 .3 1.7 10.1 2.9 3. 5 73 30.4 0 .3 2.0...
... speaking my language 8% 49% 36 % 7% 16% 43% 31 % 10% 21% 33 % 33 % 13% 6% 23% 53% 18% 11% 36 % 40% 13% H I have difficulties in taking part in speaking activities because of their different pronunciation ... all of the participants appreciate the significance of speaking skill intheir English learning Most of the respondents (85%) think that speaking will help them show their ability of using English ... skill intheir English learning, three-quarters of whom (75%) state that speaking is very important and the rest (25%) show it is important to their English learningThe table also reveals the main...
... Teaching (CLT)…… …6 1.2 Definition of communicative language teaching (CLT)………………………… 10 1 .3 Defining communicative competence…………………………………………… 12 1.4 Techniques for CLT……………………………………………………………… 13 ... and students attitudes towards CLT…………………………………….49 3. 2 The influence of teachers’ attitudes on their classroom teaching………………… 50 PART III: THE CONCLUSION……………………………………………………… 51 Summary…… …………………………………………………………………………51 ... II: STUDY…………………………………………………………………………… 23 2.1 The context of the study ……………………………………………………… …. 23 2.2 Participants……………………………………………………………………… 24 2 .3 Instruments for Data Collection ………………………………………………...
... above in an attempt to find out the connection between teachers‟ attitudes and their actual teaching The following section presents the findings of the study 2.5 Findings 33 2.5.1 Teachers’ Attitudes ... satisfy the widely differing needs of thestudents Table 2 .3 Teachers’ attitudes towards the role of learners As can be seen in Table 2 .3, teachers differed intheir opinions regarding their attitudes ... are 43. 4% of them felt uncertain about the difficulty of the teacher in monitoring thestudents performance and in preventing them from using their mother tongue Students attitudes towards quality...
... used in carrying out the projects ………………………………….25 2.2 .3. 3 Problems of PBL …………………………………………………………… 26 2.2 .3. 4 Benefits of PBL ………………………………………………………………28 2.2 .3. 5 Students' satisfaction of doing ... writing projects ………………………… 30 2.2.4 Findings and Discussion ………………………………………………………… 31 PART THREE: CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………… 34 Summary of the major findings ………………………………………………………… 34 ... Writing …………………………………………………………………………………….4 1.1.1 Definitions of Writing …………………………………………………………… …4 1.1.2 The importance of writing ………………………………………………………… 1.1 .3 Approaches to teaching writing...
... prewriting, composing, revising and editing as outlined inthe following figure PREWRITING (Specifying the task/ planning and outlining/ collecting data/ making notes) ↓ COMPOSING ↓ REVISING (reorganizing/shifting, ... students' mind with inspirations to initiate writing It may involve understanding the purpose of writing, discovering the topic, thinking about the audience, gathering information or inventing possible ... total students said that doing these writing projects was really time consuming They explained that the project took too much of their time either because they were able to reach a consensus in their...
... of students Sharing tasks with the others in groups 61 Being afraid of losing face when making mistakes Exchanging and providing information together 77 Solving problems in groups 37 Being dominated ... of the material Having read the information, thestudents discuss it with their counterparts from other group Then, thestudents return to their teams and teach their teammates what they have learned ... other By cooperating with each other in solving learning tasks inthe classroom, thestudents at the same time create a favourable and active learning atmosphere, thereby making use of each other‟s...
... for theirstudents All of them stated that they seldom used communicative games in speaking lessons, they only used them when there was someone observing their class Based on the result of the interview ... topics in pairs/groups in English E Not participating in speaking activities, doing other things Figure 9: The things studentsinthe speaking class As can be seen from figure above, the percentage ... with 11.5% There were still many students (25%) not taking part in speaking activities, but doing other things in a speaking class In addition to this, inthe English speaking class students prefer...
... critical reading In fact, students need to hold the critical skills in check as the ideas are forming at the beginning of the process They also have to know not only how to edit their own writing but ... feedback forms, in explaining those feedback forms together with their pragmatic intents to the students, and most importantly, in helping thestudents process the comments and revise their drafts ... feedback Interestingly, they rarely collected all students papers They often showed thestudents a sample inthe end or applied teacher-student conference when theirstudents nearly finished their...
... considered helpful intheir reading Question asked thestudents to share the benefits they can gain when using the model they like intheir reading The feedbacks are as follow: “I think reading with bottom-up ... improve other skills inlearning a language Therefore, it is the teachers who help theirstudentsin selecting suitable strategies and guide them how to assess the reading with these strategiesIn ... reading texts?” Each selected option is interpreted as thestudents like the tasks and believe the task useful for them intheirlearning reading The results were as follow: 3. 2.4.1 In Pre-reading...
... the contrary, there are 32 % of thestudents who find English speaking lessons not very interesting and 7 .3% of thestudents not have any interest in English speaking lessons In other words, they ... succeed intheir English speaking exams) and inthe long term (to find a good future job) 7 .3% 32 % 18.7% 42% very interesting and enjoyable (18.7%) interesting (42%) not very interesting (32 %) not interesting ... Figure 3. 11: Students' comprehension when the teacher explains the 32 instruction in English in speaking lessons Figure 3. 12: Students expectations of learning speaking skills vii 34 PART A: INTRODUCTION...
... evaluate their success in language learning as well as the effectiveness of their English course on the basis of how well they feel they have improved intheir spoken language proficiency” However, ... skills Aims of the study This study aims at: - finding out the attitudes of students at NWRC towards learning to speak English - investigating the classroom speaking practices of thestudents at ... hold towards learning to speak English? How are their classroom speaking practices? What should the teachers to improve theirstudents English speaking skill? Scope of the study The study was...