Students’ personal, emotional, and psychological traits are perceived to be highly influential in their academic engagement; therefore, many investigations have been conducted into the role of ...students’ characteristics in their level of engagement. Yet, the role of L2 enjoyment and academic motivation as two instances of students’ emotional traits was disregarded. To narrow this gap, this article aimed to assess the effects of these two constructs on Chinese EFL students’ academic engagement. To accomplish this, three pre-designed scales were virtually administered to 490 Chinese students. Using the Spearman Rho test, significant correlations were discovered among the variables. Further, through regression analysis, the predictive power of dependent variables was also assessed. Chinese students’ academic engagement was proved to be favorably predicted by L2 enjoyment and academic motivation. The implications and limitations are finally discussed.
The widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in language education contexts has motivated several scholars around the world to uncover the advantages and disadvantages of AI and AI-powered ...instruments in different language classrooms. Yet, as the review of earlier investigations revealed, few inquiries have been carried out to divulge the pros and cons of leveraging AI in EFL classes. To narrow this gap, using the phenomenological approach, this inquiry investigated the opportunities and challenges of implementing AI in EFL classes from the perspective of Chinese EFL students. To do so, through the criterion sampling technique, a total of 45 EFL students was recruited from different educational institutions in China. To collect the dataset, participants were asked to complete an open-ended questionnaire. For the sake of triangulation, among the 45 participants, 15 were randomly selected to engage in a follow-up interview session. With the aid of MAXQDA software (version 2023), participants’ perceptions of AI opportunities and challenges were carefully analyzed. Overall, the analysis findings uncovered that leveraging AI in EFL classes can bring numerous opportunities for EFL students, including individualized learning, timely and immediate feedback, rich educational resources, and an interactive learning atmosphere. However, as demonstrated by the analysis outcomes, implementing AI in EFL courses may also face students with a range of challenges and problems. The research outcomes would be of great help to teachers and educational leaders in mitigating the challenges of leveraging AI in language classrooms.
•Investigated AI opportunities and challenges in EFL classes from Chinese students' perspective.•Found that AI can bring numerous opportunities for EFL students.•Revealed that AI implementation in EFL courses poses serious challenges for students.
The swift development of technology has had a considerable effect on teaching, especially in foreign language classes, and the rising procedure of using creative technology to help teachers’ ...instruction and learning indicates the growing domination of technology in academic environments. In addition, teacher professional development significantly affects enhancing the teaching quality, especially the quality of educational activities within the class. Nevertheless, the shortage of workshops on professional development education made educators reliant on informal education where they worked and learned collectively with classmates in mini-groups to enhance their technology usage. The functions of technology-based instruction in the process of learning have not been taken into account in the professional development programs in the Chinese context so far, and consequently, this review takes a look at this issue. In a nutshell, this review of literature has suggestions for academics, theoreticians, and experts in search of inspecting the roles of technology in teacher professional development programs.
Given the undeniable role of English as a foreign language (EFL) students' academic motivation and engagement in L2 success, identifying the antecedents of these positive academic behaviors seems ...essential. Accordingly, many empirical studies have probed into the impact of students' personal factors on their motivation and engagement. Yet, not much attention has been paid to the role of teachers' communication behaviors, notably praise. Additionally, no review has been performed in this regard. The present review study intends to address these gaps by explaining teacher praise and its positive outcomes for EFL students' motivation and engagement. In light of the empirical and theoretical evidence, the role of teacher praise in improving students' academic motivation and engagement was proved. The paper concludes with some pedagogical implications.
This study is an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of integrating authentic materials into English as a foreign language (EFL) classes to improve the students’ listening skills. Authentic ...materials are derived from real-life sources such as newspapers, podcasts, films and videos offer learners exposures to natural language use and cultural context. A questionnaire is administered to 40 middle school teachers to optimize the use of authentic materials in EFL classrooms. The findings revealed that incorporating authentic materials can significantly improve students’ listening proficiency and foster a deeper understanding of a language.
Nowadays, students are required to improve their speaking skill more than any other language skill. Since, speaking skill is difficult to develop in EFL classes teachers need to use effective ...strategies to teach and assess this skill. A student's ability to speak is determined by their ability to explain something or express themselves verbally. This paper aims at finding out Kurdish instructors ‘perspectives on their role on assessing EFL students in the classroom and the strategies used for assessing speaking in EFL classes. This paper tries to find out an answer to the following question: what is the Instructor’s role in the assessment process? Moreover, what are the strategies for assessing speaking in EFL classes from instructors’ perspective? Furthermore, the paper has been limited to instructors of Cihan University-Erbil and Salahaddin University-Erbil for the academic year 2022-2023. The population was (21) instructors College of Language, Education and Basic Education. The data has been conducted by questionnaire, the Tool adopted for analyzing the data is SPSS. It is concluded that the most common strategies applied by the instructors in assessment of speaking sessions were direct question and answer, interview and storytelling. Moreover, the data analysis presented that the main role that majority of the instructors gave importance to were objective assessment and rubric, taking into consideration the students interest in the topic, and the content of the conversation or discussion in addition to the interaction.
The swift growth and progress of colleges and universities across China noticed a request for teaching and learning English as Foreign Language (EFL), and regarding the quality of higher education, ...student engagement has been at the center of attention which has a remarkable role due to the arrival of positive psychology in language learning recently. To this end, on the one hand, nurturing student engagement in EFL classes corresponds to requests from the recent national university English curriculum selected in 2015 in China. On the other hand, a bulk of studies has acknowledged difficulties that hinder the construction of a learner-centric learning situation. Moreover, there is a dearth of inquires which have focused on teachers' role in general and affective aspects namely enthusiasm, in particular. According to the literature review, the definition of these constructs, namely teacher enthusiasm and students' success and engagement are presented. In a nutshell, the implications for teachers, university administrators, teacher-trainers, and future researchers are presented, and new directions for future research are allocated.
The article has highlighted the important ways to facilitate the speaking of a popular language which is the English language in Jordan. The culture of the country is different from a global culture ...where it has been reported that children in the classrooms of EFL answer in the Arabic language and on the other hand, the teachers are found to be flexible to accept those answers in the local language within EFL classrooms. English is one of the languages that have been used in every country. The two important theories that have been considered are self-efficacy theory and SCT where a student has to overcome the fear of learning a new language which has been assumed to be a challenge for the student. The two ways in the form of digital story-telling with the use of textual assistance that has been provided with help of technology within the classrooms. The students seem to be interested to learn new words and speak them as well simultaneously through new digital technologies rather than inclining themselves to learn in traditional ways such as from blackboards within EFL classrooms. However, encouraging students to speak English through the assistance of games is important where lessons have been made interesting at every level to instil encouragement within the students to learn more words and speak them as well.
Literature is employed in the curriculum of many departments of English in Iraq and other countries. This study investigates literature teachers’ statements of the aims of teaching literature in the ...Iraqi university English as a foreign language (henceforth EFL ) classes. This area, according to my humble knowledge, has not been fully investigated in Iraq. This study addresses the following questions: What are the various aims of using literature in the Iraqi university EFL classes? what are the areas of language and literature discussed by the teachers of literature? It is designed to state the aims of EFL teachers' use of literature in the Iraqi university EFL classes, and list those areas of language and literature, which can be taught by using literature. To answer those questions and to achieve those aims, literature teachers' attitudes regarding the aims of teaching of literature in the Iraqi university EFL classes are investigated by constructing a questionnaire by the researcher and exposing it to jury members and is then used as a data collection technique. In this study, it is hypothesized that the aims of teaching literature include various students' linguistic types of development, including the development of their language skills, of developing critical thinking, interpretations of literary texts, and of their personalities; and that the areas of literature upon which the aims of teaching literature are to be applied include poetry, drama and the novel. Depending on the analysis and discussion carried out in this study, the hypotheses are verified and the questions and aims of study are answered and achieved. It is concluded that the aims of teaching literature include developing the various students' linguistic, language skills, intellectual and aesthetic types of development, and of various types of interpretations of literary texts, and of their personality.
A Two-phase Evaluation of an ELT Textbook Negin Samoudi; Mohammad Mohammadi
Journal of English language pedagogy and practice (Online),
08/2021, Letnik:
14, Številka:
28
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It is by now well established that materials may have an impact beyond simply learning a language they present. Hence, in this study attempts have been made to investigate the strengths and ...weaknesses of a textbook Summit 2B which is currently being widely used in Iranian EFL classes. The textbook has been evaluated based on criteria provided by McDonough and Shaw (1993) on the basis of two stages: an external and an internal evaluation. Efforts have been made to critically evaluate the textbook in terms of the layout, grading and sequencing of assignments, design, content, different activities, sort of texts utilized, and the skills emphasized in the book. The findings showed that albeit there appears to be some shortcomings, Summit 2B seems to be more efficient to meet the requirements of EFL learners as compared with the other textbooks which have hitherto been used at different language classes. Accordingly, investigating and evaluating the book proved to be very lucrative and valuable in terms of pedagogy as well as the efficient attributes that suits the context of the present study. Finally, the implications as regards the efficiency of this particular course book as the consequence of evaluating it have been put forward and the strengths and weaknesses related to it have been argued.
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