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Sheltered Verbalized Teaching: A Case Study on ESL Out of Field Teachers
No full textIn the Philippines, English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching is growing. Language learners from neighboring countries like South Korea and Japan come to the Philippines just to learn English. In such light, this case study looked into the kind of teaching that ESL teachers teach. The study was conducted at Etalk, an online ESL company located in Baguio City, Philippines, where nearly a hundred ESL teachers are employed. Through cool and warm analyses, three main categories of ESL teaching were created: presenting speaking tasks, managing classroom elements and creating student connection. These categories led to the formulation of the theme: sheltered verbalized teaching. Specifically, the study discovered that gestures are effective means getting attention and encouraging participation among students. Also, the use of basic vocabulary words is effective in comprehension. In interactions, the teacher is a guide and a facilitator. Utilizing real-life questions facilitates speaking engagement for the students. Positive attitudes displayed by the teacher towards the students create a good learning atmosphere. Empathy is considered to be crucial in communication in order to communicate effectively students need to be able to understand persons’ affective and cognitive state. Finally, this study forwards that teachers should pay attention to the students’ feelings and emotions to achieve their goal since teaching a language means teaching cultural customs, traditions and values
Attitudes with Respect to the Teacher as a Role Model to Students in the Classroom in Morocco
No full textThe purpose of this article is to evaluate the assumption about the fact that a teacher should reflect the image of the role model to his or her students in the classroom. Therefore, it endeavors to define particular key words; namely, professional development, teacher development and reflective teaching. In addition to this, it discusses the relevance of reflective teaching for teachers, students and the workplace as well as the characteristics of reflective practice while taking into consideration four major aspects; namely, ethics of caring, the constructivist approach to teaching, artistic problem solving and the teachers’ love of teaching. It also provides a sample of how a role model teacher should be like. As for the practical part, two different samples of questionnaires have been designed and handed in to both teachers and students in a number of public and private institutions in Morocco
The Shift of Illocutionary Force as the Impact as the Translation Technique Used
No full textThis study aims to explain the shift in speech illocution as a result of applying certain translation techniques. This research is descriptive qualitative research with an embedded-case study research design. To collect the data, this research used the descriptive qualitative method by content data analysis and Focused Group Discussion (FGD). The data were compiled from the Indonesian and English language version of novel Fifty Shades of Grey. The data are speeches that appeared in the situation of lovemaking, and then the data are validated by 3 raters through FGD (Focused Group Discussion). From this study, there were found 13 translation techniques applied in translating 250 speeches, all of which were categorized into 112 utterances in directive, 76 utterances in expressive, 47 utterances in assertive and 15 utterances in commissive speeches. From 250 data, there are three data whose illocutionary meanings shifted after being translated. The translation techniques applied to the three data are two literal techniques and one data applied paraphrase technique. Those three data are shifted from the expressive category to directed category after being translated. The application of translation techniques will also ultimately affect translation not only at the micro level but can also affect aspects of accuracy, acceptability and legibility of translation
Arkais Vocabulary Identification as Efforts to revitalize the Language with a Panai: Ecolinguistic Perspective
Get PDFThis study examined arkais vocabulary found in Panai Malay Language (PML), a mother tongue found in three districts namely Panai Tengah District (Labuhan Bilik), Panai Hilir District (Sei Berombang), and Panai Hulu District (Ajamu). The formulation of the problem in this research was how was the existence of archaic vocabulary in PML? The purpose of this study was to find out how much arkais vocabulary is in PML, so it could find out the potential level of threat and extinction of PML. This type of research was a descriptive study that used a quantitative approach. The data collection technique used is the note- taking. The data analyzed were written data obtained from an archaeological vocabulary study. The results obtained show that (1). The archaic PML ecolexicon includes the home eco-lexicon, wood, flora, fauna, fish, (2). Flora ecolexicon is the most archaic eco-lexicon, (3). Panai Malay is at the Beginning Threatened level (level 3
An Evaluation of Translation Teaching at Undergraduate Level in Tanzania
Get PDFUniversities in Tanzania are now greatly interested in teaching translation courses at undergraduate level. One outstanding observation is that most graduates work as teachers and not as translators. This paper aimed at evaluating teaching of translation courses at undergraduate level. The objective is to determine to what extent translation courses in Tanzania meet the market needs. The study used qualitative and quantitative methods in order to collect information. This includes questionnaires and the evaluation of course outlines, prospectuses, timetables, leaflets and examination papers. Findings indicate that translation courses in Tanzania are not in line with the current market needs. On the one hand, the findings of this study will enable the government of Tanzania, represented by Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) and higher learning institutions offering translation courses to be up-to-date on the requirements of professional translator training in the era of globalization. On the other hand, the findings of this study will lead them in the rethinking of the translation courses. Furthermore, the present study will awaken the consciousness of student-translators, translator trainers and professional translators on the current translation market needs in the twenty-first century and a part of contribution to the on-going global debate on teaching translation at undergraduate level
Repression: A Road to Neurosis in John Fowles' The Collector
No full textThe analysis of John Fowles’s the Collector explores the meaning of obsessive activities––doing something as a neurotic patient forgetting every other thing–– of central male character Clegg. Clegg has obsession with Miranda, photography and pornography because of which he involves in entrapping Miranda, and taking different photos of her. His surrender towards art reveals his repressed desires. Because of the constant conflict of id and ego in service of super-ego, the mind of Clegg is inflicted from obsession and acts like a neurotic patient
Love Triangular Theory and Inverted Symmetry in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel and The Trials of Brother Jero
Get PDFThis article presents a construct of love based upon a triangular theory and inverted symmetry. The work opens with a review of some of the major theories of love, and with a discussion of some of the major issues in love research. Next it briefly reviews selected elements of the triangular theory of love, according to which love can be understood as comprising three components intimacy, passion, and decision/ commitment. The aim of this study is to examine the plays in the geometry perspective based on triangular theory and inverted symmetry. The dramatic action informs, educates and entertains the readers. In Wole Soyinka’s plays, love triangular theory and the principle of inverted symmetry operate to show the victory of tradition over modernity on the one hand, women aggressivity and religion contribution to tragedy in Nigeria on the other hand
Postmodern Social Simulation and Alienation through ‘Cloning’ in A Number
Get PDFThis article focuses on Jean Baudrillard’s tenets in analyzing postmodern social simulation in Caryl Churchill’s A Number. In this play ‘cloning’ becomes a final solution provided by technology for subjects living in hyperreal circumstances that cause the subject’s alienated identity in postmodern society. The play echoes the author’s attitude towards scientific evolution that is the result of cloning, and its impact on social and moral values and relationships. It also explores the influence of technology in the posthuman age in A Number. The introduction of technologies in society is something that should be questioned and tested not only to prove the theories, but to move forward into new potential realities; hyperreality through technology and its impact on postmodern society will be well-traced in A Number. B1 and B2 are the main characters of A Number that suffer from missing their identity. They leave in a hyperreal situation in which cloning, which is the result of technological development, makes a kind of detachment from their real identity. In this play characters have hyperreal experience of simulated images. Hyperreality is born with the third order of simulacra in which the real absorbs the image. It is an important continuation of the idea of alienation. Today it is the matrix of acquired traits that clones one culturally under the sign of mono thought. It is all the innate differences that are annulled by ideas, by the ways of life, and the cultural context that make different subjects. When singular beings become identical copies of one another the subjectivity of them gets perilous. This kind of social cloning and the industrial reproduction of things and people make the biological conception of the genome and also genetic cloning possible
Attractive Learning Media to Cope with Students' Speaking Skills in the Industry 4.0 Using Sparkol Videoscribe
Get PDFThe aim of this research was to find out the influence of Sparkol Videoscribe on students’ speaking skills. The research methodology applied was a quantitative approach with an experimental design. This research was conducted at SMPIT Putri Al Hanif Cilegon in the second semester of the academic year 2018/2019. This research involved two classes of the eighth grade; experimental class and control class. The sample was 67 students. The instrument used was an oral speaking test which was divided into two parts; pre-test and post-test. Furthermore, the researcher used content and construct validity and Cohen’s Kappa coefficient to test the inter-rater reliability. After collecting the data, the researcher analyzed them by using a t-test through SPSS. The researcher got the result that the Sig.2-tailed value was 0.001. It was smaller than 0.05 (P-value=0.001 < 0.05). Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected, and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. In other words, there is a positive influence on the experimental group which treated using Sparkol Videoscribe. In addition, the calculation of Cohen’s d was conducted in order to find out how far Sparkol Videoscribe affects students’ speaking skills. The result showed that the value of the effect size was 0.8 which meant it had a large effect. Based on the result of this research, it could be concluded that Sparkol Videoscribe gave the influence to improve students’ speaking skills
History (and/or Historicity) of Ecocriticism and Ecocritical History: An Introductory Overview
Get PDFOverlapping and interconnected, interdisciplinary and heterogeneous, amorphous and multi-layered, and deep and broad as it is, countless topics on ecoliterature make ecocriticism a comprehensive catchall term that proposes to look at a text--be it social, cultural, political, religious, or scientific--from naturalist perspectives and moves us from “the community of literature to the larger biospheric community which […] we belong to even as we are destroying it” (William Rueckert)