Applying Lexical Profiling To Construct Technical Word Lists For Thai Tourist Guides,
2021
Kasetsart University, Thailand
Applying Lexical Profiling To Construct Technical Word Lists For Thai Tourist Guides, Piyanuch Laosrirattanachai [email protected], Piyapong Laosrirattanachai
PASAA
When learning high- and mid-frequency words, approximately 5,000 words might be inadequate for learners to survive in a career as a tourist guide. This paper aims to construct technical word lists for Thai tourist guides to serve as supplementary learning materials. Different word lists need different criteria for their construction. Three main methods are used to construct word lists: lexical profiling, eliminating off-list words, and expert verification. The self-compiled corpus comprising 653,196 tokens gathered from www.tourismthailand.org is used to construct six sub word lists including the technical word list for Thai tourist guides containing 391 words and the technical word …
The Role Of Conversation Analysis-Informed Instruction To Enhance Efl Learners’ Conversational Skills: Repair Strategies In Focus: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia,
2021
Faculty of Humanities Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
The Role Of Conversation Analysis-Informed Instruction To Enhance Efl Learners’ Conversational Skills: Repair Strategies In Focus: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, Lemma Kassaye
PASAA
This study aimed at exploring the role of conversation analysis (CA)-informed instruction to enhance learners’ use of repair strategies in various oral interaction situations. A CA design, which emerged from ethnomethodology, was employed where it was also used as a data collection procedure and data analyses technique. The participants of the study were first-year English language students at Bahir Dar University chosen through comprehensive sampling technique. Two phases of data collection were carried out: pre intervention and post-intervention conversation analyses. Audio/video devices were used to record the oral productions of the participants. The purpose of the pre intervention analyses of …
Using Songs In Teaching Pronunciation To Young Efl Learners,
2021
MA, English Language Teaching Department, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep,
Turkey
Using Songs In Teaching Pronunciation To Young Efl Learners, Gizem Saldıraner, Emrah Cinkara
PASAA
Pronunciation in a foreign language does not have to be native-like. However, intelligible and comprehensible pronunciation is required for understandable communication. How to teach pronunciation in a foreign language classroom matters because the effectiveness of the activities determines the learners’ success. The use of songs in teaching has lots of benefits from motivation to recalling learned items more effectively. In this study, the efficiency of using songs in order to teach young learners pronunciation was investigated in an experimental research design. The experimental group (n=37) was taught using six different songs and the control group (n=35) received texts for pronunciation …
Dialogic Teaching As A Way To Promote Students’ English Language Use In Efl Classroom,
2021
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University
Dialogic Teaching As A Way To Promote Students’ English Language Use In Efl Classroom, Kamolwan Fairee Jocuns
PASAA
This study is classroom-based research in an English listening-speaking class at a Thai university. A dialogic teaching methodology was used in parts of the classroom tasks to encourage students to speak more English and build a learning community where they learn from each other and consider different voices. The purpose of this article is to analyze the dialogicality that emerged between students during the classroom activities and discuss students’ reflections towards the classroom dialogic tasks. Students’ conversations were recorded during the tasks that were designed to foster dialogicality. Excerpts of conversations were analyzed and revealed notable features of their dialogic …
Bottom-Up Enactments Of Overseas Professional Learning And Development By Thai University English Teachers,
2021
School of Education, Deakin University, Australia
Bottom-Up Enactments Of Overseas Professional Learning And Development By Thai University English Teachers, Indika Liyanage, Phatchara Phantharakphong, Piyada Sudathip, Ong-Art Namwong
PASAA
English language education policy is deployed strategically as an instrument to address wider national policy objectives in most emerging nations. In universities, policy enactment at institutional and classroom levels hinges on the development of a qualified and skilled English teaching workforce. The continued dominance of linear discourses of the relation of learning and practice and reliance on individual teacher agency to achieve policy objectives, however, risk policy failure. This paper reports the ‘bottom-up’ enactments of teacher professional learning and development (PLD) policy using reflections of three Thai university English teachers who individually completed PLD in overseas English-dominant settings. We found …
A Multi-Case Study Examining The Practices Of Fourth-And Fifth-Grade Teachers In Title 1 Schools Who Use Specific Reading Strategies To Teach The Comprehension Of Informational Text,
2021
Liberty University
A Multi-Case Study Examining The Practices Of Fourth-And Fifth-Grade Teachers In Title 1 Schools Who Use Specific Reading Strategies To Teach The Comprehension Of Informational Text, Candice Maureen Smith
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
The purpose of this multi-case study was to examine the practices of fourth- and fifth-grade teachers in Title 1 schools who use specific reading strategies to teach the comprehension of informational text. One theory that guided this study was Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory focusing on the zone of proximal development as it applies to what a learner can do with and without help, and his concept of learning and development, whereby a child does not develop independently of his or her environment. In addition, Bandura’s social cognitive theory served as a guiding theory for this study. The design was a multiple …
Bibliotherapy As Intervention For African American Socially Aggressive Girls In An Urban School Setting: A Case Study,
2021
Liberty University
Bibliotherapy As Intervention For African American Socially Aggressive Girls In An Urban School Setting: A Case Study, Deborah Kay Charaman
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
The purpose of this collective case study was to describe how bibliotherapy among adolescent African American females in urban middle schools served as an intervention for female social aggression, or the mean girl syndrome. At this stage of the research, bibliotherapy was defined as the use of literature to support positive socio-emotional health and prosocial behavior. The theory guiding this inquiry was Rosenblatt’s (1969) transactional theory of reading. It stands to reason that if there is indeed a transaction between the reader and the text; bibliotherapy could impact the attitudes, perceptions, and behavior of socially aggressive females. The central research …
Does A Schoolwide Silent Reading Initiative Make A Difference In The Reading Habits Of High School Freshmen: A Mixed Methods Study,
2021
Old Dominion University
Does A Schoolwide Silent Reading Initiative Make A Difference In The Reading Habits Of High School Freshmen: A Mixed Methods Study, Stephanie Trzeciakiewicz
Teaching & Learning Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation describes a study that investigated the degree to which a Schoolwide Silent Reading Initiative (SSRI) impacted high-school students’ motivation, attitudes toward, and amount of time spent reading for pleasure both in and outside of school. Multiple methods were used to collect and analyze data, however the data collection window was drastically shortened and unexpectantly closed due to Covid-19. Close analysis of the limited student data available revealed that some adolescents find reading self-selected material enjoyable and spend some of their free time doing so, while most teens report they don’t find reading to be a pleasurable activity and …
Reading Ability, Study Habits And Students’ Academic Performance In Social Studies,
2021
Delta State University, Abraka,
Reading Ability, Study Habits And Students’ Academic Performance In Social Studies, Juliana Uloma Iheakanwa, Sunday Obro, Williams Pius Akpochafo
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
This study investigated reading ability, study habits and students’ academic performance in Social Studies. The study was an expos-facto study. The researcher employed a stratified and multi-sampling technique to sample 1103 students. The questionnaire was the instrument utilised to gather data. The Cronbach Alpha was utilised for the determination of the instrument reliability, and a reliability value coefficient value of 0.78 for Reading Fluency, 0.90 for Passage Recall and 0.92 for question Answering and 0.76 for Study habit was obtained. Data generated were evaluated employing correlation co-efficient of determination for the research questions, while the multiple regression and linear regression …
Blended Learning Technologies: Course Design, Collaboration And Assessment In Improving Students’ Essay Writing Skills,
2021
Uzbekistan State World Languages University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Blended Learning Technologies: Course Design, Collaboration And Assessment In Improving Students’ Essay Writing Skills, Solijon Azizov
Philology Matters
As the current measures in higher education are being related straight to both online and offline platforms, blended learning can be a prototype model in increasing quality and content factors of this stage of education, thereby providing teachers and students with connected and continuous education in practice. In many studies related to the issues mentioned above, blended learning, its practical functions are central to the discussion. Besides that, doing scientific investigations on the correlation between competencies and technologies in TFL plays a constructive role in creating a competitive educational environment for everyone. The study aimed to test blended learning technologies …
Conceptual Gender Analysis Of Gender Marked Phraseological Units And Proverbs In The Uzbek Language,
2021
Uzbekistan State World Languages University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Conceptual Gender Analysis Of Gender Marked Phraseological Units And Proverbs In The Uzbek Language, Guli Ergasheva
Philology Matters
Interdisciplinary approach is one of the important features of gender analysis as it can be studied in any field of science. The study of a language as an object of intercultural communication and the problems of the interdependence of a language, culture, and consciousness are of great importance in linguistics. The study deals with the general concept of phraseological units, which is reflected in the expression of the linguocultural means that arise in social events and serve for the specific national communicative process of society, both of which illuminate the national-cultural values of society the people. Indeed, a comparative analysis …
The Importance Of Intercultural Pragmatics In Teaching A Foreign Language,
2021
Termez State University, Termez, Uzbekistan
The Importance Of Intercultural Pragmatics In Teaching A Foreign Language, Zebuniso Isanova
Philology Matters
This article focuses on the role of intercultural pragmatics in modern foreign languages teaching and, on the notion, issues of intercultural pragmatics. It also analyses the importance of intercultural communication in the teaching of foreign languages, pragmatic aspects of intercultural communication, the interdependence of linguistic and cultural phenomena. While pragmatics is a branch of linguistics, intercultural pragmatism is developing as a new supplement to pragmatics. The process of intercultural communication includes linguistic and socio-cultural elements. The importance of intercultural communication in the study of a foreign language is that it eliminates cultural misunderstandings, mistrust and helps to adapt to other …
Didactic-Pedagogical Basis Of Teaching Foreign Languages,
2021
Uzbekistan State World Languages University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Didactic-Pedagogical Basis Of Teaching Foreign Languages, Jakhongir Turobov
Philology Matters
Nowadays, at the non-philological institutions the study of English occupies the important place and is an important component in training specialists for different branches of our country. The purpose of this article is to analyze didactic-pedagogical basis of teaching foreign languages. Currently the introduction of the innovative methods to the sphere of teaching English has become important and has a great practical significance. The article gives synopsis and analysis of modern tools in the field of teaching English for Special Purposes.
Certainly, teachers for Specific Purposes share a terrific deal for all intents and cause with instructors. For each it …
History Of The Development Of The Ghazal Genre,
2021
Tashkent state pedagogical university named after Nizami, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
History Of The Development Of The Ghazal Genre, Dilfuza Tukhlieva
Philology Matters
Lyrical works hare not lost their importance since the earliest times to the present day as they are tuned in a certain tone, short in size compared to other literary geners, can be stored quickly and easily in people's memory, have a wide range of aesthetic effects, are suitable for different age and literary training of readers and possess a variety of genres.
A significant part of Uzbek classical literature is lyrical works. The ghazal genre is one of the most important of these lyrical works. The lyrics of the classical period are diverse in terms of a genre and …
Female Characters In The Novel “Death Of A Hero” By Richard Aldington,
2021
Uzbekistan State World Languages University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Female Characters In The Novel “Death Of A Hero” By Richard Aldington, Shakhnoza Chorieva
Philology Matters
The literary process in the first half of the twentieth century acquires new styles, new techniques, it combines modernism and realism. For literary works, fantastic absurdity becomes characteristic, as a new experimental form. If in the nineteenth century, literary works described clear objective subjects, for example, love, evil, family and social relations, then in the updated literature of the twentieth century, abstract psychological methods are used primarily to describe a particular thing. The First World War became the cardinal theme of the art in the first half of the twentieth century, determined the personal destinies and formed the artistic personality …
Scientific Interpretation Of Fantasy Works And Their Types,
2021
Uzbekistan State World Languages University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Scientific Interpretation Of Fantasy Works And Their Types, Dilshod Nasriddinov
Philology Matters
In the process of global development in all areas of science, various new knowledge has appeared. Including fantasy in world literature fantasy which began to be considered as one of the significant directions of the literature. In this article, the researcher proves the fact that fantasy has its own fundamental basis in the formation of this area, and the scientific theory of myths, fairy tales and knights, components of the fantasy content. The author justifies his scientific and theoretical approach to the scientific views of foreign scientists with respect to Fantasy. This attracted the attention of all literary critics and …
James Jones And His Short Stories On Life Challenges Faced By Americans In The Xx Century,
2021
Uzbekistan State World Languages University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
James Jones And His Short Stories On Life Challenges Faced By Americans In The Xx Century, Elmira Muratova
Philology Matters
The article, dealing with the centenary anniversary of James Jones, presents her own subdivision of his creative work into periods, given that the author of the article was the first researcher in the former USSR and the USA defending her monographic work in 1981 on “Problems of War and Peace in James Jones’s creative work”. The aim of her article is to highlight the role of a short story genre in evolution of American writers, including James Jones, choosing their themes and further confirming the manner and peculiarities of their writing style in their novels. The main part of the …
Learner-Centered Approach In Developing A Foreign Language Lexical Competence,
2021
Uzbekistan State World Languages University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Learner-Centered Approach In Developing A Foreign Language Lexical Competence, Nilufar Mamatkulova
Philology Matters
The purpose of this research article is to explore the possibility of developing foreign language lexical competencies of students of higher educational institutions specialized in studying languages on the basis of a learner-centered approach.
All over the world, at educational and research institutions scientific research has been carried out on the development of educational content and teaching methods, educational technologies, objectivity of control, learner-centered approach and continuity of modern teaching methods, training of qualified specialists based on the best practices. At the same time, special attention is paid to the development of foreign language competencies of future foreign language teachers …
Author And Hero’S Parallelism In English And Uzbek Literature,
2021
Uzbekistan State World Languages University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Author And Hero’S Parallelism In English And Uzbek Literature, Makhliyo Umarova
Philology Matters
The article examines the creative personality and his parallel construction with the literary hero and the use in Western and Eastern literature. The concept of a creative personality is a literary category, where there are leading the biographical and psychological factors. Nevertheless, the author is one of the factors in the perception of life events, their expression in high poetic and prosaic forms unlike “I”, especially in the choice of images and the formation of artistic heights in their expression. The creative personality is reflected through the artistic image (a character, a hero) and the characteristics of the creative style …
Master's Portfolio,
2021
Bowling Green State University
Master's Portfolio, Sydney Ludewig
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
This is the final portfolio for my Master's of Arts in the field of English. It includes an analytical narrative along with four projects that best illustrate my knowledge and skills in regards to teaching literature. These four pieces are titled "Problematic Women and Gender Roles in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," "Teaching Linguistic Justice," "The Importance of Teaching Identity," and "Image Grammar and Narrative Essay Unit."
