scholarly journals Mobile Devices Applied in Self-Studying English as a Foreign Language Among Non-Native Students in Vietnam and Japan

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (09) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Thuy Thi Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Yukawa Takashi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Technology Learning ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Lesson Content ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

<p class="Affiliation"><strong>Abstract – </strong>In the era of technology, learning can be supported with mobile devices inside and outside of the classroom. In the hope of taking advantage of technology advances, teachers worldwide have integrated technologies into teaching to effectively deliver lesson content and address students’ needs. However, few non-native learners are exposed to mobile devices to optimize self-studying English outside the classroom. Thus, the present paper conducts a case study to look into mobile devices’ applications to enhance self-studying English as a foreign language. The study participants included 26 Japanese and Vietnamese learners divided into two groups over 15 weeks. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to analyze and compare the results with R-Studio statistics software. The present study sought to encourage collaboration and foster the  autonomy of learners with mobile devices’ assistance as supporting language self-learning tools. The findings of the present research will be discussed in terms of the efficiency and potentials of mobile devices as supportive tools outside of classroom activities among Vietnamese and Japanese students as non-native learners of English.</p>

scholarly journals An Analysis of an EFL Teachers' Guide: A Case Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Nazari
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Teaching Objectives ◽  
Efl Teachers

This paper is an attempt to analyse one of the documents which may affect the classroom activities of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers, namely teachers' guides. It also explores the context at which the document is aimed and critiques how EFL teachers are advised to teach as well as how EFL is taught. As such, the paper stands where critical discourse analysis and language policy come together in the study of language policies in education. The teachers' guide chosen and the analysis carried out here are not necessarily concerned with their representativeness and typicality but with the opportunity they provide to the researchers and teachers to learn about such language policy documents and how language and language teaching objectives are represented in them. The issues raised in this paper will have relevance to the EFL teachers' guides and EFL education in other contexts, as these issues are likely to be true of other EFL milieux.

scholarly journals CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STRENGTHENING CHARACTER EDUCATION IN EFL CLASSROOM

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Ike Purnamasari ◽  
Nuraeni .
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Efl Teacher ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Strengthening Character Education is an educational program in schools to strengthen students' character with moral values. The Indonesian government launched this program to faced students’ moral degradation. As the country that used English as a Foreign Language (EFL), this study investigates the challenges faced by a teacher in the implementation of Strengthening Character Education in the EFL classroom and to know teacher strategy to change the challenges become opportunities. This study conducted a case study of the EFL teacher in Junior High School. The data collection consisted of classroom observation, interview, documentation, and data triangulation. The findings gained, the teacher has implemented several character values in the EFL classroom activities. The teacher faced challenges coming from the students, learning situations, and learning materials. For the opportunities, there was classroom management and being a role model.

scholarly journals Barriers to Technology Integration into Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: A Case Study of Australian Secondary Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Yueying Zeng ◽  
Wenying Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Technology Learning ◽  
Technology Users ◽  
Tool Technology ◽  
Chinese Teaching ◽  
Teaching Chinese ◽  
Barriers To Technology

This case study examines the barriers to technology integration into teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in Australian secondary schools. Previous research on technology integration predominantly focused on higher education and English as a second language. This study extends the field by exploring barriers in secondary schools and targeting Chinse instruction. It identified three layers of barriers: The tool (technology), The user (teacher and student), and The tool supporter (school). This study highlights the students as technology users and as significant factors behind the teacher’s technology consideration. Among the identified barriers, most notably were limited and blocked access to technology, a lack of time for class preparation and technology learning, a lack of technology knowledge, a lack of professional development, and students’ distracting behaviours. Suggestions were made accordingly to improve tech-integrated Chinese teaching in Australian secondary schools.

Students’ views on learning French online with Microsoft Teams® during Covid-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-338
Author(s):  
Sercan Alabay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Software

Technological developments have made online learning tools become a part of educational process. The Covid-19 pandemic has made them a necessity. Learning a foreign language with the help of e-learning software is a debatable subject of 21st century. Microsoft Teams® is one of this software and understanding its effect on learning a foreign language is worth studying. Thus, this study aims to understand students’ views on learning French online with Microsoft Teams. The design of this study is the case study. The participants were 23 students learning French as a foreign language. The data were gathered through semi-structured interview form and the data were analyzed through content analysis. The results of the study reveal three themes on this subject. These themes are the reality of distance learning, the user friendliness of Microsoft Teams, and learning a foreign language online. With these themes, this study tries to compose a deeper understanding about learning a foreign language with a popular software.

Noting as Learning: Its Significance for Teaching and Learning Japanese in Volunteer Language Classrooms for Migrants

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sau Kuen Fan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Language Management ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Eastern Japan

This paper discusses problems in volunteer Japanese classrooms as a field of teaching foreign language for special purposes, which is to enhance migrant learners in the neighbourhood to participate in the host society through the target language. The data on which the discussion is based was collected from a case study conducted in a volunteer Japanese classroom in eastern Japan. From the point of view of “noting” in the Language Management Theory (LMT; cf. Neustupný 1985, 1994; Jernudd and Neustupný 1987), the findings suggest that although all the learners in the classroom intend to stay in Japan permanently, they appear to be reluctant to interact with local Japanese and to expand their Japanese social network due to the inability to note deviations from norms underlying in Japanese speech situations. In the second half of the paper, I raise an example of teaching materials to illustrate that noting as learning can be enhanced through systematic classroom activities. It is suggested that the ability to become sensitive about possible problems when interacting with local Japanese people can help foreigners in the neighbourhood to be more prepared and thus more confident to use the target language in real life.  

scholarly journals Learners’ Perception on Security Issues in M-learning (Nigerian Universities Case Study)

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaibu Adekunle Shonola ◽  
Mike S Joy ◽  
Shaibu Adekunle Shonola ◽  
Mike S. Joy
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Handheld Devices ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Recent Developments

With the advent of modern technology, mobile phones and smartphones are used not only for calling and text messages but also for banking and social networking. Recent developments in technology have made the use of mobile devices feasible in other sectors such as education and government. While educators are using mobile devices as teaching aids, students are also using them as learning tools.  In some cases the developers of mobile learning in universities are making m-learning apps without serious consideration for security aspects whereas the handheld devices pose a serious threat to confidentiality, integrity and privacy of users including the learners. As a case study, this paper investigates the security concerns that students may have with the introduction of m-learning in higher education institutions in Nigeria and how this impacts on their learning. It examines the effects of security threats in m-learning on students and provides recommendations for alleviating these threats.Photo credit: "Sysop actions of la cabale camembière - croped" by PierreSelim - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sysop_actions_of_la_cabale_camembi%C3%A8re_-_croped.jpg#mediaviewer/

How can ESL students make the best use of learners' dictionaries?

English Today ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Y.W. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Esl Students ◽  
Lifelong Learners ◽  
Word Meanings ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Correct Usage ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Different Levels

To become lifelong learners is the ultimate goal of many if not most learners irrespective of their target of learning, and being able to self-learn is one major prerequisite of this goal. As far as the learning of a second language is concerned, dictionaries are among the most readily available and easily accessible self-learning tools available on the market, and are regarded as the most systematic and comprehensive lexical descriptions that users have access to (Jackson & Amvela, 2000). An increasing number of dictionaries are now available for learners at different levels and for different learning purposes, including general dictionaries, learners' dictionaries, translation dictionaries, pictorial dictionaries, collocation dictionaries, specialized dictionaries and encyclopaedic dictionaries (Jackson & Amvela, 2000). Of these, learners' dictionaries are among the most popular for second or foreign language learners, providing a range of information including word meanings, pronunciations, collocations, correct usage and syntactic behaviour.

scholarly journals Examining Informal Learning using Mobile Devices in the Healthcare Workplace / Examen de l’apprentissage informel par l’utilisation d’appareils mobiles dans le milieu des soins de santé

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy (Willy) Fahlman
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Milieu De Travail ◽  
Education Professional Development ◽  
Client Teaching ◽  
Study Participants

The study of workplace learning and informal learning are not new to adult education and pedagogy. However, the use of mobile devices as learning tools for informal learning in the workplace is an understudied area. Using theories on informal learning and constructivism as a framework, this paper explores informal learning of registered nurses using mobile devices to meet their learning needs for continuing professional education, professional development, and continuing competence within the challenging healthcare workplace. In this mixed methods study, participants used their devices for self-directed informal learning with non-collaborative strategies/processes for evidence-based support, new procedures/treatments, professional development, patient/client teaching, and maintaining competency. Positive perceptions were articulated. Minimal differences were associated to the nurses’ age. However, workplace-related influences were relevant to the informal learning experiences with the mobile devices. L'étude de l'apprentissage en milieu de travail et de l’apprentissage informel n’est pas nouvelle dans le domaine de l'éducation des adultes et de la pédagogie. Cependant, l'utilisation d'appareils mobiles comme outils pour l'apprentissage informel en milieu de travail est un domaine peu étudié. En utilisant comme cadre d’analyse des théories de l'apprentissage informel et le constructivisme, cet article examine l'apprentissage informel des infirmières utilisant des appareils mobiles pour répondre à leurs besoins d'apprentissage en contexte de formation professionnelle continue, de perfectionnement professionnel et de maintien de leurs compétences dans le milieu difficile de la santé. Dans cette étude à méthodologies mixtes, les participants ont utilisé leurs appareils pour un apprentissage autodirigé informel à l’aide de stratégies et de processus non collaboratifs permettant un appui sur des données factuelles, pour produire de nouvelles procédures et traitements, pour leur perfectionnement professionnel, pour enseigner au patient ou au client et pour le maintien de leurs compétences. Des perceptions positives ont été formulées. Des différences minimes ont été associées à l'âge des infirmières. Cependant, les influences liées au milieu de travail étaient pertinentes pour les expériences d'apprentissage informel avec les appareils mobiles.

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