The Teaching of Nonverbal Communication to EFL Learners: in Taiwan (Published)
Nonverbal cues play a significant role in effective communication, particularly in cross-cultural contexts. Understanding and utilizing nonverbal communication in English can enhance Taiwanese learners’ communicative competence and facilitate successful interactions with English speakers from diverse cultural backgrounds. This paper discusses practical strategies and pedagogical approaches to teach nonverbal communication, emphasizing the development of awareness, cultural sensitivity, body language, paralinguistic features, proxemics, and context-specific cues. Additionally, it addresses the relevance of nonverbal communication in digital media and the significance of authentic materials, cultural immersion, assessment, and provides a practical example of teaching nonverbal communication to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. By incorporating these strategies, educators can empower Taiwanese EFL learners to navigate the globalized world and build meaningful connections across cultures.
Keywords: Pedagogy, Taiwanese EFL learners, cross-cultural communication, nonverbal communication
Printed Instructions in Students’ Materials: A Study of Graduate Students (Published)
Teachers’ verbal treatment of rubrics generally indicate that teachers override the rubric in a number of ways of students’ preferred rubric access strategies revealed that reading the rubric themselves is a utilized strategy ranked after teacher paraphrase and teacher-generated examples. According to the author’s past and current studies on rubrics, there is no guarantee that rubrics will be used or required in the way they were intended. Research focusing on materials writers and publishers suggests that the target audience of the rubric is neither clear nor universal, and that, sans rubrics, teachers can be quite innovative in their task interpretations. As part of an on-going examination of various aspects of textbook rubrics, the following study will examine the need for rubrics in student materials of graduate students. It further clarifies the definition and idea of teaching in the context of pedagogy. Finally, this study discusses about introduction, instrumentations, data collection procedures, discussions and conclusion.
Keywords: ELT materials, Pedagogy, Rubrics, Task, printed instructions
The Application of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy in English Speaking Classrooms – A Case Study (Published)
This paper discusses the challenges of ensuring equal access to education for diverse students in English speaking classrooms and the potential benefits of using culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy (CLRP). The study aims to investigate the use of CLRP in English speaking classrooms, its impact on student learning outcomes, teacher pedagogy, and classroom dynamics. The research used a qualitative case study approach involving interviews with teachers, classroom observations, and a CLRP-incorporated lesson plan. The findings suggest that CLRP positively impacted students’ motivation, engagement, and speaking skills, and helped bridge cultural differences. The study provides insights into the potential benefits of incorporating CLRP in English language classrooms in Malaysia and offers recommendations for teachers and policymakers on how to effectively integrate CLRP practices into their pedagogy.
Citation: Jalil C.R.A (2023) The Application of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy in English Speaking Classrooms – A Case Study, International Journal of English Language Teaching, Vol.11, No.2, pp.,72-91
Keywords: Culture, Linguistic, Pedagogy, speaking motivation
Integrating English Language Skills at Under-Graduation Level through Principled Eclecticism Method (Published)
According to academic research, linguists have demonstrated that there is not one single best method for everyone in all contexts, and that no single teaching method is good or bad or inherently superior to the others. The ground reality is that it is not always possible and appropriate to apply the same pedagogy to all learners, who have different objectives, environments and learning needs like Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. The modern teacher, in fact needs to use a variety of methodologies and approaches, choosing techniques from each method that he considers more effective and applies them according to learning context and objectives. A professional EFL teacher follows what is described as the Principled Eclecticism approach, where students are also encouraged to be autonomous in their learning. The teacher can integrate and develop all four skills of English, i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing. English language learners should not expect the teacher to deliver everything to them ready-made but should realize their own sense of responsibility with self-motivation, self-direction and spirit of self-learning English as a second language through the techniques that suits to their needs of learning the target language. The present critical situation of teaching-learning English in Jazan University has been interrogated through questionnaire and opinionnaire developed for the teachers and the students for valid and reliable data.
Keywords: Integration, Needs, Pedagogy, Skills, learner, principled-eclectic-approach
Teachers’ Perception towards the Use of Communicative Language Teaching in Enhancing Secondary School Students’ Communicative Competence in English Language (Published)
ABSTRACT: English language which is the second and unifying language in Nigeria is taught at all educational levels in the country mainly to ensure that students have a grasp of it and should be able to communicate effectively in it in various contexts. This study investigated the perception of English language teachers towards the use of Communicative Language Teaching in enhancing secondary school students’ communicative competence in English language. This study is a descriptive research of the survey type which focuses on how secondary school students in Ibadan South –West Local Government Area of Oyo State can use English Language in real life situations. Fifty English Language teachers randomly selected from some secondary schools constituted the sample for the study. A self- constructed questionnaire consisting of fifteen items was used to collect the data for the study. Test-retest method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument and a reliability coefficient of 0.74 was obtained. The study found out that schools lack the material that can promote communicative language teaching in schools and that most teachers considered classroom interaction a time consuming activity. Based on these findings, it was recommended that the government should provide gadgets and necessary materials needed for effective utilization of communicative language teaching so that students’ confidence in speaking and communicative competence can be improved. Teachers should endeavor to make their classes interactive and employ activities that can facilitate English Language usage in real life situation.
Keywords: Classroom Interaction, Communicative Competence, Communicative Language, Pedagogy, methodologies
Balancing Technology with Pedagogy in English Language Classroom: Teachers’ Perspective (Published)
With the tremendous advancement in computer-assisted language learning (CALL), English language instructors have started an exciting journey of utilizing modern technological applications to equip students with the necessary tools to boost their language skills. The current study aimed at exploring the university English language instructors’ perceptions of the optimal use of technology in an EFL context as many teachers misconceive the philosophy behind the integration of technology and overestimate the value of using technology without considering its relevance, necessity and applicability. Therefore, Technology, Pedagogy and Content Knowledge (TPACK) model was used to investigate the instructors’ beliefs and practices relevant to language teaching through technology. Data were collected through a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. One hundred and sixty-four English instructors, from different Saudi universities, participated in the study. The findings of the study revealed that instructors who merely seek the blind application of technology regardless of content, students’ needs, learning styles, and methodology will cease to be pedagogically effective. The findings will pave the way for reshaping the instructors’ teaching beliefs, practices and approach of integrating technology in an EFL class. The study highlighted the importance of developing the instructors’ technological skills that are needed to launch new applications and providing concrete examples of how to successfully integrate technology in language instruction.
Keywords: EFL Instructors, Pedagogy, TPACK Model, Technology
Professional Updates for Language Teachers in A Digitally Infected Clime: The ICT Utilization Sensibility (Published)
The teaching profession in Nigeria is faced with a lot of problems which militate against the integrity of the profession. This is because educators have come to realize that any meaningful improvement in the education that students receive is highly dependent on the quality of the instruction that the teacher provides. The paper looks into the training and retraining needs of English language teachers for effective utilization of ICT in secondary schools in Ekiti State. The research design was descriptive. The population for the study comprised all English Language teachers (571) in the senior secondary schools in Ekiti State. Multistage random sampling technique was utilized in selecting the sample. In all, all (20) English Language teachers in the selected schools were used as the sample. A research instrument titled “Teachers’ Assessment of the Need for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in English Language (TANICTENG)” was tested for both validity and reliability procedures and used for data collection. Reliability coefficients of 0.67was obtained. Conclusion was drawn and recommendations were made among which are that teachers should engage in personal development; Teacher Training institutions should see to effective teacher education programmes; government at all levels should create an enabling environment that could help the teachers to perform optimally, among others.
Keywords: Hyper-dynamism, ICT, Integration, Pedagogy, blended learning
A 3-Way Paradigm of Lesson Study Strategy on Teachers’ Productivity, Teaching Profession and Trainee Proficiency: A Contemporaneous Paradigm (Published)
This paper is showcasing a tripartite interwoven interactions in Education, that sychronously run to address a-3Way-Paradigm through the Lesson Study Strategy in the new millenium classroom. The quest for professionality and functionality will continue to make all educational stakeholders dive for strategies that will pave way for maximum productivity in the ocean of knowledge economy of the world. Lesson Study is a pedagogical strategy that is capable of producing productive interactions that revolve roundabout the 21st Century Classroom Teachers, the acts of Teaching and the Trainees. The process opens with a team of concerned teachers collaborating on a common discipline of interest. The goals of teaching and learning, how and what to employ in order to achieve the identified goals in the classroom are discussed. Classroom presentation is a collective resposibility of everyone in the team. One of the team members presents the teaching interactions with tthe students while others are in the classroom as observers. The team reviews and scrutinises the classroom interactive outcomes outside the classroom thereafter and effective remidiation is put in place for the overall achievement of the identified goals. In this paper therefore, the productivity of the teacher, process of teaching and proficiency of the trainees are independently focused. Lesson Study as a teaching strategy is capable of producing professionalism in the Teacher, productivity in Teaching and proficiency in the Trainees.
Keywords: Collaboration, Pedagogy, Performance, Remidiation, Tripartite, interaction, professionalism
The Pronunciation Component in the Competence-Based EFL Curriculum in Cameroon Secondary Education (Published)
The shift from the objective-based approach to the competence-based approach in English at the secondary level in Cameroon places too much emphasis on real life situations and the vocabulary thereof, in its current field implementation. Apart from vocabulary, the other structural components are very shallowly dealt with, not only grammar, but, much more the teaching of pronunciation and speech sounds. Using the contents analysis theory, the paper brings up the shallow presence of English sounds, paramount element in pronunciation and ipso facto in oral communication in the curriculum. The paper justifies the need to stress the sounds of English in actual EFL pedagogy. It argues that the sounds of English must be significantly present in the classroom implementation of the curriculum and prescribes recordings, audio visual materials specially designed for the purpose of supporting and concretising the constitutional official bilingualism policy that is most current in the nation presently on the one hand, and worldwide intelligibility on the other hand.
Keywords: Curriculum, EFL, Pedagogy, Pronunciation, Sounds of English