Blended English Research Articles

母语文化传承视角下的混合式英语写作教学

母语文化传承视角下的混合式英语写作教学

Students’ perception on online homework in blended English listening class

This study aimed to explore the use of online homework for the effective management of a blended English listening class. Participants were 67 Korean students from 2 English listening classes, which were managed in both online and offline modes with homework assigned for each online class session. At the end of each homework, the students were asked to freely leave any comments and questions, which was followed by the instructor’s feedback in the subsequent offline class. The results showed that the students perceived the homework as convenient and useful, and effective in increasing students’learning motivation and establishing a rapport between the instructor and students. The students’answers include positive and negative aspects of the homework and suggestions for effective management of offline classes. The result also indicated that the majority of the students prefer blended learning over either online or offline-only classes. These findings provide some pedagogical implications concerning the use of blended-learning classroom management along with limitations and a suggestion for further study.

Effectiveness Analysis of Edmodo-Based Blended English Learning Mode

This paper attempts to overcome the defects of traditional English learning mode, including poor real-time communication ability, heavy reliance on individual self-discipline, and undesirable learning effect. Drawing on the theories of English learning motivation, the author analyzed the relationship between learning motiva-tion and learning behavior in light of the Edmodo-based blended English learning mode, and put forward the English learning persistence rate formula, thus reveal-ing the correlations between learning cost, objective external learning environ-ment, learning motivation, and learning persistent rate. In addition, the English courses were made more pertinent according to the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve. The course test data were fitted and weighted, outputting intuitive curves on learning effect. The research results show that the Edmodo-based blended Eng-lish learning mode has a significant learning effect, and a guiding significance for English learning and English teaching reform.

Eskalasi Bahasa Indoglish Dalam Ruang Publik Media Sosial

Indoglish is a unique and unique form of language and is a blend of English and Indonesian. The purpose of this study is to describe the phenomenon of indoglish language escalation in the public space of social media. The form of this study is descriptive qualitative which as a whole utilizes the methods of interpretation by presenting it in the form of descriptions of words. Research data comes from various written languages ​​obtained from facebook, whatsapp and instagram.. Data collection is used the method of note and note. Data analysis techniques are carried out through data reduction, data presentation and verification. The results of the study show that there are a) form of indoglish language, b) classification of indoglish languages ​​based on Indonesian elements in foreign languages ​​and foreign elements in Indonesian, c) factors that cause indoglish language namely age, linguistic, historical, foreign language influences, word needs new, equivalent Foreign or non-standard words, and social and cultural.

Massive Open Online Course Platform Blended English Teaching Method Based on Model-View-Controller Framework

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an important tool to improve the au-tonomous learning of students and the teaching effects of the courses. Focusing on the online teaching of college English courses, this paper proposes a simple design of blended English teaching mode for the requirements of MOOC plat-form. Using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework and the Java pro-gramming language, the author realized the database-related functions of the plat-form by SQL server database, designed the backend server on the Spring and Hibernate integrated frameworks, and developed the entire platform using the browser/server (B/S) structure. The platform test results show that the MOOC-based blended English teaching mode satisfies the teaching demands, achieves stable performance, and wins the recognition of most students. The research find-ings shed new light on the innovation of college English teaching.

Effects of a Blended-Flipped English program on the learning of Academic and Administrative Staff in a Higher Education Institution

This article presents the results of an exploratory study about the contributions of a blended English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning program, with a flipped classroom instructional model, to the development of the listening and reading skills of academic and administrative staff of a higher education institution. The research followed a mixed method approach framed on variables such as the development of oral (listening) and written (reading) comprehension activities. The results present some contributions of the blended-flipped instructional model to the EFL teaching and learning processes, as well as to development of professors’ and administrative staff’s communicative competences in English. This study highlights how the combination of blended learning with a flipped classroom approach to proficiency program design opens new possibilities in the language learning instructional design field, and demonstrates the blended-flipped model’s positive effects on language learning. It is also novel in its proof of the effectiveness of creating a program based on the professional development needs of the University’s community of professors and administrative staff from various disciplines.

The comparative study between Indonesian blend words and English blend words

Generally, blending can be defined as combining two clipped words. Kvetko in Bednarova defines blending as a word formation process similar to shortening combined with merging two different words. There are many types of blending words both in Indonesian and English context. Therefore, the aim of this research is to analyze the comparison between Indonesian blend words and English blend words in terms of its types, its similarities and differences and also how its formed. In this paper the researcher use descriptive qualitative method as the method of the research. The source of the data is taken from some journal articles that relevant with blend words both in Indonesian and English context. The result showed that Indonesian blend words and English blend words not only have similarities in the forming word, but also have their differences that make them unique to each other. The writer hopes that the reader of this article gets more information about both Indonesian and English blend words based on its types and the similarities and the difference between them.

Evaluación de proceso de un programa universitario de inglés mediante Blended Learning

En el contexto de globalización actual, las universidades deben enfrentar exigencias de internacionalización que implican proveer a los estudiantes una formación integral orientada al desarrollo de competencias profesionales, entre las cuales el dominio de una segunda lengua ocupa un lugar central. En este marco, durante los últimos años la Universidad de Santiago de Chile, ha implementado un programa de inglés Blended Learning en 48 carreras de ocho facultades, cuyo objetivo consiste en desarrollar competencias lingüísticas y comunicativas a un nivel intermedio. Para esto, el programa cuenta con tres componentes pedagógicos: clases presenciales, tutorías académicas y una plataforma on-line. A fines del año 2017 y comienzos del año 2018, se realizó una evaluación de proceso que buscó conocer, a partir de la perspectiva de los distintos actores involucrados, cómo se ha implementado el programa, poniendo énfasis en el avance hacia el cumplimiento de sus objetivos. La información fue recolectada a través de tres técnicas: una encuesta sobre la experiencia de aprendizaje aplicada a los estudiantes (N=780), un grupo focal con los docentes del programa y entrevistas semiestructuradas con coordinadores o jefaturas de carrera de la Universidad. Los resultados dan cuenta de una evaluación positiva del programa cuando se observa cada componente en su propio mérito. Sin embargo, al analizar la integración entre estos se constataron cuatro tensiones asociadas a: la orientación para el trabajo autónomo, la regulación en la distribución de tutorías, la transición de los contenidos pedagógicos desde la plataforma a la clase y la diferenciación funcional entre los distintos componentes.

English Blends in Indonesian Context: Their Formation Processes and Meanings

This research aims at observing the blending process, the patterns of blending, and the possible new meanings of the English-influenced blends found in the Indonesian context. The influence of English and Indonesian not only in terms of the source words involved, but also of the morphological processes of the blends and also to see whether there are some semantic changes, anticipating the cultural influence of the blend creators. Data are collected from advertisement of schools events, brand name of food and beverage products, also names of cafes and restaurants found mostly in Yogyakarta. The data are analyzed using Mattiello’s formula (2013) in categorizing the process of blending: morphotactical, morphonological, and morphosemantic. The results show that morphotactically the data can be classified into total and partial blends of which there are more blends whose first source words are kept full and followed by clipped second source words. In morphopohonological process, there is no non-overlapping blends; phonological overlap also takes place, but not orthographical one. Morphosemantically, attributive blends are more frequent than the coordinative ones.

A Research on the Reform of College English Blended Teaching Mode under the Background of Educational Informatization

Nowadays, the rapid development of information technology has increasingly penetrated into all walks of society and even people’s lives. With the development of education informatization, traditional teaching can’t meet the needs of talents in the new era. Developing a new teaching mode by integrating internet, big data and traditional teaching has become the main theme of contemporary education. This paper studies the connotation of educational informatization and Blended Teaching theory and puts forward the Blended Teaching mode of College English by improving teachers’ informationized teaching ability, constructing the diversified teaching platform, and setting up informationized teaching resource base, adopting different teaching methods and strategies, so as to improve students’ enthusiasm and autonomy in College English learning and enhance the effect of College English teaching.

Derek Walcott discusses his painting and poetry

Derek Walcott (1930-2017), Caribbean poet and playwright, wrote, among many other works, the play Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967) and the epic Omeros (1990). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. Walcott’s writing revolves around the West Indies, its national identity and European heritage, the theme of exile and betrayal, in a rich blend of verse, prose, Creole and English, filled with classical allusions as well as calypso rhythm. Donald Friedman recorded him in 2003. Below...

TEACHING IN CLOUDS: USING THE G SUITE FOR EDUCATION FOR THE DELIVERY OF TWO ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES COURSES

Being one of the most important and influential advancements in information technology since the emergence of the Internet, cloud computing has invaded the area of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), among other fields, due to its flexibility, availability, practicality and cost effectiveness. In 2006 Google developed its Apps for Education, currently referred to as “G Suite for Education”, that provide teachers and students with access to different tools, such as Classroom, Mail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, etc., each serving different educational purposes. This paper reports on a research study conducted at the Cyprus University of Technology Language Centre in Fall 2016, in the context of two blended English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses for first-year students of the Departments of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science and Commerce, Finance and Shipping, which are based on social constructivist approaches with elements of connectivism and student-centered teaching methods. The study aimed at eliciting data on the students’ views regarding the ease of use of G Suite for Education tools, difficulties encountered during their use, and their efficiency in the teaching and learning process. Data was obtained through an online questionnaire, consisting of Likert scale and open-ended questions, administered to the students at the end of the semester. Findings illustrate that students viewed the use of G Suite for Education tools in their EAP courses very positively, both in terms of ease of use and efficiency in the learning and teaching process, encountering only minor difficulties during their use.

A corpus-based analysis of new English blends

Cette etude examine l’amalgame lexical dans une perspective synchronique. En particulier, elle analyse une collection de 245 nouveaux mots-valises en anglais, sur la periode 1950-2010, d’un point de vue quantitatif et qualitatif. Cette etude a pour objectif de reevaluer l’importance de l’amalgame 1) pour inventer un nouveau lexique specialise, et 2) pour creer des mots qui contiennent des fractomorphemes reguliers. D’un point de vue theorique, l’etude tente de repondre a la question suivante : l’amalgame est-il un phenomene extra-grammatical de creation de mot ou un proces regulier de formation de mot ? L’etude affirme que certains mots-valises sont des cas uniques (p.ex. glam-ma ← glamour + grandma), tandis que d’autres font partie de series de mots (p.ex. eatertainment, irritainment, shoppertainment viennent du fractomorpheme -tainment ← entertainment) et tendent vers la regularite et la productivite. L’etude a quatre objectifs. D’abord, elle vise a montrer les contextes/registres qui privilegient la formation des mots-valises, et qui vont du langage familier au langage de specialite. Deuxiemement, l’etude vise a repondre a la question suivante : les mots-valises sont-ils crees pour designer de nouveaux referents ou pour donner un nouveau nom a un referent existant ? Troisiemement, l’etude se concentre sur l’amalgamation dite ‘attributive’ ou ‘endocentrique’, comme rockumentary (← rock + documentary) et Clintonomics (← Clinton + economics). Les mots-valises attributifs sont decrits comme des modeles possibles ou schemas pour les nouveaux amalgames lexicaux, dont les seconds fractomorphemes -umentary et -(o)nomics sont des affixes secretifs potentiels pour de nouveaux mots.

Variable base-word positioning in English blends

Cet article explore les conditions qui resultent du positionnement variable du terme source dans les amalgames anglais, dans lesquels les memes termes sources ont un ordre variable, creant ainsi deux amalgames differents, c’est-a-dire des doublets d’amalgames. Pour les doublets d’amalgames non synonymiques, tels que (egg × pregnant >) eggnant ‘pregnant with egg’ et pregegg ‘egg that counts down pregnancy’, le facteur principal est que dans les amalgames endocentriques, le terme source qui constitue la tete semantique se place a droite. Pour les doublets d’amalgames synonymiques, tels que plumpricot ~ apriplum ‘plum‑apricot hybrid’ (< plum × apricot), le positionnement variable du terme source depend d’au moins quatre facteurs qui se combinent : (i) la fidelite segmentale – qui permet l’optimalisation de la similarite segmentale ; (ii) la loi de Pāṇini – qui consiste a placer le terme source le plus court devant le terme source le plus long ; (iii) l’integrite monosyllabique – c’est-a-dire la conservation du terme source monosyllabique dans la meme syllable ; et (iv) la fidelite syntagmatique – qui ajuste l’ordre lineaire des termes sources selon l’ordre qu’ils auraient dans un constituant syntaxique potentiel.

A study on the ‘wordgasm’: the nature of blends’ splinters

The aim of this work is to study the nature of blends’ splinters, elements that have been often referred to as ‘final combining forms’, whose status remains unclear. Our specific objective is to analyze blends containing the element ‘-gasm’ to check tendencies in their formation. We intend to prove that the sequence ‘-gasm’ possesses a high degree of productivity and is used recurrently in the formation of new words. Through the analysis of the bases to which the splinter is attached and the study of the relationship existing between the component parts of the blends, we aim at discovering which mechanism is at work, while attempting to accommodate the operation within the theoretical framework of Construction Morphology, an approach to morphology within the overarching theory of Construction Grammar. This approach, proposed by Geert Booij, acknowledges the existence of constructions as pairings of form and meaning at word level, and thus it considers that abstractions allowing speakers to coin new complex words are based on actual instances of words that are memorized. We have compiled our own 200-sample corpus of novel English blends coined by native speakers of English and taken from a variety of sources (online corpora, websites listing neologisms, social networks, including Twitter, and even online discussion threads). For the data analysis, we proceed as follows: (i) identify the cases of hapax legomena in the corpus in order to account for the productivity of the process; (ii) recover the source words of all the blends subject to study and contextualize the items in our corpus, by providing an instance of each word in a wider context; (iii) analyze the relationships existing between the first and the second component of the novel coinages, according to different factors, such as the notion of causality and the cognitive and experiential relationship of cause and effect, the syntactic behaviour of the source words and the semantic roles fulfilled by these units; (iv) identify blends exhibiting a similar behaviour and propose constructional schemas to account for their creation. The results of our analysis show that the splinter analyzed appears to be highly productive, and that blends ending in ‘-gasm’ can belong to different groups, the most significant of which are the following: (a) cause and effect blends, in which the relationship between the source words is based on the notion of causality. Two different subsets can be identified in this group, depending on the meaning that ‘-gasm’ acquires in the resulting blend: that of physical pleasure, as in toygasm or that of a feeling of excitement or enthusiasm, as in neologasm; (b) experiencer blends, such as clowngasm, where the first participant fulfils the semantic role of an experiencer, that is, the first participant experiences the feeling of pleasure; (c) coordination blends, that is, blended words whose source words stand in a relationship of coordination, such as crygasm; (d) adjectival blends, in which the first element premodifies the feeling denoted by the second element, as in fakegasm. Based on our results, constructional morphology, and especially constructional schemas, seem to be a very appropriate tool for explaining the formation of these lexemes.

Uma proposta de ensino-aprendizagem de inglês para fins específicos baseada no ensino híbrido

In this article, we present a teaching-learning proposal of English for Specific Purposes, called Blended English Teaching (BET), which combines blended teaching, virtual resources for self-study and a compiled corpus with text authorship, manual reference about hardwares and softwares. The purpose of this proposal is to contribute to the English language reading skill to students with regard on decoding of words and integration of ideas. The results of BET research contributed to a greater proficiency in reading texts, with the aim of contributing to the improvement of the integration of ideas. With this work, we have developed a Teaching Guide for Teachers and support materials that allow the reproduction of BET in other teaching contexts.

Blending Words Found In Social Media

There are many new words from the social media such as Netizen, Trentop, and Delcon. Those words include in blending. Blending is one of word formations combining two clipped words to form a brand new word. The researchers are interested in analyzing blend words used in the social media such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Blackberry Messenger. This research aims at (1) finding blend words used in the social media (2) describing kinds of blend words used in social media (3) describing the process of blend word formation used in the social media. This research uses some theories dealing with definition of blending and kinds of blending. This research belongs to descriptive qualitative research. Data of the research are English blend words used in social media. Data sources of this research are websites consisting of some English words used in social media and some social media users as the informant. Techniques of data collecting in this research are observation and simak catat. Observation is by observing some websites consisting of some English words used in social media. Simak catat is done by taking some notes on the data and encoding in symbols such as No/Blend words/Kinds of Blending. The researchers use source triangulation to check the data from the researchers with the informant and theory triangulation to determine kinds of blending and blend word formation in social media. There are115 data of blend words. Those data consists of 65 data of Instagram, 47 data of Twitter, 1 datum of Facebook, and 2 data of Blackberry Messenger. There are 2 types of blending used in social media;108 data of blending with clipping and 7 data of blending with overlapping. There are 10 ways of blend word formation found in this research.

Shift of English Teacher’s Role In School-Based Blended Learning College English Course

Teacher is one of the most important elements of teaching. College English Blended Learning Model brings a shift of teacher’s roles compared with traditional “teacher-centered” class. Teacher’s roles influence how the teacher works in teaching practice, thus, to a large extent, affect the teaching practice and outcomes. Based on the observation and records in the process of building online English course and classroom teaching practice, this research analyzes the shift of teacher’s roles in blended learning: designer of teaching content, organizer of teaching activity, integration of teaching materials, and evaluation of teaching activities. Full awareness of teacher’s roles in blended learning ensures student’s effective learning. But the shift of teacher’s role is by no means teacher’s own business; it requires joint efforts of different parts.

효율적인 혼합형 영어교사 연수 개발에 관한 연구

효율적인 혼합형 영어교사 연수 개발에 관한 연구

South Korea's Linguistic Tangle: English vs. Korean vs. Konglish

Konglish is a blend of Korean and English found throughout South Korea, and often suffers for lack of prestige amongst Koreans. The primary aim of this article is to determine the reasons behind Konglish's low social status in Korea. I begin my investigation by exploring Korean public space as linguistic space, and examining in what social and cultural capacities Koreans use English, Mandarin, Korean, and Konglish. I then shift in part II to discuss perceptions of Korean and English inside Korea. Having analysed Koreans’ attitudes towards Konglish's parent languages, I discuss in part III why Konglish struggles for social legitimacy, despite its ubiquity. In the course of this investigation it will become clear that Koreans often deride Konglish for its ease of use. Because one absorbs it organically through cultural exposure rather than hours of study and millions of won in tuition fees, Konglish accords none of the prestige that comes with Standard English; meanwhile, Konglish's mixed nature means not only that it cannot benefit from the national pride Koreans associate with ‘pure’ Korean, but also that this pride harms Konglish's reception throughout the country.