Importance Of Learning English Research Articles

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT BY ACTIVATING GROUP WORKS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL

The aim of writing this paper is to find out the importance of learning English at school. Writing the paper uses the literature review method (library research). From the discussion it can be concluded that learning English at school is very important. The learning method that is very often used is CLT because it is effectively used as a method in the English language teaching and learning process. This is based on the communication skills obtained by students, not just mere knowledge, students will be motivated and feel that something they have learned can be useful and used in language.

An Analysis of Conjunctive Cohesive Devices in EFL Students’ Academic Writings

This research focuses on the analysis of conjunctive cohesive devices in EFL students' academic writings. Conjunctive cohesive devices are grammatical tools that connect words, sentences, and ideas, playing a crucial role in creating cohesive discourse. The study aims to examine the awareness and usage of conjunctive cohesive devices among second- and fourth-year students in the English department, and to determine the frequency of their usage in academic writing. The research was conducted at Cihan University, involving twenty-four students from both academic levels. The participants were asked to write an essay titled 'the importance of learning English.' The collected data were analyzed based on the number, variety, and usage of conjunctive cohesive devices. The findings reveal that four types of conjunctions were commonly used by the students, and there were differences in the usage patterns between second- and fourth-year students. While fourth-year students displayed a higher awareness and usage of conjunctions compared to second-year students, there were still instances of misuse and limited variety in both groups. Overall, this study emphasizes the significance of conjunctive cohesive devices in EFL students' academic writing and highlights the need for improved awareness and diversified usage of these devices. The findings contribute to a better understanding of how conjunctive cohesive devices contribute to the coherence and cohesion of written discourse.

English Language Learning with Flashcard Media and Educational Posters to Improve Language Education

Supporting learning media is an important role in increasing the level of English proficiency students, the teacher is responsible for implementing learning media in teaching process. One of them, in using flashcard and posters. This research is sociolinguistic research that focuses on efforts to improve education through flashcards and educational posters at SDN Haurseah 1 (one). The purpose of this study was to describe the effectiveness of language learning using flashcard media and educational posters and to find out the importance of learning English in an effort to improve language education and improvement in English vocabulary by using interactive and educative learning media. The research method used in this research is classroom action research. The results showed that the media flashcards and educational posters used as media for learning English at SDN Haurseah 1 were effective and had a significant effect on improving language education. So, it can be said that the development of learning media is an effort to improve the quality of education.

The Influence of the First Language on the Pronunciation of the Second Language: Taking Consonant r in English as an Example

In recent years, the importance of learning English has risen to an incredible stage, especially in China. As educators always emphasize, speaking is much more important when it comes to all aspects of a language. So it is necessary to do research on the pronunciation of the second language (L2), or to be more specific, a foreign language. This paper will mainly discuss the influence of Chinese on the pronunciation of the consonant rin English, to correct and make people pay attention to their pronunciation, so as to avoid misunderstandings due to pronunciation. The author will invite students in university to complete a questionnaire relating to oral English and learning. The results show that the possible reasons for the wrong r consonant include dialect factors and educational factors.

A New Paradigm on Language Imperialism: Student-Teachers Voice on English Language Learning

Background: 
 The current language policy in Indonesia removed English language programs from the elementary school curricula for fear of constraining children’s first language ability. Many are worried about the impact of the policy. Such policy sparks a debate among scholars and educators. The policy results in worry among those who believe in the importance of learning English, such as parents and English teachers.
 Methodology: 
 The current study aims to investigate the English student teachers’ belief in the notion of Language Imperialism (LI). Using the descriptive qualitative method, the data were taken from six of the student-teachers interview.
 Findings: 
 The current research shows that English is not part of imperialism, but rather a form of empowerment and that their future job as an English teacher is not to promote the language but as a way to help their future students in facing a more globalized and competitive world.
 Conclusion: 
 In the context of English language learning student-teachers see their profession as a platform for empowerment for future generations. They believe that teaching English as a way to promote local cultures and languages to the outside world by using local content in the classroom, contrary to the popular belief that English dominates local languages
 Originality: 
 The concept of language imperialism recognizes as colonialism. Little attention is given to the perception of student-teachers as a future generation in criticizing the government policy for better feedback. The positive views found, hopefully, will give fruitful decision for the government.

THE FACTORS OF STUDENTS’ INVESTMENT IN LEARNING ENGLISH DURING ONLINE LEARNING AT ONE OF SMPN IN MUSI RAWAS

Most of the students decided to invest in learning English was because of the perceived capital that provided them with benefits for their academics as well as their future careers. This study used a qualitative narrative inquiry by using interviews and documentation instruments. This study was included the interviewed with seven participants of ninth grader at one of SMPN in Musi Rawas. This study was aimed to investigate the factors affecting the students’ investment in learning English at one of SMPN in Musi Rawas invested in learning English during online learning. The students invested in learning English was because of From the interviews, the results of this study was indicated that: (1) the most dominant factors affecting the ninth students invested in learning English was family support, the second dominant factor was better English achievement, and the last dominant factor was past experience. This study findings confirmed that the seven students had been put some efforts in their investment in learning English in order to acquire their goals in the present and also future. Then, they also wanted to improve their English language skill. Furthermore, this study may help the students understand about the importance of learning English in the present and also in the future.

DIGGING UP NON-ENGLISH TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THEIR STUDENTS’ ESP NEEDS

This study aims to identify and explore non-English teachers' perspectives on their students' ESP needs. This study is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. The participants in this study were 16 public health lecturers at STIKes Surya Global Yogyakarta. A semi-structured questionnaire was distributed to participants to gather information related to their needs. The study analyzes the data from closed questions using simple statistics and from open questions using interpretations. The results showed that the importance of learning English is to support students’ academic fields and their communication skills. Reading is a basic skill that needs to be mastered. The students found it difficult to write English journal abstracts, practice oral communication, read, comprehend, and review academic sources in English. Teachers sometimes use English in the form of resources including books written in English and international journals and websites. Students need to learn English during their study period and after graduation. The topics needed to learn to support students’ backgrounds were health technology, health business service management, web causation of disease, health insurance, abstract, environmental health, health information system, safety, health promotion, epidemiology triangle, iceberg phenomenon of disease, research design epidemiology, epidemic, and infectious diseases, wastewater treatment, hygiene, and sanitation.Keywords: Students’ needs, ESP, public health students

TEACHERS’ STRATEGIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR YOUNG LEARNERS

In this globalization era, people have to communicate globally. English plays a very important role especially in international communication. It is used in various activities like education, business, politics and technology. Consequently, it is taught in Indonesia to provide supplementary knowledge for communication. The importance of learning English cannot be ignored, it is the greatest common language spoken all over the world. In addition, learning English is very important to increase knowledge and language ability. In Indonesia, English has been introduced at kindergarten school, as the development of the world globalization that demand English skill for all people from different nation in the world. Every school has learned English, there is no need to fear but urgent need for wise adaptation and negotiation so that English becomes a powerful tool for gaining tremendous and unlimited knowledge for all kinds of subjects learned at school. Teaching English to young learners is not as easy as imagined, the teachers is not only help the students to get knowledge, competences and morality, but also have to prepare everything’s need. The teachers have to use many strategies in teaching such as applying various strategies, media and game in order to keep students’ interest in learning English. In this research, quantitative research was used that aim to find out teachers’ strategies in teaching English to young learners. The population was all of the teachers at one of kindergartens in Palembang, and the sample was selected through simple random sampling technique. In collecting the data, interview and questionnaire were used, and then the data was analyzed through descriptive method in this research. Based on the result of the research, it was found that there were three teaching and learning strategies used by the teachers in teaching English for young learners

English Learning Styles Between Korean and Mongolian Students

Although English has been required to be taught from primary school to university in South Korea and Mongolia, students can be still struggle with English. The purpose of the study was to identify the English learning strategies, styles, and preferences of Korean and Mongolian university students based on their different cultural awareness and linguistic backgrounds. The study was conducted through a research questionnaire based on different questions, designed for the needs of the research. Thus, the paper concerned the importance of learning English and even the problems, regarding students` learning styles, individual learning platforms, and linkages between the two countries.
 The paper also discussed the present situation in English education by exploring the fields of the study, learning difficulties, and methods. As a result, the study found the differences and similarities between students` usage of online platforms for their own unsupervised or unguided learning. Comparisons were made with regard to the students’ gender, age, learning styles, and other strategies. Our findings also revealed that not only teaching and learning strategies but also face-to-face communication and education systems can be important issues depending on students` linguistic background and learning style preferences.

New Qualitative Perspective in Human-Computer Interaction: Designing Mobile English for STEM.

The emerging field of human–computer interaction (HCI) opens up more opportunities for technology integration in language learning. Technology creates more workforces in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) field, yet the number of STEM pursuers is declining due to poor command of the English language. There is a gap in English vocabulary for STEM, which needs a novel solution from the perspective of HCI. This study aims to explore the needs of STEM learners in creating an English language competency mobile module. The methodology used is through a qualitative study. Seven STEM learners, 17 years old, participated in semi-structured interviews. The results from the interview are divided into four main themes: (1) the importance of learning English, (2) problems of learners, (3) strategies of English language learning, and (4) learners' readiness in using a mobile app. This study is significant for mobile app designers, English language teachers, and course designers as the input will provide an overview of the STEM learners' needs in the English language. Plus, designing a mobile app from the learners' perspectives gives more effectiveness to HCI, rendering success to second language acquisition. Future work can design and develop a mobile app to enhance STEM learners' English language competency based on the learners' perspectives.

Needs Analysis of English for Medical Purposes: A Student Perspective

English has been integrated into medical curriculum in higher education in countries where English is not the official language of instruction. For medical students—non-English department students—English has been taught to meet specified academic and professional needs of learners in so-called English for specific purposes (ESP). To ensure that English program is relevant to the learner’s needs, a need analysis is required. This study aimed to investigate the English needs of the first-year medical students taking a compulsory program of English for academic purposes at Faculty of Medicine, Sultan Agung Islamic University. The data were collected using a questionnaire to assess the medical students’ purpose of learning English, the importance of learning English, language learning needs of major language skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) and their preference of assessment type. The data were descriptively analyzed. Forty-five students consisting of 67 % female and 33% male completed the questionnaire. Most students (76%) used English when studying. All students agreed on the importance of English. The most important sub skill included reading technical article in medicine, listening to audio and listening oral presentation, giving spoken presentation, writing medical prescription. Individual achievement was the most preferred type of assessment. The medical students agreed on the importance of English specific purposes. The interpretation of findings will be useful for the design of English for specific purposes in the study setting.

English Literature: Why-What-How Concept

The importance of learning English and English literature tend to pose considerable questions about the advantages. Why do students who study English simultaneously need to learn English literature? The last thing is the same thing. What is the center of the learning of the subject? What is the relation between them? What, when, and how are we aware of that?

Movie Exploratory Study for Appropriate Cultural Contents for Enhancing Thai EFL Students’ English-Speaking Skills and Intercultural Communicative Competence

Currently, English is regarded as the global language used in communication by people in multicultural backgrounds, and language and culture are inseparable. Therefore, teaching and learning English need to address the cultural knowledge and develops the learners’ skills of intercultural communicative competence through authentic texts. Movies provide rich cultural content with real language used for communication contexts. This paper intends to investigate problems and needs of Thai EFL students in developing English speaking skills and intercultural communicative competence (ICC), and to explore appropriate English movies with cultural contents for enhancing students’ English speaking and intercultural communicative competence. The participants, 65 in total are divided into three group involving experts in movie fields, English teachers, and students in undergraduate level who enrolled for English for Communication. The research instruments employed in this research consists of the Needs Analysis Survey Questionnaire for Teaching and Learning English and Intercultural and Movie Exploratory Survey Questionnaire. The results revealed that the students realized the importance of learning English and culture and they indicate that they would feel more confident in communicating in English in reality. However, they lacked opportunity to expose to using English in the real context. The study also found top ten English movies which provide fruitful English language communication and cultural contents in the movie scenes for developing Thai EFL students to learn English speaking and intercultural communicative competence. EFL teachers, course designers, or language educators can make use of these findings for developing the curricula or revise existing English curricula to suit needs and problems of students and integrating the list of movies with cultural contents for enhancing Thai EFL learners’ communicative competence.

An Analysis of English Schooling at College Quality Based on Modern Information Technology

The importance of learning English is increasing as China’s foreign exchanges become more frequent. China’s independent colleges have been steadily growing in recent years, with the main school’s main characteristic of cultivating applied talents, and teaching quality gradually improving. College English teaching is a practical application of college English education and instruction. The “sum of beliefs, recognized values, and technologies commonly accepted by the members of a specific community” is the world outlook and mode of behavior that a group of researchers engaged in a particular science adopts. Modern information technology has pervaded people’s work and lives since the dawn of the information age, and it is now widely used in a variety of fields. Teachers’ primary roles have shifted from disseminator of information, presenter of knowledge, transmitter of culture, and provider of correct answers in today’s learning environment supported by modern information technology to promoter of learning, organizer of activities, student helper, and interactive collaborator. This paper obtains some information useful to the development of teaching work based on the data mining algorithm used in the mining practice of the educational administration information management system. This information is useful for improving teaching quality, implementing the talent development program more effectively, mastering student skill development, and teachers’ teaching situations.

The “Esperanto” of business... or how to be successful in life: A decolonial reading, using semiotics, of English language courses’ advertisements in Brazil

The present paper seeks to analyze, based on the decolonial perspective, how the epistemic and ontological elements of the coloniality of power that operates through the linguistic imperialism of English are made present in the hierarchies of knowledge in marketing. For this, we use the generative trajectory, a semiotic theoretical model of meaning, to analyze advertisements of a transnational online English language company operating in Brazil, which reinforces in its communications the importance of learning English as the only way to succeed in the business world and to overcome the backwardness of local culture and language. The semiotic analysis helped to analyze the manipulation path and strategies and the concretization of the narratives present in the communication made through the ads, unveiling epistemic and ontological elements that make up the coloniality of power and its association to English, which was, in turn, related to the hierarchies of knowledge in marketing.

An Evaluation of TOEFL Benchmark Policy as an Exit Requirement for Undergraduate Students

This study investigated the TOEFL benchmark policy as an exit requirement for Universitas Teuku Umar students. The research method used was survey design hereby the data from the questionnaire and students' TOEFL score were collected. Under the policy, the students have to pass the standard passing score of TOEFL to graduate. 100 non-English major students from Universitas Teuku Umar participated in this study. The results of the study revealed that the participants gave more positive responses than negative ones. The extend of approval for this policy seemed more related to their abilities, awareness of the importance of learning English, and motivation to learn English. The result from TOEFL scores taken from 2018-2019 found that as many as 58% of students failed to obtain minimum criteria (˃ 400) while only 42% of them reached 400 or above. It indicates that Universitas Teuku Umar students are not ready yet to face this policy. On the other hand, based on the questionnaire result, most students agreed with the implementation of TOEFL as an exit requirement, however, a minimum passing score should be evaluated and a set of students' needs under the policy should be facilitated.

THE STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN USING SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE: A CASE STUDY AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

This study aims to determine the problems faced by second-grade students in using the simple present tense at (Madrasah Aliyah Negeri) MAN Dompu. The data collection used in this research is interviews and tests, in order to find and classify the problems faced by second-grade students who have difficulty using the simple present tense. The research method used in this research is descriptive qualitative and quantitative methods. The population used in this study consisted of 5 classes and the sample was taken randomly, eight students in each class were used as samples. The number of samples is 40 students. The results of data analysis obtained through object tests and essay tests show that students' scores are very poor. This is evidenced by the average value of students is 3.9. Based on the test results, it shows that students have low ability in using the simple present tense, the students are quite interested in English subjects; English is very difficult for them; English teachers never give advice and motivation to students; the teacher never informs the students about the importance of learning English, especially the simple present tense; students have low motivation in learning English; English teachers never pay attention to students who have difficulty learning English; lack of stimulation for students in learning English; and students have low abilities. The researcher hopes that this research can contribute to teachers and students in the teaching and learning process of English, especially in the use of the simple present tense.

The importance of learning English in pilot training: world practice

The article addresses the issue of the necessary language training for future aviation professionals, together with practical training prior to flight training or initial training during flight in English-speaking countries. World practice shows a growing need for language training for pilots, air traffic controllers, etc. in areas of the world where English is not traditionally the mother tongue of the population. Important questions are what communicative skills are needed by future pilots and how ongoing research on Englishlanguage teaching methodology can help in the overall training of aviation professionals. The article presents the results of a study on the training of indigenous language-speaking professional pilots who were trained in English-speaking countries from the outset. The author gives examples from the experiences of students from countriessuch as China, USA, Greece, Brazil etc. Our research focuses on developing communication skills needed by students, To future pilots, to successfully learn in an English-speaking environment during their apprenticeship.

Undergraduate Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning English in Rural University Branches in KSA: A Case Study of Al-Kamil's Branch

The present study was conducted to assess and investigate the attitudes of the Preparatory Year students towards leaning English at rural branch of the University of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The author endeavours to examine and measure the University students’ opinions and perceptions regarding the importance of Learning English. He also attempts to explore the areas of difficulties in foreign language Learning within the rural context of AlKamil College of Sciences and Arts (Makkah, Saudi Arabia). 75 randomly selected students (40 male and 35 female) participated in this study project. In this study, the researcher opted for a mixed research method. For quantitative data collection a five-point Likert scale questionnaire was adapted from Gardner’s ‘Attitude Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) along with a silent interview for a qualitative data collection in order to assess the participants’ attitudes and perceptions regarding learning English. Overall, the results reveal that students in rural university branches in Saudi Arabia hold positive attitudes towards learning English and they are constantly attempting to improve their language proficiency. This study also explores the different obstacles impeding the students’ sought progress in language learning along with the possible solutions that may enable them to use and practise English in a more spontaneous way.

Student Learning Strategies in Second Language Acquisition of English: Empirical Study of Private University Student in Pandeglang District

The importance of learning English as a foreign language or second language in the university environment, as it is known that English is a widely spoken language all over the world, however, inefficient learning of English is a tremendous problem for many English departments in the English language. Apart from the linguistic environment, the lack of an effective strategy guide is also one of the main factors causing this problem. To find out whether the use of language learning strategies helps the speaking ability of students in English departments or not, in this study, fifteen students in English departments were surveyed with a questionnaire about learning English and using their strategies. It was found that most students in this private university used metacognitive learning strategies with an index of 3.80, and compensation and affective strategies were used the least with an index of 2.67 while cognitive strategies were used almost frequently but sometimes memory and social strategies were used by students a private university student in English departments in this Pandeglang district. In other words, the use of learning strategies helps students' English skills there. Therefore, to improve students' English, this paper proposes that lecturers systematically guide students in learning strategies.