Role In English Learning Research Articles

How to Enhance Functional Adequacy in Senior High School Students’ Writing

With the reform of the new college entrance examination, senior high school English writing has received great attention. The English Curriculum Standards for Senior High Schools (2017 Edition Revised in 2020) proposes that English teaching in senior high schools should focus on cultivating students’ core competence in the English discipline. In particular, English writing, which can fully reflect students’ comprehensive English application skills, plays a significant role in English learning. However, according to current learning situation, the writing performance among senior high school students is not satisfactory. In the recent years, the importance of functional adequacy as an essential component of L2 proficiency has been observed by some scholars. Based on this, this study highlights the effectiveness of functional adequacy in facilitating students’ writing performance and emphasizes the importance of developing students’ pragmatic writing ability. Also, this study explores how to develop functional adequacy in senior high school students’ writing and puts forward some pedagogical implications of improving pragmatic performance in writing for English teachers.

Exploring ChatGPT's Role in English Learning for EFL Students: Insights and Experiences

The incorporation of technology into language education has gained considerable importance, with tools such as ChatGPT playing a pivotal role in facilitating language acquisition. This research specifically examines the effects of ChatGPT on English language learning among students studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL), with the objective of addressing a gap in the existing literature regarding its efficacy in educational contexts. The study utilizes a cross-sectional survey methodology to collect data from EFL students enrolled in English language programs in Khaf city. The primary emphasis is on assessing students' perceptions of ChatGPT's impact on their overall language proficiency and the degree to which it contributes to the development of various language skills. The findings reveal that the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies, particularly ChatGPT, has significantly altered language learning approaches. The model exhibits proficiency in processing information and effectively assists learners in improving their listening, reading, speaking, and writing abilities. The study concludes that ChatGPT has a beneficial effect on language acquisition, particularly in enhancing learners' vocabulary and overall language competencies.

Reform of Teaching Mode for College English Writing: The Application of Blended Teaching Mode in College English Writing Teaching

In recent years, with the burgeoning of multimedia technology, its application in education and teaching has deepened. Blended teaching enjoys increasing popularity among people. Blended teaching, a combination of traditional classroom instruction and digital technology, offers students a flexible and interactive learning environment. Compared with traditional teaching modes, blended teaching achieves a combination of online and offline teaching, and effectively enhances students’ learning initiative and further boosts students’ learning efficiency. Through the integration of online platforms and face-to-face instruction, students can access diverse materials, engage in interactive activities, and receive timely feedback. Writing is playing a vitally important role in English learning, and it is one of the difficulties in English learning. This essay takes college English writing teaching as an example to study the application of blended teaching mode, with an aim to effectively tackle some problems in college English writing teaching and to foster a dynamic learning environment that improves students’ writing proficiency.

Critical Reflection on a Specific Teaching ContextExplicit Instruction of Non-Verbal Communication

Non-verbal communication has played a vital role in English learning and teaching. The essay includes both-sides debates, complicated issues in different cultures and countries and constructive recommendations related to the specific learning and teaching contexts. Although non-verbal communication has some problems to apply, there are still more constructive recommendations to benefit language learning greatly in the future.

Impacts of Emotional Intelligence on Second Language Acquisition: English-Major Students’ Perspectives

Emotional intelligence (EI) plays a critical role in English learning, as it fosters a better understanding of language nuances, enhances learner motivation, and improves communication skills, thereby leading to a more effective and enriching learning experience. However, the impact of EI on English language acquisition among Vietnamese learners remains underexplored creating a gap in educational studies. This study aimed to investigate the Vietnamese students’ perspectives of the impacts of EI on their second language acquisition (SLA). A mixed-methods approach was employed combining quantitative data collected through a questionnaire and qualitative data obtained from semi-structured interviews. The study involved 105 English-major students selected through convenience sampling. The findings revealed a positive correlation between EI and SLA, with characteristics such as motivation, self-confidence, interpersonal skills, a goal-oriented mindset, and emotional openness significantly impacting language learning outcomes. These findings have implications for language learning theory, pedagogy, and curriculum development, emphasizing the need to address learners’ emotional well-being and incorporate EI skills within language learning contexts. By integrating these elements, educators can create a conducive learning environment that enhances both linguistic and emotional competencies.

A Study of Embodied-Cognitive Teaching Approach to Teach English Reading in College

English Reading plays an important role in English learning. Hence, improving the learners' English reading ability is one of the key issues for English teachers in colleges. This study conducts an experiment on teaching English Reading for the freshmen of E-Commerce major in a higher vocational college, in which the experimental group adopts the Embodied-Cognitive Teaching approach and the control group the traditional teaching approach. In order to ensure the reliability of the study, the data of the two groups of learners are obtained and recorded from the teaching platform. With the help of SPSS Statistic analysis software, the study finds that there is no significant difference in the scores of the instant intensive reading test and the instant vocabulary test between the experimental group and the control group. But there is significant difference in the scores of the instant extensive test and after-class vocabulary tests between the two groups; the experimental group performs better than the control group on the aspects of conceptual understanding and word decoding skills, which shows that Embodied-Cognitive teaching approach helps to improve the learners' reading ability and is one of the new and effective ways for teaching English Reading in Chinese colleges.

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS TEACHER’S STRATEGY AT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The purpose of this study is to find out the students' perception toward teachers’ role in motivating students to learn English during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this research, researchers use the qualitative method. To collect the data, the researchers used a questionnaire that consists of 10 questions. The population of this study is the students at SMP Negeri 2 Tondano and the samples are the 8th grade students with a total of 23 students. The samples chosen are the active students who follow the teaching and learning process in their school in online and offline ways. The findings show that students are having great experiences in teaching and learning English. In general, the students respond to the statements very well with positive responses dominated by Agree and Strongly Agree. It showed that the students’ perceptions of the teacher’s role in English learning are various in the Covid-19 pandemic situation. In general, Covid-19 had a significant impact on the world of education, including in the educational system in Indonesia. Traditional and routine learning that emphasizes the interaction of teachers and students in the classroom and outside the classroom shifts to distance learning.

The Application of Semantic Field Theory in Vocabulary Learning

Vocabulary acquisition plays a significant role in English learning. For the sake of improving the efficiency of vocabulary learning, a better method of vocabulary learning should be explored. Present research derives methods that can facilitate vocabulary learning through exploring the interaction between semantic field theory and sense relations. First, this paper introduces sense relations between word, including synonymy, hyponymy, antonymy, etc. And then, this research depicts semantic field theory: Trier’s paradigmatic semantic field theory and Pozig’s syntagmatic semantic field theory, trying to construct different semantic relations. Finally, this thesis explores the application of semantic field in vocabulary learning, which helps develop learners’ awareness of English thinking and systematic thinking skills. By associating and expanding new and old words with a core meaning in the field, it is helpful to expand the breadth and depth of students’ vocabulary and improve their interest in learning vocabulary and their ability of comprehensive application.

A Study on Senior High School English Reading Teaching and Strategies Based on Flipped Classroom

As one of the four basic abilities, English reading plays an important role in English learning in senior high school. According to the curriculum requirements of the "New Curriculum Reform", the traditional English teaching methods can no longer meet the requirements of improving students' comprehensive quality. Under the background of the long-standing existence of the COVID-19 epidemic, more attention has been paid to the reversal of the classroom teaching model. This paper studies the application of flipped classroom in English reading teaching, and analyzes its advantages and characteristics.

Coping Strategies of English Listening Anxiety in Senior High School Students

From the point of view of the information transmission system in human social communication, listening plays an important role. Listening is one of the basic ways of human communication. Its complexity lies in the fact that it contains a lot of information and is influenced by a variety of internal and external factors. Listening learning with listening as the basic input plays a very important role in English learning, but learners' psychological factors, including focus, affect the comprehension and improvement of listening level in the whole process of English learning, especially in listening learning. Medium and high levels of anxiety have been shown to be detrimental to the improvement of students' listening academic level and listening skills. In order to ensure the success of listening comprehension, it is necessary to take teaching intervention to control and reduce listening anxiety to a certain extent, so as to achieve successful listening comprehension and higher listening level. This article reviews the related research on hearing anxiety and its influencing factors on listening comprehension. Based ON the existing research results, further analysis shows that appropriate listening skills and strategy training, basic knowledge and necessary background information storage, building students' self-confidence and reducing "negative evaluation" anxiety are the key to control the appropriate degree of anxiety and reduce listening anxiety.

Teachers’ Perceptions of Code-Switching Functions and Effects in English as a Foreign Language Classroom

<p style="text-align: justify;">The purpose of this study was to look into teachers' perceptions of code-switching functions and effects in English as a foreign language classroom. In the study, a descriptive survey design and an interview were used to investigate the functions and effects of code-switching in English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. 46 people responded to the survey questionnaire about code-switching functions and their impact in the classroom. Seven teachers participated in the group interview. The interview findings revealed six functions and four effects of code-switching. According to the survey findings, the majority of teachers supported the use of code-switching in their classrooms because it served a useful purpose in the process of teaching and learning English. The findings also revealed that teachers believed code-switching provided a clear purpose and had a positive impact on instruction and language development in EFL classrooms by creating a sociable environment. It was also demonstrated that code-switching to teachers was effective in EFL classrooms and played an important role in English learning and teaching. The implications of the findings for EFL teachers and language learning settings were discussed.</p>

Analysis of Writing Motivation for Medical University EFL Learners in China

This research aims to investigate EFL learners’ writing motivation in a medical university. Although writing plays a critical role in English learning, it has often been neglected by students, they only take writing as a tortured task which has been related to the score in final tests. In a medical university, most students are afraid of writing and lack motivation to write in English because of the heavy load and pressure from their medical tasks. Therefore, this study describes students’ writing motivation through the class observation, questionnaire, and interview, and finds what factors affect students’ writing motivation. Based on the analysis results, combined with features of students from a medical university, the researcher comes up with strategies to improve learners’ writing motivation.

A Study on the Role of Sentence Structure Analysis in English Learning

In the introduction part, the paper points out that many students feel that long difficult sentences in English are really very difficult and bring great difficulties in understanding, but the long difficult sentences in English are ubiquitous, which is determined by the language characteristics of English itself. So in the methodology part, this paper first analyzes the structural features of English sentences which are demonstrated mainly in two aspects and introduces the English sentence structure analysis method which explores the different sentence structure types and uses a case study to demonstrate the detailed usage of this method. Then in the discussion part, the paper discusses the role of sentence structure analysis in English listening, reading comprehension, cloze test, translation, oral expression and writing before it finally works out the conclusion that the analysis of English sentence structure plays an universal role in English learning, and students of English major should master this method through certain practice like systematically mastering grammar, doing more analysis in reading and practicing and reading aloud so as to fundamentally improve their English levels.

Gamified Learning: Are Vietnamese EFL Learners Ready Yet?

Given the strong empirical evidence in the field of education that confirms the relationship between the application of game elements and increased learning motivation, gamification has recently become a concept that starts drawing attention in the field of English language teaching (ELT). However, the topic of gamification is still under-presented in ELT research, especially in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts. The current research ex-plores the extent to which Vietnamese EFL learners are familiar to online gamification tools and their attitudes toward online-based gamified learn-ing. The study draws on data collected from survey questionnaires and fo-cus group interviews. Participants involved 147 students who participated in the survey; 12 volunteers among the surveyed students joined focus group interviews. The findings indicate that gamification has started taking a certain role in English learning both within and beyond classrooms. Also, students’ attitudes towards gamified learning are positive. Pedagogical im-plications regarding the application of gamified learning in improving the efficacy of English education in Vietnam and similar EFL contexts are also discussed.

Social class, language attitudes, and language use

Abstract Few previous studies have examined the impact of social class on language attitudes and language use in mainland China. A total of 215 questionnaires were collected from a university in China for this study. The participants were classified into four social classes: upper middle class, middle middle class, lower middle class, and lower class. Then an individual interview was conducted with 10 students. Findings show that the students from the upper middle class had significantly lower attitudes toward local dialects and they had the lowest percentage of current use of dialect at home. The study adds evidence to findings of previous studies that local dialects might face certain danger of maintenance. It also shows that this change would start from people from the upper middle class. The study also points out a possible future tendency that social class privilege will play a more significant role in English learning and education.

A novel movies recommendation algorithm based on reinforcement learning with DDPG policy

PurposeEnglish original movies played an important role in English learning and communication. In order to find the required movies for us from a large number of English original movies and reviews, this paper proposed an improved deep reinforcement learning algorithm for the recommendation of movies. In fact, although the conventional movies recommendation algorithms have solved the problem of information overload, they still have their limitations in the case of cold start-up and sparse data.Design/methodology/approachTo solve the aforementioned problems of conventional movies recommendation algorithms, this paper proposed a recommendation algorithm based on the theory of deep reinforcement learning, which uses the deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm to solve the cold starting and sparse data problems and uses Item2vec to transform discrete action space into a continuous one. Meanwhile, a reward function combining with cosine distance and Euclidean distance is proposed to ensure that the neural network does not converge to local optimum prematurely.FindingsIn order to verify the feasibility and validity of the proposed algorithm, the state of the art and the proposed algorithm are compared in indexes of RMSE, recall rate and accuracy based on the MovieLens English original movie data set for the experiments. Experimental results have shown that the proposed algorithm is superior to the conventional algorithm in various indicators.Originality/valueApplying the proposed algorithm to recommend English original movies, DDPG policy produces better recommendation results and alleviates the impact of cold start and sparse data.

Textual Enhancement, Input Processing and Presentation-Practice-Production in College English Grammar Teaching in China

Based on the input processing theory and output hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition, and employing quantitative and qualitative methods, this study investigates the effects of Textual Enhancement (TE), Input Processing Instruction (PI) and Presentation-Practice-Production (3P), and tries to compare the initial learning and retention effect on the acquisition of unreal conditionals in Chinese college English classrooms. The research findings are as follows: 1) Both PI and 3P areeffective. TE is effective in initial learning but falls short for retention effect. There is significant difference between the TE, PI and 3P groups. 2) In initial learning, 3P has the best effect based on learners’ mean score, followed by PI and TE, but there is no significant difference between PI and 3P. There is significant difference between 3P and TE, PI and 3P. 3) With regard to the retention effect, 3P and PI work better than TE. And there is no significant difference between 3P and PI. The research findings indicate that explicit explanation about language structures plays an effective and necessary role in English learning in the Chinese context. English teachers are suggested to involve the learners with grammar through meaningful activities such as structured input activities.

Exploring the Affordance of ‘BBC 6 Minute English’ Mobile Application as an Online Supplementary Listening Tool

Listening skills have always played an important role in English learning. Communication and improvements in English can only be established when a certain level of proficiency is achieved. Therefore, it is important for all English learners to reach the required level. Nowadays, with advanced technology, learners can make use of many digital tools to improve their listening skills. Apart from the Internet and other applications for computers, English learners can also use their mobile devices as an alternative option to improve their listening skills thanks to a large number of software developed for these devices. An example of a mobile application for this purpose is “BBC 6 Minute English” developed by Kavin.flee. This study was conducted to explore the possibility of integrating this application in the students’ education process and examine if there were any problems in using this software. This study was carried out on sophomores of the English Department of the University of Foreign Languages Studies (UFL) – University of Danang (UDN), Vietnam. The study also considers the impact of the use of the application on the sophomores’ listening skills.

A Study on English Audio Segmentation Methods Based on Threshold Value and Energy Sequence

As a new method of learning, the mobile platform is playing an increasingly important role in English learning. In order to fit in with the construction requirements of the English mobile learning platform, it is obliged to carry out methods of positive studies on English audio segmentation. In this study, the author makes a brief analysis on English audio segmentation based on threshold value and energy sequence, provides the basic process of English audio segmentation, and carries out a discussion on key technical points of the scheme, which including windowing process, audio feature extraction and dual threshold. In the end, the author makes a research on the operation of English audio segmentation, aiming at drawing more attentions to this study.

Aphasia of Chinese Culture in Senior High School English Teaching—Taking a Key Middle School in Kunming as the Example

Studies on aphasia of Chinese culture in college English teaching have been focused for a long time. Yet little attention has been paid to the senior high school English teaching concerning this problem. As a matter of fact, senior high school English teaching plays an essential role in English learning. In order to find out whether aphasia of Chinese culture exists in this stage and dig out the factors, the author has carried out a survey with quantitative and qualitative methodologies in the senior high school students of Grade one and teachers of a key middle school in Kunming. The survey reveals that this phenomenon does exist in senior high school English teaching and the extent is rather severe. The main reasons are lack of introduction on Chinese culture in English class, inadequacy of Chinese culture in textbooks and no emphasis on Chinese culture in English test. According to the explored reasons, the author proposes the corresponding suggestive solutions to the problem. They are: to reform the culture teaching, to add more Chinese culture in textbooks and to revise NMET (National Matriculation English Test).