CORRELATION BETWEEN THE STUDENTS’ LEARNING HOURS AND THEIR ENGLISH SCORES By: Yelly A. Barlian Abstract The research investigated the relationship between the student’s learning hours and their English scores and how strong the relationship was. The participants consisted of 22 students of Product Design Dept. from a private Art and Design tertiary school in Bandung‚ West Java‚ Indonesia. The instruments used in this study were the variables of English mid-term test score and a questionnaire
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Language learning should be more fun and enjoyable for pupils to learn. Teachers need to have effective teaching strategies in order for pupils to grasp better in learning English. It is important for a teacher to facilitate pupils’ interest towards learning the English Language. This study will benefit the pupils mainly and the English Language Teachers. If this study can show that the impact of study hours spent online can help to boost the pupils` English Language Proficiency in school‚ English Language
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Edith Cowan University Research Online EDU-COM International Conference Conferences‚ Symposia and Campus Events 2008 Identification of Learning Barriers Affecting English Reading Comprehension Instruction‚ as Perceived by ESL Undergraduates in Thailand Chayapon Chomchaiya Curtin University of Technology Katie Dunworth Curtin University of Technology Originally published in the Proceedings of the EDU-COM 2008 International Conference. Sustainability in Higher Education: Directions for Change
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Value of play in promoting learning and development in the early years Play is an essential part of every child’s life and is vital for the enjoyment of childhood as well as social‚ emotional‚ intellectual and physical development. Though play children learn about themselves and the world that surrounds them. They also learn to express themselves and form relationships with others. Play in early childhood education is not considered as a kind of fun activity where children spend their energy on
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INTRODUCTION Background English plays an important role at this area of globalization. People need to be proficient in English in order to compete on an international platform. Based on the resolutions of MELTA (Malaysian English Language Teaching Association) National Colloquium on the Role of The English Language In National Building held on 22nd of April 2003 at Sheraton Subang Towers and Hotel‚ Subang Jaya Selangor‚ "English Language plays a significant role in the enhancement of the economy
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English as an Additional Language (EAL) refers to pupils who speak another language at home and that this other language is their most prominent language‚ in other words their mother tongue is not English. Children with EAL should not be confused with children who are bi-lingual or children who grew up or spent time in another country but still had English as a first language. The educational system in the United Kingdom has always had to cope with the difficulties and challenges that arise in the
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revolutionized the teaching and learning foreign languages‚ specifically‚ English. They now provide a wealth of materials and resources‚ innovate the method of teaching and learning English and lead to the appearance of e-learning. First‚ today’s technology has provided teachers as well as students of English more choices of materials than in the past‚ when "technology" was still an unfamiliar term to the majority of Vietnamese society. As materials for teaching and learning English then were very limited
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Age problems and difficulties in leaning English as a foreign language Since 19th century foreign language learning has been a practice for many people. That was mostly due do colonization and industrialization or economic purposes. People from different cultures came into contact to one another. They needed to talk and exchange ideas. For the colonizers‚ they needed to learn the language of those countries which they were invading‚ to understand the mentality and the culture of its inhabitants
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In the process of learning language‚ vocabulary plays a significant role in developing the skills including listening‚ speaking‚ reading‚ writing and translation. Vocabulary is regarded as a foundation for the mastery of the language and it goes without saying that great importance should be attached to vocabulary. Hence‚ learners are supposed to enrich their vocabularies for the sake of proficiency in the language learning. However‚ as for most Chinese non-English majors‚ English vocabulary has been
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culture. Especially those whose mother tongue is English familiar with the contents and stories of Greek mythology have been imperceptibly influenced by what they constantly read‚ see and hear about since they are very young. Hence allusive idioms from Greek myths have exerted great impact on the English language and literature. It is fairly important to make a full understanding of Greek myths for a foreign student in order to learn the language of English well. To prove this‚ I may as well‚ first of
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