Mohammad Zohrabi; Abdolreza Khalili
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This study strived to determine the utility of different written corrective feedback strategies for ameliorating medicine English for Specific Purposes (ESP) students’ writing ability. Moreover, it endeavored to specify these students’ perspectives on the pertinent strategies. To this end, ...
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This study strived to determine the utility of different written corrective feedback strategies for ameliorating medicine English for Specific Purposes (ESP) students’ writing ability. Moreover, it endeavored to specify these students’ perspectives on the pertinent strategies. To this end, the researchers used a mixed-methods design. First, we selected 183 intermediate-level medicine ESP students in six intact classes at two universities in Iran as the participants. Second, we assigned the classes to five experimental groups and one control group. Third, we used a writing pretest, written corrective feedback treatment sessions, and three writing posttests to collect the quantitative data. Finally, we gathered qualitative data on participants’ perspectives on feedback strategies using a semi-structured interview protocol. One-way ANOVA and thematic analysis were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that, while meta-linguistic, electronic, direct, and reformulation-based strategies improved ESP students’ writing ability in the short, medium, and long terms, the indirect strategy was only effective in the short term. Furthermore, the participants preferred explicit strategies to implicit ones.
Mohammad Reza Ghorbani; Gholam Hassan Khajavy
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The purpose of the present study was to examine Iranian university students’ attitudes toward the US government and the English language in the Trump era. For this purpose, 359 Iranian university students who were taking general English courses took part in the study and completed two questionnaires ...
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The purpose of the present study was to examine Iranian university students’ attitudes toward the US government and the English language in the Trump era. For this purpose, 359 Iranian university students who were taking general English courses took part in the study and completed two questionnaires measuring their attitudes toward the US government and the English language in the Trump era. The results of the study indicated that Iranian university students did not have favorable attitudes toward the US government in the Trump era, while their attitudes toward the English language were more positive. Furthermore, we found that demographic information, including gender, field of study, educational level, and economic status could affect the attitudes toward the US government and the English language. We also found that participants with higher English language proficiency levels had more positive attitudes toward the English language. Finally, findings were discussed, and directions for future research were recommended.
I Gusti Agung Sri Rwa Jayantini; Sang Putu Kaler Surata; Putu Desi Anggerina Hikmaharyanti; Ni Nyoman Deni Ariyaningsih
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What people see through their eyes may touch their hearts. Their reflection shows how emphatic they are about their surroundings. This study aims to identify the reflection shown in the writing of English for Foreign Language (EFL) learners on what they see and feel through the photovoice technique. ...
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What people see through their eyes may touch their hearts. Their reflection shows how emphatic they are about their surroundings. This study aims to identify the reflection shown in the writing of English for Foreign Language (EFL) learners on what they see and feel through the photovoice technique. Given that senses and emotions are linked and can be measured through emotioncy levels, photovoice is used to lead EFL learners to experience the world around them and then reflect on it. By taking pictures and making use of them as ways of developing a piece of descriptive writing, this study found that reflection through photovoice SHOWed could give positive results. The students’ senses and emotions are blended to enhance the level of involvement that makes them able to describe things captured by their eyes as the visual sense and involve their hearts as the core of emotion to contribute to showing the actions of caring for their surroundings.
Zainal Abidin Arief; Endin Mujahidin; Rudi H Hartono
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The use of learning media at the lecture orientation stage will greatly help the effectiveness of the lecture process and the delivery of messages and lecture materials. In addition to generating student motivation and interest, media can also help students improve understanding, present interesting ...
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The use of learning media at the lecture orientation stage will greatly help the effectiveness of the lecture process and the delivery of messages and lecture materials. In addition to generating student motivation and interest, media can also help students improve understanding, present interesting and reliable data, facilitate data interpretation, and condense information. The purpose of this study was to measure how much influence the digital comic learning media had on Indonesian students’ English language learning outcomes. The method used in this study was the experimental one with the control and experimental groups. The results of the data analysis showed that the difference between the pre-test and the post-test of the experimental class was significant. It could be concluded that there was an increase in the students’ English language learning outcomes in the experimental class. In fact, the increase in their English language learning outcomes is probably caused by digital comic media.