Teachers' Attitude Toward a Foreign Language: Factors Affecting the Target Language Teaching Process

Darwish, Salwa Al

doi:10.5430/ijelt.v5n1p1

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“…Karanezi 2014). Concerning L2 teaching, there is, in fact, plenty of evidence of enthusiasm on the part of L2 teachers – including, of course, primary-school L2 teachers (see Al Darwish 2017). Interestingly, there are also some indications that teachers catering to different age groups may diverge with respect to what they think it is important to teach (see e.g.…”

Section: Towards An Ecological Perspective On Age In Research Methodomentioning

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Exploring a poorly understood variable: An agenda for classroom research on the age factor

Singleton¹,

Pfenninger

2018

Lang. Teach.

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This article is concerned with age in second language learning. It steers well clear, however, of the well-worn issue of maturational constraints and the intractable problems of locating their consensual offset point and finding indisputable evidence for or against them. Instead we propose something completely different in our agenda for age-related research: a programme on some poorly understood non-maturational dimensions of the age factor which will stand some chance of yielding results unlikely to become entangled in theoretical controversy. In other words, the results will, we think, be immediately usable and useful. The topics included in our outlined agenda are: (1) age effects in various dimensions of language teaching and learning (in relation to bilingualism and biliteracy, to different target languages and to Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL); (2) what can be observed in respect of second language (L2) learning in the third age; (3) an ecological perspective on age in classroom L2 research methodology; and (4) an exploration of the attitudes of teachers of different-aged L2 learners.

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Section: Towards An Ecological Perspective On Age In Research Methodomentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring a poorly understood variable: An agenda for classroom research on the age factor

Singleton¹,

Pfenninger

2018

Lang. Teach.

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“…Let us list the most promising areas of research and the most significant publications of foreign scientists in recent years (2017-2020). A considerable amount of research is focused on identifying the factors of the formation of value attitudes towards language learning [5,6,7,8,9,10], the study on the impact of the value attitudes of schoolchildren and students on the subject on the quality of learning the material [11,12,13,14].…”

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“…Research conducted by Lasagabaster D., S. Al Darwish, А. Arwin et al reaffirm the importance of motivation as a key factor. [9,6,8]. The work of A. Arwin, who notes the need for integrative (intrinsic) motivation for language learning [8], is particularly noteworthy.…”

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Model of formation of the value attitude of high school students to the Russian language in the lyceum educational environment

Al-Yanai

2021

SHS Web Conf.

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At the present stage of the development of pedagogy, due to the tendency to axiologize education, special attention should be paid to the spiritual and moral development and education of the child's personality. In the process of studying at school, the subject of «Russian language» occupies a leading position, the metasubject educational functions of which make it possible to involve schoolchildren in the spiritual richness of Russian culture and literature, and the cultural and historical experience of mankind. In this regard, it is necessary to provide scientific and methodological support for the process of forming a value attitude of students to the Russian language, which allows organizing Training and Learning activities of high school students on a value basis. The purpose of this publication is to theoretically substantiate the conceptual model of forming the value attitude of high school students to the Russian language in the lyceum educational environment. Research methods and methodology. In the course of the work, the following methodological approaches were used: axiological, system-activity, environmental approaches, modeling method. Research results.1. The conceptual model of the formation of the value attitude of high school students to the Russian language in the conditions of the lyceum educational environment has been substantiated. 2. The substantive and procedural aspects of the process of forming the value attitude of high school students to the Russian language are characterized. Practical significance. The model of the formation of the value attitude of senior pupils to the Russian language in the process of classroom and extracurricular educational activities in the conditions of the lyceum educational environment, aimed at understanding the Russian language as a national and cultural value, may be in demand in further studies considering the value approach in education, the value-oriented aspect of teaching native language, as well as to be used in the development of special courses for students, graduate students and teachers on the problems of learning a language from an axiological standpoint.

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“…These factors have been reported and categorized into factors that encouraged or hindered these teachers in their use of the language. Some have been classified as the teaching environment (e.g., Çankaya, 2017; Kyeyune, 2003; Othman & Saat, 2009) while others have touted that it is the manifestation of the teachers’ own personal characteristics—such as self-efficacy beliefs and attitudes (e.g., Darwish, 2017; Ismail & Shaban, 2016; Nam Siong & Hui Min, 2017) that are the influencer. In this study, it is the personal characteristics that are of interest, specifically from the perspectives of cognitivism that are particularly relevant.…”

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Factors Influencing Malaysian Preschool Teachers’ Use of the English Language as a Medium of Instruction

Goh

Loy

2021

Sage Open

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This study investigated Malaysian preschool teachers’ self-efficacy and attitudes toward the use of the English language as a medium of instruction (EMI) and proposed a model of how different variables were related to their use of English in the classrooms. In order to obtain a broad picture of the nature and scope of preschool teachers’ use of EMI, a survey study was undertaken. The research instrument was a questionnaire that was distributed to randomly-selected preschool teachers throughout Malaysia. The process of modeling was based on the empirical data and a theoretical model that was constructed on the basis of the two theoretical aspects, that is self-efficacy and attitudes-behavior relation. The theoretical model served as a bridge between the abstractions from theory and the development of the model. The model suggested that strong self-efficacy influenced preschool teachers’ use of English to teach. In addition, the model also indicated that those preschool teachers with positive attitudes also felt self-efficacious in using English to teach and negative attitudes had the opposite effect. Those preschool teachers who had a positive attitude that teaching using English would be useful for the children perceived that they had greater ability toward handling classroom management issues. In addition, they believed too, that they were confident to use appropriate assessment tasks in the classroom when English was used as the medium of instruction. It would appear that self-efficacy and attitudes were mutually related to preschool teachers’ use of English to teach.

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Teachers' Attitude Toward a Foreign Language: Factors Affecting the Target Language Teaching Process

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

Exploring a poorly understood variable: An agenda for classroom research on the age factor

Exploring a poorly understood variable: An agenda for classroom research on the age factor

Model of formation of the value attitude of high school students to the Russian language in the lyceum educational environment

Factors Influencing Malaysian Preschool Teachers’ Use of the English Language as a Medium of Instruction

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