{"title":"MOTIVATION FOR LEARNING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) IN NATURAL SCIENCE FIELDS IN BURUNDI","authors":"Arcade Nduwimana","doi":"10.37854/acielj.2021.4201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37854/acielj.2021.4201","url":null,"abstract":"It is now unquestionable that motivation is a key factor in language learning especially in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Thus, the present study was carried out to investigate Natural Science students’ motivation for learning English. To do so, it examined whether the participants were aware of the global use of English and investigated the reasons why these students learn/need to learn that language. To collect the data, the study used a questionnaire, hence a survey research design. A sample of 251 students selected randomly was involved and 173 of them responded appropriately to the questionnaire. The results indicated that students were moderately aware of the predominant worldwide use of English in key domains. In terms of reasons for learning English, the findings revealed that there was an instrumentally oriented motivation among students","PeriodicalId":236399,"journal":{"name":"Alford Council of International English & Literature Journal","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115482435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teachers’ Problems and Solutions in Teaching English through Online Learning","authors":"Anggita Novelly","doi":"10.37854/acielj.2021.4301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37854/acielj.2021.4301","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to describe the problems that English teachers faced in online teaching and learning activities during Covid-19 pandemic and how they solved those problems. The respondents of this study were two English teachers, an IT staff, and twenty five students of State Senior High School 3 of Banyuasin III, South Sumatra, Indonesia. This study was conducted with qualitative descriptive method with guided interview and close-ended questionnaire as the techniques of collecting data. The findings of this study were problems that English teachers faced in online teaching dealt with lack of facilities and difficulties in delivering online lesson.In addition to those problems, the teachers also solved problems such as stress and loneliness that some students felt in conducting online learning activity. Teachers’ solutions to these problems were to allow students with lack of facilities problem to go to the school with health protocols that they must obey. As for difficulties in delivering online lesson, the teachers tried to create interesting learning media and they also provided group discussion for students.","PeriodicalId":236399,"journal":{"name":"Alford Council of International English & Literature Journal","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128958916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artistic Expressions of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Ideology and Otherness in the digital comic \"The Wuhan I Know\" by Laura Gao","authors":"Dr.Andrea Puchmüller","doi":"10.37854/acielj.2021.5101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37854/acielj.2021.5101","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to analyze the graphic memoir \"The Wuhan I know\" (Gao, 2020) published on the WWW and social networks during the first stage of the Covid-19 pandemic. The comic narrates the discrimination towards Asians and, particularly, towards Wuhanese in the United States during the pandemic. The comic is approached from a postcolonial perspective and nodal conceptual concepts such as ideology, identity, and Otherness. Umberto Eco's theory (2008) has been followed to study the structure of the comic as an ideological statement. The analytical reading concludes that in the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, “The Wuhan I Know” acquires epistemic salience in a continuum of discriminatory discourses that it attempts to deconstruct.","PeriodicalId":236399,"journal":{"name":"Alford Council of International English & Literature Journal","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126371580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ni Made Ayu Setiawati, I. M. Rajeg, Ni Ketut Widhiarcani Matradewi
{"title":"The Translation’s equivalence of the word “Support” in Parallel Corpus English-Indonesian","authors":"Ni Made Ayu Setiawati, I. M. Rajeg, Ni Ketut Widhiarcani Matradewi","doi":"10.37854/acielj.2021.4401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37854/acielj.2021.4401","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236399,"journal":{"name":"Alford Council of International English & Literature Journal","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114781152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LIBYAN TEACHERS' BELIEFS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF USING MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES IN OTIVATING PRIMARY SCHOOL'S LEARNERS","authors":"Remal Azitoni","doi":"10.37854/acielj.2021.4202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37854/acielj.2021.4202","url":null,"abstract":"Thepaperinvestigates English Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ beliefs about the importance of using motivational strategies with formative learners (aged 11-12) of English in Libyan public schools.The study employs a large scale empirical survey to collect the data. Seventy six EFL teachers rank a list of 48 motivational strategies on a Likert scale (1-6) from‘not important’ (1) to ‘very important’ (6). The quantitative results reveal that EFL teachers believed motivational strategies were highly relevant in motivating learners in the early stages of learning English as a foreign language. The four most important motivational clusters encompass ‘proper’ teacher behaviour, encouraging learners’ self-confidence, recognizing students’ efforts and creating a productive and relaxed classroom climate. Less importance areattached to strategies related to increasing learners’ goalorientedness, familiarising learners with second language (L2) values, promoting learners’ autonomy, and promoting group cohesiveness and group norms.","PeriodicalId":236399,"journal":{"name":"Alford Council of International English & Literature Journal","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125031449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}