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Blogs in English Language Teaching and Learning: Pedagogical Uses and Students’s responses

The title of this journal is “Blogs in English Language Teaching and Learning: Pedagogical Uses and Students’s responses.” This article discuss about learning English through Blog. Some scholars explained that blog could  created a sense of community that would be less likely to emerge in a conventional classroom setting.” This research was conducted by surveying 145 students in eleven EAP (English Academic Purpose) and university composition courses at a recently-opened English-medium university in rural Japan. In order to collect the data, at the end of each term throughout the research period, the writers used the online survey program Surveymonkey.com, available for free for small-scale surveys and with monthly fees for more professional features (www. surveymonkey.com). The discussion shows that the survey results it seems clear that students truly appreciated the need of blog to improve their writing and considered having an editor and being an editor valuable. In conclusion,
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The motivation for reading English as second language among second year pre-university students in Lahore Pakistan

the journal is about the motivation for reading English as second language among second year pre-university students in Lahore Pakistan. Reading motivation can be defined as “an individual’s goals and beliefs” for reading. According to the article, there are 2 basic types of motivation of English language learning: integrative and instrumental motivation. Instrumental motivation is the motivation that they do something on purpose, while integrative motivation is they do it because they deserve to do it. In Lahore, the ability to read in English has a vital role in learning because the students have to accomplish their assignments on the basis of English reading. This research is quantitative and was conducted to determine the levels of Instrumental and Integrative motivation for reading. The participants are 40 male students of Government MAO College, Lahore (Pakistan). They were enrolled in English Reading Class. The Technique of Data Collection was questionnaire survey. There
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A Study of Using Pop Songs to Promote New Vocabulary Learning for Secondary School Students

This journal also done by a Thai, namely Thippawan Borisai & Nutprapha K. Dennis which took place in Thailand at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University, under title “A Study of Using Pop Songs to Promote New Vocabulary Learning for Secondary School Students.” The researchers stated that, Thailand has managed English teaching based on the Basic Education Core Curriculum in order to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities of students. There are English learning courses as both core and selective subjects in schools to develop students’ capabilities in English. Unfortunately, although English has been taught in school for many years, there has been little success. Hence, the researcher used pop song in order to develop those skills in learning English. The research question are, How do pop songs promote students’ ability in learning new vocabulary ? What are the students’ opinion toward using in learning new vocabulary ? The aims of this study is to promote studen
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Thai Learners’ English pronunciation competence: Lesson Learned from word stress Assignment

The researcher in this journal is a Thai namely Attapol Khamkhien and the research done also in Thailand at Kasetsart University under title Thai Learners’ English pronunciation competence: Lesson Learned from word stress Assignment. The problem in this research is most of  Thai learners feel difficult to pronounce the word of English. In other word, teachers’ pronunciation is not very well due to their mother tongue which is effect them to pronounce the word of English. In this paper, there are two research question which will be discussed : 1. What is the level of Thai learners’ English pronunciation competence? 2. What is the relationship between three factors: gender, faculty and experiences in studying English, and their knowledge with regard to word stress assignment? The participants in this journal were Thai learners of English (N=90), studying in the field of sciences, from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and  Science, Engineering, and Veterinary Medicine, Kasetsart Universi
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The Effectiveness of Oral Proficiency in English for Secondary Schools (OPS-English) Programme

The title of the presentation is Effectiveness of Oral Proficiency in English for Secondary Schools (OPS-English) Programme in Improving English Language Vocabulary among Secondary School Students. The researcher was Manesha Kaur Rajendra Singh and he did his research in Malaysia. The purpose of this journal article is to examine the effectiveness of vocabulary activities which are taken from OPS-English Text book in English language classroom. The problem in this research is most of learners cannot speak English effectively due to lack of vocabulary and here the researcher try to increase students vocabulary through oral speaking in English class. he believes that if the student acquire new and extended vocabulary as well as new, then it will help them to enhance their English language oral communication. The research design in this study is quantitative research. This study uses experimental design which is the Pre-test and Post-test Control Group Design. Pre-test and post-test w
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Students language learning beliefs: correlation between learning strategies and final achievement

Introduction Every students has their uniqueness in learning language and it based on their beliefs. According to Cabarog lu and Roberts (2000, p.388) they defined beliefs as “a set of conceptual representation which signify to its holder a reality or given state of affairs of sufficient validity, thruth or trust wothness to warrant reliance upon it as a guide to personal thought and action”. However, there is no complete agreement on meaning and definition of beliefs, although the definition of this concept enjoys popularity in language learning research. Horwitz (1987) defined beliefs about language learning as language learners’ preconceived ideas or nations on variety of issues related to second or foreign language learning. for instance, some of them used to study language by using audio and the rest used to learn by audio-visual. It depend on students’ need and as the teacher they should provide them the best media to make an attractive learning. Therefore, the learners’ tho
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The Activity of Using Audio Visual Medium in the Classroom

Audio visual that I use to teach the students is a short video about a story of a father and a crow. The duration of this video is about 7 minutes and I will provide this video with subtitle in because the speaker is too fast in telling the story. I choose this video due to the topic and the content in this video is very good, it is about family. This video allowed to watch to student at the end of the class because I prefer this video as an intermezzo to my student not as main topic which is discuss in the class. Before playing the video, I will explain to the learners what they have to do while watching it. I will provide the pupils 4 or 5 questions related to the video and the student have to answer it based on their perception of the video. The questions should be : 1.      What is the moral value that you can take in this video ? 2.      What is the problem that occur between parents and son ? 3.      Write a sentence that you love most related in the video ! 4.     
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