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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 conclus...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Learning is a process of studying which needs time and attention to do that. It takes a long time to have a good learner. Besides, they also have a lot of teachers to facilitate the learners to be so. The students learn because they have something to achieve in their life. Learning and test have a connection one another, as we know test is a method of measuring someone’s ability or knowledge. They know and aware of their capability through the test. According to high-stakes test, there are many consequence of this test. Begin with the work of Smith and Rottenberg (1991) in critiques of high stakes testing that published in Educational Measurement : they identified six effect of external testing and one of them is “Neglect of teaching material not covered by test.” It means the students study just for a test. The way i see is that is not effective to study the material not covered by test. Let say it depends on the purpose of students itself. Do they study for the test or for having ...

            An achievement has become one of the component of grading system, but not only an achievement that could be a criteria of grading, but also there are some criteria which need to be considered such as nonachievement and how do we incorporate them with other measurable factors.  Guidelines is essential for all components of grading to be consistent with an institutional philosophy and regulations. Some institutions, for instance, mandate deductions for unexcused absence. All of the component of final grade need to be explicitly   stated in writing with designations of percentages or weighting figures for each component. Grading students’ ability in writing more reliable because it could be an evidence of their capability. Final grade sheet is also can use in long term of study and it could be used anytime students need. Improvement, behavior, effort and motivation might be include in grading system and it is ...