Authors:Kumari Damayanti Joshi, Laxman Gnawali, Ram Ashish Giri, Diane Mayer, Mary Dixon First page: 25 Abstract: Professional development for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers has gained increasing relevance worldwide. This study reports on issues of Nepalese EFL teachers’ professional development (needs, interests, enablers and barriers). Data from 257 EFL teachers were used to assess and explore these issues. Quantitative data were used to describe the needs, interests and their relationships with the teachers’ socio-demographics; while qualitative data were used for exploring the enablers of and barriers to teacher professional development. More than half of the teachers reported their professional development needs for various instructional skills to be high to very high. Similarly, more than two thirds of the teachers reported their PD interests for all professional development activities to be high to very high. The EFL teachers also highlighted a number of environmental, institutional and personal enabling and challenging factors in pursuing their professional development. This study concludes that Nepalese EFL teachers demonstrated a considerable need of and interest in TPD despite experiencing several types of challenges. PubDate: 2022-01-17 DOI: 10.5430/ijelt.v9n1p25 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022)
Authors:Tatiana Sallier, Tatiana Samsonova First page: 40 Abstract: The article is devoted to the role of grammar in an ESP class – to students who don’t specialize in English and need English primarily for professional reading. The authors argue that the most important language skill in English for special purposes in the framework of tertiary education is academic reading, which serves as a basis for developing academic speaking and academic writing skills. Teaching academic reading is impossible without a formal and systematic study of grammar. The principal grammatical phenomena needing special attention are outlined and several types of exercises which can be used in teaching grammar are recommended. It is shown that in some cases grammatical analysis provides cues for contextual guessing. PubDate: 2022-01-19 DOI: 10.5430/ijelt.v9n1p40 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022)
Authors:Susmita S. Shuvra, Sukanto Roy First page: 46 Abstract: Writing is the pivotal skill for the communicative purposes. In the tertiary level, the learners in Bangladesh encounter different types of problems in developing writing skills. However, this is very essential for them to recognize the problems and work out with that. This study is qualitative in nature, analyzes the problems in developing writing skills at the tertiary level in Bangladesh. This is based on secondary data. The data are collected from the other researchers’ research papers. Due to the pandemic situation, it could not be possible to collect primary data. The paper starts with describing the background of the writing skills, and approaches in Bangladesh. It also discussed the perspectives of the learners’ and teachers’ about the developing process of writing skills. Based on the previous research, it represents that lack of enthusiasm of instructors, lack of motivation of learners, institutional constraints hinder the process of developing writing skills at the tertiary level. The paper provides some proposals for resolving the problems that inhibit the process of developing writing skills. At last, this study suggested the implications of further research for identifying the other’s challenges and find out the infusion of the challenges. This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. PubDate: 2022-01-19 DOI: 10.5430/ijelt.v9n1p46 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022)
Authors:Cynthia Logogye, Bernard Asafo-Duho, Joseph B.A. Afful First page: 1 Abstract: This work analyses post-traumatic growth in Covid-19 addresses delivered to the people of Ghana by President Nana Akuffo Addo. We draw on Post-Traumatic Growth Theory to explain how Akuffo Addo constructs a new identity for himself and the nation in order to navigate through the pandemic and forge an agenda of growth and prosperity for Ghana. The study employs a linguistic content analysis approach. The data consists of twenty different speeches from the president to the people. The speeches are first analysed and coded manually for the five main tenets of Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) identified in the updates. Consequently, the linguistic markers that are used in reconstructing the Ghanaian identity in response to the pandemic are delineated and mapped to the goals of the president using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count 2015 (LIWC2015; Pennebaker et al., 2015) software; a vocabulary analysis tool. The analysis showed that there was a high prevalence of personal pronoun use, use of positive-emotion words, and cognitive-processing words. This confirms our hypothesis that linguistic markers can be used to detect PTG. PubDate: 2021-12-14 DOI: 10.5430/ijelt.v9n1p1 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2021)
Authors:Yang Tianfu, Wang Hongyuan First page: 13 Abstract: Currently, English learners in Chinese rural junior high schools have been increasingly focused by people in all walks of life, especially the government for they will function as an impetus to promote the construction as well as the growth of the new rural areas. Accordingly, this study will utilize the rural revitalization, a national strategy for rural areas to investigate some current situations on English learning self-efficacy of rural school students, which is an important factor affecting their learning, taking students of several rural middle schools in Suining, Sichuan province as participants and including the following research questions by virtue of the method of questionnaire, interview and literature analysis: 1) What is the current situation about English learning self-efficacy of rural junior high school students under the background of rural revitalization' 2) What factors can affect English learners’ learning self-efficacy against the background of rural revitalization' 3) Is there any positive or negative correlation between learners’ English learning self-efficacy and their academic achievements in the context of rural revitalization' Based on the outcomes of this research project, some valid and feasible strategies can be introduced to promote English learners’ self-efficacy and facilitate better achievements in English learning in rural junior high schools. PubDate: 2021-12-19 DOI: 10.5430/ijelt.v9n1p13 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2021)
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