English studies

Summary Assignment The article titled “The Development of L2 Fluency During Study Abroad: A Cross-Language Study”, reports on a study conducted by Francesca Di Silvio, Wenhao Diao, and Anne Donovan. Published in The Modern Language Journal in 2016, this quantitative research investigated on different aspects regarding learners’ improvement in fluency and holistic proficiency after a semester abroad. Research Questions In this study, the authors addressed three research questions regarding L2…

included games in the classroom and most of the students, not only those selected for this study, enjoyed them. By doing so, I believe I made the language class more interesting and enjoyable. Another thing that I did differently as a teacher was to consider the personal background of the students and how it influences the learning of a new language. Justin comes from a small town where everybody speaks English and in his opinion it was not necessary to learn a second language. However, I…

amount of knowledge a student retains including the location they study, how they are studying, and what type of learning style suits them best. Did you know that your favorite nook of your house is not always the best place to study everyday? Distractions are always a main reason why while we are “studying”, we are actually focused on…

VS Online Class Although you are good at math, you will feel so difficult when you are studying math in an online class. With the technology development, people can learn many things by different way like study math online. Studying math online is a new way to help people to arrange time to study, yet they will learn math easily and efficiently if they take a face-to-face class. I think it is more useful for people to take a math face-to-face class than online math class, because people can find…

The author gives us three ways to understand the materiality of culture: actor-network theory, cultural studies, and material culture studies (Storey, 2015). After carefully reviewing all three approaches, I see that material cultural studies are the most productive path for critical thinking about my site and its contents. Interacting with the games at Playdium would not be possible without the careful aesthetic design…

is focuses on the study of cultural identities and symbolic representational and interpretational forms through an international, cross-cultural and global perspective. It is particularly concerned with problems related to processes where cultural identities and representations interact and are exchanged. As such the study programmed reflects a cultural interface resulting from the intensified processes…

students who prefer study group rather that study alone. I met Aster, Almaz, and Gina in aurora library and interviewed them why they like studying as a group. Each student has their own perspective why they like studying as a group. Almaz is a visual learner who likes discussing with friends to learn fast. Gina gets energetic when she studies as a group and want company. Aster is also love to study with a group for better knowledge. Study group What is the great way for student to study? The…

Design of the Study Qualitative studies aim to look into the quality of relationships, activities, situations, or materials (Fraenkel & Wallen, 2009). According to Merriam (2009), the focus of qualitative research is the process, meaning, and understanding, and the researcher plays an important role as the primary instrument of data collection and analysis, which is inductive (p. 266). Moreover, Bogdan and Biklen (2007) describe five characteristics of qualitative research: • The natural…

I finish college I will be able to tell I have improved my writing skills, and that reading will still be one of my free time activities and that writing is not anymore a headache for me. I know I will accomplish this goals if I stay focus in my studies and do my best every time from now…

High School, which I attended throughout all my High schooling years. When I was in high school, I studied a range of different subject with my year 12 subjects being Health, Society & Culture, Nutrition, and English. I enjoyed all of them as it was a good variety of different areas of study. During my final year of high school, I was really anxious with the workload increasing from previous years. There were stages during year 12 where my confidence had dropped, but when talking to teachers,…