Langue (Journal of Language and Education)

Challenges And Resilience in Multicultural Teaching: Unpacking the Cultural Barriers Among Filipino Educators in Southeast Asia in Times of Covid 19 Pandemic

2024-06-30T11:38:18+07:00

This study explored the experiences of Filipino educators in Southeast Asia on the challenges they encountered and how they tend to be resilient while teaching in a multicultural teaching environment amid the COVID 19 pandemic. The research utilized the qualitative descriptive phenomenological design in analyzing the narratives of the informants. A total of eight participants were selected via purposive sampling and were from each of the nine (9) Southeast Asian countries. Semi structured interview was the main tool for data gathering while results were thematically analyzed and presented. Findings showed that Filipino educators teaching a multicultural class were confronted with diverse, unique, and encompassing challenges but still majority have found their niche in their place of employment regardless of the difficulties, anxiety brought by the pandemic, or uncertainty about whether they will be rehired. Most were resolved to continue to teach for as long as opportunities present themselves to them. From the narratives of the Filipino educators, the following themes were gathered as to teaching interruptions namely difficulties handling the virtual classroom and confronting the challenges of teaching and learning during the pandemic. With regards to challenges on differentiated instructions, emphasizing the differentiated learning assessment dilemma and uncovering the challenges of differentiated learning instruction were the most dominant themes. For the challenges on instructional emphasis, the participants revealed that managing frustrations and expectations along with teaching in a difficult learning environment as their overarching experience. Furthermore, with regards to behavior in classroom to address teacher resiliency and teacher efficacy beliefs to address teacher resiliency in a multi-cultural classroom finding revealed the following themes namely a nurturing figure in the multi-cultural classroom, promoting acceptance and tolerance within the classroom, being a caring teacher in the classroom and establishing one’s place in a multi-cultural classroom. For the most part, most Filipino educators find working with multicultural students whether in their own country or overseas challenging due to the diverse cultural make-up of their students and the pandemic but at the same time fulfilling. Further development of cultural competencies should be included in the curriculum and made part of the courses to be taken in college.

The Habit of watching English movies in improving vocabulary: What do the students say?

2024-12-02T20:36:22+07:00

This study investigates students' perceptions of how watching English movies influences vocabulary development. A descriptive qualitative approach was used, involving a questionnaire completed by 50 students and semi-structured interviews with eight purposefully selected students from the English Language Education Study Program (ELESP) at the Faculty of Education, Universitas Jambi. Findings reveal that students perceive a positive impact from the habit of watching English movies, indicating it as beneficial for vocabulary enhancement. The selected participants met two criteria: regular experience watching English movies and completion of core courses in Listening, Speaking, Reading, Grammar, and Vocabulary. The study highlights improvement primarily in receptive and productive vocabulary, especially in informal language, idioms, and slang. It is recommended that lecturers integrate English movie watching into classroom activities or suggest it as a supplementary tool to foster vocabulary growth and overall language proficiency.

Students' Perceptions Students' Perceptions in Using Quizizz Application in Reading Comprehension For Grade 8th Junior High School

2023-12-12T08:04:58+07:00

Technology has positive effects on education, including active learning in the classroom, collaborative learning, creative learning, and evaluative learning. This is also helped by the expansion of information and communication technology (ICT), which offers several advantages for the development of pupils' language abilities, especially in reading. This study aims to determine the students' perceptions based on students'in using Quizizz Application in reading comprehension at SMPN 23 Tanjung Jabung Timur, Jambi province. The researcher used a quantitative research with descriptive method and employed questionnaire to collect the data. The subjects of this research are 58 students at SMPN 23 Tanjung Jabung Timur. The findings showed that most students have positive perceptions toward Quizizz as an assessment tool. They agreed that Quizizz made them have new experiences in reading comprehension in the English class because the get new information, this Quizizz has complete and flexible features is easy to use, makes students understand the reading comprehension material better. The problems met by students in using Quizizz such as students are disturbed by notifications from other applications when doing exercises through Quizizz, afraid of being constrained by an unstable network, time limits for working on questions that are displayed and according to students' perceptions, not all reading comprehension matches using Quizizz.