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Greetings, This week's task required us to update on our Chapter 3, particularly on 3.2 Research Design. In deciding what kind of research design would be best for my study, I viewed various slides on research design prepared by my classmates. After I have done reviewing, I decided that it would be best for me to employ quantitative approach with correlational research design in my study. The rationale for this is because I am trying to find out the relationship between learning styles and strategies used by TESL undergraduate students. Creswell (2012) states that correlational design is used “to describe and measure the degree of association between two or more variables” hence I think it is appropriate for me to employ this type of research design in my research. There is also a digital book that I think is helpful for me to learn more about deciding research design in my study. It is a book by Creswell (2012) on Educational Research. Here is the link to the book and some content...

Hello. Before I start writing about my progress for this week, I would like to make a clarification regarding my topic. Previously, I have listed some topics that I would like to do for my research and those topics include use of technology in ESL classroom (video conferencing) or learning literature. At first, I would like to do about literature but then I changed it to video conferencing in ESL and now once again I have decided to go back to literature. The reasons for this are because I realized I did not really understand my objectives, what I wanted to achieve from doing the research and it was quite vague for me when I was searching for past studies regarding video conferencing in ESL. My previous target respondents are not available as well due to some circumstances so I decided to start over and focus on literature learning. I am very sorry for any confusion and inconvenience.   I know it is going to be more challenging from here now on since I need to start again but I a...

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Over the years, technology has been evolving day by day and a lot of things have changed to accommodate the humans. People no longer have to pay bills or settle their taxes at the counter anymore and company meetings do not necessarily need to be held in a meeting room as all of these affairs can actually be done online. Similarly, the education field seems to not want to be left behind in this aspect. Hence, the Ministry of Education has put much emphasis in the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education) on the importance of online learning. Online learning is the “delivery of learning by electronic typically through the internet” (Ministry of Education, 2015). The modes of online learning can be divided into two which are synchronous and asynchronous learning (Shahabadi & Uplane, 2014). Synchronous learning provides real-time interaction where teachers and students have to be online at the same time (Perveen, 2016) ...

Greetings everyone! Judging from the title itself, you can guess what I am going to write in my post this time. Yes, it will be regarding the progress of my readings that I have done so far. First of all, when I chose to do my research which is on ‘V ideo Conferencing  as a Platform in Teaching English as a Second Language’, I have already anticipated that there will be very limited studies being done on this topic. Despite the research on video conferencing application being very limited, I have still found a number of previous research being done that are related to the topic. For example, research on online learning and online web-based technologies for language teaching are quite closely related to video conferencing. I figured I still can refer to those past research for my literature review. This is because video conferencing is also one of the categories for online web-based tools for language teaching (Son, 2011). One of the articles that I have found is entitle...

Proposed Title:  Video Conferencing as a Platform in Teaching English as a Second Language Problem Statement Video conferencing  is one of the web-based technologies that can help teachers to deliver their lessons online instead of requiring a face-to-face interaction between educators and students. Therefore, video conferencing can be helpful for educators to communicate with their students who are far away. According to Anas and Musdariah (2018), this type of communication which is known as ‘communication 2.0’, will enable ESL educators to connect with their students regardless of their time and place. However, as convenient as it sounds, this platform can be a bother for the educators if they are facing difficulties in using it. Having lack of knowledge in technology and not being ready in using it can increase their chances in facing difficulties while doing  video conferencing . This will cause the educators to have negative attitudes towards teaching English...

Proposed Title: Strategies and Approaches to Teaching Literature in Urban and Rural School Problem Statement As educators, teachers need to know the right strategies and approaches in teaching literature. They need to be able to integrate different strategies and approaches in their teaching and learning session of literature so that the learning of literature can be fun and enjoyable for the students. However, they might face a few challenges in doing so. One of the challenges is that they are not aware of the strategies and approaches in order to integrate them in their teaching of literature. Kee as cited in Muthusamy, Syahaizad, Michael, Arumugam and Thayalan (2017) claims that educators are concerned that they do not know the right approaches to use in teaching literature component to the students in the English syllabus. If teachers themselves do not know what strategies that would help in learning literature, how can they implement the strategies in classroom to teach thei...

ARTICLE 1 1.       APA citation San Jose, A. & Galang, J. (2015). Teaching Strategies in Teaching Literature: Students in Focus. International Journal of Education and Research , 41-50. 2.       a) Research Problem - Teachers who are teaching literature in English courses are facing the challenges on the appropriateness of the teaching strategies used. -Teachers need to fit newly acquired teaching strategies to the need of their students. b) Research Objectives -To determine the different teaching strategies used by the AB English teachers in teaching literature courses. -To find out the purposes of the teachers in using the strategies. -To discover impressions of the students on the teachings strategies used.        c) Research Questions RQ1: What are the teaching strategies used by the AB English teachers in teaching literature subjects? RQ2: What are the purposes of the...