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Promoting active learning in the ESL classroom: tertiary level students

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The present study explores students’ experience in teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). Its approaches range from traditional to interactive lectures which include e-learning tools. The purpose of different lecturing approaches is to promote active learning as part of learner-centred education, among tertiary students. This exploratory study examined responses from over 70 ESL students about their preferences in the lecturing presented to them. Results indicated that the students selected the game-based online platform, “Kahoot!”, as the best lecturing approach for understanding the course..

Article Published 2019 1149 hits Available

Development of an automatic attitude recognition system: a multimodal analysis of video blogs

Noor Alhusna Madzlan

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Communicative content in human communication involves expressivity of socio-affective states. Research in Linguistics, Social Signal Processing and Affective Computing in par ticular, highlights the importance of affect, emotion and attitudes as sources of information for communicative content. Attitudes, considered as socio-affective states of speakers, are conveyed through a multitude of signals during communication. Understanding the expres sion of attitudes of speakers is essential for establishing successful communication. Taking the empirical approach to studying attitude expressions, the main objective of this research is to contribute to the development of an automatic attitude classification system through a fusion of multimodal signals expressed by speakers in video biogs. The present study de scribes a new communicative genre of self-expres.....

Thesis Published 2017 2451 hits Available

A study on the impact of video blogs in reducing ESL learners public speaking anxiety

Noor Alhusna Madzlan

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Speaking ability is one of the integral language components in English language acquisition. This ability is a challenging one to master for ESL learners as it involves several linguistic and non-linguistic features in presenting ideas and it is frequently associated with anxiety. Public speaking anxiety is a common issue faced by students learning a second language. Feelings such as stage frights and nervousness could contribute to their anxiety in communicating using the target language. Other than that, the classroom environment, among other factors such as instructor and peer pressure, could also pose as threats for students particularly in public speaking settings. The present study aims to investigate whether public speaking anxiety can be alleviated through the use of an online platform, video blogs. Creation of personal video blogs could potentially help learners by providing a safe and non-threatening learning environment in practising their public speaking skills. T.....

Research Report Published 2018 1471 hits Available

The effectiveness of asynchronous online role-play on ESL learners willingness to communicate

Noor Alhusna Madzlan

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This paper investigates the use of asynchronous online role-play as a learning technique to improve ESL learners willingness to communicate. This study proposes two research objectives; to investigate the significant difference in ESL learners willingness to communicate before and after performing asynchronous role-play and to identify factors that impact the ESL learners willingness to communicate. A mixed-methods approach is used to understand the impact of the intervention. A set of questionnaires, reflective journal entries and a semi-structured interview were administered to tertiary level ESL students. Results from this study revealed that willingness to communicate among the participants in the treatment group significantly increased with the aid of asynchronous online role-play. Other findings identified factors such as self-confidence, teamwork, linguistic and non-linguistic factors as well as technical skills that show the feasibility of the asynchronous online role-play. The.....

Article Published 2023 529 hits Available

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