...Kadek Ari Yuliani NIM/Class : 1312021048/5B FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ ANXIETY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT Learning English becomes a complicated subject matter for foreign language learners. The process of acquiring a foreign language should be achieved naturally nevertheless, most of foreign language learners feel this process is full of challenges and can be a stressful activity for them (Hewitt & Stefenson, 2011 as cited in Khodady & Khajavy, 2013, p. 269-289). Some researchers claim that language anxiety plays a prominent role in achieving the successfulness of language learning processes. Language anxiety expounded as “distinct complex of self-perceptions, beliefs, feelings, and behaviors related to classroom language learning arising from the uniqueness of the language learning process” (Horwitz et al. 1986, p. 128). Language anxiety of foreign language learners contributes both positive and negative effect to their achievement in language learning processes. The study about the relationship between foreign language learners’ anxiety and their achievement is not a recent topic in education, it has been discussed for many years. Alpert and Haber (1960 cited in Wu. 2010 ) mentioned two types of language anxiety effects, they are, debilitating anxiety and facilitating anxiety. Debilitating anxiety means that language anxiety motivate the students to escape or decamp from language learning processes. The language anxiety makes learners feel underestimated with their...
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...The Impact of Globalization on Higher Education Abstract: Education is undergoing constant change under the influence of globalization. Globalization brings many positive changes on education. It changes the roles of students and teachers, and shifts society from industrialized society towards an information-based society. It has a great effect on culture and brings about a new form of cultural imperialism. The rise of new cultural imperialism is shaping children, the future citizen of global citizens. Intelligent people with a broad range of skills will be more competitive in this information-based society. With the development of globalization, higher education has to be internationalized in order to cater for this information-based society. Externally, the labor market requires for more knowledgeable and skilled workers, and workers with deeper understanding of foreign language and culture and business methods all over the world. Therefore, education is becoming invaluable to individuals. Today, education provides individuals with more chance of employment which in turn leads to a better life style, power, and status. This paper will discuss the impact of globalization on education. And it will find out the way how China higher education adapts to the changing environment under the context of globalization. 1. Introduction Globalization is a process, which affects a lot on human life, especially its great affection on education. In the twentieth century, many developing...
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...Medical Education Abstract: The world is transforming from one of segmented and individual countries into one global universal. Due to globalization investors are now able to take advantage of resources in other countries to further advance their businesses and expand their client base. This also applies to medical schools across the world. These schools are now trying to appeal to the international student in addition to the country's local citizens. They are doing so by promoting cheaper education, providing grants for eligible foreign students, and accommodating foreign students' language and academic needs. They are also purchasing the curriculums and accreditations of western schools to make their schools more appealing. There is question, however, if these schools are well equipped to train the international physician. It is a concern to many that these schools cannot truly train a physician to practice anywhere in the world. Many believe that medical schools are aiming to increase revenue at the sacrifice for producing inadequately trained medical personnel that can operate in any area of the world after graduation. There are some that propose a universally acceptable medical school curriculum that all medical schools must abide to maintain accreditation to address this issue. Composing such a curriculum, however, is an extremely difficult to accomplish. Educational methods in different areas of the world differ based on the local culture. The foreign students...
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...focuses mainly on learning the language of English. The nature of this business is to bring new alternatives to learning English in South Korea. The organizational structure of this business will be mostly staffed with qualified English teachers. The overall mission statement of this business is to bring the best possible level of English language education to South Korea. This analysis will bring about the relevance of different country variables to this new business opportunity. The country variables consist of cultural environment, political and legal environment, economic environment, ethical environment, trade, investment, and foreign policy profile. Cultural Environment The cultural environment is one of the first things to consider when opening up a business in another country. Daniels mentions, “Most cultural variables are universal. Every society, for example, has its own daily routines and rules, codes or social relations, language, and the show of emotions—even concepts of luck” (Daniel, 2011). Therefore, some sort of study of the culture should be done. The Journal of Management & Marketing Research states, “Since the entry mode is crucial for the success of a new business in the overseas market, various studies should be made on the relationship between cultural distance and entry mode in the foreign market” (Cheong, 2011). Hence, we shall take a look at the cultural environment of South Korea. The primary language in Korea is Korean or Hangul. Jae...
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...The difficulty that new international students faced in a new English speaking country The number of students study abroad because of the High quality education in some English speaking country and the strongest financial statement. International students from many different culture and speak many different languages block them adjust to a new social and academic life in a foreign country in several aspects (Hawkes, 2014). Smith and Khawaja (as cited in Hawkes, 2014) that there are five factors: Language, Education, Social, Decimation and practical impact international students’ acculturation. This essay will focus on the difficulty that fresh international student in universities with the English speaking. This section will be begin by analysis of the difficulty of social acculturation, followed by impedes of academic acculturation, finally a conclusion will be shown. Indeed, acculturation stressors cause international students impaired both social and academic interaction with the host nationals. First of all, the Grenfell (as cited in Hawkes, 2014) claim that the wide of social structures (the notions of capital, field and habitus) shaping varied individual’s behavior. However, international students are faced a strange social-culture field of native, they should transfer a new identities. The process of it may be difficult (Hawkes, 2014). Secondly, Guillen and Ji’s (as cited in Hawkes, 2014) report that students are more trust their own respective compatriots because...
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...The International Journal of Language Society and Culture Editors: Thao Lê and Quynh Lê URL: www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/tle/JOURNAL/ ISSN 1327-774X Investigating Reading Habits and Preferences of Student Teachers at Foreign Language Departments Muhlise Coşgun Ögeyik & Esin Akyay Trakya University Faculty of Education Edirne, Turkey Abstract This study investigates reading habits and general views on reading of the students attending teacher training departments. Since reading is one of the principal skills while teaching and learning a second or foreign language, it is assumed that the gathered data in this sample study will highlight educators to get a general profile about reading habits and preferences of students. The participants of the study are the students attending English Language Teaching and German Language Teaching Departments of the Faculty of Education at Trakya University, Turkey. For data collection, a questionnaire with 40 items was designed and administered on 187 students. The questionnaire investigated the students’ general attitudes towards reading and their preferences of reading. The research findings revealed that the students from both departments had positive attitudes towards reading and were widely involved in reading activities. Another optimistic outcome was that the students read both in native and foreign languages. Key words: Reading habit, attitudes towards reading, reading preferences, foreign language education Introduction Reading...
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...Name: Course: Tutor: Date : Comprehending the experiences of Chinese International Students at a Canadian University: Viewpoints, Prospects, and Experiences 1. Background information Recently, the number of global students coming to Canada has been increasing quickly. In 2007, more than 60,000 global students came to Canada, "speaking to a 4.6 percent increment over the earlier year" (Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 2008). In the same way as other colleges in Canada, the University of Windsor has likewise been drawing in an expanding number of worldwide students of late, and the number of inhabitants in universal students from China includes one of the greatest groups of global students at the University. At the time of information gathering, around 400 universal students from China were enrolled in the undergraduate and graduate programmes, which is pretty nearly 27 percent of the worldwide students’ populace of the University. It is vital for the college to obviously see how dedicated these students are with their learning and backgrounds, as this data might straightforwardly influence the enrollment and maintaining of foreign students. We learnt from reliable sources that numerous Chinese foreign students at the University of Windsor are encountering different difficulties. Our conference with staff at the International Students Center at the University affirmed this announcement taking into account their perceptions, saying that one of the significant difficulties...
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...Introduction English language was introduced in South China in the eighteenth century. It took root in the mid nineteenth century when a school teaching English was started. The first missionary schools lasted for 10 years (1835-1851). After the 1860 war the schools were reopened and they spread to other parts of china. Between 1872 and 1925 over 7,000 missionary schools were operational with over 260,000 students. Learning English was a means to learning modernized military methods and an opening for china to work with foreign countries and create alliances. Strained relations with USSR when Russian language was to replace English gave the Western culture a better impact opportunity (Hughes, 2006). The support of English has undergone many difficulties but since the 1980’s China has encouraged working relations and study opportunities in English as it has helped them economically, politically and in its cultural dynamics. English has received much support in recent years as it has made Chinas world market expand astronomically. On other hand, China is obliged to use English language for the purposes of international trade and interaction. This is because English has remained to be the world largest spoken language (Wu, 2012). Economical China has enjoyed successful relations with on a global scale for its conformation to the English language. Since 1980’s, Mainland China has been doing business with different international countries but especially those with an English support...
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...immediate reply but my assignments have kept me busy. Time is really flies. I was shocked, you were get a good result in your SPM and now you tell me you are undecided whether to continue study in local or in a foreign country. Now, I try my best opinion to advise you to choose. But firstly, I am advising you to have continues you education level at local university or college. As the result you were scored well done, I trust local or foreign universities or colleges also will enrol you be one of the students of them. Now, I have to tell you about the advantage of the local and foreign countries to continue your education. Firstly, I have to tell you the advantage of local education university and college. The first advantage of this is our local higher education is also have an international standards, its closely monitored by the Ministry of Higher Education, and which has the vision to turn Malaysia into a Center of Excellence for Higher Education. Second, local university or college are able for international and local students to get a foreign degree qualifications from universities in Australia, US, UK, France, Canada, etc. Through twinning and 3+0 degrees, as well as foreign university campuses that are already setup in local. That’s means you can choose though foreign university that was already setup in Malaysia. The third, the expenditure of studying and living in local is comparatively low to...
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...------------------------------------------------- International Business Essay : Intro : Mohamed Branine (2011). Managing across cultures. London: Sage . p36-42. In today’s world of massive globalization, managers doing international business have to deal with cross-cultural management. Thus, with these interconnections, it seems important to adapt one way or another in order to stay on the market. Each country has its own culture, which differs from other countries in many ways. That’s why a manager has to be careful about the political, legal and economic challenges, but also technological challenges (Branine 2011). However, the main challenge is to deal in a good way with all the cultural differences concerned by the exchanges in the market. A. Ball, J. Geringer, S. Minor, M. McNett. (2009). Sociocultural Forces. In: McGraw-Hill International Business: The challenge of global competition. New York: Paul Ducham. p137-167. For this, many cultural elements affecting international trade have to be taken into account. It could be sociocultural components as aesthetics, attitudes and beliefs, religion, language, education, legal characteristics and political structures as well (A. Ball et al. 2009). In a first part, I’ll talk about these cultural elements affecting business across different cultures. Then, we’ll observe if that create some additional costs, depending on the way the company is practicing international business. Actually, cost Information will be completely different...
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...Influence of language difference and clique. Nowadays, as the development of international integration increases under the globalization. The communication between countries are increasingly frequent, and modern technology has also been widely used,people are now able travel to many country in short time. America continues to be the most preferred destination for international students, Many Chinese students choose American colleges as their future college. As a Chinese international student who study abroad in America, a majority of us face a same issue, the issue is international students cannot interacting with local culture. Due to different language and different place for international students, they cannot communicate with native speakers well and do not have many natives friends. The number of international students study abroad increase in recent 10 years, most of the parents rather to pay higher tuition that want their children have a better place to study. International education offers a student a unique experience and exposure to the world by interacting with people from different cultures, religion, and socio-cultural backgrounds. However, international students whose English is not their first language often finds difficulties integrating into the new culture as their ability to communicate fluently and effectively is thwarted. International students use barely English with natives and it is hard to communicate with others. In addition, it is hard to make...
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...College of Distance Education NAVAL WAR COLLEGE Newport, R.I. IT’S ABOUT TIME THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IMPLEMENTED MANDATORY FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING FOR ALL MEMBERS By Samuel W. Bettwy Lieutenant Colonel, Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Reserve A paper submitted to the Faculty of the Naval War College in partial satisfaction of the requirements of the Department of Joint Military Operations. The contents of this paper reflect my own personal views and are not necessarily endorsed by the Naval War College or the Department of the Navy. Signature: s/ Samuel W. Bettwy 28 January 2013 _______________________________ John F. Sussilleaux, Professor INTRODUCTION It is generally recognized that future U.S. military operations will be multinational. As the Naval War College instructs: “There is no reason to believe American military forces will ever undertake a major operation alone without some other nations participating.”[i] As the Army states in its field manual on Training for Full Spectrum Operations, leaders must prepare to operate at the tactical level in operations involving multinational forces.[ii] And as Joint Publication 3-16 states, “US forces cannot assume that the predominant language will automatically be English”[iii] in coalition operations. Recognizing that multinational operations are the inevitable way of the future, the Department of Defense (DOD) acknowledges...
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...effects to us in terms of education, economy and culture. F14021209 丁子隽 1.Education Globalization has brought a lot of teaching methods to China. However, not all of these methods are suitable for China. As far as I am concerned, China is noted as examination oriented education, the United States prefers comprehensive education. Germany adopted strengthening education and interest education in Japan. Everybody knows China has a long history with the imperial examination system. This is the reason why China absorbed other countries’ efficient parts rather than completely apply it mechanically. If China copies mechanically, the teachers in China would change the traditional teaching methods, let alone the students. On the other hand, China is a country with a collectivist culture and many western countries are in individualist. Chinese kids tend to unwilling to express their ideas. Unlike western children, they are more willing to show themselves. So, not all the foreign teaching methods are suitable for the use and development in China. The second cause of education that has been negatively affected by globalization: transnational education. Nowadays, transnational education is common. There are plenty of courses flooded into China by the development of transnational education. “Input of foreign education does not necessarily meet the needs of the country, and sometimes even make students learn without use. ”(Huang, 2005) Faced with transnational education, we should take the essence...
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...Language plays an important role in human life. Out of all the languages in the world, English is considered as the international language. Foreign language like a foreign plant grows with difficulty on the native soil. That is why the learning of the mother tongue is the labor of love whereas the learning of a foreign language is the love of labor ; one gives hot house existence, another breathes spring time atmosphere. A foreign language is like the step-mother whose frowns and rebukes one has to bear in spite of one's feelings. On the other hand mother tongue is like our own mother who nurses us into intellectually developed persons. English is a global language and proficiency in it is a must to succeed in a globalized world. British brought with them their language English to India and its global Nature has made it the lingua franca of India- a country with diverse regional Languages. English is a language which is acceptable all over India be it all Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Guajarati, Marathi, Bengali because all speak English along with their own mother tongue. Not only in India, but also when you go abroad this is a language most commonly used. In the world of globalization, countries like China, Japan and Russia, who have passionately sustained and promoted their own language, have today accepted the importance of English language. No country as a matter of fact shall be able to survive without the knowledge of English today. In India, English has become a...
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...Información Científica Miranda Montenegro, Iván Ricardo Insights on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: A Sociolinguistic Perspective Íkala, revista de lenguaje y cultura, vol. 17, núm. 3, septiembre-diciembre, 2012, pp. 263-272 Universidad de Antioquia Medellín, Colombia Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=255025411004 Íkala, revista de lenguaje y cultura, ISSN (Printed Version): 0123-3432 ikala@quimbaya.udea.edu.co Universidad de Antioquia Colombia How to cite Complete issue More information about this article Journal's homepage www.redalyc.org Non-Profit Academic Project, developed under the Open Acces Initiative InsIghts on BIlIngualIsm and BIlIngual EducatIon: a socIolInguIstIc PErsPEctIvE [Percepciones sobre el bilingüismo y la educación bilingüe: una perspectiva sociolingüística] Iván Ricardo Miranda Montenegro holds a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics to EFL Teaching from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Colombia. He currently works as assistant professor at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. Mailing address: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Instituto Internacional de Idiomas, Calle 4 sur No 15-134 Sogamoso, Boyacá, Colombia. E-mail: ivan.miranda@uptc.edu.co Abstract This paper is primarily intended to present some major considerations about bilingualism and bilingual education from a sociolinguistic perspective. In the first instance and due to the high complexity of the...
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