1 2251-6204 74 Foreign language teaching and learning More... Volume 8, Issue 1 (1-2018) Journal of Language Teaching Methods Modern b b Journal of Language Teaching Methods 1 1 2018 8 1 1 82 10 08 2018 10 08 2018
208 Foreign language teaching and learning Language Proficiency and Students Behavior in the Classroom: A Comparative Study c c Gulf University for Science & TechnologyBlock 5, Building 1Mubarak Al-Abdullah Area/West Mishref Kuwait 1 1 2018 8 1 83 95 26 08 2018 26 08 2018 Introduction: The impact of teacher’s proficiency and the modes of second language instruction have long been a subject of debate among researchers. Effective English language instruction continues to be of paramount importance for educationists. Background: The impact of teacher competence and their level of proficiency on the language have long been debated among scholars. A number of researches advocate that teacher’s competence in ESL (English Second Language) instruction is directly proportional to the student’s acquisition of knowledge. The methods of instruction and activities have a direct influence on the classroom behavior of students in second language classes. Method: In an attempt to thoroughly understand the student’s perspective on the impact of language proficiency and student behavior in classrooms, a quantitative study was conducted to understand the student’s perception on the topic. A questionnaire was developed aimed at extracting the required information from the participants. Conclusion: The results clearly indicated that the teacher’s proficiency on the language and the mode of instruction has a direct influence on the progress of ESL students. The results highlighted the need for improvised and effective modes of second language instruction to ensure student learning. 209 Foreign language teaching and learning University Students’ Motivation for Acquisition of the English language (Based on the Example of Survey among Students in Novosibirsk) Igorevna Monastyrskaya Tatiana d Vyacheslavovich Toropchin Gleb e d Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Sciences Novosibirsk State Technical University e Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Sciences Novosibirsk State Technical University 1 1 2018 8 1 148 158 26 08 2018 26 08 2018 In developing socio-economic relations, labour market requirements imposed on specialists also undergo changes. Priority is given to such competencies as prompt analysis of professional information in foreign languages, first of all, in the English language, universally recognised as a global language. Teaching staff at higher education institutions are in a constant search for motivational factors to provide more productive acquisition of the English language. International pedagogical experience in developing motivation in non-language major students for foreign language learning is reviewed in the article. Students’ self-assessment regarding their command of the English language, formedness of their interest for language learning, demand for such kind of education, prediction of their future professional status and career evolution with the development of this non-technical competency are analysed based on the example of an applied sociological survey among university students in Novosibirsk. Thanks to analysing the sociological survey results, the authors make a conclusion that the availability of foreign language learning resources, various interactive forms of teaching classes in a course of the English language, as well as teaching the way of working with literature in a foreign language in the professional sphere of activity are sufficient for motivating most of the students in foreign language acquisition across the curriculum. However, authors emphasise that competency development of prompt analysis of professional information in foreign languages should take place continuously during the whole period of study in a higher school, within other educational disciplines, primarily, those of the professional cycle, ensuring a sustainable formation of the competency under consideration. 276 Foreign language teaching and learning Evidence Of Commerce Construal In English Translations Of The Noble Qur’an Ali Al-Saggaf Mohammad f Ho Abdullah Imran g Subakir Mohd Yassin Mohamad h f DRB-HICOM University of Automotive Malaysia g University Kebangsaan Malaysia h University Kebangsaan Malaysia 1 1 2018 8 1 159 173 10 10 2018 10 10 2018 This paper attempts at examining the evidences of commerce construal in three English Translations of the Noble Qur’an (ETNQs), namely; Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Muhammad Asad and the Reformists 2010. SCAICM, a method of metaphor identification (Al-Saggaf, et. Al., 2015), was adapted to the objective of this research by utilizing stages B and (partially) C. Aided with corpus tools, a checklist of 87 commerce related words (CRWs) was extracted from. This checklist is run against the primary corpora of the three ETNQS to generate concordance and then, to qualitatively examine the context of every potential CRW instance whether it is literally used or metaphorically used using Lakoff and Johnson (1980a&b; 1999). The results have shown significant qualitative and quantitative evidences of the metaphorical use for the construal of commerce in the three ETNQs compared to the reference corpora (LOB and KJV).  This leads to the conclusion that commerce construal is evident and is deliberately implemented in the ETNQs for metaphorical conceptualization.