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Effective English Teaching Strategies for EFL Students in Jordan

Rema Mohammad Othman Othman and
Majd Abushunar

Abstract

The study offers a perception regarding the way the educational process took place in a period of sudden and multiple changes in the Jordanian education system. It clarifies useful recommendations for educators to succeed in increasing the quality of the educational process in an online environment. It is possible that after a longer period of adaptation and familiarization with the online environment for students and educators, the quality of the educational process will improve. A quantitative study is conducted including 30 EFL students at a public school in Jordan. The results show that students prefer if English language learners have a suitable environment in the classroom, that enables them to learn easily and conveniently. competitions and challenges are recommended to motivate them to use English language in the classroom.The study offers a perspective regarding the way the educational process took place in a period of sudden and multiple changes in the Jordanian education system. It clarifies useful recommendations for educators to succeed in increasing the quality of the educational process in an online environment. It is possible that after a longer period of adaptation and familiarization with the online environment for students and educators, the quality of the educational process will improve. A quantitative study is conducted including 30 EFL students at a public school in Jordan. The results show that students prefer if English language learners have a suitable environment in the classroom, that enables them to learn easily and conveniently. competitions and challenges are recommended to motivate them to use English language in the classroom.

Keywords: Jordan; Education; Strategies; EFL; Learners; Online.

1. Introduction

Successful language learning in the field of second/foreign language teaching and learning done by interests of practitioners and researchers have been geared to the language learning strategies and adoption of successful language learners. The suggestion is that a good language learner may have some special strategies that others could learn from was initially introduced. What can educators do to assist EFL learners during the teaching process will be related to different variables such as target language, proficiency, age, situation, cultural differences and learning styles (Rubin,1975). The strategies considered to be essential were broadly associated with learning skills, such as reading, speaking, listening, and writing. These strategies served as an important guidance for teachers in shaping their approaches in everyday English teaching, and using related words or pictures in order to get the idea quickly such as skimming or scanning, guessing intelligibly, analyzing , summarizing, semantic , mapping, writing through recording English phrases, using English-English dictionaries, and speaking skills strategies such as imitating particular speaker in terms of pronunciation, intonation, stress, gesture, eye contact, etc. However, insufficient knowledge of grammatical structure, lexical features and argumentative features, difficulties in putting together organized ideas and producing solid evidence to write a well-organized essay affect and weaken EFL students’ abilities.

According to socio-cultural theory, social interaction, and cultural institutions play an important role in an individual's cognitive growth and development (Donato & MacCormick, 1994). Social interaction had a crucial role to play in EFL classes. From this socio-cultural perspective, the learning environment and contexts are influential upon individuals’ strategic orientations to language learning (Scarcella & Oxford ,1992) and technology, especially the emergence of the internet, are affecting every aspect of education and changing the way we teach and learn (Paulsen, 2001). However, there are still many problems with the application of the internet in the classroom including the reliability of the information on the web, the cost of the equipment needed to connect to the internet, inequality of access between the haves and have-nots. (Lyman, 1998; Sussex & White, 1996; Warschauer, 2000).

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Rema Mohammad Othman Othman
M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Full-time Lecturer, Language Centre
The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
rema@hu.edu.jo
ORCID: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-6010-4974

Majd Abushunar
Ph.D. in Linguistics
Full-Time Lecturer, Language Centre
The. Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7810-6089
majd@hu.edu.jo
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