Enhancing college students’ global awareness through campus Toastmasters clubs

Hsu, Tsu Chia

doi:10.5861/ijrse.2012.v1i1.1

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“…Similarly, Hammond (2000) mentioned that online discussions (including the exchange of personal information) and maintaining blog postings (such as peer review of essays and reflection logs) are both beneficiary to the learners' knowledge gain. Some studies have mentioned that cooperative learning in extra-curricular activities helps in both enhancing the students language proficiencies and leadership capabilities (T. C. Hsu, 2011). In essence, CMC if used properly and designed together with cooperative learning efforts, should provide students with a non-threatening and accessible way to enhance their English language proficiencies.…”

Section: It and Cooperative Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blog assisted learning: Experiences in learning Business English vocabularies

Ching¹

2012

IJRSET

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Information Technology (IT) is currently seen and felt in almost every aspect of our daily lives. In addition, the shift of the traditional literacies to the current notion of multiliteracies is caused by the rapid evolution and integration of IT in an age of increased cultural diversity and global connectedness. Such changes did not only change the way students' learn, but it also changed the students' perception of text. Furthermore, within the last decades, the rise in popularity of the concept of English for Specific Purpose (ESP) language learning has also encouraged dramatic curricular changes in Taiwan. Recently, students are much influence by the prevalent use of computer mediated communication (CMC) in terms of their English language learning. Students tend to use unorthodox text in their day to day CMC, hence, affected their formal language learning. In light of these situations, this study shall attempt to analyze the influence of maintaining and interacting with a blog posting while learning various Business topics. Participants are a group of volunteer students from the Applied Foreign Languages (AFL) department of a technical vocational university in Taiwan. Students gathered every two weeks for three months to meet and discuss pre-selected topics regarding Business English. Each student is then required to give their reactions and insights regarding the meeting topics through the use of blog entries. Students also take turns in taking the role of topic leaders, which are tasked with giving corrections and reactions with regards to the blog entries. Themes where then generated and analyzed from the students interviews, reactions, and insights. Results show that the peer cooperative learning opportunity combined with blog discussions have positively contributed to the enhancement of the students' Business English vocabulary learning.

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Section: It and Cooperative Learningmentioning

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Blog assisted learning: Experiences in learning Business English vocabularies

Ching¹

2012

IJRSET

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“…As the notion of working with others often increases involvement in learning, similarly, sharing one's own ideas and responding to others' reactions sharpens thinking and deepens understanding [15]. College students nowadays are primarily involved in their studies and classroom activities; however, involvement in cocurricular activities is also quite common [16]. In a study involving the quality of student involvement in a group of college educational psychology students, findings suggest that overall quality of experience was greater during cooperative learning.…”

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Implications of a Multidisciplinary Students’ Computer Game Design Project

Ching

2013

JCP

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In the current globalized economy, human resources needs of both the industry and society are much focused on an individual's multidisciplinary competency. This is to say that, employers look for people that can perform and work positively with people of various background disciplines. To test whether students are ready for such, this case study summarizes the findings of a yearlong multidisciplinary computer game design project between the Multi-media Game Science (MGS) and the Applied Foreign Languages (AFL) departments' students of a science and technology university in Taiwan. A total of 10 (3-AFL and 7-MGS) local students and 3 Dutch MGS students participated in the study. Qualitative focus group interviews, students' reflection, and researcher's observations logs were gathered in the yearlong study. Data analysis includes the generation of meaning from reoccurring themes from the interviews and logs. Results indicate that AFL students improved on various English language communication and other employability skills needed in the industry. In addition, results also show that for a multidisciplinary computer game design project to become successful the school administration should provide clear guidelines and conduct periodic dialogues with student participants to clear up issues and avoid misunderstanding. Lastly, other implications and recommendations are provided for future practitioners and researchers in the same field of inquiry.

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“…Sometimes also known as extra-curricular activities; such activities are either required or voluntary depending upon the institution's requirement. In a study in Taiwan, it is mentioned that extra-curricular clubs do actually foster the development of students' leadership skills and language skills (T. C. Hsu, 2011). In Singapore, co-curricular activities are sanctioned by their Ministry of Education, because such activities are believed to be a means of enhancing the students' social interaction, leadership, healthy recreation, self-discipline, and self-confidence (Teo, 2000).…”

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Taiwan student engagement model: Conceptual framework and overview of psychometric properties

Hu¹,

Ching²,

Chao³

2011

IJRSE

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The US's National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) have long shown that students' engagement such as the level of academic challenge, active and collaborative learning, student-faculty interaction, enriching educational experiences, and supportive campus environment, have all contributed to the desired outcomes in college. In Taiwan, a national dataset called the Freshman-Junior Student Survey (FJSS); wherein 49,609 students were surveyed, was used to gather information regarding students' learning experiences. Using the NSSE as a model, this paper details the quantitative analysis of the FJSS with the aim of developing a Taiwan student engagement model (TSEM). Results show that the TSEM both contains conceptual factors derived from the NSSE and contextual issues that are only found in Taiwan. Lastly, the psychometric properties of the TSEM were validated using the confirmatory factor analysis.

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Enhancing college students’ global awareness through campus Toastmasters clubs

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Blog assisted learning: Experiences in learning Business English vocabularies

Blog assisted learning: Experiences in learning Business English vocabularies

Implications of a Multidisciplinary Students’ Computer Game Design Project

Taiwan student engagement model: Conceptual framework and overview of psychometric properties

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