TRANSLATING DRAWBACKS TOWARDS ENGLISH LEARNING
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56238/revgeov17n3-121Keywords:
Exploratory Practice, PEPA, Translation DrawbacksAbstract
I have noticed that some intermediate students and teachers, myself included, tend to complain about students' performance while being informally assessed. This constant matter, raised my awareness of understanding why it was happening on a daily basis and got even worse when students were formally assessed. As a result, all students who were involved in these conversations were not promoted to the next level. To our biggest surprise, my peers, my coordinators and I, there were groups which 60% of students failed. Therefore, Exploratory practice has been developed as an approach to understand why students could not cope with all intermediate stuff. Firstly a PEPA activity was proposed in order to analyze what was going on. The students had to answer a questionnaire exposing their opinion about this problem, the reason why it was happening and it was, finally, followed by a discussion. After that, I could better understand that these pupils had the same learning strategy. This study tends to work mainly on the following topic: Translating Drawbacks Towards English Learning.
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