UNIVERSITY OF SAINT ANTHONY

(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)

City of Iriga

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LING 134
SUMMER FINAL EXAMINATION
Name:RAUL B. DIAZ, JR. Course: MAEd (English) P.N. ______

PQRT I. Direction: Answer the following questions:

1. Select at least 5 among the recent trends in ELT which you think are applicable to
your students. Why/How? (30 points)

ANSWER:

Below are the ELT trends which I think are applicable to my students:
A. JOINING THE NETWORKING AND SUPPORT GROUPS

Networking is a great way to gain information about your industry.

Networking with leaders and peers in your field helps you hear tips and gain
advice from others who are successful. You can even learn important news
and upcoming changes that may be happening within your field. Networking
also teaches you how to properly interact with others.

Being in the 21st century, most of the students are now engaged virtually
through the different social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
and the like. Teachers like me could turn this into an advantage for an
effective teaching-learning process – that students could acquire learning not
just from their teachers but also from those who are experts in a certain field
provided that all information and ideas gathered are sifted well.

B. GAMIFICATION
Gamification’s use are 3 E’s: to ENTERTAIN, to EDUCATE and to ENGAGE.
We are in an era where most of the students get easily bored or easily lose
focus. Students tend to be more active/more engaged if learning is mixed
with fun and a healthy competition with these e-learning tools/games.

This is the blend of exciting elements of gameplay with complex scenarios and
creates immersive and interactive game-based learning environments. 
With interactive dashboards, you can analyze the effectiveness of the activity
and assess the performance of the learners. We embed features such as
leaderboards, virtual badges and other rewards in the game-based learning
module to help you deliver better learning outcomes.

C. PROJECT-BASED LEARNING
Teachers make learning come alive for students. Students work on a project
over an extended period of time that engages them a real world problem or
answering a complex question.
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(Sample: Research Paper – Local Treasures/Social Issues)

Here, students develop deep content knowledge as well as critical thinking,
collaboration, creativity and communication skills.

In my class, since we are going to have the full implementation of face to face
classes this August, one of the activities that I could give to my students which
is project-based and brings real life experience is creating a vlog that allows
them to communicate with the people outside, know their stories and share
them. We might have different modes of learning, but I firmly believe that
experience is still the best teacher.

D. BLENDED LEARNING
In our school, during the limited face to face classes, we divided the class into
two groups – Set A and Set B. We classified them according to their location.
We had chosen modular since students have limited access to the internet.

E. COOPERATIVE LEARNING
This trend in learning had been proven effective – not just it maximizes
students’ group effort and socialization skills but also unveils the talents of
each member.

2. Explain briefly the common issues in ELT to both teachers and students. (25
points)

ANSWER:

These are the following barriers in ELT which are commonly faced by most
number of learners and teachers:
1. Non-conducive Environment
A suitable and comfortable environment is a prerequisite of success in teaching
the English language. If the environment is not suitable and comfortable for the
teachers and learners, then it ruins all the teaching and learning process. A
positive and comfortable environment is the one that’s conducive to learning –
well-ventilated, well-lighted and away from various distractions.
2. Teaching Resources that are Out-of-date and Limited
Not only ELT, but teaching anything mostly depends on the resources. As
teachers, we must be equipped with adequate learning materials that could aid
the needs of our students inside the class. Indeed, you cannot teach what you do
not have – it’s like teaching digital skills without the computer.
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Together with the government, we must invest in teaching resources so that we

could get our desired learning outcomes.
3. A Large Number of Students in the Classroom
If a class is overpopulated, there are possibilities that more barriers in learning
could arise in a single corner at a single moment. From the noises of the students
to the engaging a huge crowd could be a problem that would defy a good
classroom management.

4. Students Get easily Bored in Learning the English Language

If the students didn’t master the prerequisite English language skills in the lower
levels, there’s a great possibility that they would find learning English hard and
boring, so the tendency is they’d lose their focus. Without the basic skills,
students could encounter hardships in speaking, writing, reading and
comprehending using the English language.

3. Who is more qualified and perform better at teaching ELT, the NESTs or the
NNESTs? Give a particular situation. 15 points).

ANSWER:

Whether Native-English-speaking teachers (NESTs) or Non-Native-English-

Speaking teachers (NNESTs), both has advantages and disadvantages when it
comes to teaching.

Among the two, NESTs is more advantageous because of native speaker’s

creativity in language use and knowledge of standard and non-standard forms of
English. Furthermore, it is essential for learners of a language to experience
native speaker language use to get an idea of how to use the target language
correctly and appropriately since it is more authentic living and perfect based
from the findings of Gill and Rebrova (2001). To top it all, native’s language is
more correct and up to date than the non-native’s language as the non-NEST
might use an outdated, too formal or “bookish” style of the language – from the
construction of sentences to its pronunciation.
As a conclusion, to teach English, one must have a vast knowledge on general
language proficiency and understanding cultural background – which had been
the edge of Native-English-speaking teachers.

GOOD LUCK!
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DR. ARLYN B. PATOC

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