Student Evaluations of IE Active Listening

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Student Evaluations of IE Active Listening

• 373 students responded to an online surveymonkey
  survey
• Completion rate of 97
• Administered between May 28th and June 12th
• We'll look at the quantitative data for the 362
  students who completed the survey to date and the
  open-ended responses of a subset of students
  (n206) who completed the survey by June 2nd
  (Tuesday).

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The levels represented in the survey
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General impression of the course
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Self-perceptions of progress
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What do you think of the IE Active Listening
course?
36 students commented out of the 206 who answered
the question
POSITIVE
Improving students' attitude and motivation

• I like this class the best of all in the classes
  I take.
• I'm really motivated to do self-directed
  listening because Mr. X read very carefully and
  comment a lot.

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What do you think of the IE Active Listening
course?
36 students commented out of the 206 who answered
the question
POSITIVE
Appreciation of the wider scope of the IE Active
Listening class

• We can practice not only listening to English,
  but also speaking it.

Satisfaction with course requirements and content

• Our homework assignment is excellent.
• I think that I can go through seeing many kinds
  of information.

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What do you think of the IE Active Listening
course?
36 students commented out of the 206 who answered
the question
POSITIVE
Recognition that the course is helping them to
improve listening skills

• We can improve our listening skills every week.
  That is a wonderful thing.
• This program is well organized. So, if we do it
  thoroughly, we probably can improve our skills.
• The IE Active Listening course helps me improve
  my listening ability more than before.

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What do you think of the IE Active Listening
course?
36 students commented out of the 206 who answered
the question
IDIOSYNCRATIC

• I think we are having one of the best teachers.
• I like IE class now. I think it is because
  members are active and eager to learn. And not
  afraid to show their opinions.

CONTRADICTORY or AMBIVALENT COMMENTS

• It is a little bit boring. vs. Very
  interesting!
• Teacher is Japanese and speaks Japanese to
  explain in class. I think Listening teacher
  should be a native speaker. vs. It
  is good to give us a Japanese teacher because I
  don't have English skills very much.

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What do you think of the IE Active Listening
course?
36 students commented out of the 206 who answered
the question
CONTRADICTORY or AMBIVALENT COMMENTS, continued

• It was little hard to me, but I'm sure that I
  will be able to improve my listening English
  skill. vs. It is an easy class and boring. I am
  not sure that my listening skill improved.
• Reallyenglish is a good tool for me to study, but
  it sometimes doesn't work.
• Preparation is troublesome, but listening to the
  other's presentation is interesting.
• It is not so interesting, but some materials are
  good.

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What do you think of the IE Active Listening
course?
36 students commented out of the 206 who answered
the question
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS

• I would like to listen more in the class.
• It's good to have lessons made for listening, but
  because it's so new to the teachers too, it is a
  little confusing to get through it without
  mistaking.
• The contents of the class is OK, but the amount
  of homework sometimes is little bit too much.
• I want more and more practical lessons. Since I
  am not good at listening, I want to do more
  collections of listening problems like
  reallyenglish.

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Percentage of Ss whove done Interactions
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Ratings for Interactions
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What do you think of the "Interactions" activity?
POSITIVE
33 students commented out of the 161 who answered
the question
POSITIVE
Improving students' attitudes, motivation, and
confidence

• It's a lot of fun to do Interactions.
• Enjoyable !
• It is good for me to do interactions activity
  because I can have more confidence than before.

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What do you think of the "Interactions" activity?
POSITIVE
33 students commented out of the 161 who answered
the question
POSITIVE
Positive effect on learning environment

• Great way to improve speech in a friendly
  environment (as opposed to the whole class).
• I think it is fun to find movies and present
  about them.

Appreciation for opportunities to share
information opinions

• Its good to share opinions each other.
• I like it, because I can here others' opinions.
• It's fun to see people's interest in funny
  commercials.
• I can know other's opinions and ways of
  presenting them. I am stimulated by them.
• This makes me understand what we know about the
  topics, so it is interesting.

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What do you think of the "Interactions" activity?
POSITIVE
33 students commented out of the 161 who answered
the question
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS / IDENTIFYING CONSTRAINTS

• Time for this activity was very short.
• It's a good thing to be able to be a leader and
  to ask questions, people trying to think about
  the question. But it's new so we can't do it
  smoothly.
• We cannot interact well because there are
  computers.
• I could not understand what I have to do. I
  wanted to know what I should do.
• It was difficult to find sources on YouTube.
• It's difficult to present new words since I can't
  catch new words because they are new to me.

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What do you think of the "Interactions" activity?
POSITIVE
33 students commented out of the 161 who answered
the question
AMBIVALENCE

• Preparation is troublesome, but listening to
  others present their Interaction was
  interesting.
• I believe it is good for improving our speaking
  skills but I doubt that it is good for improving
  our listening skills.
• It is a good activity though it is easy to do for
  IE3 students, I think.
• First, I am confused with this activity, but it
  is like discussion and it's a good chance to
  communicate with friends.

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What do you think of the "Interactions" activity?
POSITIVE
33 students commented out of the 161 who answered
the question
NEGATIVE COMMENTS

• It looks like an IE CORE class. I want to listen
  in IE listening class, maybe I will speak English
  in IE CORE class.
• It is interesting but I think it is not for
  listening course.
• It looks like IE Core's discussion. I do not know
  why we do that in listening class.

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Percentage of Ss whove done Presentations
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General impression of the presentations
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What do you think of the "Presentations?
POSITIVE
9 students commented out of the 65 who answered
the question
POSITIVE
Improving students' attitudes motivation

• It was really fun because the presenters try hard
  to make us understand what they wanted us to know.

Recognition of the benefits of the activity

• I thought it's a good practice to talk in front
  of people.
• We need more practice even in Japanese.
• It's good for practicing speaking.
• I think presentation skills will be necessary for
  all of the students in the future, especially for
  our job hunting.

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What do you think of the "Presentations?
9 students commented out of the 65 who answered
the question
POSITIVE
POSITIVE
Appreciation for opportunities to share
information opinions

• It is fun because each group choose a different
  text with each other.

CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS / IDENTIFYING CONSTRAINTS

• Not everyone speaks.
• I think we should listen to real English, not
  students' Japanese English. I enjoyed it, and I
  think it is good for practicing our speaking not
  for listening.

IDIOSYNCRATIC

• I don't like speaking in front of others.

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Percentage of Ss whove done Self-directed
Listening
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General impression of Self-directed Listening
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What do you think of the "Self-directed listening
reports?
24 students commented out of the 114 who answered
the question
POSITIVE
Improving students' attitudes motivation

• I found an interesting topic. I got excited by
  this!
• We can choose any source to listen to and write a
  report, so I enjoyed it.

Recognition of the benefits of the activity

• I think my listening skills became better.
• I think it is good for us because I can get into
  the habit of listening to English more than
  before.
• The sites have various levels so I can choose the
  most suitable one.

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What do you think of the "Self-directed listening
reports?
POSITIVE
Appreciation of opportunities to acquire new
information

• I can learn new things that I've never known
  before.
• It's a great opportunity to find websites to
  improve your English.
• It will improve our listening skills and it has
  much information about politics, war, education
  and so on, so that I could learn many new things.

CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS / IDENTIFYING CONSTRAINTS

• Seems redundant with the interactions.
• I would prefer to do either a self-directed
  listening report or the interaction each week.
• No time to do it at home.
• I don't have a computer, so I have to do it in
  school. It is hard for me, but I think It's good.

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What do you think of the "Self-directed listening
reports?
AMBIVALENT

• I can learn new things that I've never known
  before.
• It's a great opportunity to find websites to
  improve your English.
• It will improve our listening skills and it has
  much information about politics, war, education
  and so on, so that I could learn many new things.

IDIOSYNCRATIC

• It's really fun to listen to TED. Videos
  featuring talks by fascinating people.

NEGATIVE

• I hate the reports because they are hard.

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Percentage of Ss whove done reallyenglish
lessons (self-access)
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General impression of reallyenglishs PE
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What do you think of the reallyenglish
self-access learning system?
POSITIVE
34 students commented out of the 185 who answered
the question
POSITIVE STATEMENTS
About the content of the lessons

• Great resource to learn technical terms we do not
  usually hear about.
• There are a lot of texts in reallyenglish, so I
  can enjoy many questions.
• I think it is a good oppotunity to listen to
  English in daily life.
• I can learn many new vocabularies!!

About the user interface

• How to use this reallyenglish is easy.
• I could use this system easily and the content is
  interesting for me.
• I think it's excellent because the grammar is
  explained in English.

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What do you think of the reallyenglish
self-access learning system?
POSITIVE
POSITIVE STATEMENTS
Appropriate level of difficulty

• Level 4 was not so easy not so hard so it was
  worthwhile for me.

Improving students' attitudes motivation

• It is interesting for me.
• It is really fun.

Recognition of the benefits of the system

• I think the really english is good for us to
  improve our ability.
• It tells me how well I understand English and my
  skill right now, so I like it.
• We can do it whenever we want to do.
• I like this system because I can practice both
  listening skills and vocabulary.

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What do you think of the reallyenglish
self-access learning system?
POSITIVE
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS / IDENTIFYING CONSTRAINTS

• It is difficult to communicate with my teacher
  using this site. I studied myself using
  reallyenglish, but the computer said I didn't do
  anything. I can't believe it. It's not funny.
• Each lesson takes too much time to complete.
  Maybe 10 to 15 minutes for each lesson would be
  better and increase the number of lessons
  required. This would be better than decreasing
  the number of required lessons.
• In the grammar sections, there are some parts
  where we can record our own voice. I don't think
  that's useful.

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What do you think of the reallyenglish
self-access learning system?
POSITIVE
AMBIVALENT STATEMENTS

• It's good for practice but it is not really
  challenging.
• It's fun but a bit easy. But still I like it. It
  contains various topics.
• It is a good system but it is really hard to do
  each week constantly.
• This system is good, I think. However, it's a
  little burden to me because I have to do a lot of
  self-study and it takes me a long time.
• Good, but it sometimes doesn't work.

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What do you think of the reallyenglish
self-access learning system?
POSITIVE
NEGATIVE STATEMENTS

• The computer is not capable of understanding our
  effort. I try to access reallyenglish 5 times a
  week, but I never got to get into the site yet.
• Self-learning is important, but the system of
  reallyenglish is complicated. I did not know the
  URL of reallyenglish, so I try to find the URL,
  but I could not using Google.
• I haven't done it yet.
• There are several mistakes in the program.
• I can't use reallyenglish system in my home. So I
  can't practice.

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Favorite activity in the course?
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Least favorite activity in the course?
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Reasonable workload?
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How do you think the IE Active Listening program
can be improved?
POSITIVE
CONTENTMENT WITH STATUS QUO

• Keep doing the things we are doing right now.
• I really enjoy when the teacher brings in his/her
  own opinions into the interactions.
• I think it is the perfect right now. There is a
  lot of homework, but my English skills have
  improved ever since I've enrolled in this school,
  so I think its worth it.

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How do you think the IE Active Listening program
can be improved?
POSITIVE
VARIOUS SUGGESTIONS

• We should make the classes smaller.
• Listen to unfamiliar dialects and terms.
• Watch more videos and movies in class. Many
  students wanted movies to play a larger role in
  the classes.
• With more interactions, we can further improve
  our communication skills.
• I reckon we should reply using English just
  listening doesnt benefit me.
• Instead of using sources like audios and videos
  from Internet sites, perhaps the students can do
  the talking and answering questions. This can be
  better for both listening and speaking skills.

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How do you think the IE Active Listening program
can be improved?
POSITIVE
COMPUTER-RELATED

• Reduce the problems with computers.
• If we make less use of computers, then we can
  improve and, at the same time, communicate more.
• Many teachers had problems with the computer, so
  class doesn't work well. I think it's not
  teachers' fault.
• Students should get more time in class to work on
  their reallyenglish activity.

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Teachers perspectives

• Interactions are chaotic in the larger classes.
  Class management and control (esp. noise control)
  has become complicated.
• Theres a conflict between the number of
  self-directed listening tasks that the
  coordinators think would benefit students and the
  number teachers are willing and able to mark.
• Students sometimes choose sites that teachers may
  not feel comfortable with. (e.g., animal
  cruelty or pro-ana sites masquerading as
  anorexia info sites).

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Teachers perspectives (continued)

• Monitoring the students self-access work has
  been challenging for teachers and few have
  mastered the mechanism for giving feedback
  through the reallyenglish website.
• Communicating the complicated course requirements
  has been difficult.
• Using materials from YouTube, because of its
  familiarity to students, may deepen their
  discussions and encourage self-disclosure. Topics
  that might otherwise be difficult to discuss in
  class become mentionable.