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Table 6.2: Extremely useful activities according to students Extremely useful activity Percentage of students doing things 55% pair work 55% PowerPoint presentations 55% creating their own things 55% working in groups 48% creative speaking activities 48% watching video clips or DVDs 47% projects 47% finding things out for themselves 46% making notes 45% learning lists of words 45% music and songs 43% working from a course book 40% having posters in the classroom to look at 40% interesting homework 40% in English outside the class, and another one about how useful they found these activities in learning English. It turns out that many of them do quite a lot in English outside the classroom, the most popular activities being watching films in English with Dutch subtitles, closely followed by watching television in English. The other most popular activities are watching music on YouTube or other sites, chatting online in English (for example with other people around the world about computer games) and doing computer games in English. English outside the class which helps learning Around 40% of the students indicated that they also believe that they learn English when they do the following activities outside class: • singing along with English music; • watching films with Dutch subtitles in English; 101
• watching films with English subtitles in English; • watching English television programmes; • watching funny films in English on Youtube; • watching music videos on Youtube. This is an interesting finding which relates to our literature search in Chapter 2 where Verspoor et al (2010) found a significant correlation between productive skills and contact with popular modern media. Let us hope that contact with the popular modern media helps tvmbo students to improve their English, too! Moreover, this result indicates that teachers might effectively use modern media to help their students learn. Choice for tvmbo We asked students their reasons for choosing tvmbo. From the interviews we realised that there are many reasons for choosing to join a tvmbo, such as the fact that students had lived in a foreign country or wanted a new challenge. The main reasons chosen by more than 65% of the students or more (starting with the most important): • English is an important world language (96%). • I want to learn to communicate in English (93%). • I like speaking English (83%). • I think that English is good for my future (76%). • I would like to go abroad with school (69%). • I am looking for a challenge (66%). • I could speak English already (66%). Apparently these students realise the usefulness of tvmbo in terms of their future and communication with people from other cultures. Furthermore, they are students who like a challenge and are motivated to learn English. Would students recommend tvmbo? A little over 70% of the students would recommend tvmbo to a friend or family member. When asked about their reasons, they write, for example: • ‘Juist wel want als je 2 uur in een week engels hebt dank an dat best leerzaam zijn. jE LEERT BEST VEEL!!!’ • ‘omdat je er heel veel van opsteekt je leert er ook meer door als je bijvoorbeeld naar engeland zou gaan zou het spreken je veel makkelijk af gaan.’ • ‘Omdat het leuk is om te doen en je leert goed in het engels praten, ik denk dat je het ook goed kan gebruiken in andere landen!’ 102
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KORTLOPEND ONDERWIJSONDERZOEK Proud
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Summary The Centre for Teaching and
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The concentration span of tvmbo stu
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1 Introduction and background 1.1 I
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