Learner autonomy refers to a state where a learner seeks the understanding of the concepts more independently, takes charge of the learning and becomes more motivated and self-supportive towards the learning procedures. It has become a much discussed phenomena and has been given immense importance from the last few decades however it‟s still not practically implemented in the foreign language classrooms. The students in the foreign language classrooms are still much relying on their teachers and take less responsibility of their own learning. The present study is a quasi-experimental research design. The study at first explored the existing level of English as a foreign language learners with reference to autonomy practices, in the context of Punjab, Pakistan. The autonomy of the learners was examined through their use of foreign language learning strategies in the language classrooms. The study intended to design a learner-training program to develop autonomy among Pakistani foreign language learners. An eclectic approach was used in the research design, thus the learning-training program was designed on the basis of multiple theories of learner autonomy, with a compilation of foreign language learning strategies in each lesson. The major frameworks used for the research design were Oxford‟s framework (2011) Andrew‟s framework (2007), and Chamot‟s framework (2005), whereas the language learning strategies chosen for the learner-training program were cognitive, metacognitive and social-affective language learning strategies. The target population of the study was university level students of Lahore, Punjab (Pakistan), studying English as a compulsory subject and the sample was bachelor‟s level students of a public sector university of Lahore. The sample consisted of a nonintervention/control group and an intervention/experimental group each with 52 number of students. The learner- training program was implemented on the intervention group for 27 weeks. The quantitative data was collected through a pretest questionnaire, a post-test questionnaire and language learning diaries whereas the qualitative data was collected through the interviews of the participants. The findings of the research revealed that the learner-training program proved to be successful where the participants of the intervention group were using foreign language learning strategies in their language classrooms, were independently doing classroom tasks, and were very motivated to use autonomy practices in future as well. The research suggests that the use of language learning strategies can be introduced in the language classrooms to enhance autonomy among the foreign language learners. The learnertraining program can further be beneficial for the foreign language teachers as they can use the autonomous learning practices to make their language classrooms more engaging and interactive.
حضرت مولانا الیاس کاندھلوی افسوس ہے کہ ۲۱؍ رجب ۱۳۶۳ھ کی صبح کو مولانا الیاس صاحب کاندھلوی مقیم بستی نظام الدین دہلی نے چند ماہ کی علالت کے بعد بستی نظام الدین دہلی میں انتقال فرمایا، وہ اس عہد میں ان نفوس قدسیہ کی مثال تھے جن کے دم قدم سے ہندوستان میں اسلام کا چراغ روشن ہوا، ان کا وجود اس دعوی کی کہ ہندوستان میں اسلام بادشاہوں کے تیغ و خنجر کے سایہ میں نہیں بلکہ بے نوا فقیروں کے فیوض و برکات کے زیرسایہ بڑھا اور پھلا پھولا ہے، سب سے تازہ دلیل ہے، اﷲ تعالیٰ حضرت مولانا رحمتہ اﷲ کی قبر پر اپنی رحمت کے پھول برسائے۔ پایہ تخت دہلی کے اردگرد ہزاروں میواتی جن کی تعداد کم و بیش پچاس لاکھ تک پہنچ جاتی ہے، سینکڑوں برس کے شاہانہ جاہ جلال اور رعب و ہیبت کے باوجود ایسے ہی نومسلم تھے جو اسلام کے بجائے بت پرستی سے زیادہ قریب تھے اور ۱۹۰۷ء سے لے کر پچھلے آریہ فتنہ تک ان کے ارتداد کا خطرہ ہمیشہ مسلمانوں کا دامن گیر رہتا تھا، حضرت مولانا نے نہایت خاموشی کے ساتھ صرف اپنے مخلصانہ سادہ طریق اور صحیح اصول دعوت کے ذریعہ پچیس برس کی ان تھک محنت میں ان کو ان خالص و مخلص مسلمانوں کی صورت میں بدل دیا، جن کے ظاہر و باطن پر خاندانی مسلمانوں کو بھی رشک آتا ہے، رحمہ اﷲ تعالیٰ۔ (سید سلیمان ندوی، اگست ۱۹۴۴ء)
حضرت مولانا الیاس کاندھلوی اﷲ تعالیٰ نے اسلام کی حفاظت کا وعدہ فرمایا ہے، اور حضورانورﷺ نے مسلمانوں کو یہ خوشخبری سنائی ہے کہ قیامت تک امت محمدیہ میں سے ایک جماعت حق پر استوار اور قائم اور غالب قوت کے ساتھ دنیا میں موجود رہے گی انشاء اﷲ تعالیٰ۔ اسلام کی تاریخ کا ہر...
This paper would like to descripte the characteristics of learning that focused on the learners, the benefits, the weaknesses and the steps of its use to achieve the goal of learning Arabic. Learning model is an important part which is understood by every Arabic teacher to be able to present the condition of learning that is always fun for learners. An effective model for learning in Arabic is the learning model that concentrated to student. The use of this learning model is believed to be able to improve the four competencies of Arabic learners, namely the ability to speak, write, read and hear. For this reason, an Arabic teacher must understand the various variants of an effective learning model which centered on the learning potential of students in order to present the materials in an enjoyable. Therefore, it is important for any Arabic teacher to change the teacher-centered paradigm which is conventional teaching towards a modern learning paradigm which centered to the creative ability of students during the Arab learning proccess. The use of learning models which focused to learners in Arabic learning should be supported by teacher innovation that can empower learners to be active during learning. In addition, the teacher seeks to construct the latest Arabic material by utilizing the technology media relevant to the progress of the global education world, especially in learning Arabic as the language of the Islamic world and religious language.
Motivation is one of the key elements considered important for the enhancement of quality of an organization.It has been considered vital for the excellence in performance of individuals as well as improved standards of output.In the field of education teacher motivation has its prime importance as the teacher is a major stake holder of this system.Motivated teacher can do more for achievement of students to achieve the set objectives in a very positive, drastic and effective way. The major aim of the study was to find out relationship between teacher motivation and students’ academic achievement at secondary school. This was a co-relational research and data was collected through survey technique.Population of study consisted of 3168 male and female secondary school teachers working in rural and urban are secondary schools located in five districts of Lahore division. Sample of the study comprised of 950 secondary school teachers which was 30% of the population. Questionnaire “Motivational Orientation to Teaching Survey” (MOT-S III) developed on five point Likert scale was used to find out motivation level of the teachers and students’ academic achievement was measured from the results of students of 9th and 10th grade in annual examination of the years 2010 and 2011 conducted by Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE).The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were ensured through experts’ opinion and pilot study respectively. The reliability of questionnaire after translation and pilot testing was 0.73.Frequencies and percentages of respondents were calculated. Person ‘r’ was used to find out the relationship. It was found that significantly positive relationship existed between teacher motivation and students’ achievement at secondary school level.Statistically significant relationship was also found between the factors of teacher motivation and students’ academic achievement.The findings of the research study elaborated that increase in motivation level of teacher enhances the students’ academic achievement as well.