Reticence in class and on-line: two ESL students’ experiences with communicative language teaching  

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Chen, Teresa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 31 no. 2 (Jun. 2003), page 259-281.
Topik: Asian students; Communicative language teaching; Culture; Emotions; Internet
Fulltext: Chen_Teresa.pdf (280.61KB)

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This study examines English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) undergraduate students’ experiences with Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), supported by in-class tasks and afterclass newsgroup discussion. The article presents the students’ perceptions of and their feelings about their learning experiences with this teaching approach, as well as the frames of reference within which they performed in an ESL class. With a focus on the students’ experiences with socialization in their respective home countries and adjustment to student life at a major Midwestern university in the United States, the research investigates the students’ participation over time with respect to class communication. Adopting a naturalist approach, this study captures the communication-related events that are significant to the students and presents these insiders’ perspectives. In-depth interviews were employed to explore the students’ history in order to obtain a holistic understanding of cultural and personal aspects of their experiences that are related to class communication. The findings reveal the students’ communicative styles and further address their coping with second-language acquisition and academic adaptation. The article concludes with recommendations for future research and instruction

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