Silent Classrooms: Investigating Passivity in English Speaking Among Students | Chapter 9 | Progress in Language, Literature and Education Research Vol. 1

 This study aims to locate the root reasons of students' apathy as well as the methods they enjoy combat it. A Google Forms-distributed inquiry was used to gather the dossier for this investigation. Small-group conversations were used to reinforce the respondents' answers. The results suggest the following: Technical issues: The respondents a little concur that weak sentence structure and weak pronunciation contribute to their apathy in class; Internal issues: The interviewees overwhelmingly agree that internal determinants like anxiety, insecurity, and fear of making mistakes cause their passivity. They further moderately concur that peer pressure is a contributing factor; and Environmental determinants: The respondents powerfully agree that motivation, or the lack thereof, influences their apathy. They moderately concur that the frequency of utilizing the language and the availability of practice convenience impact their level of passiveness. Regarding the designs used to overcome passiveness in the school room, the findings are as follows: The accused heavily depend translation when answering questions, while they somewhat use it when organizing plans and writing reactions; they frequently employ help gestures and facial verbalizations to convey their plans; extensively use English movies, account English books, and watching English classes on friendly media principles to develop their speaking abilities; and they commonly undertake self-talk and conversations with peers, while exceptionally engage in discourses with English-expressive individuals and provide comments all along class discussions.

Author(s) Details:

Rhonda Vail G. Leyaley,
College of Education, Kalinga State University, Tabuk City, Philippines.

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Enhancing ESL Students’ Oral Competency through TBLT Strategies in the Framework of Action Research | Chapter 1 | Research Highlights in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 7

 This branch is aimed to incestigate either and to what extent Task-Based Language Teaching Strategies help students develop their speaking talent and to describe the education and learning position of EFL classrooms when TBLT was implemented as perceived apiece students. Speaking is ultimate significant, of all four style skills, in an EFL/ESL setting. Speaking ability distinguishes human beings from additional living species. All human accents are primarily spoken inform and written form comes later. For EFL learners, talking happens expected the most questioning of all four skills i.e. hearing, speaking, learning and writing. To complete activity the set objectives, the researchers attended this classroom-located action research utilizing Mixed-Methods of research in a Public Girls' College, in Hyderabad. The research tools included questionnaires, to a certain extent-structured interviews, TBLT communication plans, evaluation forms, hall observations and effect interviews. The participants of the study were 150 randomly picked undergraduate female juniors, 15 female students of B.S. II (Computer Science area) and 5 female language teachers in a public association, in Hyderabad. Accuracy in speaking remnants a crucial facet of effective communication in 2023. The skill to express oneself plainly and accurately is adored in professional and educational backgrounds. To assess the subjects' talking abilities before and following in position or time the intervention, pre- and post-tests were executed. Speaking abilities were evaluated for veracity and fluency. To decide the difference in their spoken performance before and after the invasion, the results of the pre-test and post-test were compared. According to the study's judgments, the ESL students acted better on the post-test orally. The approximate data analysis disclosed that the ESL students had a definite perception of TBLT and they seen an adequate change in the environment of the English binding class and found it a helpful teaching position to learn to speak. Moreover, the investigators found TBLT policies effective in reconstructing students’ expressive skills, for increasing their eloquence and confidence level in talking. However, to make learners more correct in speaking, they need to practice speaking more. The study developed in promising effects which maybe beneficial at college levels if future studies are transported in this area as Speaking debris an ignored ability at government colleges of Sindh responsibility. Moreover, it is anticipated that the study in hand would help enhance other vocabulary skills in the English sound for other researchers to bother.

Author(s) Details:

Sahira Bano,
Govt. Girls Degree College, Khuzdar, Baluchistan, Pakistan.

Abdullah Laghari,
Department of English, QUEST, Nawabshah, Pakistan.

Jam Khan Muhammad Sahito,
Centre of English Language and Linguistics (CELL), Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro Sindh, Pakistan.

Saeed Ahmed Channar,
Department of English, Education and Literacy Department, Sindh Secretariat, Sindh, Pakistan.


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A Review on ESL Learners’ Challenges and English Educators’ Teaching Approaches in Teaching Speaking Skill in an ESL Classroom | Chapter 4 | Modern Perspectives in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 2

 Owing to the high value and demand that lead to effective communication around the world, speaking competence is one of the foremost basic skills to be excelled. Despite the fact, as second language learners (ESL), there are many English learners who are still fighting to speak a better English language. This paper has been designed to lay out and point out several difficulties faced by ESL learners in learning speaking skills, along with the potential teaching strategies of English educators in teaching speaking skills in an ESL classroom, in order to raise awareness of this situation. Low self-motivation and self-confidence, anxiety, inhibition, and minimal awareness of vocabulary are the challenges faced by ESL learners. Subsequently, it is important to discover the methods used by English teachers in overcoming the speech barriers in ESL learners, thus providing them with a handful in preparing to speak the language better. Accordingly, the feasible methods that English educators have shown to be successful include the use of social media such as Instagram, flipped classroom, discussions, group work or pairwork, and games as learning activities. Such strategies will be a reference and help for other educators around the world to adapt and embrace the principles according to the nature of the learners.

Author(s) Details

Agatheswari Paneerselvam
Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.

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