Elements Hindering Vietnamese Tertiary Students' Participation in Group Activities: A Case Study

Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. English Department, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, State Islamic Institute of Samarinda, Indonesia. e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: https://ijeltal.org/index.php/ijeltal

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Foreign Countries; Student Participation; Group Activities; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; College Freshmen; Student Attitudes; Language Skills; Speech Skills

2527-6492

Plenty of meticulous research has been conducted to investigate the entire process for implementing group activities in language classrooms. Nevertheless, few detailed empirical investigations have been pursued in the sub-area of what influences the participation of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) students in group discussions. Thus, the present study was conducted to examine the elements impacting the group-work participation of first-year EFL students at University of Languages and International Studies (ULIS), Vietnam National University (VNU). Ten EFL freshmen and four teachers of English participated in the study over a four-week period by attending semi-structured interviews. The findings highlighted a variety of elements discouraging the learners' participation related to themselves, pedagogy, and culture and also revealed internal elements as the most significant.

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2021

EJ1281537