ESL learners and communicative activities

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dc.contributor.authorMcGowan, Skye Morganen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-14T22:46:13Z
dc.date.available2024-08-14T22:46:13Z
dc.date.copyright2001en_US
dc.date.issued2001
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstract57 adult Asian ESL learners involved in a six week intensive study abroad program at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada were surveyed to assess their responses to communicative language activities. Participants in the study responded to a pre-questionnaire at the beginning of the program and a parallel post-questionnaire at the end of the program. The questionnaires asked for Likert scale responses about 7 communicative activities. The 7 specific communicative activities addressed in this study were: role-plays; group discussions; journals; guest speakers; and the combined activities - speeches, games and singing. In reporting the data, these activities were further differentiated to distinguish responses to activities performed publicly, privately, individually, as well as within and across cultural groups. The results revealed the extent to which some communicative activities are employed in participants' home countries and revealed participants' expectation to participate in certain communicative activities in their study abroad program. Participants were found to have an inaccurate expectation of the extent to which some activities would be employed in their study abroad program. There was found to be a significant difference between previous participation in an activity and rating of the effectiveness of the activity or feelings about the activity. An analysis of ingroup favouritism/outgroup discrimination revealed no significant effect. Several differences between cultural samples regarding communicative activities and factors involved with these activities were revealed. Specifically, that significant differences were found between the Japanese and Korean cultural samples for 5 of the 7 activities: group discussions (previous experience in the activity and feelings after participating in the activity); Journals (previous experience in the activity and expectation to participate in the activity); listening to guest speakers (feelings after participating in the activity); speeches (previous experience in the activity and effectiveness of the activity); games (feelings after participating in the activity).
dc.format.extent123 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/18924
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleESL learners and communicative activitiesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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