Exploring Bangladeshi university students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in English classes through a qualitative study
English is regarded as a compulsory subject in Bangladesh, which learning starts at the very early stage of a learner. However, after spending almost 12 years in learning English, learners’ oral skill is not seen up to the mark when they enter the university for tertiary education. Sometimes, they a...
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my.um.eprints.432202023-12-03T02:17:17Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/43220/ Exploring Bangladeshi university students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in English classes through a qualitative study Alam, Md Rabiul Ansarey, Diana Abdul Halim, Huzaina Rana, Md Masud Milon, Md Rashed Khan Mitu, Rabeya Khatun P Philology. Linguistics Communication. Mass media PE English English is regarded as a compulsory subject in Bangladesh, which learning starts at the very early stage of a learner. However, after spending almost 12 years in learning English, learners’ oral skill is not seen up to the mark when they enter the university for tertiary education. Sometimes, they are noticed to have their unwillingness to communicate with others. Hence, the current study aims to explore the experiences of Bangladeshi university students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) by employing a multiple case study method. 10 undergraduate students from a private university were interviewed. Apart from semi-structured interview, classroom observations were also carried out for data collection. The obtained data were analysed through the content analysis process. The findings show that students’ earlier experiences of learning English have been positive; however, they think grammar-based English learning is an obstacle in the development of their oral communication. The study also reveals that learners’ WTC is greatly influenced by classroom environment that enhances or declines their interest to communicate with others. Based on the findings, the study suggests that incorporating more drills in English classes by engaging learners with real-life based conversations, dialogues and so forth can enhance learners’ WTC. Hence, learners’ real voice would help the policymakers and language instructors to take the issue into consideration and way-out timely measures. © 2022, The Author(s). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. 2022 Article PeerReviewed Alam, Md Rabiul and Ansarey, Diana and Abdul Halim, Huzaina and Rana, Md Masud and Milon, Md Rashed Khan and Mitu, Rabeya Khatun (2022) Exploring Bangladeshi university students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in English classes through a qualitative study. Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 7 (1). DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s40862-022-00129-6 <https://doi.org/10.1186/s40862-022-00129-6>. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85124727110&doi=10.1186%2fs40862-022-00129-6&partnerID=40&md5=1407d09cda59664faff91a97c2a425d4 10.1186/s40862-022-00129-6 |
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English is regarded as a compulsory subject in Bangladesh, which learning starts at the very early stage of a learner. However, after spending almost 12 years in learning English, learners’ oral skill is not seen up to the mark when they enter the university for tertiary education. Sometimes, they are noticed to have their unwillingness to communicate with others. Hence, the current study aims to explore the experiences of Bangladeshi university students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) by employing a multiple case study method. 10 undergraduate students from a private university were interviewed. Apart from semi-structured interview, classroom observations were also carried out for data collection. The obtained data were analysed through the content analysis process. The findings show that students’ earlier experiences of learning English have been positive; however, they think grammar-based English learning is an obstacle in the development of their oral communication. The study also reveals that learners’ WTC is greatly influenced by classroom environment that enhances or declines their interest to communicate with others. Based on the findings, the study suggests that incorporating more drills in English classes by engaging learners with real-life based conversations, dialogues and so forth can enhance learners’ WTC. Hence, learners’ real voice would help the policymakers and language instructors to take the issue into consideration and way-out timely measures. © 2022, The Author(s). |
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