The Role of Social and Educational Factors in Oral Participation of ELT Students
الموضوعات :مسعود ذوقی 1 , امیررضا نعمتی تبریزی 2 , Sara Ghobadi 3
1 - Department of ELT, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran
2 - Department of English Language, Payame Noor University, -Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of ELT, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran
الکلمات المفتاحية: oral participation, social and educational factors, Structural Equation Modeling (Sem),
ملخص المقالة :
Oral participation (OP) in class is an important factor contributing to the development of oral fluency. Recent studies in language learning have addressed the necessity of classroom interaction, or rather students’ oral participation in class. A correlational research study was drawn upon to measure the oral participation and factors affecting oral activities of the ELT students studying at the M.A. level at Islamic Azad University of Ardabil in Iran. An initial pool of 93 participants was selected through purposive sampling. The data analysis was conducted using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results obtained indicated that there is a significant relationship between social and educational factors relative to the oral activities of EFL learners. The findings also showed that in oral participation, educational factors play the most important role in controlling the OP content.
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