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EFFECTS OF CLASS OBSERVATION ON THE STUDENTS-TEACHER INTERACTION IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE |
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| รหัสดีโอไอ | |
| Creator | Negin Malekshahi |
| Title | EFFECTS OF CLASS OBSERVATION ON THE STUDENTS-TEACHER INTERACTION IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE |
| Contributor | - |
| Publisher | TuEngr Group |
| Publication Year | 2562 |
| Journal Title | International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies |
| Journal Vol. | 10 |
| Journal No. | 6 |
| Page no. | 811-823 |
| Keyword | English class observation, Students-Teacher Interaction Observation, Classroom Environment, Foreign, Language Interaction Analysis (FLINT). |
| URL Website | http://tuengr.com/Vol10_6.html |
| Website title | ITJEMAST V10(6) 2019 @ TuEngr.com |
| ISSN | 2228-9860 |
| Abstract | This work investigates the influence of class observation by an outside observer on the interaction in the class environment between teacher and learners which can cause the efficiency of class and learning process. To this end, 90 English language learners at a pre-intermediate level were selected from an English Language Institute in Tehran (Safir) based on Oxford Placement Test (OPT) and were distributed into two groups of 45, one as the control group and the other as the experimental one. Each of the groups was also divided into three classes of 15. Three teachers taught both the control group and the experimental one. The classes in the control experimental were observed by the institute supervisor for 3 times during the term while the classes in the control group were not. At the end of the term, a questionnaire developed based on Brown's (2001) framework adopted from Moskowitz (1971), known as Foreign Language Interaction Analysis (FLINT) was distributed to the study participants in both groups, to which they were supposed to provide answers on a five-point Likert Scale: (1) strongly disagree, (2) disagree, (3) no opinion, (4) agree, or (5) strongly agree. Both the descriptive and the inferential statistical analyses of the results of the study showed that the classes observed by an outsider outperformed the classes without observation with respect to interaction between the students and the teacher. Furthermore, the analysis of the focus group interview done on both experiment and control group showed that the classes on with observation were more interactive than the one without observation. |
