- Title
- Students' perceptions of EFL classroom interaction: an Indonesian study
- Creator
- Suryati, Nunung; Chen, Shen; Archer, Jennifer
- Relation
- International Journal of Literacies Vol. 19, Issue 3, p. 181-199
- Relation
- http://ijlll.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.254/prod.37/m.2
- Publisher
- Common Ground Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This article reports an investigation of students’ perceptions of classroom interaction in English language classrooms in Indonesia. A survey distributed to 720 general and Islamic lower secondary school students revealed that: (a) students have limited interactions with their teacher in English, and even less interaction in English with their peers; (b) students see linguistic incompetence as a greater barrier to participation in classroom interaction than the boredom engendered by the traditional approach to teaching English; (c) students have positive attitudes towards classroom interactive activities that promote their oral communication and have high motivation to master oral English; and (d) students want teachers to provide scaffolding, speech modification, and corrective feedback. Suggestions for improving the teaching of English in Indonesian secondary schools are proposed.
- Subject
- classroom interaction; English language teaching in Indonesia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341336
- Identifier
- uon:28720
- Identifier
- ISSN:2327-0136
- Language
- eng
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