Path to Success or Failure in Foreign Language Speaking

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.muni.cz/casalc-review/article/view/20538" target="_blank" >https://journals.muni.cz/casalc-review/article/view/20538</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CASALC2022-1-4" target="_blank" >10.5817/CASALC2022-1-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Path to Success or Failure in Foreign Language Speaking

Original language description

Abstract: The article contributes to the research ϐield on the development of speaking in a foreign language. It presents the results of a survey conducted at the University of Defence in Brno. The survey was designed to identify differences between two groups of ϐifty students with different levels of their speaking skill in English, corresponding to A1 and B1 levels in terms of the CEFR. The participants were interviewed in Czech about their previous language achievements, motivation to learn English and their experience of learning English. The interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and analysed using inferential and descriptive statistics. The outcomes have shown that the groups differed signiϐicantly in the type of school the students had studied at prior to the university, the grades they had achieved in their secondary school leaving examinations in English Language and Czech Language and Literature, and the degree of their motivation to learn English. Furthermore, the analysis of the students’ opinions on the development of their speaking skill in English has revealed that successful foreign language speakers actively seek opportunities to speak in the foreign language, and attribute their success to factors within their control, which is not the case of the unsuccessful ones. The author proposes that undergraduates with low foreign language skills should be detected and interviewed in their native language when they enter university to reϐlect on their language learning experience, and encouraged to resume responsibility for their language skills development.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

CASALC Review

ISSN

1804-9435

e-ISSN

2694-9288

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

49-72

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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