The Effectiveness of Classroom Activities in EFL Elementary-Level Courses from Adult Learners’ Perspectives
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://www.ijlter.org/index.php/ijlter/issue/view/122" target="_blank" >http://www.ijlter.org/index.php/ijlter/issue/view/122</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.22.8.6" target="_blank" >10.26803/ijlter.22.8.6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Effectiveness of Classroom Activities in EFL Elementary-Level Courses from Adult Learners’ Perspectives
Original language description
This paper aims to identify how adult learners perceive the usefulness of activities implemented in elementary-level courses at the Language Centre of the University of Defence in Brno. The descriptive quantitative research, conducted with 173 military personnel in the form of a questionnaire survey in 2020, concentrated on elucidating which activities employed in classes adult learners consider beneficial for improving speaking skills with respect to their age and the type of course attended. The findings underscored the pivotal role of teacher’s corrective feedback in instructor-learner interactions, both dyadic and whole-class, which may enable adult beginner learners to acquire a target language more effectively, and subsequently, increase their motivation to learn. The study also highlighted the importance of using the mother tongue in short-term beginner courses, accentuating the substantial value of oral translation exercises in the process of basic grammar acquisition as well as vocabulary development. Overall, the findings did not reflect considerable differences in the perceived usefulness of instructional activities, either among the age cohorts or particular courses.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50300 - Education
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research
ISSN
1694-2493
e-ISSN
1694-2116
Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
MU - MAURITIUS
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
104-119
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85173934334