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Título
Students’ Attitudes toward the Use of L1 in EFL Classrooms: The Case of EFL Algerian Students
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Año del Documento
2021
Titulación
Máster en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados: Lenguas y Culturas en Contacto
Abstract
The instrumental use of the students’ mother tongue in the foreign-language classroom constitutes a controversial issue among language researchers and theorists. Supporters of the monolingual policy claim that the students’ mother tongue should be completely avoided in foreign-language classes, whereas opponents of this policy contend that using the mother tongue in the foreign-language classroom can have positive effects on the teaching/learning process. As the Algerian universities have adopted an English-only policy, we set out to look into the attitudes of Algerian students of English towards the use of their mother tongue (Arabic) in English classes, and to investigate the possible factors that might play a role in the conformation of their views. To this end, a questionnaire was designed and distributed to 58 students studying English at the University of Constantine 1, Algeria. A total of 46 intermediate-advanced students took part in our research study. The results showed that the students held different attitudes towards the use of Arabic in the English classroom which vary according to some specific factors, namely their English proficiency level, the purpose of the use of Arabic and the amount of its use during English classes. So, these findings may suggest that the adoption of the English-only policy at the Algerian universities should perhaps be reconsidered.
Materias Unesco
5701.11
Palabras Clave
Algerian students
L1 use
L2 classroom
English-only policy
Students’ attitudes
Factors
Arabic
Departamento
Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Idioma
eng
Derechos
openAccess
Collections
- Trabajos Fin de Máster UVa [6621]
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