HOW DO WE HELP STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN THE CLASSROOM DURING ENGLISH CLASS (original) (raw)

This action research aims to determine how a teacher can encourage the student's participation in the class that would likely be the concern by the researchers as pre-service teachers and will soon become teachers. The current study also aims to determine the possible teaching strategies that would mostly encourage learners to fully participate and give their full attention during class discussion. Furthermore, the study uses quantitative descriptive approach as research design. Researchers used predetermined survey questionnaire consist of 15 items and choose 15 respondents from University of Southeastern Philippines were selected through simple-random sampling. The results of the current study reveal that 8 out 15 of the students think that they are passive which hinders them to become participative students. In addition students' perspective in terms of the factors that would likely affects the classroom participation is the language problem followed by the cultural diversity, less experience in classroom participation and communication apprehension. However, most of the students strongly agree somewhat agree to the statement that they usually like to work with group and pair activities. Also teacher's active interaction with students most likely encourages students to participate in the class. The researchers recommend that in order for the students to participate in class teachers should incorporate group activities and paired activities in their lesson.