Three Communication Difficulties of EFL Students

 

Tallennettuna:
Bibliografiset tiedot
Tekijä: Vargas Jiménez, Grettel
Aineistotyyppi: artículo original
Tila:Versión publicada
Julkaisupäivä:2015
Kuvaus:In spite of the diversity of resources (media, Internet, software, videos, social networks, etc.) many students present a lot of difficulties in developing their communication skills in learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Indeed, there are three aspects that affect the students’ oral production negatively. First, lack of motivation that could be manifested in anxiety and students’ low self-esteem. Second, the learning environment which includes the teacher’s methodology and classroom environment in which the absence of an EFL speaking social context does not provide a natural content to stimulate communication. Third, mother tongue interference that is in trying to develop EFL with non-native speakers learners where students (and teachers) tend to translate everything to the first language; as a result, this practice reduces the possibility of thinking in EFL due to the lack of meaningful situations and real life contexts developed in class. However, the purpose of this article goes beyond proving that these three aspects affect the communicative skills of EFL learners. In fact, its purpose is to provide valuable information about the causes of this problem for improving fluency among EFL learners. 
Maa:Portal de Revistas UCR
Organisaatio:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Kieli:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/22347
Linkit:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/22347
Sanahaku:motivation
learning environment
mother tongue
interference
English foreign language
communication
motivación
ambiente de aprendizaje
lengua materna
interferencia
inglés como lengua extranjera
comunicación