Improving Non-Majored Students’ Fluency in the English Speaking Skill in the Online Environment via Ms-Team
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210226.012How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- non-English major, speaking fluency, online learning, big size class, low level
- Abstract
Teaching the speaking skill for non-majored students in an online environment with large class size is a challenge for EFL teachers. Therefore, this study aims at exploring English speaking difficulties in the online environment in terms of interaction and concentration in the relationship with the students’ speaking fluency. The study involved about 70 non-English majors at Van Lang University in answering a questionnaire. The results revealed that although students were taught the prescribed syllabus of balancing integrated skills, their teachers still had the trend of avoiding (or lessen the time) teaching the speaking skill online. The results further indicated that the learning of speaking online was passive, mostly because of the students’ lack of input due to their low level and their lack of interaction with their teacher and peers. Findings are hoped to contribute to a better understanding of non-English majors’ speaking fluency difficulties in the online EFL context. Then, a solution of adopting Microsoft Whiteboard, which is already integrated with Microsoft Teams, is suggested to partly help enhance the teacher- students’ interaction, the most frequent and typical interaction, as a method to increase the students’ fluency when learning online.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Thach Thi Ngoc Phan AU - Duyen Thi Nhu Huynh PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/01 TI - Improving Non-Majored Students’ Fluency in the English Speaking Skill in the Online Environment via Ms-Team BT - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Asia Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (AsiaCALL 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 97 EP - 105 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210226.012 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210226.012 ID - Phan2021 ER -