Abstract
This study is a survey investigating the factors that influence students to talk in English in English classes. The study found that students do have positive attributes towards talking in English in class. Besides, it was also found, using descriptive statistics, that students perceive that the lecturer attributes and the university settings are conducive towards students’ inclination to talk English in English language classes. The student’s motivation level was also found to be satisfactory. Inferential statistics using Pearson ‘r’ was used to establish the relationship between student attributes and their motivation level towards talking in English in English classes. It was also found that there existed significant relationships between lecturer attributes and students’ motivational level towards using English in class. Significant relationships are also established between lecturer attributes and students’ motivational level and also university setting and students’ motivational level when it comes to students preponderance towards using English in the class. In addition to the above factors, factors such as the students’ socio-economic level and the motivation provided by their elementary school teachers should also be investigated. Future researchers should try to find out if those students who received powerful motivation from elementary school teachers end up talking more English in class later on.
Highlights
This paper seeks to find out whether the students have positive attributes pertaining to talking in English in English language classes
It was found, using descriptive statistics, that students perceive that the lecturer attributes and the university settings are conducive towards students’ inclination to talk English in English language classes
Significant relationships are established between lecturer attributes and students’ motivational level and university setting and students’ motivational level when it comes to students preponderance towards using English in the class
Summary
This paper seeks to find out whether the students have positive attributes pertaining to talking in English in English language classes. The paper discusses to establish whether the university setting is satisfactory pertaining to students talking in English in English language classes This researcher sought to investigate the English language situation of weak rural students who mainly comprise the pre-diploma program in UiTM. Factors such as student attributes, lecturer attributes and university setting were investigated to find out how they figure in enhancing the students’ oral proficiency. It is possible that Malays from rural areas may view English as an alien language and show little interest in learning it These Malays would only use Malay in their daily lives without doing any practice to improve their level of proficiency. This is one of the reasons why this researcher decided to investigate how factors such as student attributes, lecturer attributes and university setting affect the students’ capacity for talking English in and outside class, Faradilla (2010)
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