The Research on College Students’ Silence in the English Classroom

Abstract

With the increase of international communications and competitions, the reticent language classroom has increasingly drawn researchers’ attention. The key step to be taken to improve the learners’ overall language proficiency is to change the traditional teaching ways, of which the prerequisite is to reconsider what contribute to learners’ reticence in English class. It has be revealed through the study of special reasons of Mainland students’ reluctance that the seeming reticence in English class is more likely to be the consequence of their learning habits that have been formed in the educational contexts for a long time than of any inherent dispositions of the learners themselves. Thus, the reticence can be altered though changing learners’ habitual classroom behavior. Keywords-reticence; english class; traditional teaching ways; mainland student