1. Shing-Yu Lynn Tsai Dr. Pi-Ying Teresa Hsu January 5, 2009 EFL Students’ and Teacher’s Preferences for Speaking In-class Activities and Their Relationships to the Students’ Foreign Language Anxiety

2. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Literature Review 3. Methodology

3. Introduction Grammar translation method Teacher-centered approach Task-based Student-centered approach

5. Statement of the Problems Anxiety (Kern,1995 & Oxford 1991) Mismatch Teachers’ perception Students’ perception

6. Purposes of the Study To identify EFL students and their teachers preference toward in-class activities. To investigate the relationships between the students and teachers preference to students’ foreign language anxiety

7. Research Questions Q1 Q2 What are EFL students’ and their teachers’ preferences for in-class activities? What kinds of in-class activities are anxiety-provoking to EFL students?

8. Research Questions Q3 Q4 Are there any conflicts between the students’ and the teachers’ preferences for in-class activities? What is the foreign language anxiety level of the students from the university of technology?

10. Definition of terms Foreign language anxiety In-class activity

11. Definition of terms self-perceptions beliefs feelings behaviors Foreign Language Anxiety ( Horwitz,1986)

13. Example of in-class activities In-class Activities Group Discussion Peer Editing Role plays Games& Drills

14. Literature Review Communication Apprehension Learners’ beliefs and self –perceptions Teachers’ belief and attitudes Theoretical Frameworks

18. Methodology English major students: 60 are freshmen and 60 are sophomores. Chaoyang University of Technology 2009 Participants Place Time

19. Instrument The preference towards in-class activity questionnaires for students. Observation and interview Quantitative The foreign language anxiety scale FLCAS.pdf Quantitative Qualitative

20. Research Procedure Qualitative The preference and anxiety towards in-class activity questionnaires for students observation interview Quantitative Data Collection Data Collection Formal study Pilot study

21. Data Collection The preference and anxiety towards in-class activity questionnaires for students Observation & Tape-recorded interview 1. SPSS 13.0 2. Independent T-test( Q1& Q3 ) 3. Descriptive analysis ( Q2 & Q4 )

22. Thank you for your attention!