This document outlines a study on student engagement in English language classrooms. It describes the progress of the study from 2013 to the present, including various phases of data collection, analysis, and planning. Specifically, it involved collecting data on student engagement through various methods like video recordings, learning diaries, and surveys. The document analyzes factors that can influence engagement, such as students' motivational goals, task characteristics, peer and teacher interactions, and technology use. Challenges in the study included having too many data collection tools, collecting too much data, short planning time, and issues with data coding. The next steps are to make necessary corrections by analyzing additional data, identifying general patterns, and finalizing the theoretical framework.

1. Student engagement in the English
language classroom & factors
affecting it
Aleksandra Lazareva
University of Oulu

2. Progress & current situation
(data analysis)
● Challenges
● Plans
●

3. December 2013: continuing with data analysis
October-November 2013: methodological part,
data analysis
Septemer 2013: plan for the second year;
transcribing
June-August 2013: organizing the data; theory &
methodology
End of May 2013: summer plan
April-May 2013: intervention
February-March 2013: planning the intervention
January-February 2013: topic; research plan

4. Engagement:
●
General motivational goal orientation
● Task characteristics
● Peer regulation within a group
● Teacher's interference
● Use of technology

5. On-task/ off-task & phase-shift analysis

6. Motivational goal orientation profiles
100%
100%
90%
90%
80%
80%
70%
70%
60%
Social concern
Social approval
Social affiliation
50%
40%
60%
Work avoidance
Performance
Mastery
50%
40%
30%
30%
20%
20%
10%
10%
0%
0%
Student 1
Student 2
Student 3
Student 4
Student 1
Student 2
Student 3
Student 4

7. Task characteristics
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Peer interaction
Group work
Pair work
Pair work
Individual work
Scripting
General
instructions
Script
Script
General
instructions
Choice
High (which app
to use from
limited amount,
which item to
draw)
Average (which
city to choose,
which means of
transport to
choose from
limited amount)
Low (which city
to choose from
limited amount)
High (which
places, words,
pictures to
choose, how to
build the Popplet)
Relatedness
Low (no
significant
connection)
Average
(connection to
Oulu, real cities,
means of
transport, prices)
Average
(connection to
Oulu, real cities,
means of
transport, prices)
High (immediate
connection to
students'
perception of real
world)

8. Peer regulation in a group
3 statements from learning diaries
verbal data from video recordings (e.g., «Have
you presented?», «You ask first», «Put it so that
everyone can see it», «Open a new (blank) page»)

9. Teacher's interference
1 statement from learning diaries
2 types of interference from the video recordings (regulation
of behavior & additional instruction)

10. Use of technology
3 statements from learning diaries

11. Too many
data collection
tools
Too much
data?
Short time
to plan
Definition of
on- & off-task
Coding
Second
coder
Misunderstanding
of questions
RQ
Timeconsuming

12. Necessary corrections → analysing
data from two other groups → general
patterns & conclusions → finalizing
theoretical part