Silence in the Second Language Classrooms of Japanese Universities.

Autor/in	King, Jim
Titel	Silence in the Second Language Classrooms of Japanese Universities.
Quelle	In: Applied linguistics, 34 (2013) 3, S. 325-343Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben; Tabellen 3
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1477-450X
DOI	10.1093/applin/ams043
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Kommunikationssituation; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprache; Englischunterricht; Hochschule; Japan
Abstract	Japanese language learners' proclivity for silence has been alluded to by various writers and is supported by plenty of anecdotal evidence, but large-scale, empirical studies aimed at measuring the extent of macro-level silence within Japanese university L2 classrooms are notably lacking. This article responds to the gap in the literature by reporting on an extensive, multi-site study which used a structured observation methodology to investigate the classroom behaviour of 924 English language learners across nine universities. A total of 48 hours of data were collected using a minute-by-minute sampling strategy which resulted in some surprising results. Students were found to be responsible for less than one per cent of initiated talk within their classes, while over a fifth of all class time observed was characterized by no oral participation by any participants, staff, or students alike. These results are interpreted from a dynamic systems theory perspective, which suggests that silence emerges through multiple routes and has now formed a semi-permanent attractor state within the study's L2 university classrooms. (Verlag, adapt.).
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Update	2022/2