Does being taught by native English-speaking teachers promote improvement in speaking skill more?
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Tarih
2019
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Yayıncı
Hacettepe Üniversitesi
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Özet
It has been conceived that being taught by native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) leads to more improvement
in speaking proficiency given the fact that English is their mother tongue. This paper aims to examine whether or
not being taught by NESTs ends up with more achievement in adult EFL learners’ speaking skills. Experimental
research design was used with an eye to scrutinizing if there was a statistically significant difference between the
speaking scores of the participants in the experimental group and the ones got by the participants in the control
group. The experimental group had proportionately more lessons conducted by NESTs as opposed to the control
group taught predominantly by non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs). In eight weeks, marking the
duration of the study, the participants submitted three speaking portfolios, took one speaking quiz and one end-ofcourse test (ECT). Participants’ scores on the quiz, the ECT and the speaking portfolios were analyzed via
conducting independent samples t-test. The findings obtained from the analyses show that no statistically
significant difference exists between the speaking scores of the experimental and control group on the ECT, scores
on the speaking quiz, the first and second speaking portfolios while a statistically significant difference is observed
between the participants’ scores on the third speaking portfolio. The results might arouse suspicion of the popular
conception of learning to speak English better as a consequence of being taught by NESTs.
Açıklama
Anahtar Kelimeler
Adult EFL learners, NESTs, Improvement in speaking skill, Speaking skill, NNESTs
Kaynak
Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
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N/A
Cilt
15
Sayı
3
Künye
Koşar, G. (2019). Does being taught by native English-speaking teachers promote improvement in speaking skill more?. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 15(3).
