Investigating the Teaching Techniques to Integrate Shy Students in Classroom Interaction. The Case of First Year BMD Students in the Department of English at MMUTO.
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Date
2018
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
The present study is concerned with the techniques that teachers use in order to
integrate shy students in classroom interaction. It aims at checking whether there are many
shy students in first year Bachelor Master Doctorate classes in the department of English at
Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi Ouzo. It seeks also at finding if their teachers give
them opportunities for interaction in the classroom by using different techniques. To this end,
our investigation is based on Mixed Methods Research. It combines two questionnaires that
are addressed to a group of first year BMD students and their tutorials’ teachers. For the
sake of gathering more data about the issue addressed in this study, we have opted for
classroom observation relying on a checklist. The outcomes are analysed using Qualitative
Content Analysis and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. On the basis of the results of
the study, it is concluded that most of the students are shy during classroom interaction.
Besides, teachers of the first year BMD students in the department of English at MMUTO give
opportunities to all the students to speak freely and most of them develop different techniques
to integrate the shy students in classroom interaction. In addition, the most effective
techniques used by teachers are cooperative activities. This study brings to conclusion that
the use of appropriate techniques integrates, to some extent, shy students in classroom
interaction and helps them express their ideas and thoughts during class discussions. This
study is conducted under the light of Haim Ginott’s theory of “Congruent Communication”
1972, which is composed of different useful teaching techniques to deal with shyness.
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60p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)
Keywords
the teaching techniques, shyness, classroom interaction, congruent communication.
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Language and Communication