Pilot investigation reveals significant links between student attitudes, performance, and cultural engagement in EFL settings, suggesting implications for future research.
The role of culture in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning and teaching is an often debated and arguably underexplored field within the EFL discipline.The following paper presents a pilot investigation into the interrelationships between student attitudes and performance within EFL discussion classes and self-reported measures of student engagement with extracurricular English language related culture.The results of the study show that although the TOEIC test used to allocate the students to discussion classes measures only reading and listening skills, they do bear statistically significant relationships to attitude and performance measures in speaking classes.Further, there are statistically significant relationships between the students' TOEIC scores and the degree to which they engage with English language culture outside of their prescribed classes.These results show promise for future research, and some suggestions are made of how this study can be built upon to extend the findings.
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