International students silence in EFL classroom The case of undergraduate LMD overseas learners at University of Mostaganem

Abstract

A great attention started to be drawn on international students silence in EFL host county environment that has been the center of interest in science of education research within the last couple of decades especially after the growth of overseas students that make the higher education classrooms more linguistically diverse. However, this phenomenon demonstrates an important challenge for both educators and learners that can be observed in foreign students lower or almost disappeared achievement at their verbal production and communication. This inquiry seeks and aims at provide insight into the reason behind international students passive performance and its impact on their both behavioral and cognitive in-class engagement at English department of ABD ELHAMID University. The main problematic of such work is that the overseas students avoid communication instead, they tend to keep quiet. This implies that this community could have some communicative language issues. Therefore, the main language problems are explored and identified during the oral production and phonetic sessions and to generate the doubt on the impact that occur for both dimensions of engagement. the research hold both quantitative and qualitative methods as it address questionnaire to a sample of 22 international students of the undergraduate levels in addition to checklist observation. The distinct instruments were used to know different participants perspective in short time from the questionnaire due to circumstances and o check and monitor during the observation. The acquired finding confirmed that the international students reticence was strongly relevant to communicative language issues, moreover, this exceed to impact their behavioral in negative way whereas the cognitive engagement in positive way in different extent from L1 to L2 to L3 students.