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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2017.15.2.35

University Students' Perceptions of Class Activities in Business Major English Class and Its Implication for Good Business English Reading  

Kim, Bu-Ja (Dept. of Global Business & Information, Seoul Christian University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.15, no.2, 2017 , pp. 35-46 More about this Journal
Abstract
According to domestic and foreign research, one of the common characteristics of good teaching is a variety of class activities. To make 'Business Major English' a good class, the researcher used a variety of class activities such as professor explanation, group activities & presentation, vocabulary quizzes, reading comprehension, homework and test feedback. The participants were 39 junior students who took 'Business Major English' in 2015 and 2016. Data on student perception were gathered from questionnaires. The analysis of the data showed, first, that the class activity the students preferred the most was professor explanation. Second, the class activity which was the most helpful in understanding text content and English sentence structures was professor explanation. Third, there were not many students preferring group activities & presentation and the students found group activities & presentation the least helpful in understanding text content and English sentence structures. Given the results, this study implies that for English class activities, students' preferences and the help they perceive have a relation to the characteristics of a class and students' English proficiency.
Keywords
Business English; Class Activities; Preference; Help; Text Content; English Sentence Structures;
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