EFL Students' Learning Activity Preferences in Islamic Boarding School: Are They Different from Reality?
Keywords:
Students’ learning activity preferences, EFL classroom practices, Islamic boarding schoolAbstract
Understanding EFL students’ preferred activities while learning English is essential since it helps teachers conduct engaging classroom practices. However, teachers sometimes only rely on their choices. Consequently, a mismatch between students’ and teachers’ preferred activities often happens. Therefore, this study aims to discover students’ learning activity preferences and the actual activities they experience, determining their alignment or misalignment and how it affects students in language learning. This study was conducted using a convergent parallel mixed-method design. A questionnaire was administered to 40 first-year students in a lower-secondary Islamic boarding school. Descriptive statistics is used to analyze quantitative data, while qualitative data were analyzed thematically. The results indicated a misalignment between students’ preferred activities and the actual activities they experience while learning English which caused students’ dissatisfaction and disengagement. These findings contribute to EFL teachers in creating innovative lesson plan by considering students’ preferred activities.
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