A Study on Sympathetic Tendency of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Learners through Competition Games

Autor/inn/en	Celikturk, Halenur; Tilfarlioglu, Filiz Yalcin
Titel	A Study on Sympathetic Tendency of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Learners through Competition Games
Quelle	In: Journal on English Language Teaching, 10 (2020) 3, S.35-56 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2231-3338
Schlagwörter	Emotional Intelligence; Social Cognition; Empathy; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Game Based Learning; Competition; Instructional Effectiveness; Correlation; Grade 9; Adolescents; High School Students; Vocabulary Development; Gender Differences; Cooperation; Foreign Countries; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Emotionale Intelligenz; Soziale Kognition; Empathie; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Wettkampf; Unterrichtserfolg; Korrelation; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Wortschatzarbeit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Co-operation; Kooperation; Ausland; Türkei
Abstract	This study aims to answer whether there is a relation between various competition games played in ELT (English Language Teaching) classrooms and sympathetic tendency of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners towards English lesson. The study was carried on 302 participants consisting of 9th grade students from a high school, Gaziantep. The participants were divided into experimental and control groups by random sampling. Within the 15 weeks of experimental process of the study, various competition games designed by the researcher were played with the experimental group unlike the control group which continued their lessons without playing games. The sympathetic tendency questionnaire was applied at the 14th week to discover whether there is a relation between the various competition games and sympathetic tendency of participants towards English lesson and a vocabulary knowledge test was applied as pre and post-test to see the progress and find whether there is an effect of various competition games on students' vocabulary knowledge. The results state that sympathetic tendency of students did not change when experimental and control groups' results were compared. However, according to sympathetic tendency results compared to genders (t=3.599; p=0.000), female participants' results (M=139.68) were higher than male participants (M=128.78). Besides, results of the study demonstrated that various competition games were practical to improve vocabulary knowledge EFL learners in Turkey according to post test results of experimental (M=34.23) and control groups (M=24.18) (t=12.762; p=0.000). The results indicate that various competition games were effective to improve collaboration skills according to results between the experimental (M=4.57) and control group (M=4.29) (t=2.484; p=0.014). (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01