EFL Teaching. Influence of Teaching English in Chunks on Students' Willingness to Speak

Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, , language: English, abstract: This paper was written as part of the teacher training program in the subject English. It is a fictional action research on the topic of chunks and the willingness to communicate of students in the EFL classroom.

Although this study is not conducted, the main research interest is to find out whether teaching chunks in the EFL classroom can lead to an increase of students¿ willingness to communicate during a lesson. The focus is on fifth-grade students at a secondary school (Realschule) in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, who are still at the beginning of their foreign language learning process.

Before the study can be discussed, background information is needed to introduce the necessary terminology. In addition, existing research in the area of lexical chunks in foreign language teaching will be presented. A brief explanation of the research context which consists of the hypothesis as well as indicators that will be used in conducting this study, follows. Next, the study design is presented, describing the structure of the study and the teacher's approach, as well as the type of research (qualitative/quantitative/mixed method). The next step includes a more detailed explanation of how the used methods (questionnaires, video-audio observation) were applied and how they were analyzed.Finally, the expected results of the study are presented in the conclusion.