Student's Participation in Classroom:What Motivates them to Speak up?

By M. Y. Abdullah, Noor Rahamah Abu Bakar, M. Mahbob. 2012

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Students are encouraged to actively participate in classroom. Nevertheless, many of them are still reluctant to speak up. This paper discusses the reasons for students to speak up in the class. Discussion is based on focus group interviews conducted on three groups of active students and three groups of passive students identified through a five weeks observation on three classrooms at the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, The National University of Malaysia. The study found that the size of a classroom, personalities of the instructor and students and the perception of peers influenced the students to speak up in class.

Subfields: Education, Social Psychology

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In Education

1. Doris Holzberger
2. K. Schnitzler
3. Tina Seidel
4. J. Scheerens

In Social Psychology

1. K. Schnitzler
2. Doris Holzberger
3. Tina Seidel
4. J. Scheerens

Citations in the corpus

• All better than being disengaged: Student engagement patterns and their relations to academic self-concept and achievement (2020, background): “Students with higher perceptions of their abilities are more likely to participate (raise their hands and communicate their ideas to their peers and teachers (Abdullah et al. 2012; Böheim et al. 2020; Järvelä et al. 2016; Jurik et al. 2013)), to show cognitive engagement (Liem et al.”