How Do EFL Students Acquire Input Outside the Classroom?

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10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_23How to use a DOI?

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Comprehensible input; Out of school exposure; Reputable senior high school

ABSTRACT

According to a survey conducted by EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI) 2021, Indonesian students have low level of English proficiency. Providing Comprehensible Input (CI), which is invented by Stephen Krashen about forty years ago, can be one of ways to help increasing the students’ target language (TL) ability. It implies that during the language lesson, the teachers need to deliver language input to the students. However, it does not mean that the students rely only on their EFL teachers. They need to obtain it themselves outside of the classroom. The students of reputable senior high schools (SHS) are assumed to possess their own methods to obtain CI out of school. Ergo, this paper aims to show how the students from reputable SHS acquire extramural—or out-of-school—exposure. In order to gain the data, a close-ended questionnaire was spread to the students. The questionnaire consisted of twelve questions in total. Ten students in total of a reputable senior high school (SHS) in Padang Panjang participated in the current study. The students’ answers were analysed using a certain formula to see which methods that are utilised the most. Out of four major activities that can be used by the students to improve their language input, most of the students always listen to English songs (M = 5.1). They sometimes watching TV (M = 3.28) and using computer (M = 3) to gain language input. However, they rarely read English language books (M = 2.17). To conclude, EFL students of a reputable SHS in Padang Panjang listen to English songs the most in order to acquire language input.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fadilah Zunuaris
AU  - Yetty Zainil
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/30
TI  - How Do EFL Students Acquire Input Outside the Classroom?
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 161
EP  - 165
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_23
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_23
ID  - Zunuaris2023
ER  -