Exploring the Impact of Culture Shock on Kabyle Students in EFL Listening and Speaking classes: A Case Study of Video Usage at Mouloud Mammeri University
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2023
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Mouloud Mammeri University
Abstract
This study is an exploratory study that aims to identify the way the students perceive the English
foreign culture and to find out the major difficulties that students at MMUTO face while watching
videos during listening and speaking classes. In order to reach the research aims, this study relies
on Oberg’s Culture Shock theory, and on a mixed method associating both the qualitative and
quantitative methods for data collection and analysis. For the collection of data, two research
instruments are used: a questionnaire administered to fifty-three first year Kabyle students, and
four classroom observations are accomplished with the same students. Concerning the analysis of
the gathered data, a quantitative analysis is employed using descriptive statistical method to
analyze the numerical data, and a qualitative content analysis (QCA) is used to analyze and
interpret the results of the qualitative data resulting from the open-ended questions. The findings
reveal that students at the English department at MMUTO perceive the English foreign culture
differently and encounter multiple difficulties ranging from language barriers to cultural ones
when learning English as a foreign language in listening and speaking classes.
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71p. : Ill. en coul. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom)
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culture, culture shock, English culture, videos, EFL students, UMMTO
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Language and Communication