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"Is Homework Still Attractive?" Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of Out-of-class Second Language Learning
Abstract
The present study aims to explore university students' preferences with regard to homework and out-of-class L2 learning. The analysis was conducted on Romanian undergraduates studying Spanish at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies in their third year. Research chiefly focuses on interpreting data collected by means of a questionnaire handed to the mentioned respondents and correlated with the teacher's observations. The main purpose is to seek answers related to students' perceptions as to motivation and consistency in out-of-class study, homework length and the risk of overload, and types of preferred tasks. The findings point out the need for L2 teaching to rely less on teacher/workbook generated homework and provide students with the opportunity to learn through informal activities they enjoy doing, practicing exposure to authentic L2 input.
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teaching Spanish L2 · homework · out-of-class language learning · students' perceptionsCite this article
Pecican, A. (2019). "Is Homework Still Attractive?" Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of Out-of-class Second Language Learning. Dialogos, 36, 236–256.
Pecican, Anca. “"Is Homework Still Attractive?" Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of Out-of-class Second Language Learning.” Dialogos, vol. 36, 2019, pp. 236–56.
Pecican, Anca. 2019. “"Is Homework Still Attractive?" Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of Out-of-class Second Language Learning.” Dialogos 36: 236–56.
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