Spoken Skills, Communication Apprehension and Collaborative Learning
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The study examines the usage of collaborative learning on second language learners’ spoken skills and whether it reduces learners’ communication apprehension. Two groups of UiTM Perlis diploma students were divided into control and experimental groups. The experimental group was given a one-month treatment of collaborative activities. Pre-test and post-test were conducted to both groups using UiTM Speaking test format. Personal Apprehension (PRCA -24) questionnaire was also administered to both groups during the pre-test and post-test to check their level of communication apprehension. The results of the study show that there was an improvement in experimental group’s spoken skills and a considerable reduction in participants’ level of communicative apprehension after the treatment. The outcome of the study able to develop further understanding of what is involved in collaborative learning and works as an eye-opener to the possibilities of improving students’ spoken skills via collaborative activities. Key words: Spoken skills; Collaborative learning; Communicative apprehension; Second language learnersResume: L'etude examine les effets de l'apprentissage en collaboration sur les competences orales des apprenants d'une deuxieme langue et s'il reduit les apprehensions de communication des apprenants. Deux groupes d'etudiants au diplome de l'UiTM Perlis ont ete divises en groupes de controle et d'experimentation. Le groupe experimental a eu des activites de collaboration pendant un mois. Le pre-test et le post-test ont ete realises par les deux groupes en utilisant le format de test oral de l'UiTM. Le questionnaire de l'apprehension personnelle (PRCA -24) a egalement ete donne aux deux groupes au cours du pre-test et du post-test afin de verifier leur niveau de l'apprehension de communication. Les resultats de l'etude montrent qu'il y a eu une amelioration de competences orales dans le groupe experimental et une reduction considerable du niveau de l'apprehension de communication des participants apres le traitement. Les resultats de l'etude sont en mesure de developper une meilleure comprehension de ce qui est implique dans l'apprentissage en collaboration et fonctionne comme un revelateur des possibilites d'ameliorer les competences orales des eleves via les activites de collaboration.Mots-Cles: competences orales; apprentissage en collaboration; apprehension de communication; apprenants d'une deuxieme langue
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".