The Reluctance of Students’ Active Participation in EFL Classrooms

Abstract

Communicative learning teaching expects students to be highly involved in their learning process. Most of the teachers complain that their students are silent in their classes. Students’ participation in the language classrooms is passive. Majority of the students are unwilling to participate. Sometime it may happen that in fact a student knows the answer of a question, but he/she cannot express and share his or her thought in the class. The purpose of the current study is to find out what are the best strategies that can response students’ reluctance in participation at EFL classrooms? This research was conducted intermediate and advance students of English Department, Afghan Samsoor English language Academy and Logar Center English Language Academy. The finding revealed that the major causes of reluctance are the large number of students in one class because of which students feel shy and cannot participate actively in the class.