Pruksapan Bantawtook’s Three Minute Thesis
Students’ Engaging Language Tasks and Cultural Influences
Research suggests that task engagement can predict language achievement. However, language educators might not be aware of essential language task engagement (LTE) facilitators and the influence of students’ cultural backgrounds that can lead to or detract from their engagement. This study explored the preferences for engaging language tasks and the most salient LTE facilitators of 173 language learners who were grouped into two culture types, Traditional/ Survival (TS) or Secular/ Survival (SS), based on the Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World. The study results can inform language educators of task characteristics they can highlight when creating language tasks to engage diverse learners.
About Pan
Pruksapan is a Fulbright scholar from Thailand and a doctoral student in the language, literacy, and technology program. Her research interests include teaching literature, foreign language teaching, instructional technology, and language task engagement. She wants to be a teacher mentor who develops approaches for foreign language and literature teaching.
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