[
    {
        "id": "osp-3197",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Causes of English Major Student-Teachers' Classroom Participation Reluctance at Kuwait University",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Al-Yaseen",
                "given": "Wafaa S."
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/causes-of-english-major-student-teachers-classroom-participation-reluctance-at-kuwait-university",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2019
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies",
        "volume": "13",
        "issue": "4",
        "page": "643-657",
        "DOI": "10.53543/jeps.vol13iss4pp643-657",
        "publisher": "Sultan Qaboos University",
        "ISSN": "2218-6506",
        "abstract": "Classroom participation plays an important role in developing students' oral fluency, and general understanding of the subject content. However, there is a noticeable participation reluctance among English major student-teachers in the College of Education at Kuwait University. The present study investigates the causes of such a reluctance. The study adopted the descriptive analytical methodology applying a 4-Likert scale to respond to a thirty questionnaire items. Two domains were covered: the English language professor, and the English major student-teachers. The sample covered a total of 150 English major student-teachers 30 males and 120 females. The study revealed significant differences α=0.05 in the means between the participants according to gender in favor of females-student teachers and according to high school specialization in favor of Arts specialization. However, there were no significant differences according to the years of study."
    }
]