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International Student’s Real Life Speaking Experience in The United Kingdom

Authors
Mukhlash Abrar1, *, Delvia Roza2, Dwi Septiyanda2
1Faculty of Teaching and Education, Universitas Jambi, Jambi, Indonesia
2Education, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK
*Corresponding author. Email: mukhlash.abrar@unja.ac.id
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Mukhlash Abrar
Available Online 7 November 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-110-4_55How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Case study; Challenges; International Students; Reflection; Qualitative
Abstract

This study explored international students’ real life speaking experiences during their study in a United Kingdom university. More specifically, this study is intended to understand their speaking challenges and to elicit their reflections on speaking experiences. To achieve the purpose of the study, qualitative study with case study approach was employed. Four international master students from Thailand, China, Tibet and Indonesia participated in this study. The results of the study revealed that international students experienced a plethora of speaking challenges, such as understanding accented-speech, lack of vocabulary and language expressions, experiencing speaking anxiety, and the issues on personality and speakers’ rate of speech. Despite the challenges they experienced, based on their reflections, they obtained some advantages from their speaking experiences with native and/or local people, including vocabulary and listening skill improvement, being more confident to speak, and having more understanding of locals’ spoken language expressions such as idioms.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th Green Development International Conference (GDIC 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
7 November 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-110-4_55
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-38476-110-4_55How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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