Participants raised three concerns about the PCR class: low confidence to use learned expressions in real communication, insufficient grammar development, and doubts about roleplay tests¶

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q1 i? Interviewed participants expressed concerns in three aspects of learning through PCR. → Noonkong et al. 2017

Evidence¶

Noonkong et al. 2017¶

Uraiwan Rattanapan Noonkong, Anamai Damnet, Kanjana Charttrakul. (2017). Enhancing Thai Engineering Students’ Complaints and Apologies through Pragmatic Consciousness-Raising Approach (PCR). Advances in Language and Literary Studies. https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.6p.92

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Findings from the semi-structured interviews with twelve participants, analyzed with the Grounded Theory color coding technique; the quote lists the three concern aspects as printed.

"However, some participants concerned about three aspects: inadequate confidence to use expressions learned in class in real communication, insufficient endeavor to develop grammar knowledge, and the test abilities of the roleplay test."

Discussion¶

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