The impact on students of British Council EFL classes
November 2008 - June 2009(Contact: Dr Simon Borg)
Funded By: The British Council
The impact on students of British Council EFL classes
This research project is driven by a need to understand, in ways that extend beyond end-of-course student evaluations and exit measures of students’ linguistic proficiency, the nature of the impact that taking an English language course at a British Council teaching centre has on students. Impact is here taken to refer broadly to the ways in which EFL classes are felt by students to enhance their lives; more specifically, such impact can be seen in terms of how EFL classes might enhance students’ personal development, professional growth, occupational competence, interpersonal/networking skills, and capacity for intercultural dialogue and sensitivity.
The study will address the following key questions:
1. What impacts do British Council EFL courses have on students' lives?
2.What kinds of impact are most powerfully experienced by students?
The participants for this study will be students on EFL courses at British Council Teaching Centres in Western Europe, East Asia and the Middle East. The precise number of participants in the study will be finalized in the first phase of the project but this will be in the range of 45-60.
Data will be collected via semi-structured interviews.
This project last updated by Simon Borg on 17th November 2008.