English Language Learning: A survey of favorite Activities Among Iraqi Valedictorian Understudies

Abstract

The traditional method of teaching the English language has been seen monotonous as current generation thus forces educators to incorporate and integrate many activities which allow for more exposure to teaching and learning as it involves the use of the work in groups or pairs and using games inside the classroom also use technology and the internet to encourage the students. This study investigated students’ preferred activities for learning the English language. The study showed that the variety of activities in the teaching and learning process significantly improved the students’ performance. That gives students the ability to make a good improvement in their proficiency in using the English language; also they interested more in the teaching and the learning process and kept focus on the class. This study concluded that the activities play an important role in learning the English language, as most students prefer to use them while learning English as a foreign language. Among the activities, they preferred work with groups consisting of two-person inside the classroom, doing some plays in English, and they preferred doing short dialogues with their classmates inside the class.