Is Homework Still Attractive? Undergraduate Student’s Perception of Out-of-class Second Language Learning
Is Homework Still Attractive? Undergraduate Student’s Perception of Out-of-class Second Language Learning

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to explore university students´ preferences with regard tohomework and out-of-class L2 learning. The analysis was conducted on Romanianundergraduates studying Spanish at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies intheir third year. Research chiefly focuses on interpreting data collected by means of aquestionnaire handed to the mentioned respondents and correlated with the teacher’sobservations. The main purpose is to seek answers related to students’ perceptions as tomotivation and consistency in out-of-class study, homework length and the risk ofoverload, and types of preferred tasks. The findings point out the need for L2 teaching torely less on teacher/workbook generated homework and provide students with theopportunity to learn through informal activities they enjoy doing, practicing exposure toauthentic L2 input

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