Record Details

University Students’ Preferable Types of Teacher Humor in English Classes

Vision: Journal for Language and Foreign Language Learning

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title University Students’ Preferable Types of Teacher Humor in English Classes
 
Creator Thuy, Pham Trut
Thao, Le Thanh
 
Subject English language teaching and learning; linguistics and language learning; literature and language learning; linguistics and language learning
teacher’s humor; EFL students’ perceptions; forms of humor; the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
 
Description The current study aimed to explore what types of teacher humor EFL students prefer in their classes. The study was designed as a mixed-method approach, using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews to collect data in two different Vietnamese universities. One hundred fifty-eight university students responded to the survey, and eight out of them were recruited as the participants for the interviews. The study results revealed that the types of jokes (M=4.41), riddles (M=4.08), and language play (M=4.15) were most favored. Besides, the participants' demographic information, including their gender and majors, affected their preferable types of teacher humor. Specifically, males showed more positive attitudes towards teacher humor than their counterparts. In terms of students’ majors, there were differences between non-English majors and English-majored students’ perceptions of irony, teasing, language play, visual and physical humor. Regarding the students’ positive attitudes towards teacher humor, EFL teachers should learn more about valuable strategies for using teacher humor in their classes due to the fact that they do not need to have a sense of humor to use it effectively.
 
Publisher Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo Semarang
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2021-10-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
—
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/vision/article/view/9096
10.21580/vjv10i29096
 
Source Vision: Journal for Language and Foreign Language Learning; Vol 10, No 1 (2021); 53-68
2541-4399
2252-8385
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/vision/article/view/9096/pdf
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2021 Le Thanh Thao, Pham Trut Thuy, Pham Trut Thuy
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0