TAF PUBLISHING

The current study is an explanatory study that investigates the students’ perceptions of the effects of the mass lecture on learning four basic English language skills. The objectives of this study are i) is mass lecture suitable to be conducted to learn English language and ii) what are the suitable language skills to be learned in a mass lecture setting. A quantitative study was carried out, and the participants were 206 ESL students from one of the northern universities in Malaysia. It has been found that speaking skill receives negative feedback as to be learned in mass lecture setting whereas the other skills receive a positive one from the students. Factors like difficulties in getting feedback and attention from language instructors might be why students do not positively accept speaking. The result indicates that a mass lecture setting is suitable to be conducted in learning the English language. However, there is a limitation in which mass lecture setting is not suitable for learning speaking skills.