Assessing Cañas’ (2012) Paper on Factors That Affect FL Learners’ Oral Participation

Abstract

This is a critique of Cañas’ (2012) case study research entitled “Identifying Factors that Affect FL Learners’ Oral Participation at a Public University in Colombia” and published in Opening Writing Doors Journal by the University of Pamplona, Colombia. This study attempts to point out the factors that stop a satisfactory foreign language (FL) beginner-level students’ oral participation in English classes. The paper is broken down into 9 sections: the theoretical framework, which describes key concepts that were useful in the development of the study; the literature review, which describes 3 studies related to the phenomenon in question; the methodology; the data analysis, the findings; the conclusions; recommendations, references and the appendixes.