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Publication Date: 2022
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What Goes on beyond the Closed Doors: Voices from LGBTQ EFL Students
Hongboontri, Chantarath; Duangsaeng, Warangrut
LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, v15 n2 p351-376 Jul-Dec 2022
This study examines LGBTQ undergraduate students' perceptions of their English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom climate. With a snowball sampling technique, the researchers went into one university in Thailand and gathered data from 12 self-identified LGBTQ students to learn about their perceptions of their EFL classroom atmosphere in terms of their EFL teachers, their classmates, their subject matter, and their classroom environment. Findings revealed positive classroom climate perceptions for these participating LGBTQ students and showed significant relationships between classroom climate and their EFL teachers and classmates. Nonetheless, some participants did not feel as safe in a university. They reported their experiences of some forms of bullying such as name-calling and disapproving stares. Their concerns provided evidence for university officials to potentially designate a space particularly for LGBTQ students.
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Classroom Environment, Bullying, School Safety, Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Social Bias
Language Institute of Thammasat University. The Prachan Campus, 2 Prachan Road, Bangkok 10200 Thailand. e-mail: learnjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/learn
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Thailand
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