A Study of Students' Passive Behavior in ESL Class

In this research,the causes of students' passive behaviors in ESL class are identified in terms of interaction patterns,learning environment,language proficiency and social-cultural perspective.An analysis of the collected data including tape recordings of classroom conversation and related transcripts,field notes of the close observation in small group activities such as turn taking and other physical expressions,answers to the questions of the questionnaire,comments from the interviews with the target students and some ESL teachers is used to find out these causes.