Time-On-Task Survey

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A Survey Investigating
the Effect of Increased Time-On-Task on L2 Performance

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The purpose of this survey is to investigate the effect of increased Time-On-Task on ESL students’ written and oral performance in English. It is proposed that the time spent in the classroom be increased from four to six hours per week. As part of the justification for this increase, we would like to determine what you believe this additional time could help you accomplish as an English language teacher. To this end, we are requesting that you complete the following survey. This survey will take about ten (10) minutes to complete. Your input is greatly valued.

Please note that your participation in this survey is voluntary. The survey is anonymous so as to ensure your confidentiality. Your responses will help us determine whether increasing the time will benefit our ESL students. If you are director of an English Language Program, please administer this survey to your faculty members and tabulate the results. 

Thank you in advance for completing this survey. 


A Survey Investigating
the Effect of Increased Time-On-Task on L2 Performance

1.     Do you believe that increasing the time in your ESL class from four (4) to six (6) hours would be beneficial to your students? __ Yes __ No



2.     If you were given two (2) additional hours each week in your ESL class, how would you modify the content of your course? Would you include more rhetoric, reading passages and writing genres, revisions, peer editing, or grammar, etc.? Please explain. 





3.     If the hours in the ESL class were increased, what specific outcomes would you anticipate for your students? Would you expect your students to have better (a) editing skills, (b) vocabulary, (c) grammar, (d) background knowledge for writing, etc.?






4.     If you have ever instructed an advanced ESL writing course at a community college that provided six (6) hours or more of instruction every week, what areas of second language writing have you usually covered that cannot be addressed in four (4) hours?

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