Iraqi EFL College Students' Perception of Alienation and Its Role on Classroom Engagement

Abstract

It is not necessary to say that alienation is the isolation of the individual from the outside world and remains alone, but may be present with her/his peers but feels alienated in a particular area and this is what was investigated in the current study by conducting a qualitative study on a sample of Iraqi EFL students in the first grade at the Department of English – College of Education for Humanities - University of Diyala. The current study aims at investigating the effect of Alienation on students' classroom engagement. Two tools are carried out to achieve the aim of the current study as well to testify its hypothesis. An interview is designed to collect a richer source of information to support the data collection of designing questionnaire items. It includes four questions which describe the effect of classroom environment learning on students alienation as well to check students factual perceptions, opinions and feelings toward their competency in classroom engagement. A questionnaire is adapted to collect data about students points of view toward their interpersonal communication in life as well in academic environment. On the other hand, the questionnaire consists of 18 questions. The total number of the selected sample is (100 ) via (19) male and (81 ) female students to participate in the interview and questionnaire survey to achieve the quantitative data .