Research: Should the language barrier affect Student’s Grade
As a non-natural English Speaker, people usually faces a lot of challenges when they just started their new life in an English country. There are many students who are not the natural English speaker in the CUNY system. Some of them come from new immigrated families; some of them are international students. The first problem when they started the college life should be the language barrier. Those barriers include reading, writing, and communication. The different kinds of student have the different barriers. Through the research study, we will explore: “Should the language barrier affect student’s Grade? If yes, it is positive or negative?”
In the research, we assigned two groups of people who attend the same lecture at the same time. One group is the students who are the natural English speakers. Another Group is the students who are non-natural English speaker. By the end of the lecture, we give two groups the same quiz regarding the lecture. The natural languages students speak are the independent variables which are manipulated by us. We use the experimental method to observe the dependent variables, the grade of quiz of two groups. We hypothesized that students who are natural English speakers would have better grade than the non-natural English speakers on the quiz.
Assume the hypothesis is true; the college should be benefit from this research. Through the research, the college should know the potential factor that affects student’s final grades and academic success. Base on the result of this search, the college can make a plan to adjust the capacity of the academic learn center or other English program.
The challenge we may be faced in the experiment should be the veracity of experimental data. Because the experiment require the participated students pay the attention during the lecture. Students who are not interested in the lecture may not pay more attention during the lecture. Those students may get the lower grade on the quiz. However, the grade of these students may be the confounding variables that affect be the veracity of experimental data.