The Research About College Students’ Classroom Silence And Its Influencing Factors

With the development of educational research and practice, the importance of Students’ participation in class is highly valued. However, silence is still spreading through all over classroom. Therefore, it is necessary to get a full understanding of the silent’s condition and to reveal the influence factors of silence. Only in this way, can we take effective measures to break the silence.Based on the cluster analysis of 560 college students’data from the survey, this research found that 64.3% of the respondents were the silent. That is to say, Majority of the silent exist in the classroom. By the comprehensive investigating on the silent’s quality of learning, this research proved that the silence’s motivation for learning, frequency of using learning strategy, time for extra-curricular learning and participation of extracurricular practice were significantly lower than the active. As a result, compared with the active, the silent got less rewarding and improvement in capability.At the individual level, students expressing their opinions or not is decided by the magnitude of the Hindrance factors. There are three kinds of Hindrance factors: inadequate capacity(unable to speak), social anxiety(dare not to speak)and social psychological factors(unwilling to speak).besides social psychological factors including Disregard mentality, Defensive mentality and Prosocial mentality. The Hindrance factors mentioned above directly affect the level of silence. At the environmental level, except some environmental influence factors such as openness of teacher, basic teaching skills, other environmental factors indirectly affect the level of silence.