Vol. 12, Special Issue 9 (2023)

This research paper is a subsidiary initiative of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), titled "A Study on Classroom Interactive Skills in English among First-Year Undergraduate Students of Agriculture Sciences." The goal is to actively engage these students in the learning environment and provide effective guidelines to enhance their interactive skills in an English classroom context.

The peer interaction and learning motivation had a direct impact on student’s interactive skills. Furthermore, indirect effects were found between students’ learning strategy through the mediator peer interaction, and between classroom preferences through the following: learning motivation, the combination of learning strategy and peer interaction, and the combination of learning motivation, learning strategy and peer interaction. Based on these findings, this study recommends that instructors teaching in a learning environment should focus on improving peer interaction and learning motivation, as well as smart classroom preferences and learning strategy, to hone students’ interactive skills.