Promoting Listening Fluency in Pre-Intermediate EFL Learners Through Meaningful Oral Tasks
This article reports a study on the implementation of meaningful oral tasks to promote listening fluency in ten pre-intermediate English as a foreign language learners in the English language teaching program at a Colombian public university. The tasks were implemented to overcome the weaknesses the...
- Autores:
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Córdoba Zúñiga, Eulices
Rangel Gutiérrez, Emerson
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2018
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/66851
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66851
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67879/
- Palabra clave:
- 37 Educación / Education
8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
Listening fluency
listening task
meaningful oral tasks
task-based language teaching
enseñanza basada en tareas
fluidez auditiva
tareas de fluidez auditiva
tareas orales significativas
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
Summary: | This article reports a study on the implementation of meaningful oral tasks to promote listening fluency in ten pre-intermediate English as a foreign language learners in the English language teaching program at a Colombian public university. The tasks were implemented to overcome the weaknesses these students had to understand oral messages from audio materials and daily-life conversations in classes. A qualitative action-research study with observation field-notes and semi-structured interviews served as the basis for this research. Results indicate that this methodology provided suitable opportunities to foster listening fluency through the development of meaningful oral tasks. Participants developed dynamic assignments that included pre, while, and post intensive-extensive listening practices which allowed them to understand, to interpret oral messages, and to provide suitable responses to do the required tasks. |
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