Language Interaction Among EFL Primary Learners and Their Teacher Through Collaborative Task-Based Learning
This article focuses on research carried out in a private school in Bogotá with a group of English as a foreign language fourth-graders. The study aimed to analyze interaction in the English classroom through action research, based on tasks that promoted collaborative work and involvement of the stu...
- Autores:
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Suárez Ramírez, Ingrid Rocío
Rodríguez, Sandra Milena
- 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/66853
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66853
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67881/
- Palabra clave:
- 37 Educación / Education
8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
Collaborative learning
interaction
language interaction
aprendizaje colaborativo
aprendizaje de la lengua extranjera
interacción de la lengua
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | This article focuses on research carried out in a private school in Bogotá with a group of English as a foreign language fourth-graders. The study aimed to analyze interaction in the English classroom through action research, based on tasks that promoted collaborative work and involvement of the students and their teacher. The instruments to collect data were video recordings and artefacts from the students’ tasks in the classroom. The analysis of classroom interaction involved the steps of conversational analysis stated by Seedhouse (2004). The study allowed the description of unexpected patterns of interactions among students and their teacher, which revealed changes in the classroom dynamic as a result of the action research plan. |
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