The Impact of Authentic Materials and Tasks on Students’ Communicative Competence at a Colombian Language School
This article reports on a study carried out in a foreign language school at a Colombian public university. Its main purpose was to analyze the extent to which the use of authentic materials and tasks contributes to the enhancement of the communicative competence on an A2 level English course. A mixe...
- Autores:
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Castillo Losada, César Augusto
Insuasty, Edgar Alirio
Jaime Osorio, María Fernanda
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2017
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/66911
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66911
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67939/
- Palabra clave:
- 37 Educación / Education
8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
Authenticity
authentic materials
authentic tasks
communicative competence
pedagogical project
autenticidad
competencia comunicativa
materiales auténticos
proyecto pedagógico
tareas auténticas
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | This article reports on a study carried out in a foreign language school at a Colombian public university. Its main purpose was to analyze the extent to which the use of authentic materials and tasks contributes to the enhancement of the communicative competence on an A2 level English course. A mixed study composed of a quasi-experimental and a descriptive-qualitative research design was implemented by means of a pre-test, a post-test, observations, semi-structured interviews, surveys, and diaries. The findings showed that the use of authentic materials and tasks, within the framework of a pedagogical project, had an impact on students’ communicative competence progress and on the teaching practices of the experimental group teacher. |
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