Playing and teaching english to adults

This project tried to answer the query: Can adult students (who have not studied English before) speak English if they are given the opportunities to do it? The high school subjects in question belong to Instituto San Fernando Ferrini. Subjects study at night and they have not studied English before...

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Autores:
Cuervo Ballén, Víctor Manuel
Reyes, Oscar Orlando
Torres Díaz, Sandra Patricia
Urrea de Garcés, Lucila
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2000
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/25493
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/25493
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/16531/
Palabra clave:
TEFL
ESP
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:This project tried to answer the query: Can adult students (who have not studied English before) speak English if they are given the opportunities to do it? The high school subjects in question belong to Instituto San Fernando Ferrini. Subjects study at night and they have not studied English before so they were afraid. Results suggested that changing parameters such as speaking in English most of the time and including dynamic activities such as games could help adult students feel better about speaking. Further research is needed to describe how to improve pronunciation and writing in adult students. The project was based on the legal framework of MEN (Ministerio de Educación Nacional: Decreto 3011, 1997) that establishes parameters to teach adult students because they have particular characteristics such as families, children, marriages, responsibilities, etc.