Promoting Oral Production through the Task-Based Learning Approach: A Study in a Public Secondary School in Colombia

Spoken language is used less confidently by learners in the English as a foreign language (efl ) classroom in secondary schools, and this has become a challenge for most teachers. This article describes an action research experience carried out at Francisco de Paula Santander, a public school in Bog...

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Main Authors: Mireya Peña, Amparo Onatra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2009-10-01
Series:Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
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Online Access:https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11438
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spelling doaj-722ac152d33342ec8940fe27efa652b72020-11-25T01:13:37ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902009-10-011121126Promoting Oral Production through the Task-Based Learning Approach: A Study in a Public Secondary School in ColombiaMireya Peña0Amparo Onatra1Francisco de Paula Santander SchoolFrancisco de Paula Santander SchoolSpoken language is used less confidently by learners in the English as a foreign language (efl ) classroom in secondary schools, and this has become a challenge for most teachers. This article describes an action research experience carried out at Francisco de Paula Santander, a public school in Bogotá, in 2004. The study was developed with a sample of learners belonging to four groups of seven graders along nine months. Data were collected by means of audio recordings, field notes and proformas. The results of the study let us analyze the different demands of transactional and interactional activities among novice efl speakers. They can also be considered an attempt to understand the implications of such activities within the framework of the Task-Based Learning approach presented by Willis (1996).https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11438Oral interactionTask-Based Learning (TBL)
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Amparo Onatra
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Promoting Oral Production through the Task-Based Learning Approach: A Study in a Public Secondary School in Colombia
Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
Oral interaction
Task-Based Learning (TBL)
author_facet Mireya Peña
Amparo Onatra
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title Promoting Oral Production through the Task-Based Learning Approach: A Study in a Public Secondary School in Colombia
title_short Promoting Oral Production through the Task-Based Learning Approach: A Study in a Public Secondary School in Colombia
title_full Promoting Oral Production through the Task-Based Learning Approach: A Study in a Public Secondary School in Colombia
title_fullStr Promoting Oral Production through the Task-Based Learning Approach: A Study in a Public Secondary School in Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Promoting Oral Production through the Task-Based Learning Approach: A Study in a Public Secondary School in Colombia
title_sort promoting oral production through the task-based learning approach: a study in a public secondary school in colombia
publisher Universidad Nacional de Colombia
series Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
issn 1657-0790
publishDate 2009-10-01
description Spoken language is used less confidently by learners in the English as a foreign language (efl ) classroom in secondary schools, and this has become a challenge for most teachers. This article describes an action research experience carried out at Francisco de Paula Santander, a public school in Bogotá, in 2004. The study was developed with a sample of learners belonging to four groups of seven graders along nine months. Data were collected by means of audio recordings, field notes and proformas. The results of the study let us analyze the different demands of transactional and interactional activities among novice efl speakers. They can also be considered an attempt to understand the implications of such activities within the framework of the Task-Based Learning approach presented by Willis (1996).
topic Oral interaction
Task-Based Learning (TBL)
url https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11438
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