The Impact of Authentic Materials and Tasks on Students' Communicative Competence at a Colombian Language School

Autor/inn/en	Castillo Losada, César Augusto; Insuasty, Edgar Alirio; Jaime Osorio, María Fernanda
Titel	The Impact of Authentic Materials and Tasks on Students' Communicative Competence at a Colombian Language School
Quelle	In: PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 19 (2017) 1, S.89-104 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1657-0790
Schlagwörter	Communicative Competence (Languages); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Language Teachers; Experimental Groups; English (Second Language); Surveys; Foreign Countries; Diaries; Quasiexperimental Design; Teaching Methods; Semi Structured Interviews; Pretests Posttests; Qualitative Research; Observation; Pragmatics; Grammar; Tourism; Student Projects; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Colombia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Ausland; Diary; Tagebuch; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Qualitative Forschung; Beobachtung; Pragmalinguistik; Grammatik; Tourismus; Schulprojekt; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Kolumbien
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01