Speaking Activities to Foster Students' Oral Performance at a Public School

Autor/inn/en	Bocanegra Bonilla, Carolina; Ramirez Valencia, Astrid
Titel	Speaking Activities to Foster Students' Oral Performance at a Public School
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 11 (2018) 8, S.65-72 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Oral Language; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Public Schools; Foreign Countries; Cartoons; Teaching Methods; Translation; Instructional Design; Classroom Communication; Student Participation; Native Language; Instructional Effectiveness; Television; Programming (Broadcast); Grade 4; Elementary School Students; Action Research; Colombia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Ausland; Zeichentrickfilm; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lesson concept; Lessonplan; Unterrichtsentwurf; Klassengespräch; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Unterrichtserfolg; Fernsehen; Fernsehtechnik; Programmgestaltung; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Projektforschung; Kolumbien
Abstract	By employing an action research framework, this study was designed to explore the effectiveness of a set of speaking activities centered on a children's cartoon to improve oral performance in the EFL classroom. The participants were fourth graders of a public school in Colombia, who had low oral performance in spoken English language. The findings suggest that the proposed speaking activities were comprehensible for the students, and appropriate to the students' proficiency level. Although to maximize learners' opportunities to speak in the classroom, teachers should design activities that provide chances to talk in English. Thus students will be engaged to participate in the classroom. Also, most of the students were comfortable speaking during the activities since they were familiar with watching cartoons, thus being at ease with certain topics can help students exchange ideas in class. The most important recommendation is to avoid translating instruction into students' mother tongue for the purpose to familiarize students with the target language. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01