THE USE OF THE TASK-BASED APPROACH TO IMPROVE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ORAL COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS
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2021-01-12
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Ecuador - PUCESE – Maestría en Pedagogía del Inglés como Lengua Extranjera
Abstract
To design a task-based didactic strategy to teach English to senior high school students at
Don Bosco High School in Esmeraldas, a descriptive qualitative investigation was carried
out in the year 2020, with a population of 11 teachers of senior high school students. The
deductive-inductive, hermeneutics methods and analysis and synthesis were used, with
the application of a survey. The results revealed that most of the teachers present a lack
of knowledge related to the use of task-based activities in order to teach and develop oral
communication skills. Also teachers do not have enough didactic materials to teach the mentioned
skills at Don Bosco School in Esmeraldas. In addition, a great number of students present
different difficulties when communicating orally in the English language. So, teachers have the
necessity to use task-based didactic activities to teach oral communication skills. For that reason,
there cannot be a better way to involve students than designing and imparting task-based
didactic activities which can be carried out during the English class. Therefore, assuming
that the Task-Based Approach (TBA) can be an effective method to teach English oral
communicative skills, the researcher investigated the effectiveness of this approach and
designed a strategy with the main stages: pre-task, task-cycle, and task focus – post task.
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Tesis previa obtención del título de Magister en Pedagogía del Inglés como Lengua Extranjera
Keywords
- TTASK-BASED APPROACH (TBA), DIDACTIC STRATEGY, COMMUNICATIVE TASK, ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS, AND METHODOLOGIES.