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Download full textMitiku Tasisa Dinsa; Esayas Teshome Taddese – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2024
Social media is a communication tool that facilitates EFL students to improve their speaking proficiency as it enables them to fully engage in oral communication, exchange information, and form long-term bonds in this modern era. This study intended to investigate EFL students' social media as speaking strategies used vis-a-vis their speaking…
Descriptors: Social Media, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Javier Rojas Serrano – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2024
This action research report explores the effect of a "flipped learning" strategy on adult EFL students' speaking skills. Flipped learning, or inverted learning, reverses the traditional educational model where students learn in class and practice out of it; flipped learning promotes the students' learning of concepts and theories out of…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Teaching Methods, Accuracy, Grammar
Castillo, Rigoberto; Silva-González, Heidy Erika; Sanabria-Chavarro, Leidy – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2018
This paper presents a study that looked into the structuring of tasks that may foster oral fluency in an intensive eight-week course with 25 young adult and adult learners of English as a foreign language in a format of tutoring sessions for conversation. The action research involved two teachers and a research advisor, coauthors of this paper.…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Esteban Nuñez, Maria Teresa; Marquez Medina, Adriana; Ortiz Cubides, Jhon Everth – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2018
This article reports a pedagogical implementation carried out with pre-intermediate English students, in an English teacher preparation program at a public university in Colombia. This pedagogical implementation aimed to provide this population with a space to enhance their critical thinking skills through the implementation of a variety of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Cartoons, Political Attitudes
Celis Nova, Jonnathan; Onatra Chavarro, Clara Isabel; Zubieta Córdoba, Any Tatiana – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2017
The following paper seeks to develop a proposal, observing to what extent educational videos and affective learning can strengthen vocabulary in an EFL setting. This action research study was done with fifth grade students belonging to a public school, who showed a low degree of motivation in the English class, making it difficult to acquire the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
Bautista Pérez, Nancy Yolanda – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2017
This article reports an action research project carried out with a group of 24 undergraduate students in a private university in Ibagué, Colombia. The study aimed to characterize the development of university students' sociocultural skills, to analyze their perceptions and to examine the teacher's procedures and possible implications required to…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Consciousness Raising, Focus Groups, Questionnaires
