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Publication Date: 2016
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Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching to Integrate Language Skills in an EFL Program at a Colombian University
Córdoba Zúñiga, Eulices
PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, v18 n2 p 13-27 Jul-Dec 2016
This article reports the findings of a qualitative research study conducted with six first semester students of an English as a foreign language program in a public university in Colombia. The aim of the study was to implement task-based language teaching as a way to integrate language skills and help learners to improve their communicative competence in English. The results suggest that the implementation of task-based language teaching facilitated the integration of the four skills in the English as a foreign language context. Furthermore, tasks were meaningful and integrated different reading, writing, listening, and speaking exercises that enhanced students' communicative competences and interaction. It can be concluded that task-based language teaching is a good approach to be used in the promotion of skills integration and language competences.
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, Qualitative Research, State Universities, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Semi Structured Interviews, Language Skills, Observation, Student Attitudes, College Students
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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