ERIC Number: EJ1422944
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1881
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How Can a Task-Based Project Enhance Students' Transferable Skills? An Investigation
Educational Research, v66 n2 p139-154 2024
Background: In a time of rapid technological change, there is a need to provide students with relevant learning opportunities to support the development of their transferable skills. Purpose: Set in a higher education context in Taiwan, this study sought to investigate how students perceived their engagement with a task-based, multimedia project within an English as a foreign language (EFL) course. Method: Participants were 73 third-year undergraduate university students who were engaged in an 18-week task-based videomaking project as part of the EFL course. Data, which were analysed qualitatively, included students' reflective essays and post-course transcribed interviews with 15 of the students. Findings: Overall, the students felt that participating in the task-based project had enhanced their literacy competencies through the process of gathering relevant information; supported their learning motivation and engagement as they sought to discover the necessary resources to generate their videos; and fostered their awareness of how they could apply the knowledge and skills they developed in the course to new contexts. Conclusions: Task-based, digital projects can provide one way of helping students to develop transferable skills. As technology continues to evolve, this study highlights the need to consider more fully, in the context of tertiary education, how best to support students to acquire and hone the competencies that they will require in employment.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Transfer of Training, Active Learning, Student Projects, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Video Technology, Digital Literacy, Student Attitudes, Competence, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Technology Uses in Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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