Analysis of the Teaching Practices at a Colombian Foreign Language Institute and Their Effects on Students’ Communicative Competence
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1 janvier 2015
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10.19183/how.22.1.133
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Communicative activities communicative competence English as a foreign language pre-communicative activities teaching practicesSujets proches
Schoolteaching Didactics School teaching Pedagogy Instruction School life Students--Education Pupils Student life and customs Competence, CommunicativeCiter ce document
María Fernanda Jaime Osorio et al., « Analysis of the Teaching Practices at a Colombian Foreign Language Institute and Their Effects on Students’ Communicative Competence », How, ID : 10670/1.oqq8vn
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This research report is an account of a study carried out at the Foreign Language Institute of a Colombian public university. Its main purposes were to analyze the teaching practices the participating teachers used in their English lessons, and to assess the effects of these practices on the development of students’ communicative competence. A qualitative-descriptive methodology was followed by means of lesson observations and semi-structured interviews. A quantitative data analysis of test results was also undertaken to measure the development of students’ communicative competence. Pre-communicative teaching practices were found to be more frequent than communicative ones. Likewise, certain aspects of the students’ organizational and pragmatic competences were also enhanced.