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Leslie Werlinger B.; Maria-Jesus Inostroza A. – HOW, 2024
During the last decades, global interest in learning English as a foreign language has increased, encouraging countries to include it in school education. This trend was followed by the Chilean Ministry of Education, which suggests teaching English based on a communicative approach starting in early childhood education. To foster students'…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Preschool Children, Memory, Teaching Methods
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Cañete-Gutiérrez, Guillermo; Inostroza-Araos, María-Jesús – HOW, 2022
This action research aims at exploring the contribution of self-assessment checklists on improving oral presentations of two participants that were taking an initial-level English as a second language course at a technician professional institute in Talcahuano, Chile. The intervention was carried out in four weekly sessions in which the…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Check Lists, Public Speaking, Oral Language
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Torres-Rodríguez, Fabio Adrián; Martínez-Granada, Liliana – HOW, 2022
Fostering spoken communication in a foreign language classroom is not an easy task. With that in mind, this paper explores a proposal to motivate students' L2 oral communication through the practice of narrative games called tabletop roleplaying games adapted as task-based activities. It implied an action research process in which the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Communication, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
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Velásquez-Hoyos, Angela Patricia – HOW, 2021
The present qualitative study with an action research orientation focuses on the strengthening of students' oral fluency in English through the implementation of six theme-based teaching workshops. The participants were students of an EFL pre-intermediate English language course in the institute of foreign languages at the Technological University…
Descriptors: Thematic Approach, Oral Language, Language Fluency, College Students
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González Mesa, Pedro Alejandro – HOW, 2020
This article describes the implementation of digital storytelling in an English language class of eleventh graders at a private school in Mosquera, Colombia. It is a descriptive qualitative study, carried out for about six months by using digital tools to foster language production in the language learners. The implementation contained digital…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Aedo, Pablo; Millafilo, Claudia – HOW, 2022
This article presents the perspectives of a Chilean group of young learners of English as a foreign language with respect to the types of corrective oral feedback when making a spoken mistake and the reasons for their preferences. By means of a qualitative exploratory study, the views of 20 students were collected through a specially adapted scale…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning
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Jaime Osorio, María Fernanda; Caicedo Muñoz, Mabel Catalina; Trujillo Bohórquez, Iván Camilo – HOW, 2019
This article reports on an action-research study which examined the impact of a radio program as a strategy to develop the speaking skills of a mixed course at a private institution in Colombia. Hence, data were collected from 18 students through tests, surveys, field notes, and interviews. The results indicate that there is an important…
Descriptors: Radio, Action Research, Teaching Methods, Program Descriptions
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Chaves, Orlando; Fernandez, Alejandro – HOW, 2016
This article reports an action-research project aimed at designing, applying, and assessing a didactic sequence for teaching English as a foreign language in the first grade of a public school in Cali. The article comprises the context, reasons that justified the research, theoretical support, methodology, and results, analyzed through descriptive…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Language Proficiency
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Sánchez Solarte, Ana Clara; Sánchez Solarte, Andrés – HOW, 2017
This paper reports the results of a group intervention based on strategies derived from the systemic therapy model--brief strategic therapy. These strategies aimed at decreasing the anxiety levels commonly found in oral performance tasks related to L2 learning. Thirteen students from different semesters who belonged to two foreign language…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Intervention, Second Language Instruction