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Main Author: Mireya Peña
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2009
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Online Access:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=169216301002
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  • Promoting Oral Production through the Task-Based Learning Approach: A Study in a Public Secondary School in Colombia Mireya Peña Amparo Onatra Educación Task Oral interaction Based Learning (TBL) Spoken language is used less confidently by learners in the English as a foreign language (efl ) classroom in secondary schools, and this has become a challenge for most teachers. This article describes an action research experience carried out at Francisco de Paula Santander, a public school in Bogotá, in 2004. The study was developed with a sample of learners belonging to four groups of seven graders along nine months. Data were collected by means of audio recordings, field notes and proformas. The results of the study let us analyze the different demands of transactional and interactional activities among novice efl speakers. They can also be considered an attempt to understand the implications of such activities within the framework of the Task-Based Learning approach presented by Willis (1996). 2009 artículo científico 1657-0790 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=169216301002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1692 Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development application/pdf Universidad Nacional de Colombia Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development (Colombia) Num.2 Vol.11