The roles of the instructors in an ESP-task based language teaching course
The graduate program in Teaching English at the University of Costa Rica offers yearly English courses to satisfy the language learning needs at different departments, research centers, or similar institutions. The objective of this article was to analyze the extent to which a group of student teach...
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Universidad de Costa Rica
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| author | Vargas Vásquez, José Miguel Moya Chaves, Maciel Garro Morales, Carolina |
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| description | The graduate program in Teaching English at the University of Costa Rica offers yearly English courses to satisfy the language learning needs at different departments, research centers, or similar institutions. The objective of this article was to analyze the extent to which a group of student teachers fulfilled the roles of the instructors in the Task Based Language Teaching method used in the graduate program. The study used a mixed-methods approach and the subjects were three instructors during their teaching practicum. The roles of the instructors were assessed by the practicum supervisors, fellow students in the practicum, the students in the course, and the instructors themselves through rubrics, observation sheets, surveys, and teaching journals. The results from the different instruments using different scales pointed to the instructors fulfilling the roles of sequencing tasks and motivating the learners a majority of the times. The roles of preparing the learners for tasks and raising consciousness were fulfilled to a lesser extent, which indicated that the instructors needed to work further on these areas. The study concluded with recommendations for improving the roles that revealed weaknesses, notably aimed to provide a manageable numbers of vocabulary items and grammar structures in the pretask, as well as to provide prompt feedback, and to elicit students’ knowledge for the development of lessons. |
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| spelling | INIE-RAIE-article-219742017-02-11T22:31:36Z The roles of the instructors in an ESP-task based language teaching course Vargas Vásquez, José Miguel Moya Chaves, Maciel Garro Morales, Carolina higher education english teaching for specific purposes task-based language teaching Costa Rica The graduate program in Teaching English at the University of Costa Rica offers yearly English courses to satisfy the language learning needs at different departments, research centers, or similar institutions. The objective of this article was to analyze the extent to which a group of student teachers fulfilled the roles of the instructors in the Task Based Language Teaching method used in the graduate program. The study used a mixed-methods approach and the subjects were three instructors during their teaching practicum. The roles of the instructors were assessed by the practicum supervisors, fellow students in the practicum, the students in the course, and the instructors themselves through rubrics, observation sheets, surveys, and teaching journals. The results from the different instruments using different scales pointed to the instructors fulfilling the roles of sequencing tasks and motivating the learners a majority of the times. The roles of preparing the learners for tasks and raising consciousness were fulfilled to a lesser extent, which indicated that the instructors needed to work further on these areas. The study concluded with recommendations for improving the roles that revealed weaknesses, notably aimed to provide a manageable numbers of vocabulary items and grammar structures in the pretask, as well as to provide prompt feedback, and to elicit students’ knowledge for the development of lessons. Universidad de Costa Rica 2016-01-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Article investigación mixta application/pdf https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/aie/article/view/21974 10.15517/aie.v16i1.21974 Actualidades Investigativas en Educación; Vol. 16 No. 1: (Enero - Abril) Actualidades Investigativas en Educación; Vol. 16 Núm. 1: (Enero - Abril) Actualidades Investigativas en Educación; v. 16 n. 1: (Enero - Abril) 1409-4703 spa https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/aie/article/view/21974/22766 Derechos de autor 2015 Actualidades Investigativas en Educación |
| spellingShingle | higher education english teaching for specific purposes task-based language teaching Costa Rica Vargas Vásquez, José Miguel Moya Chaves, Maciel Garro Morales, Carolina The roles of the instructors in an ESP-task based language teaching course |
| title | The roles of the instructors in an ESP-task based language teaching course |
| title_full | The roles of the instructors in an ESP-task based language teaching course |
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| title_short | The roles of the instructors in an ESP-task based language teaching course |
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| topic | higher education english teaching for specific purposes task-based language teaching Costa Rica |
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| url | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/aie/article/view/21974 |
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