Publication details
Rozvoj komunikační kompetence studentů angličtiny jako cizího jazyka pomocí online diskusních úkolů: Vybrané výsledky.
| Title in English | Developing communicative competence in EFL learners through online discussion tasks: Selected results |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The aim of the presentation is twofold. First is introduced the concept of online discussion tasks. Second is presented the research methodology and selected results of an empirical study. The underlying research question was whether learners’ communicative competence changed after using a series of online discussion tasks. The research was conducted as a case study in which 18 university learners in an EFL course at the CEFR A2 level participated in three online discussion tasks. Methods of data collection and analysis included pre- and post-tests, learner corpus compiled from the texts written by the students in two online discussions and its analysis, and a questionnaire survey. The results showed that learners’ overall level of communicative competence in writing improved. Specifically, the syntactic complexity of learners’ language produced at the end of the course increased and learners’ perceived fluency in writing improved. These findings support the claim that learners’ active participation in online discussion tasks develops their communicative competence. However, the results in the field of language accuracy remain inconclusive, especially in the area of morphological tense errors. |
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