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INFORMATION GAP ACTIVITIES IN ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION

Abstract:

Task-based teaching (TBLT) is a method that covers the Information-gap Activities (i-gap), and has proven to be very effective in teaching foreign languages, according to authors such as Yalcin and Balsaran. The general objective of the work was to apply Information-gap Activities as a technique to improve the reading comprehension capacity, applied in a population constituted by twenty students from the Language Center of the Catholic University of Cuenca. Through a quantitative-experimental approach, these strategies were applied to measure their effectiveness in acquiring the reading comprehension of texts in English in university students. The methodology was based on the application of a pre-test and post-test, the results revealed the positive effects in the improvement of reading skills and the increase of lexical contents in the participants. Readings were chosen for the application of this study …

Año de publicación:

2017

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    Fuente:

    googlegoogle

    Tipo de documento:

    Other

    Estado:

    Acceso abierto

    Áreas de conocimiento:

    • Enseñanza del inglés como segundo o lengua extranjera

    Áreas temáticas:

    • Inglés e inglés antiguo (anglosajón)
    • Uso del inglés estándar
    • Enseñanza primaria

    Contribuidores:

    Jeaneth BarrionuevoJeaneth Barrionuevo