SUPPORTED TECHNOLOGIES FOR STRENGTHENING COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES CASE STUDY: SHORT FILMS PRODUCED BY FUTURE ENGLISH TEACHERS

Abstract:

This comparative study aims to promote communicative skills: listening comprehension and oral expression in future English teachers, based on the filming as a communication and didactic tool. 105 students participate in a teacher training program in Ecuador. The 'intervention group' composed of 50 participants-produces short films in English-and by observing their productions participants detect the language errors committed, and work on their self-correction. The 'control group' composed of 55 participants, applies a didactic strategy based on the 'repetition of vocabulary' through internet applications. The Cambridge Press Knowledge Test (KET) is administered as a pre-test and post-test to measure: grammatical correction, intonation, pronunciation, linguistic register, and general and exact listening comprehension. The results show that all the participants improved the communicative competences in …

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2017

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