Assessment of Students’ Oral Communicative Competence in English Through a Web Conferencing Platform

Autor: María de los Milagros Cruz-Ramos, Luz Edith Herrera-Díaz
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 143-156 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1657-0790
DOI: 10.15446/profile.v24n1.91282
Popis: This manuscript reports on a study carried out at a public university in southeast Mexico aimed to determine whether changes in the instructional design of an online English course benefit students’ oral communicative competence. The research followed a quantitative quasi-experimental design that involved two groups of students. One of them took a modified version of an online English II course that provided contextualized instruction of the syllabus language topics. This group’s communicative competence was assessed online, which represented a major shift from the face-to-face assessments typically delivered to online groups. The results showed that online assessment is possible, and also that students’ communicative competence improved and was directly related to the intervention.
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