The Use of Authentic Materials to Improve the English Language Skills

ABSTRACT: This action research was conducted to learn how using authentic materials helps students improve their language skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing, in a group of 11th graders at a public institution INEM Jose Felix de Restrepo in the city of Medellín. The data collection ins...

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Autores:
Orozco Puerta, Diego Leandro
Tipo de recurso:
Trabajo de grado de pregrado
Fecha de publicación:
2022
Institución:
Universidad de Antioquia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UdeA
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/34604
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/10495/34604
Palabra clave:
Action research
Learning strategies
Authentic materials
English language - Study and teaching
Language skills
Aprendizaje de lenguas
Competencia lingüística
Enseñanza de idiomas
Estrategia de aprendizaje
Investigación accion
Materiales auténticos
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000722
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95000636
Rights
openAccess
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Description
Summary:ABSTRACT: This action research was conducted to learn how using authentic materials helps students improve their language skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing, in a group of 11th graders at a public institution INEM Jose Felix de Restrepo in the city of Medellín. The data collection instruments included journals, surveys, student artifacts, focus group, CT interview, and advisor observation report, showing the necessary evidence of how the students, through the use of authentic materials like videos, articles, and comics could improve their language skills except for reading since lack of time and another obstacles that made impossible to implement more activities to deepen this skill.