USING TASK-BASED INSTRUCTION IN AN ESP COURSE IN THE COMPUTER CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COSTA RICA

Patricia Córdoba Cubillo; César Navas Brenes

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dc.creator	Patricia Córdoba Cubillo
dc.creator	César Navas Brenes
dc.date	2009
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-29T14:17:48Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-29T14:17:48Z
dc.identifier	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=44713054011
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/144587
dc.description	This article presents the advantages of using Task -based Learning to help learners from the Computer Center at the University of Costa Rica infer the rule of the superlative form of adjectives in English. This group of learners was taking an ESP course that was team taught by two instructors. The course lasted four months, and the instructors covered four different units. It is important to mention that the methodology based on tasks help learners pay more attention or concentrate more on meaning than Task -based language learning is an approach in which learners concentrate more on meaning than on form. By doing this, students perform different communicative tasks, which happen to be more meaningful because they are close to the learners' reality, instead of doing form -based discrete exercises, which are usually decontextualized and meaningless because they do not see a reason to do them. In the lesson presented in this article, the Computer Center students were asked to express their own ideas, either orally or in a written mode, about the topic of the lesson, the superlative form of the adjectives in English.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Universidad de Costa Rica
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=447
dc.rights	Revista Electrónica "Actualidades Investigativas en Educación"
dc.source	Revista Electrónica "Actualidades Investigativas en Educación" (Costa Rica) Num.1 Vol.9
dc.subject	Educación
dc.subject	Esp course
dc.subject	lesson
dc.subject	task-based learning
dc.subject	learners
dc.subject	methodologies
dc.subject	outcome
dc.subject	teaching
dc.title	USING TASK-BASED INSTRUCTION IN AN ESP COURSE IN THE COMPUTER CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COSTA RICA
dc.type	artículo científico