Assessing trainees' oral performance in a Chilean teacher training program: A corpus-based study

The present paper reports the implementation of syllabus innovations in EFL teacher education in Chile after diagnosing a lack of language achievement standards common to all EFL teacher training programs offered in public and private universities alike. The aim of this study is to collect linguisti...

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Autor Principal: Ortega, Maritza Fernanda
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Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas 2014
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spelling ir-11349-180962019-09-19T21:23:34Z Assessing trainees' oral performance in a Chilean teacher training program: A corpus-based study Ortega, Maritza Fernanda second language pedagogy content-based approach corpus linguistics interlanguage communicative performance The present paper reports the implementation of syllabus innovations in EFL teacher education in Chile after diagnosing a lack of language achievement standards common to all EFL teacher training programs offered in public and private universities alike. The aim of this study is to collect linguistic data in natural and artificial social contexts – EFL trainees’ intermediate status between their native language (Spanish) and the target language (English) – in order to create the first Chilean corpus of spoken English as a foreign language, in the interest of analyzing the errors that are most likely to be made and fossilized by native speakers of Chilean Spanish. Once the results of this exercise are available, EFL trainers, professors, and SLA researchers will be able to design a newly sequenced syllabus based on the Content-based Approach and tailored to students’ needs so as to enhance oral performance in L2 English. 2014-01-01 2019-09-19T21:23:34Z 2019-09-19T21:23:34Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares Peer-reviewes Article https://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/5015 10.14483/udistrital.jour.calj.2014.1.a01 http://hdl.handle.net/11349/18096 eng https://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/5015/9432 https://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/5015/11201 Copyright (c) 2014 Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal application/pdf Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas Colombian appl. linguist. J.; Vol 16, No 1 (2014) January-June; 10-16 Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal; Vol 16, No 1 (2014) January-June; 10-16 2248-7085 0123-4641
institution Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
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language Inglés (English)
topic second language pedagogy
content-based approach
corpus linguistics
interlanguage
communicative performance
spellingShingle second language pedagogy
content-based approach
corpus linguistics
interlanguage
communicative performance
Ortega, Maritza Fernanda
Assessing trainees' oral performance in a Chilean teacher training program: A corpus-based study
description The present paper reports the implementation of syllabus innovations in EFL teacher education in Chile after diagnosing a lack of language achievement standards common to all EFL teacher training programs offered in public and private universities alike. The aim of this study is to collect linguistic data in natural and artificial social contexts – EFL trainees’ intermediate status between their native language (Spanish) and the target language (English) – in order to create the first Chilean corpus of spoken English as a foreign language, in the interest of analyzing the errors that are most likely to be made and fossilized by native speakers of Chilean Spanish. Once the results of this exercise are available, EFL trainers, professors, and SLA researchers will be able to design a newly sequenced syllabus based on the Content-based Approach and tailored to students’ needs so as to enhance oral performance in L2 English.
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author Ortega, Maritza Fernanda
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title Assessing trainees' oral performance in a Chilean teacher training program: A corpus-based study
title_short Assessing trainees' oral performance in a Chilean teacher training program: A corpus-based study
title_full Assessing trainees' oral performance in a Chilean teacher training program: A corpus-based study
title_fullStr Assessing trainees' oral performance in a Chilean teacher training program: A corpus-based study
title_full_unstemmed Assessing trainees' oral performance in a Chilean teacher training program: A corpus-based study
title_sort assessing trainees' oral performance in a chilean teacher training program: a corpus-based study
publisher Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
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