The role that grammar should occupy in the teaching of the Spanish language, and of languages in general, has varied throughout history. From taking a central role in the grammar-translation method to positioning grammar on the periphery and implicitly teaching it in the communicative approach. The teaching of grammar is part of the training of students once they pass the introductory and most basic level of the language, so we will study how this process occurs in the classrooms of a couple of schools in the region of Skåne. For this we will make a distinction between the teaching of grammar explicitly and the implicit teaching of it. Our research is based on the testimonies of two professors with extensive academic competence on the subject and with a large number of years of experience. Through semi-structured interviews, we had access to detailed information about the choice of the way in which they work, and we corroborated that they favor explicit grammar teaching because, according to our informants, this provides solid knowledge, saves time and effort to students to form grammatical structures, students request it and have a positive attitude towards it and it motivates them. It is also the form that gives the best results for learning the language, in combination with the advantages of the communicative approach, affirm the teachers interviewed. Another aspect in our research that our informants confirm is the lack of materials for the formal teaching of grammar, since said material is almost non-existent in manuals for language teaching, so the responsibility to find, and in many cases create these materials rests with the teachers. This aspect together with the fact that the choice to teach explicit grammar in class may lead to more research that has an echo in the Skolverket curricula so that materials that cover these needs are developed. On the other hand, based on the information collected by our informants, we can say that it does not seem necessary to us that there is a sharp dichotomy between the grammar-translation method and the communicative approach, but rather that both methods be reconciled in a harmonious way. That is to say, that the best of both methods is taken advantage of without having to choose between one or the other in a clear way. Our research can serve to guide such future research.

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Nuestra tesina trata de indagar en cómo piensan los alumnos de bachillerato sobre los métodos didácticos elegidos para aprender una lengua extranjera. El objetivo de esta tesina es investigar tres métodos didácticos; método gramática- traducción, método situacional y método comunicativo, comprobar si los estudiantes los utilizan, y cuál les resulta más útil y por qué. Hemos investigado qué opinan los alumnos con la ayuda del método cualitativo a través de entrevistas cualitativas. Podemos decir que los alumnos utilizan los métodos hasta cierto punto en su enseñanza. Piensan que todos los métodos tienen sus aspectos positivos y negativos. Los aspectos positivos y negativos están repartidos de manera igual entre los métodos didácticos. / Denna uppsats handlar om att undersöka hur gymnasieelever som studerar moderna språk uppfattar de undervisningsmetoder vi valt att studera när de lär sig ett främmande språk. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka tre undervisningsmetoder; grammatik - och översättningsmetoden, kontext-metoden och den kommunikativa metoden, för att kontrollera om eleverna använder dem, vilken de tycker är mest användbar och varför. Vi har, med hjälp av kvalitativ metod och kvalitativa intervjuer undersökt hur eleverna uppfattar dessa didaktiska metoder. Vi kan säga att eleverna använder metoderna till viss del i sin undervisning. Enligt deras åsikt har alla metoder positiva sidor men även negativa. De positiva och negativa aspekterna är jämlika mellan olika undervisningsmetoder.

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abstract: The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of how collaborative language learning activities affected student perceptions of their engagement and language self-efficacy in a communicative, flipped language learning classroom in higher education. The new online platforms accompanying many textbooks now allow students to prepare for classes ahead of time, allowing instructors to use more class time for student engagement in actual language practices. However, there has been little investigation of the effects of this communicative, flipped classroom model on students’ learning processes and outcomes. This mixed methods action research study revealed that the introduction of varied collaborative language learning activities had a positive impact on students’ self-efficacy and engagement as well as provides implications that will be of value to language educators interested in enhancing their use of the communicative, flipped classroom model. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2019

As a result of the development in foreign trade in Vietnam, there is a growing need for trained business executives and business people. A good command of spoken English is one of the most important qualifications of a foreign trade executive who needs English as a means of communicating with English speaking people in various business activities. At present, the responsibility for training students of commerce mainly rests with Hanoi Foreign Trade College. English language teaching in general, and the teaching of speaking skills in particular still leave much,to be desired. The students' oral proficiency is far from satisfactory. The purpose of this report is to explore the two main problematic areas in teaching speaking skills to students of commerce in Vietnam: syllabus design and teaching methods. The report consists of four chapters. Chapter one looks at some major theoretical problems and practical issues in English for Specific Purposes teaching. Chapter two provides an analysis of the teaching and learning situations at Hanoi Foreign Trade College and problems in teaching oral skills. Chapter three is mainly concerned with designing a communicative syllabus for the teaching of speaking skills to students of commerce. Chapter four deals with the theoretical assumptions and processes involved in oral communication and discusses some classroom methods and techniques in the light of the current communicative approach. This report should be regarded as an exploratory attempt in adopting the communicative approach to teaching oral skills to students of commerce in Vietnam.

Increasing development of the relationship between Vietnam and other countries has resulted in a great demand for English language teaching (ELT) throughout the country. The need is ever greater for a considerable number of people who can use English effectively in their work. However, at present ELT in Vietnam is still far from satisfactory. There exists a common problem of communicative incompetence in Vietnamese learners. ELT in the Hanoi Foreign Languages Teachers' College (HFLTC) is taken to illustrate the fact that even after five years of training, students frequently remain deficient in the ability to actually use the language, to understand its use in normal communication, and to carry out their teaching adequately afterwards. That existing situation demands a critical look at ELT in all institutions to work out suitable materials and methods to be used in the Vietnamese setting. This work has been undertaken as an exploratory study of this problem. To provide a context for the study, the background to ELT in Vietnam is reviewed. Following it is a detailed description of different approaches used in ELT with reference to the teaching and learning situations in Vietnam. Special emphasis is placed on the differences between conventional approaches and the currently influential one - the Communicative Approach. A detailed comparison is made between two lessons taken from structuralbased and functional/notional-based textbooks representing two distinct approaches. This comparison will be examined from the methodological point of view, investigating, for example, how language is treated in the two approaches, how different types of activities are used, and the role of teacher and learner in the two approaches in order to highlight a possible fresh approach for Vietnamese coursebook designers, teachers and learners in ELT. A sample lesson based on the Communicative Approach is finally provided to assist any attempts to teach and learn English communicatively. It is hoped that this survey will contribute to reducing the existing problem of inadequate communicative competence in Vietnamese learners.

This study explores the whys and wherefores of the communication difficulties experienced by Tunisian secondary school learners of English as a foreign language, and aims at offering ways out of the issue.It has been demonstrated that the issue proceeds broadly from the woeful dearth of exposure to and practice of the language and certain inadequacies of the teaching methodology.English seems to be learned as a mere curricular discipline, in that students have only a few weekly sessions confined solely to a classroom setting.The inadequacies of the teaching methodology are manifest in a number of aspects. The use of the mother tongue in EFL classes has proved to generate more harm than good. In the very framework, it has also been revealed that Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has not been at the level of the expected outcome. Two CLT principal principles, focus on meaning to the detriment of form, and prioritizing oral fluency over written proficiency, as well as certain constraints, mainly the severe lack of instructional materials and large classes have intervened with its successful implementation in EFL classes. An added factor related to teaching methodology is the quasi‐absence of theoretical teaching as a prerequisite for the success of specific learning activities.Accordingly, exposing learners profusely to English in various ways inside and outside the classroom, adopting an only‐English eclectic approach to teaching the language, and combining theoretical instruction with practical teaching can considerably contribute to surmounting the students' learning difficulties, and hence to the achievement of their communicative competence.

Orientador: Jose Carlos Paes de Almeida Filho / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T21:21:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Abreu-e-Lima_DeniseMartinsde_D.pdf: 3386078 bytes, checksum: 364fbadb35ba33b85ca8d6c41c5ad208 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Pesquisas realizadas na área de Lingüística Aplicada (LA) sobre formação de professores de língua estrangeira (LE) revelam a falta de articulação entre teoria-prática e de preparo dos professores como sujeitos transformadores em sua prática, demonstrando a inconsistência da formação de professores no desenvolvimento das competências de ensinar, segundo classificação de Almeida Filho (1998). As mesmas pesquisas citadas indicam caminhos que podem ser seguidos para minimizar ou solucionar esses problemas. Um dos caminhos a ser percorrido na LA é saber como fazer para que uma abordagem de ensinar e aprender línguas, condizente com os resultados almejados, seja concretizada na prática e produza os efeitos desejados nas diferentes competências do profissional de ensino. De acordo com essas discussões e com as características exigidas pelo Ministério da Educação sobre o tipo de profissional que se deseja formar: que tenha capacidade crítico-reflexiva, que saiba trabalhar em equipe, realizar projetos, trabalhar interdisciplinarmente, desenvolvendo suas potencialidades e as de seus alunos, buscamos na teoria das Inteligências Múltiplas de Gardner (1983) um possível eixo temático para ser abordado em curso de formação de professores. Este trabalho, qualitativo e interpretativista, de cunho etnográfico, foi desenvolvido em uma universidade federal pública de formação de professores de inglês pré-serviço (PPS). Na organização da disciplina-base para esta pesquisa (sexto período de um curso noturno com 10 períodos), adotou-se como abordagens norteadoras: a reflexivista de formação de professores e a comunicativa de ensino de língua(s), neste caso, a língua inglesa. O objetivo foi o de verificar como o ensino de LE na formação de professores, baseado em uma abordagem comunicativa de ensinar, realizada por intermédio de projetos, aliado a uma formação reflexiva que desenvolva as competências de ensinar, pode ser articulado a um núcleo temático como a teoria das inteligências múltiplas. Com base nessas articulações teóricas, também se buscou avaliar de que forma essas teorias podem ser organizadas em um modelo macro-organizacional e que papéis podem assumir para auxiliar o professor formador em sua prática docente. Os instrumentos para coleta e análise dos dados foram: questionário diagnóstico, interação virtual e presencial, provas e projetos elaborados pelos PPS, aulas gravadas em vídeo, avaliações entre os colegas, auto-avaliações e anotações de campo. Os resultados obtidos demonstraram que há compatibilidade do eixo temático com o paradigma reflexivista de formação de professores que, aliado à abordagem comunicativa, permitiu que fosse criada a base necessária para o desenvolvimento das competências. A língua-alvo pôde ser utilizada contextualizada e significativamente em todos os momentos de ensino-aprendizagem, resultando no desenvolvimento da competência lingüístico-comunicativa. Os PPS puderam também desenvolver suas inteligências intra e interpessoais, fundamentais para o trabalho de sala de aula. Os projetos desenhados pelos PPS revelam quanto os mesmos desenvolveram suas competências durante o processo para sugerir mudanças no ensino de língua inglesa nas escolas. Além desses resultados, foi elaborada uma tabela organizadora de habilidades das inteligências que uma vez estimuladas desenvolvem as competências de ensinar dos PPS, bem como foi sugerida uma macro-formulação teórica para disciplinas a serem ministradas para PPS de língua(s) / Abstract: From the mid 90's on, studies in Applied Linguistics (AL) have been carried out investigating questions related to preservice teacher education. They have revealed lack of articulation between theory and practice, lack of comprehensive knowledge of the content to be taught and lack of pedagogical education. Most of these investigations have shown how underdeveloped the teaching competences (Almeida Filho, 1998) are. Researchers have pointed out some possible ways to develop more effective courses in language teacher education, stimulating the different competences. In agreement with these suggestions, the Brazilian Ministry of Education has established characteristics for the reflexive capacity, knowing how to work in interdisciplinary groups through projects. These characteristics are related to the concept of intelligence described by Gardner (1983) in the theory of Multiple Intelligences. The study reported here has evaluated the results of using this theory as a guideline in developing a course in a language teacher education program (LTEP). This qualitative and interpretative research, in an ethnographic basis, was carried out in a public federal LTEP. In the course used for this work (sixth period in a 10-period program), two paradigms were also adopted: the reflexivist of teachers¿ education and the communicative of language teaching, in this case, English as a foreign language (FL). It was believed that by choosing the communicative approach we would enable the preservice teachers to get access not only to the theory related to the topic but also to the experience of learning language through it, having models of how to teach using this approach in their future contexts. In this study, the CA was developed through projects designed by the preservice teachers. Taking the results of these articulations, it was also the purpose of this study to evaluate in which way these theories could be organized in a macro-structure model and which roles they could play to help the teacher educators in their practice. The instruments used to data collect and analysis were: diagnostic questionnaire, virtual and classroom interaction, tests and projects made by the preservice teachers as well as recorded classes, peer, self and course evaluations and field notes. The results demonstrate that there is compatibility among the theory of MI, the paradigm of reflexive teaching education and the communicative approach of teaching a foreign language through projects, creating the necessary basis to develop the teaching competences. The target language was used contextualized and meaningfully in all interactions what has resulted in a better linguistic-communicative competence. The preservice teachers could also develop their intra and interpersonal intelligences, fundamental to the classroom routine. The projects designed by the preservice teachers reveal how they are prepared to suggest changes and create new opportunities of learning English in elementary and secondary schools. Besides, this study proposes an organized table among specific abilities related to the eight intelligences that once stimulated could develop the teaching competences. A suggestion of a theoretical macro-structure of teaching was provided to be used in teacher education programs / Doutorado / Ensino-Aprendizagem de Segunda Lingua e Lingua Estrangeira / Doutor em Linguística Aplicada

Orientador: Jose Carlos Paes Almeida Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-11T21:05:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_KatiaMarquesda_M.pdf: 11767587 bytes, checksum: 336c2ad97691f66fb7e1e42e4f2b96fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa insere-se dentro dos estudos de ensino e aprendizagem de Língua Estrangeira com enfoque interdisciplinar. Foram analisadas aulas de língua inglesa ministradas a alunos do primeiro ano de Licenciatura em Letras de uma universidade pública de uma cidade de grande porte do interior de Minas Gerais. Configurando-se como uma pesquisa de natureza etnográfica, utilizamos, para coleta de registros, a gravação de aulas em áudio, notas de campo e entrevistas. Ressaltamos que a professora-pesquisadora constituiu-se como sujeito de pesquisa. O arcabouço teórico que norteou nossa análise esteve circunscrito aos trabalhos desenvolvidos por Widdowson (1978, 1979), Breen e Candlin (1980), Canale e Swain (1980) e Swain (1985), Almeida Filho (1993), entre outros; buscando apoio também em Goffman (1981), J. L. Gumperz (1982,1986), Stubbs (1983) e F. Cicurel (1990) para a análise da interação na sala de aula. A questão estudada nesta situação de pesquisa revelou as contradições e as convergências ocorridas nas aulas da professora-sujeito em sua tentativa de se ajustar entre uma abordagem desejada (interdisciplinar) e a sua abordagem real, ou seja, aquela de sua historicidade. Julgamos que este estudo contribui com subsídios teóricos e práticos para elaboração de programas e cursos de formação de professores de L2 e LE. Ademais, a reflexão feita neste trabalho pode levar os professores pré-serviço e em serviço a repensarem sua própria prática / Abstract: The present study was part of a Foreign Language program using an interdisciplinary approach. English language classes were taught to first year foreign language majors of a Federal University in the state of Minas Gerais. It is an ethnographic study and data were collected using tape, field notes and interviews. It should be noted that the teacher/researcher was also a subject of the research. Theory for the research was based on the work of Widdowson (1978, 1979). Breen & Candlin (1980), Canale & Swain (1980), Swan (1985) and Almeida Filho (1983), among others. Theory for classroom interaction was based on the work of Goffman (1981), Gumperz (1982, 1986), Stubbs (1983), and Cicurel (1990). The Study provides a theoretical base for the preparation of Second and Foreign Language instruction. The topic analyzed in this research revealed convergence and contradiction that occured in the class of the teacher/researcher as she attempted to make adjustments between an interdisciplinary approach and her traditional approachto teaching that is historicallysituated.The results provide information relevant to the development of English as a Second Language based on theoretical, communicative, implicit and applied linguistic skills of the teacher/researcher.The research presented at this time will assist pre-service teachers as they begin their careers and in-service teachers as they continue their quest to improve their teaching practice / Mestrado / Ensino-Aprendizagem de Segunda Lingua e Lingua Estrangeira / Mestre em Linguística Aplicada