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An official textbook and non-official EFL curriculum in Chile: a comparative analysis of learning tasks' levels of cognitive demands for second graders

Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Lingüística mención Lengua Inglesa / The main purpose of the present study is to compare and determine the degree of coherence
between the non-official national second grade EFL program published by the Ministry of
Education and the respective EFL textbook (Bounce 2) used by students at state schools in Chile.
Through the application of Bloom‟s revised Taxonomy (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) and the
General Model of Hierarchical Complexity (Commons, Trudeau, Stein, Richards, & Krause,
1998; Commons, 2007), learning task instructions were analyzed and tasks were classified in
terms of their levels of complexity. A mixed methodological design has been adopted to provide
an exploratory account of patterns observed. The classification of tasks made in the EFL
textbook and the EFL program for second graders revealed a mismatch between their tasks‟
levels of cognitive complexity. In addition, the interpretation of results also places both
documents at an early childhood level of hierarchical complexity, which does not correspond to
second grade learners‟ developmental stage.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UCHILE/oai:repositorio.uchile.cl:2250/152437
Date January 2018
CreatorsRubio Olmedo, Matías
ContributorsDoddis Jara, Alfonsina
PublisherUniversidad de Chile
Source SetsUniversidad de Chile
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeTesis

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