Article
Using Task-Based Learning with Students of Academic English
Arab World English Journal
(2018)
Abstract
The purposes of this study wereto study the effects of using task-based learning(TBL)to teach English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students and to explore their opinions towards TBL at Thammasat University. Forty students were chosen via purposely selected sampling.The researchinstruments included a reading and writing pretest-posttest, aspeaking pretest-posttest, and a questionnaire.The questionnaire was divided into three parts:the students’demographic information, the students’opinions about Pre-Task, During Taskor Task Cycle, and Post-Task, as well as their additional opinions and suggestions of TBL. The data was statistically analyzed by mean, standard deviation, and t-test for dependent samples. The results of this study indicated that the reading-writing and speaking abilities of EAP students through TBL after the experiment were significantlyhigher at the .05 level. Similarly, they were highly satisfied to study with TBL.
Keywords
- English language teaching,
- language teaching approach,
- task-based learning,
- teaching English as a foreign language
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter December 15, 2018
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol9no4.25
Citation Information
Chorthip Viriya. "Using Task-Based Learning with Students of Academic English" Arab World English Journal Vol. 9 Iss. 4 (2018) p. 337 - 346 ISSN: 2229-9327 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/arabworldenglishjournal-awej/603/