| Title: |
Project-Based Learning: The Promotion of Communicative Competence and Self-Confidence at a State High School in Colombia |
| Language: |
English |
| Authors: |
Becerra-Posada, Tatiana (ORCID 0000-0003-3156-6907); García-Montes, Paula (ORCID 0000-0003-4443-1091); Sagre-Barbosa, Anamaría (ORCID 0000-0001-8088-1685); Carcamo-Espitia, María Isabel (ORCID 0000-0001-6683-1569); Herazo-Rivera, Jose David (ORCID 0000-0001-8038-868X) |
| Source: |
HOW. Jul-Dec 2022 29(2):13-31. |
| Availability: |
ASOCOPI, the Colombian Association of Teachers of English. Cra 27 A #53-06, oficina 405, Bogota, Colombia. +57-2115018; Fax: +57-2115018. e-mail: asocopicolombia@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how |
| Peer Reviewed: |
Y |
| Page Count: |
19 |
| Publication Date: |
2022 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Articles; Reports - Research |
| Education Level: |
Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education; Grade 8; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education |
| Descriptors: |
Preservice Teachers; Active Learning; Student Projects; Grade 8; English (Second Language); Language Teachers; Second Language Instruction; Foreign Countries; Communication Skills; Self Esteem; Urban Schools; Middle School Students; Teacher Education Programs; Low Income Students; Second Language Learning |
| Geographic Terms: |
Colombia |
| ISSN: |
0120-5927 |
| Abstract: |
Project-based learning is a student-centered methodological approach that involves communication, cooperation, and autonomy. Even though project-based learning has been largely explored in foreign language teaching, little is known about its implementation in second-language beginner levels. This action research study describes the use of project-based learning by a pre-service teacher in a group of EFL eighth-graders at a secondary state school in Cordoba, Colombia. Data sources include video classroom observations, students' focus interviews and students' diaries. Findings reveal the affordances that project-based learning have in the development of the students' communicative competence, highlighting the strategies that they use to communicate and the way they construct confidence when planning and reporting their projects. |
| Abstractor: |
As Provided |
| Entry Date: |
2023 |
| Accession Number: |
EJ1376753 |
| Database: |
ERIC |