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Assessment of Students’ Oral Communicative Competence in English Through a Web Conferencing Platform
Evaluación de la competencia comunicativa oral de estudiantes de inglés a través de una plataforma de videoconferencias
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https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v24n1.91282Keywords:
assessment, instructional design, language instruction, online courses, communicative competence (en)competencia comunicativa oral, cursos en línea, diseño instruccional, enseñanza de idiomas, evaluación (es)
This manuscript reports on a study carried out at a public university in southeast Mexico aimed to determine whether changes in the instructional design of an online English course benefit students’ oral communicative competence. The research followed a quantitative quasi-experimental design that involved two groups of students. One of them took a modified version of an online English II course that provided contextualized instruction of the syllabus language topics. This group’s communicative competence was assessed online, which represented a major shift from the face-to-face assessments typically delivered to online groups. The results showed that online assessment is possible, and also that students’ communicative competence improved and was directly related to the intervention.
Este estudio se llevó a cabo en una universidad pública del sureste mexicano. Su principal propósito fue determinar si las modificaciones al diseño instruccional de un curso de inglés en línea beneficia la competencia comunicativa oral de los estudiantes. El diseño del estudio fue cuantitativo y cuasi-experimental con dos grupos; uno de ellos recibió instrucción contextualizada de los diferentes temas lingüísticos del programa. La competencia comunicativa de este grupo fue evaluada en línea, lo cual representó un cambio importante con respecto a la evaluación presencial que tradicionalmente se suministra a estos grupos virtuales. Los resultados mostraron que la evaluación en línea es viable, y que la competencia comunicativa de los estudiantes mejoró en relación directa con la intervención.
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