Teaching Speakingan Exploratory Study in Two Academic Contexts

  1. Alonso Alonso, María Rosa
Revista:
Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras

ISSN: 1697-7467

Ano de publicación: 2014

Número: 22

Páxinas: 145-160

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.30827/DIGIBUG.53717 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumo

This paper analyses the teaching of speaking in secondary education (SE) institutions and state language schools (EOI) in Spain. Eighty teachers participated in the study. The research instrument was a questionnaire which focused on the time devoted to the teaching and practising of spoken English, the assessment of speaking, the type of activities they used and frequency of their use. A Wald-type test was used in the data analysis. Findings indicate that EOI teachers devote more time to the teaching and practice of speaking, focus more on pronunciation and interaction in the assessment of speaking, and prefer lesscontrolled tasks

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