Strategies to Help ESL Students Improve their Communicative Competence and Class Participation: A Study in a Middle School
This article examines a qualitative study carried out at a middle school in North Carolina, the United States of America. The main purpose of the study was to find effective strategies that teachers can use to help ESL students improve their speaking skills and class participation. Results indicate...
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Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles
2010-12-01
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This article examines a qualitative study carried out at a middle school in North Carolina, the United States of America. The main purpose of the study was to find effective strategies that teachers can use to help ESL students improve their speaking skills and class participation. Results indicated that both communicative and social strategies as well as exposure to independent reading help ESL students improve their communicative skills and class participation.
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| spelling | doaj.art-73cf5f82f7cd4ce1bb12ad44be1a5b772023-09-06T05:58:36ZengAsociación Colombiana de Profesores de InglesHOW0120-59272010-12-01171Strategies to Help ESL Students Improve their Communicative Competence and Class Participation: A Study in a Middle SchoolClaudia Gómez Palacio0Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín This article examines a qualitative study carried out at a middle school in North Carolina, the United States of America. The main purpose of the study was to find effective strategies that teachers can use to help ESL students improve their speaking skills and class participation. Results indicated that both communicative and social strategies as well as exposure to independent reading help ESL students improve their communicative skills and class participation. http://howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/66Class participationcommunicative strategiesinformation gap exercisesrole playingsocial strategies and reading strategiesstorytelling |
| spellingShingle | Claudia Gómez Palacio Strategies to Help ESL Students Improve their Communicative Competence and Class Participation: A Study in a Middle School HOW Class participation communicative strategies information gap exercises role playing social strategies and reading strategies storytelling |
| title | Strategies to Help ESL Students Improve their Communicative Competence and Class Participation: A Study in a Middle School |
| title_full | Strategies to Help ESL Students Improve their Communicative Competence and Class Participation: A Study in a Middle School |
| title_fullStr | Strategies to Help ESL Students Improve their Communicative Competence and Class Participation: A Study in a Middle School |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strategies to Help ESL Students Improve their Communicative Competence and Class Participation: A Study in a Middle School |
| title_short | Strategies to Help ESL Students Improve their Communicative Competence and Class Participation: A Study in a Middle School |
| title_sort | strategies to help esl students improve their communicative competence and class participation a study in a middle school |
| topic | Class participation communicative strategies information gap exercises role playing social strategies and reading strategies storytelling |
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