Language-Building Activities and Variations in Interaction With Mixed-Ability ESL University Learners in a Content-Based Course
The preparation of both language-building activities and a variety of teacher/student interaction patterns increase both oral language participation and content learning in a course of manual therapy with mixed-language ability students. In this article, the researchers describe their collaboration...
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Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles
2014-04-01
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The preparation of both language-building activities and a variety of teacher/student interaction patterns increase both oral language participation and content learning in a course of manual therapy with mixed-language ability students. In this article, the researchers describe their collaboration in a content-based course in English with English as a second language learners. The data gathered through lesson plans, sociograms, and student feedback cards showed an increase of students’ involvement in class activities since their concern was to be able to diagnose and treat their future patients’ physical condition through a structured interview for which both careful language elaboration and therapist/patient interaction were essential.
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| spelling | doaj.art-9fe15f0108764e42bc23f9434fa511fb2023-09-10T05:58:30ZengAsociación Colombiana de Profesores de InglesHOW0120-59272014-04-0121110.19183/how.21.1.17Language-Building Activities and Variations in Interaction With Mixed-Ability ESL University Learners in a Content-Based CourseHéctor Manuel Serna Dimas0Erika Ruíz Castellanos1Universidad EAN, BogotáUniversidad del Rosario, Bogotá The preparation of both language-building activities and a variety of teacher/student interaction patterns increase both oral language participation and content learning in a course of manual therapy with mixed-language ability students. In this article, the researchers describe their collaboration in a content-based course in English with English as a second language learners. The data gathered through lesson plans, sociograms, and student feedback cards showed an increase of students’ involvement in class activities since their concern was to be able to diagnose and treat their future patients’ physical condition through a structured interview for which both careful language elaboration and therapist/patient interaction were essential. https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/17Classroom interaction patternslanguage-building activitiesmixed-ability language students |
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| title | Language-Building Activities and Variations in Interaction With Mixed-Ability ESL University Learners in a Content-Based Course |
| title_full | Language-Building Activities and Variations in Interaction With Mixed-Ability ESL University Learners in a Content-Based Course |
| title_fullStr | Language-Building Activities and Variations in Interaction With Mixed-Ability ESL University Learners in a Content-Based Course |
| title_full_unstemmed | Language-Building Activities and Variations in Interaction With Mixed-Ability ESL University Learners in a Content-Based Course |
| title_short | Language-Building Activities and Variations in Interaction With Mixed-Ability ESL University Learners in a Content-Based Course |
| title_sort | language building activities and variations in interaction with mixed ability esl university learners in a content based course |
| topic | Classroom interaction patterns language-building activities mixed-ability language students |
| url | https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/17 |
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