Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development | |
Assessment of Students’ Oral Communicative Competence in English Through a Web Conferencing Platform | |
María de los Milagros Cruz-Ramos1  Luz Edith Herrera-Díaz2  | |
[1] Escuela Normal “Juan Enriquez”;Universidad Veracruzana; | |
关键词: assessment; instructional design; language instruction; online courses; communicative competence; | |
DOI : 10.15446/profile.v24n1.91282 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
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.
【 授权许可】
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