Assessment of Students’ Oral Communicative Competence in English Through a Web Conferencing Platform

Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development

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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