The effect of using out-of-class contexts on EFL learners: an action research.

Authors

  • Beatriz Cortina-Pérez University of Granada
  • Luz Mery Solano-Tenorio

Abstract

This work discusses the effect of Out-of-Class Language Learning (OCLL) in Communicative Competence in English within an EFL program with a group of native-Spanish students from Colombia (N=70) distributed in two groups. The experimental group attended an English instruction program based on OCLL, while participants in the control group attended the same EFL syllabus but inside the classroom. To measure the participants’ performance, a pre-test and a post-test were administered to both groups. Results revealed that there were evident differences between both groups in the post-test performance in favor of the treatment group.

Author Biographies

Beatriz Cortina-Pérez, University of Granada

Dr Beatriz Cortina-Pérez is a senior lecturer at the Department of Language and Literature Didactics (University of Granada, Spain). She is also Vice-Dean for International Relations, Research and Innovation at the Faculty of Education and Humanities. Her main research interests are ELT, CALL, spoken corpus linguistics, and multimodality. She has several national and international publications as well as participations in different academic forums. She is an associated editor of the Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics.

Luz Mery Solano-Tenorio

Luz M. Solano-Tenorio, MA in TEFL, is a PhD student at the Univerisity of Jaen (Spain). She is an English teacher in Colombia.

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Published

2013-08-29

How to Cite

Cortina-Pérez, B., & Solano-Tenorio, L. M. (2013). The effect of using out-of-class contexts on EFL learners: an action research. Calidoscópio, 11(2), 167–177. Retrieved from https://www.revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/cld.2013.112.06

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2013): May/August

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