Manual de Práctica Complementaria Lengua Inglesa II: Developing Your Oral Academic Skills: A Handbook for Learners of English as a Foreign Language

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Lugar: Córdoba; Año: 2009 p. 50

978-987-05-6707-3

Based on our observation of English as a foreign language (EFL) students' oral performance at undergraduate level and on research findings in the area of foreign language speaking skills, we propose practical ways to empower college students to become more successful EFL speakers. The purpose of this handbook is to discuss ways of fostering the practice of oral academic skills in the context of EFL teaching to post-intermediate students enrolled in the teacher, translation and licentiate training programmes at university. Many of the EFL university students we have been working with have explicitly manifested the need for more oral practice in class and for more guidance on how to prepare themselves to meet the demands of oral in-class reports and exams. Therefore, it is our intention that the guidelines and learning tasks included in this handbook can be used to satisfy these student needs. The following, however, is far form being an exhaustive collection of speaking tasks and guidelines. Our aim is to put them into practice and improve them once they have been tried out.