IMPROVING SPOKEN COMPETENCE BY MEANS OF MULTIMODAL ENVIRONMENTS IN A DISTANCE CONTEXT | Zendy

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IMPROVING SPOKEN COMPETENCE BY MEANS OF MULTIMODAL ENVIRONMENTS IN A DISTANCE CONTEXT

Author(s) -

María Jordano de la Torre

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

revista de lingüística y lenguas aplicadas

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.175

H-Index - 3

eISSN - 1886-6298

pISSN - 1886-2438

DOI - 10.4995/rlyla.2011.905

Subject(s) - fluency , pronunciation , competence (human resources) , communicative competence , tourism , cultural competence , computer science , spoken language , psychology , pedagogy , linguistics , mathematics education , natural language processing , social psychology , political science , philosophy , law

The outline below describes the implementation of a task-based project based on the collaborative work of students and teachers in four different countries with others studying tourism in an international distance university. By means of a mainly qualitative study, we will attempt to show if occasional written and spoken encounters with people with different L1 (either English or any other) and different culture can help learners to improve different aspects of their spoken competence, such as fluency, pronunciation accuracy and cultural awareness, in the context of the European Space for Higher Education (ESHE)

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