Wiki Storyline in Second Language Teaching

Wiki Storyline is a web-based Storyline project. The interdisciplinary approach to second language teaching provided by combining the Storyline method and ICT is dynamic, and ideal for practicing receptive and productive skills in English. Being a learner-centered approach, the Storyline creates motivation for written and oral communication and this is facilitated by digital tools. The Wiki Storyline project has been carried out with two in-service courses and this study presents a comparative analysis of the various technical solutions, as well as of the pedagogical potential explored in the two courses. In addition to the wiki, Etherpad and a blog were the key digital media tools included in the project. In the wiki a virtual world was created, while Etherpad served as a tool for real time collaborative text editing, and the blog as an arena for reflection for the participants, outside the virtual world.

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Enhancing Oral Communication through Task Based Language Teaching: An Experimental Study on Under Graduate Students

Think India ◽

10.26643/think-india.v22i3.8201 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 277-282

Author(s):

D. Shaby

Keyword(s):

Experimental Study ◽

Second Language ◽

English Language ◽

Performance Test ◽

Language Teaching ◽

Oral Communication ◽

Control Group ◽

Text Book ◽

Second Language Teaching ◽

Experimental Group

A number of approaches to second language teaching have been projected since the nineteenth century. In spite of these changes within the background of second language teaching task-based language teaching (TBLT) remains to be a prevailing approach in language classrooms. However, several English language teachers be deficient in full awareness on what TBLT is and the way it is expeditiously implemented in their individual classrooms considerably in Asian classrooms that uses the most current language teaching and learning. An experimental study has been conducted to find out the effectiveness of Task Based Approach in teaching oral communication skills to college students. Based on the prescribed text book task based platform was constructed to teach for the first year students. An oral performance test attended by an assessment heading was administered. Fifty students were taken for the study and they were divided into two groups. Twenty five students representing the experimental group planned two units exploiting the task based program while twenty five students signifying the control group studied the same units following the Teacher’s instruction. Data were analyzed and Results exposed that there were statistically substantial differences found between the control and the experimental group. These results supports to utilize task based learning in teaching English as a second language Improvements.

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