Categorization of Activities Used in English as a foreign Language: A Corpus Based Study with Pedagogical Materials

  1. Gris Roca, Joaquín 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

Revista:
Procedia : social and behavioral sciences

ISSN: 1877-0428

Any de publicació: 2015

Volum: 198

Pàgines: 165-173

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.1016/J.SBSPRO.2015.07.433 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccés obert editor

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Resum

All the didactic materials used for teaching EFL have a certain potential for learning. On the one hand, there are those activitiesfocused on the learning of forms, which are likely to foster the explicit learning of language. On the other hand, there areactivities focused on the content, more aimed at the comprehension of the communicative message and the implicit learning oflanguage. Selecting the appropriate activities to promote a balanced learning of EFL is paramount; however, the increasingnumber of teaching materials today makes it more difficult for EFL teachers to get to know the learning potential of all theresources available to them. For this particular end, the present study is an attempt to categorize a large compilation of EFLactivities with the help of an activity corpus. Each individual activity was analysed with regard to its language focus and labelledaccordingly.

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