Abstract

AMORIM, Jane da Silva  and  MARCIA GHEDIN, Leila. Communicative competency with professional purpose developed through tasks. Comunicación [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.2, pp.63-77. ISSN 1659-3820.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18845/rc.v26i2-17.3445.

Communicative competency with professional purpose developed throughtasks

This article describes and analyzes tasks carried out by Brazilian students of Spanish for Professional Purposes as a foreign language (FL) in a formal instructional context supported in theory and practice. This study is based on the assumptions of applied linguistics (AL) as an interdisciplinary science, action research contributions, and cognitive theories of learning, methods and communicative approaches. It describes and analyzes the tasks developed and carried out by a group of Brazilian students of Spanish (FL) for Professional Purpose ages 18 to 40 of the V module of 2017 academic year of the Instituto Federal de Roraima (IFRR) proving the theories applied. It isa descriptive, exploratory, and qualitative study that combines observational and narrative criteria. The results show that the didactic units designed through tasks with research insights contribute to the effective development of the basic Spanish for Professional Purposes learning skills. In the same way, results allowed to cope with the lack of spontaneous and experimental data related to the development problem in E/LE learning with specific purposes

Keywords : Teaching Idiom; Foreign Language; LearningMethod; Learning through practice; practicalwork.

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