Use of the task-based approach to strengthen writing fluency in the English language
<p><strong>Background</strong>: currently there are insufficiencies in strengthening the fluency of the English language, as a foreign language taught in the postgraduate course of Health professionals, since there are limitations in its didactic treatment.<br /><strong>...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Medisur |
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| Online Access: | http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/5246 |
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| Summary: | <p><strong>Background</strong>: currently there are insufficiencies in strengthening the fluency of the English language, as a foreign language taught in the postgraduate course of Health professionals, since there are limitations in its didactic treatment.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to analyze the benefits of using the task-based approach to strengthen writing fluency in the English language teaching-learning process in postgraduate Health professionals.<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: pedagogical research that included a group of Health professionals, who completed the English language postgraduate course at the Sancti Spíritus University of Medical Sciences, during the 2020-2021 academic year. Documentary review, class observation, discussion groups, interviews and methodological triangulation.<br /><strong>Results</strong>: the application of different methods and techniques corroborated that the health professionals presented difficulties in fluency in writing; they spent too much time reviewing ideas; in addition to incurring in unnecessary repetitions, poor syntactic elaboration and writing of short sentences. The use of the task approach was implemented with encouraging results.<strong><br />Conclusion</strong>: through the qualitative assessment, the benefits of the task-based approach were evidenced, after its application in the postgraduate course of Health professionals, by favoring the strengthening of fluency in writing the English language</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1727-897X |