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Effects of Task-Based Language Teaching on Improving Grade 11 Students' Essay Writing Skills

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Publicado en:Journal of Language Teaching and Research vol. 16, no. 1 (Jan 2025), p. 23
Autor principal: Anito, Bekelech French
Otros Autores: Ali, Wondwosen Tesfamichael, Aycle, Zclcke Arifich
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Academy Publication Co., Ltd.
Materias:
Ethiopia
Grammar
Teaching methods
Success
Writing tests
Problem solving
Task-based language teaching
Independent sample
Student writing
English as a second language
Cognitive ability
Secondary school students
Secondary schools
Learning
Education
Cognition & reasoning
Skills
Learning outcomes
Writing instruction
Writing
Quasi-experimental methods
Textbooks
Information dissemination
Teaching
Privacy
Tests
Students
Personal information
Control groups
Values
Random sampling
Vocabulary
Sampling
Groups
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Resumen:This quasi-experimental study aimed to examine the effects of task-based language teaching (TBLT) on improving students' essay writing skills in terms of content, organization, grammar, and vocabulary. To that end, participants of Grade 11 students at Otona Secondary School were assigned as experimental and control groups using simple random sampling technique. The students in the experimental group were taught essay writing via TBLT, whereas those in the control group were taught essay writing through the conventional method. Additionally, the teaching material was developed from students' textbooks for the experimental group. Relevant data were gathered via essay writing skills tests. The independent sample t-test calculated for the pretest divulged that the students in both the experimental and control groups had similar writing skills in the stated sub-skills (t-values < 1.47, p-values > .552). Independent sample t-test measured for post-test, however, depicted that students in experimental group significantly surpassed students in control group in each of the stated sub-skills of writing (t-values > -5.79, p-values < .000). Interviews held with six selected students from the experimental group revealed that TBLT enabled them to improve their writing skills in terms of content, organization, grammar, and vocabulary. It also improved their interest to write and perceptions of working with peers and within groups. This suggests that Secondary School students benefit the application of TBLT using listing, problem solving and sharing personal information tasks thus it helped them to improve essay writing skills.
ISSN:1798-4769
2053-0684
DOI:10.17507/jltr.1601.03
Fuente:Career & Technical Education Database