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040			_aUCASAGRANDE
041			_aeng
082			_aPOS 2018
100			_aWigby Nieto, Karen _etutor
245		4	_aThe Use of Real Life Tasks to Enrich an EFL Course for Business Students: _bpresented as a requirement for the degree of Master in Higher Education Studies - Educational innovation and Research
260			_a _bUniversidad Casa Grande. Departamento de Posgrado, _c2018
300			_a45 p.; _cDigital
513			_b2018
520			_aThe purpose of research is to determine the impact on learning of using an authentic task to make teaching English more meaningful in an EFL class. Participants were twenty students from pre-intermediate level course from the Business School of Guayaquil University. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed to report the level of business email responses and to explain the reasons for its development. The intervention consisted of eight weeks of authentic task application in order to improve their ability in responding business email in the following areas: quality of response to customer, language usage and email form. Overall results indicated that students performance on responding business email increased a little after the use authentic task. By the end of the intervention almost all of the students reached expected level for the language subcategory. Discussion section presents the factors that might contribute to and impede the accomplishment of the objectives.
650			_aAprendizaje _961833
650			_aEnseñanza - Inglés _958251
650			_aTarea auténtica _986171
650			_aTesis de Maestría _978771
700			_aVelasco Castro, Viviana _eautor _986172
856			_uhttp://dspace.casagrande.edu.ec:8080/bitstream/ucasagrande/1436/2/Tesis1631VELu.pdf
942			_c24 _e2018-10-24 _zIsledy
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