Abstract

CRUZ-RAMOS, María de los Milagros  and  HERRERA-DIAZ, Luz Edith. Assessment of Students’ Oral Communicative Competence in English Through a Web Conferencing Platform. profile [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.1, pp.143-156.  Epub Mar 23, 2022. ISSN 1657-0790.  https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v24n1.91282.

This manuscript reports on a study carried out at a public university in southeast Mexico aimed to determine whether changes in the instructional design of an online English course benefit students’ oral communicative competence. The research followed a quantitative quasi-experimental design that involved two groups of students. One of them took a modified version of an online English II course that provided contextualized instruction of the syllabus language topics. This group’s communicative competence was assessed online, which represented a major shift from the face-to-face assessments typically delivered to online groups. The results showed that online assessment is possible, and also that students’ communicative competence improved and was directly related to the intervention.

Keywords : assessment; instructional design; language instruction; online courses; oral communicative competence.

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