How to Teach Grammar to Adult ESP Learners at Technical University More Communicatively: Task-Based Approach

- Lytovchenko, Iryna, Lavrysh, Yuliana, Lukianenko, Valentyna and Ogienko, Olena (2020) How to Teach Grammar to Adult ESP Learners at Technical University More Communicatively: Task-Based Approach Multidisciplinary Journal for Education, Social and Technological Sciences, 1 (7). pp. 54-71. ISSN 2341-2593

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Abstract

The article is devoted to comparison of the effectiveness of grammar acquisition by adult learners in two types of instruction – based on the traditional PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production) approach and TBL (Task-Based Learning) approach – in ESP university classes. We conducted a qualitative research in which we tried to incorporate grammar instruction in communicative language teaching and for that purpose selected two groups of students (the PPP group and the TBL group). They were taught five topics, each with a focus on particular grammar items. The comparison of the results we obtained showed that students’ achievement in the TBL group increased more substantially than in the PPP group. Also, the majority of students in the TBL group liked learning grammar at the point of need, which we consider particularly important, since it stimulated their motivation and contributed to the acquisition of grammatical structures. When considering the positive aspects of our experience of using TBL and task-based grammar learning in particular, we should first of all point out its learner-centeredness which provides a number of advantages in teaching adult students: the focus on real communication, addressing the students’ needs by putting them into authentic communicative situations, encouragement of students’ responsibility for their own learning, exposure of students to a wide variety of language, including grammar, ability to motivate students.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	PPP approach; TBL; ESP grammar instruction; adult learner; university
Subjects:	Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 37 Education > 37.01/.09 Special auxiliary table for theory, principles, methods and organization of education > 37.09 Organization of instruction Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 37 Education > 378 Higher education. Universities. Academic study
Divisions:	Institute of Pedagogical Education and Education for the Adults > Department of Foreign Systems of Pedagogical and Adult Education
Depositing User:	Кирил Васильович Котун
Date Deposited:	02 Feb 2022 13:19
Last Modified:	02 Feb 2022 13:19
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/728092

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