Developing Transferable Skills via Eap/ Esp Teaching

Belkina, Oksana; Yaroslavova, Elena

doi:10.21125/edulearn.2018.2265

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“…In addition to that, we are aware of the fact that we were testing students at a certain period of their foreign language speaking skill development and that due to the intensive EL training, their speaking skills in English might be further developing faster than their Czech speaking skills, and the difference between their speaking skills in English and Czech might become larger. On the other hand, in line with other researchers, we believe that the development of speaking competencies is transferable (Kecskes & Papp, 2000;Van Hell & Dijkstra, 2002;Dörnyei, 2005;Kecskes, 2015;Belkina & Yaroslavova, 2018), and thus the differences between the levels of foreign and native languages in individuals might also decrease with more practice and training. In short, we have to keep in mind that the results of comparing foreign and native speaking skills in individual participants might vary in time.…”

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The Relationship between Native and Foreign Language Speaking Proficiency in University Students

Stankova¹,

Chlumska²,

Zerzanova³

2022

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Background. There are many factors that affect the development of speaking in a foreign language. Drawing on the theories that state that competencies established in a native language will transfer across foreign languages, this study examines whether there is a relationship between native and foreign language speaking proficiency. Purpose. Although literature research indicates that native and foreign language acquisition processes are interrelated, there is a lack of studies comparing proficiency levels of native and foreign language speaking skills in adult learners. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between speaking competences in English as a Foreign Language and Czech as a Native Language in university students. Methods. A between-group design was used to compare two groups of fifty university students at two different levels of their speaking proficiency in English. Both groups were tested in speaking in Czech. Each test was assessed by an analytical rating scale examining four speaking sub-skills: accuracy, discourse, content and paralinguistics. The scores were analyzed using the F-Test for Equality of Variances and T-Test for the Differences between the Means. Results. The results showed that the group with the lower level of speaking proficiency in English achieved significantly worse scores for their speaking sub-skills in Czech than the group with the higher level of speaking proficiency in English. Implications. The study offers another piece of empirical evidence in support of the theories that state that competencies established in a native language will transfer across foreign languages and suggests the importance of the development of native language competence with regard to later proficiency in a foreign language.

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Section: Limitationssupporting

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The Relationship between Native and Foreign Language Speaking Proficiency in University Students

Stankova¹,

Chlumska²,

Zerzanova³

2022

JLE

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“…The forty-first issue, July 2023 -Aswan University 103 learning (Saumell, 2012). It increases learners' understanding of grammar structures while helping them reach higher levels of comprehension; such as application, analysis and creation (Belkina, Geykhman, & Yaroslavova, 2015). It helps learners retain the discovered grammar structures more constantly, since it merges with the notion of consciousness-raising which is based on building tasks in a way that learners practice pattern identification by figuring out the targeted feature of the language (Thornbury, 2011).…”

Section: Journal Of the Faculty Of Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%