The Impact Of Using A Task-based Writing To Promote Business Students Writing Skill
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Dec 31, 2020
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: Task Based - CommunicativeLanguage Teaching- Business English -Writing skill.
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The present research aims at determining the effects of the Task Based Approach on
Business students‘ writing skills so as to suggest and recommend it or discourage its use at
English for Business Purposes classrooms. The effect of the Task Based Approach has been
measured in different English teaching and learning environments. However, only few
studies have been carried out to test the effect of the approach in ESP settings. This
research goes further than just implementing the Task Based Approach in ESP classes but it
attempts to examine the effect of this teaching pedagogy on students writing skills. It is
known that professionals in different business fields communicate mostly via writing, for
this reason, writing skill was chosen among other language skills because of its importance
to the students 3rd year LMD Banking and Insurance the sample that represents the whole
population, that is, the Faculty of Business and Economics at Laghouat University and
professional business areas. The current study aims at empirically examining the effect of
the Task based Approach. However, random assignment of the participants in this
educational experiment was impossible for the researcher, so a quasi-experimental design
was utilised to provide as accurate and valid results as possible. The participants in the
control and experimental groups were tested before and after the implementation of the
Task Based Approach to statistically measure the effects of this teaching approach. The
findings showed that the Task Based Approach improved the writing skills of the
experimental group in comparison to the control group which was taught using the regular
teaching methodology. Pedagogically, the Task Based Approach can be utilised to bring
closer the ESP classes to the professional world as the approach is built on real-world tasks
to enable the students of business to live up to the expectations and requirements of a
globalised and demanding business world.
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Nouar, A. (2020). The Impact Of Using A Task-based Writing To Promote Business Students Writing Skill. AL-Lisaniyyat, 26(2), 98-115. https://doi.org/10.61850/allj.v26i2.257
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J., & Renandya, W. (2002).methodology in language teaching: an anthology of current
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O.I.S.E.
BREEN, M. (1987). learner contributions to task design . London . Prentice Hall.
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language teaching". In Journal of Applied Linguistics.
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UniversityPress.
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Prentice Hall Regents.
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pedagogy. White Plains, NY: Longman .
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english. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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learners .London : Heinemann
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second language teaching and testing .Applied Linguistics , 1, 1-47.
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chinese efl context .English Language Teaching ; Vol .5, No 10 , 2012.
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computer center at the university of costa rica. Revista Electrónica Actualidades
Investigativas en Educación ,Volume 9 n 1,pp.1-25.University of Costa Rica.
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Press.
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Netherlands .John Benjamins.B.V.
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Macmillan Heinemann English Language Teaching.
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multi-disciplinary approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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and Research.
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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perspective. London: Addison Wesley Longman Limited.
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speaking abilities of mattayomsuka 1 students at piboonprachasan high school. Master
dissertation,University of Srinkharinwirot.Thailand.
KAVALIAUSKIENE,G.(2005).task-based learning and learning outcomes in the esp
classroom. Studies about languages,7.
LEKI I.(1991).teaching second language writing: where we seem to be. English teaching
Forum. VOL. XXIX .
LITTLEWOOD, .W. (1981).communicative language teaching: an introduction. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
LYNCH, T., & MACLEAN , J.(2000). exploring the benefits of task repetition and recycling of
classroom language learning .Language Teaching Research, 4, 221-250 .
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methodology. Hoboken, New Jersey :John Wiley & Sons , Inc.
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learning applied. Nottingham NG8 1BB: The Nottingham Jubilee Press.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
NUNAN , D. (1991). classroom interaction.Sidney: National Centre of
English: Language Teaching and Research.
NUNAN, D. (1992). research methods in language learning. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
NUNAN, D. (2004). task-based language teaching. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.
PALTRIDGE.B. & STARFIELD.S. (2013). the handbook of english for specific purposes.
Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
PICA, T., LINCOLIN-PORTER , E. ,PANINOS , D. & LINNELL , J.(1996). language learners
interaction : how does it address the input ,output , and feedback needs of l2 learners ?
Tesol Quarterly , 30 (1) , 59-84.
PRABHU, N. S. (1987). second language pedagogy. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
RAIMES, A. (1983) .techniques in teaching writing. New York. Oxford University Press.
RICHARDS, J.C. & RODGERS, T.S. (2001). approaches and methods in language teaching.
2
nd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
RIVERS, W. M. AND TEMPERLY, M. S. (1978). a practical guide to the teaching of english as
a second or foreign language. Oxford: OUP.
SAMUDA , V. & BYGATE , M. (2008). tasks in second language learning. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan.
SAVIGNON , S. J. (1983). communicative competence: theory in: classroom practice.
Reding : Addison & Wesley Publishing Company.
SARDOZY, J. & BENCZE, T. & POOR ,Z. & VANDAY ,M . (2006). applied linguistics for ba
students in english: Volume 1.Hangry :Humanities Consortium.
SHEEN , R. (1994). a critical analysis of the advocacy of the task-based syllabus. Tesol
Quarterly .
SINGH ,Y. K. (2006). fundamentals of research methodology and statistics. New Delhi:
New Age International Ltd., Publishers.
Willis, J. and D. Willis (Eds). challenges and change in language teaching. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
SKEHAN , P. (1998). a cognitive approach to language learning. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
THOMAS , M. AND REINDERS.H. (2010).task-based language learning and teachingwith
technology. London :Continuum International Publishing Group.
VAN DEN BRANDEN , K.(2006).task-based language education from theory to
practice.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
WILLIS , J. (1996). a framework for task-based learning. Harlow: Longman.
WIDDOWSON, H. (1978). teaching language as communication. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
WOOD , N . (2003). business and commerce. Oxford :Oxford University Press