Evaluating the effectiveness of an ESP course for business administration students

 

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Autores: Arguedas Hidalgo, Andrick Fernando, Cervantes Sanabria, Luis Pablo, Gómez Rojas, Lidia Mercedes
Formato: tesis de maestría
Fecha de Publicación:2021
Descripción:The purpose of this investigation was to explore the effectiveness of an English for Specific Purpose (ESP) course for Business Administration students. Students of the Master’s program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language designed this course as a graduation project with the purpose of improving students’ English proficiency in their professional field. The design was based on a thorough study of this specific population’s needs, wants, and lacks and followed the Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT). Moreover, the successful achievement of goals and objectives and the students’ attitudes towards the relevance of the course contents were the factors considered to evaluate the effectiveness of the course. Mixed methods were implemented to measure results such as teacher observations, analytic rubrics, student surveys, and focus groups. The results show that the course was effective to a great extent because the students met performance expectations in all main tasks. Additionally, the students rated the course favorably in terms of its relevance to their professional fields.
País:Kérwá
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Lenguaje:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:https://www.kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/83610
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10669/83610
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Course evaluation
Course effectiveness
ESP
Business administration
Successful achievement of goals and objectives
Student’s attitudes
TBLT
Evaluación del curso
Efectividad del curso
Administración de empresas
Logro exitoso de metas y objetivos
Actitudes de los estudiantes