Oral Interaction Through Task Based Learning

Resumen

The document aims to explore oral interaction by designing curricular
units founded on task-based learning. It was carried out in a public school with sixth
graders between the ages of 11 to 14 years old in Barrancabermeja Colombia. This
paper analyzes the behavior of students to perform oral activities and the importance
of designing authentic material in English for public teachers. The data gathering
revealed that these curricular units moved the teacher-student interaction to studentstudent interaction; the students’ oral interactions contributed to know their weaknesses
in the structure of the language and they began to take different roles in their English
learning.