A: The Problem
What is the required English proficiency level for high school graduates (bachilleres) according to the English Curriculum in Ecuador?
CEFR B1 level
How many core principles does the Ecuadorian EFL curriculum have?
Five (5)
The English national curriculum fosters the use of TBLT in the classrooms.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE
What is the phase where words and phrases need to be highlighted in the TBLT framework of lesson design?
Pre-task phase
What was the position of Ecuador in the annual ranking of the English Proficiency Index in 2021?
#90
What does CLIL stand for?
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
How is the name of the tasks that occur in the classroom within a TBLT lesson?
Pedagogical tasks.
What are the three sub-phases of the Task Cycle phase?
Task, planning and reporting.
What kinds of viewpoints did the high school students have about learning English in the study conducted by Ortega & Minchala?
They had positive viewpoints, as they highlighted the importance of learning English.
Name two language teaching approaches adopted by our English national curriculum.
The communicative language approach, CLIL and TBLT.
What is the first and most important characteristic of pedagogical tasks?
The primary focus should be on ‘meaning’.
Name at least three activities that teachers can have their students do during the practice sub-phase of a TBLT lesson.
1) Challenge games, 2) cloze activities, 3) drills, 4) grammar exercises, 5) controlled writing activities, 6) vocabulary exercise, etc.