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Teaching and Learning EFL Through PBL

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Pilar Couto-Cantero

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5526/2011.09.005

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University of La Coruña (UDC), Spain

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to share teachers’ experiences of English as a foreign language (EFL) in a multicultural context through project based learning (PBL) in a subject in which students are coming from different degrees such as: Biology, Architecture, Physical Education, Communication Sciences, etc. Teachers of EFL know for sure that their students’ feedbacks are completely different but their learning outcomes are supposed to be the same in the end. How can we prepare teaching and learning materials in such a difficult context? Does exist a useful methodology to fulfill our final targets? Based on a PBL experience, interesting conclusions about the teaching and learning foreign languages process will be offered through this article.

KEYWORDS

Teaching, learning, languages, EFL (English foreign language), PBL (project based learning)

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Sociology Study ISSN 2159-5526, September 2011, Volume 1, Number 4, 272-281

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