Linguistic Skills Development of Adults in Learning English as a Foreign Language: Speaking Skill in Ecuadorian Entrepreneurs
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Published: 18 January 2024

Linguistic Skills Development of Adults in Learning English as a Foreign Language: Speaking Skill in Ecuadorian Entrepreneurs

Daleska Zambrano Muñoz, Raquel Vera Solórzano, Cintya Zambrano Zambrano, Gabriel Bazurto Alcívar

Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí

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10.31014/aior.1993.07.01.798

Pages: 18-30

Keywords: Andragogy, Communicative Approach, ECRIF Framework, English, Speaking Skill

Abstract

This research aims to socialize an educational intervention designed to improve the oral skills of adult entrepreneurs in the province of Manabí, Ecuador. The research is framed in an interpretive paradigm that examines the use of the communicative approach as a method for the acquisition of grammatical content and the implementation of the ECRIF framework to strengthen the communicative competence of entrepreneurs. The post-test was used as the main evaluation instrument, and the results of this study show a significant improvement of 89.23% in the oral skills of the entrepreneurs. It is concluded that through a process of empirical training, integrating theory and practice, the entrepreneurs were able to reach a basic level of content, vocabulary, and grammatical structure through the communicative approach, moreover, the use of the ECRIF framework facilitated the application of this previous knowledge in real-life situations, which contributed in a significant way to the strengthening of speech and oral expression of the entrepreneurs.

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