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JOB LAB COMMUNICATION TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT OF ORAL SPEAKING SKILLS
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The work aims to identify how to enhance the communicative competence of undergraduates by introducing a teacher-supported online "Job Lab" English language course on oral speaking skills training. The course goal was to meet the needs of non-native students of Economics (50 participants) who formed two groups with a different approach (videotaping and without). The main task was creating, delivering, and evaluating oral speaking using an assessment rubric and learn how to give/get constructive feedback. Before the intervention (experiment), the research was conducted implementing searching communication strategies and assessment grid (self-evaluation, peer-evaluation, and teacher's evaluation criteria). Its focus is to enable students to practice and develop hard and soft skills in delivering oral economics-related ideas professionally. Video analysis evaluation was used in the experimental video-based group (N=25) and without the video-based evaluation approach in the control (N=25) group. After and before the intervention, undergraduates completed pre-post-tests (5-Likert scale questionnaires, satisfaction scale) and analysed data using SPSS. The qualitative and quantitative results indicate positive perceptions of the strategies instruction. The findings show that students' oral speaking practice and satisfaction reached using an assessment approach. In the experimental group use of video help to generate greater reserve in self-rating, self-evaluation and confirmed that assessment of oral speaking could enhance verbal & nonverbal communication ability.
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