Raising Students´ Employability by Targeting Transferable
Skills in Task-based Teaching

J 2023

Raising Students´ Employability by Targeting Transferable Skills in Task-based Teaching

HOCHMANOVÁ, Dita

Basic information

Original name

Raising Students´ Employability by Targeting Transferable Skills in Task-based Teaching

Name in Czech

Výuka přenositelných dovedností metodou task-based

Authors

HOCHMANOVÁ, Dita

Edition

Humanising Language Teaching, Pilgrims, 2023, 1755-9715

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

References:

URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

Keywords (in Czech)

přenositelné dovednosti, výuka metodou task-based

Keywords in English

empolyability, transferable skills, task-based teaching

Abstract

V originále

This article presents the design of a series of task-based courses of English for special educators at the B1/B1+ level introduced at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. In response to the recently identified need to prepare students more effectively for the demands of the job market (Collins-Nelsen, 2022), the course design focuses on real-life tasks and scaffolding activities which help students bridge the gap between graduates’ competences and their future employers’ requirements, which Beneitone and Yarosh (2022) agree is a pressing issue. Rather than focusing on teaching specific content related to special education in English, the courses thus have the ambition to develop more generic transferable skills identified as crucial for successful graduation and future career by specialists in the field. First, the paper shows how the tasks were chosen and how they align with the CEFR framework. It then explains how the tasks included in the courses are related and integrated to provide the students with a meaningful structure of skills they will find useful in their future practice. Finally, the paper assesses how the participants responded to the assignments in course evaluation surveys.

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HOCHMANOVÁ, Dita. Raising Students´ Employability by Targeting Transferable Skills in Task-based Teaching. Humanising Language Teaching. Pilgrims, 2023, Year 25, Issue 1. ISSN 1755-9715.

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HOCHMANOVÁ, Dita. Raising Students´ Employability by Targeting Transferable Skills in Task-based Teaching. \textit{Humanising Language Teaching}. Pilgrims, 2023, Year 25, Issue 1. ISSN~1755-9715.

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