Task-based assessment for specific purpose Sesotho for personnel in the small business corporation
Year: 2006
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This study is concerned with a task-based analysis of specific purposes Sesotho learning tasks for the learning and teaching of Sesotho as a second language by personnel of the small business development corporation. A range of authentic tasks in Sesotho has been constructed to demonstrate authentic specific purpose learning and teaching, and hence assessment tasks for personnel in the small business development corporation. The task-based approach to second language learning and teaching assumes as point of departure authentic communication tasks. The Sesotho tasks all reflect authentic (real-world) communication tasks for personnel in the small business development corporation sector. These tasks are analysed in terms of the features of information gap, opinion-giving, jigsaw, problem-solving and decisionmaking. The study gives an extensive literature review of learning and teaching principles as well as principles of task-based assessment. The study then presents the analytic features of the Sesotho tasks in terms of the task-based typology. A wide range of pedagogic tasks for learning and assessment in Sesotho is presented and
Author: Malinda Lombaard
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2119729799