Communicative English Language Skills Improvement Programme (CELSIP) through Challenge-Based Learning.
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The unstoppable progress of technology combined with the circumstances caused by the past health crisis has led to new ways of learning and teaching EFL (English as a Foreign Language). This case study aims to create an adapted version of the already existing Communicative English Language Skills Improvement Programme (CELSIP) for Secondary Education and to implement it using a Challenge-Based approach to involve students more actively and to a greater extent in their learning process. This multimodal programme was designed to encourage autonomous learning by providing students with free tools to be more exposed to the target language and to improve students’ oral reception and production skills while responding to their personal needs and interests. For this study to be carried out, students worked autonomously during the challenge period, performed a challenge and reflected and self-assessed their learning progress through the tools provided to that end. The findings reported higher levels of motivation, better pronunciation in the target language (plurilingual competence) and new vocabulary acquisition.
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