Teaching into Context by Video Sketching Recording: Academic English with Students of Architecture

This paper describes an activity developed during one academic term with students of Architecture that study English (ESL) and Spanish (ELE) as a second language. Taking advantage of architecture students learning styles (Úbeda & Escribano, 2002), the creation of some video sketching recording activity was developed as a course task in order to improve their language skills. The practicum took place with two groups of students; a group of International students (Erasmus) using Spanish as a second language (ELE) and a group of Spanish students with English as a second language (ESL). At the end of the course, a questionnaire was completed to gather students’ feedback of this practice. The results obtained from them show a very fruitful and innovative material creation for teaching in specific contexts. This activity was handled under the research group of Innovative Education (APLAI) from the Technical University of Madrid.