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    Level up their voices: a task-based approach to enhance speaking skills through gamification and cooperative learning
    (Universidad de Córdoba, 2025-06-26) Sotelo Bustamante, Melisa; Nieto Caballero, Jaime Arturo; Romero, Yanilis
    This internship report presents the approaches, methodologies, gains, conclusions, and challenges of my teaching experience within the Bilingualism for peace program at Cristobal Colon School. This report describes how designing lessons with a task-based approach while implementing gamification and cooperative learning enhanced students' speaking skills in conversation level learners. Throughout my internship I designed and delivered lesson plans to address the fear of some students to speak in English by creating a supportive environment for communication and spoken skills development. To implement this, I used the Task Based approach as my main guideline to design lesson plans since it reflects on the importance of contextualized learning. Collaborative learning served as a tool for creating a supportive environment where students feel comfortable, safe, and encouraged to speak in English. Also, I used gamification for creating interactive activities which were useful and attractive to my students, as well as incorporating Bloom’s taxonomy to progressively move learners from low order thinking skills to higher. Despite challenges such as lack of resources and students' fear to speak, the goal was successfully achieved demonstrating how these approaches and strategies fostered students' speaking skills. Finally, this report concludes with suggestions for further interns highlighting the importance of contextualized learning fostering critical thinking skills.