Introduction to Affordances
Affordances refer to meaningful ways of interacting with the environment through perception-in-action (Van Lier, 2002).
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Affordances in Digital Technology
Affordance is the potential that teachers perceive in a particular technology tool that will support learning and teaching activities…
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Critically Assessing Digital Affordances
Meaningful integration of new digital tools demands a critical eye and reflective practice…
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Plurilingualism: Knowing Students’ Languages
Plurilingual pedagogy is not about knowing all your students’ languages — it’s about valuing them, connecting across them, and creating space…
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Plurilingualism in ‘Monolingual’ Classrooms
Implementing plurilingual pedagogies has gained increasing interest and support in recent decades.
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Plurilingualism in the Digital World
The digital world is a vibrant, plurilingual and pluricultural space. This guide provides a theoretical foundation and practical strategies…
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Learner as a Social Agent
Once teachers start seeing language users/learners as social agents, they increasingly reason in terms of actions…
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CEFR & Language Learning and Use
The CEFR models language proficiency as the process of mobilizing and combining competences and strategies…
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Introduction to Descriptors
Descriptors, or descriptors of learning outcomes, are short, one-sentence definitions that characterize a person’s language ability.
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Exploring and Selecting Descriptors
Descriptors for communicative language activities are organised under four modes: reception; production, interaction and mediation.
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