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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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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Using CEFR Descriptors in Scenario Design
After the foundation of action-oriented scenarios and backward design, this extended guide will help you put those ideas into practice.
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Views on Assessment over Time
Views about assessment changed radically in the 1990s, which became very visible in the titles of books, as shown in the figure below
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Backward Design at the Curriculum Level
Backward design focuses on the end point to be reached rather than the pathway to be followed.
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Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling has been defined by Robin (2006) as “the art of telling stories with digital elements including text, graphics, sound, and video”
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