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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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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Digital Storytelling: Pedagogical Foundations
Digital Storytelling (DST) aligns with the Action-Oriented Approach (AoA) by engaging learners in real-world communicative tasks.
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Mediation
You see that mediation can mean a lot of things and—as the diagram at the end shows—that there are a lot of different categories of descriptors. Let’s look at this in more detail.
Mediation in Context
Considering mediation in context and exploration of activities for mediation.
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Virtual Exchange (VE)
Virtual exchanges (VE) are technology-mediated, classroom-to-classroom, collaborative learning experiences…
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AoA, CLT, & TBLT: Tasks
There is a logical progression from CLT through TBLT to the AoA apart from the chronology of their development.
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AoA, CLT & TBLT: Reflection & Application
A guide to the use of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the Action-Oriented Approach (AoA)
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