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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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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Introduction to Mediation
Mediation is the fourth mode of communication in the CEFR with reception, interaction and production.
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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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