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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Plurilingualism in ‘Monolingual’ Classrooms
Implementing plurilingual pedagogies has gained increasing interest and support in recent decades.
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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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Introduction to Backward Design
Backward design refers to the idea of first defining educational goals/objectives and then working backwards from those objectives
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Creating Your Own Descriptors Selection
Descriptors simplify complex processes to provide practically useful tools to develop transparent objectives.
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History & Use of CEFR
The CEFR has had a considerable impact on language education, especially in relation to its levels and descriptors and move towards a more action-based approach to language teaching.
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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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