Critically Assessing Digital Affordances
Meaningful integration of new digital tools demands a critical eye and reflective practice…
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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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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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Creating Your Own Descriptors Selection
Descriptors simplify complex processes to provide practically useful tools to develop transparent objectives.
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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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Mediation in Context
Considering mediation in context and exploration of activities for mediation.
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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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Action-oriented Approach in Practice
The action-oriented approach foregrounds learner agency in situated, collaborative learning.
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Plurilingual Assessment
Plurilingual assessment does not involve assessing language skills in one language only, but how language learners address linguistic diversity and flexibility using the languages in their repertoire and communication with people from different backgrounds.
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