Learning a language and using a language are not two separate activities. Individuals learn languages by using them and use languages in their learning process.
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Once teachers start seeing language users/learners as social agents, they increasingly reason in terms of actions…
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The CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment) is a reference…
Introduction to the CEFR Read More »
The CEFR models language proficiency as the process of mobilizing and combining competences and strategies…
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Backward design focuses on the end point to be reached rather than the pathway to be followed.
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Mediation is the fourth mode of communication in the CEFR with reception, interaction and production.
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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.
Considering mediation in context and exploration of activities for mediation.
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Affordances refer to meaningful ways of interacting with the environment through perception-in-action (Van Lier, 2002).
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Affordance is the potential that teachers perceive in a particular technology tool that will support learning and teaching activities…
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