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 Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling combines multimedia elements with narrative practices to support language development.
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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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AoA, CLT & TBLT: Similarities & Differences
Both approaches emphasize meaningful communication and real-world language use rather than isolated grammar instruction…
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Tasks in Action-oriented Approach
Tasks are a feature of everyday life in the personal, public, educational, and occupational domains.
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Action-oriented Approach Scenarios
Now that you know more about action-orientation, it is time to do a deeper dive into the theory behind it and how you can make scenarios.
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