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 Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling combines multimedia elements with narrative practices to support language development.
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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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Virtual Exchange (VE)
Virtual exchanges (VE) are technology-mediated, classroom-to-classroom, collaborative learning experiences…
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Introduction to the CEFR
The CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment) is a reference…
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Introduction to the Learner as a Social Agent
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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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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