Action-oriented Approach Deeper Dive Infosheets
What Can You Find?
These infosheets are comprehensive texts designed for language educators who want to move beyond a quick overview and explore the approach in greater depth. The infosheets take about 10-30 minutes to engage with. Also, they provide extended explanations, examples, and classroom scenarios that show how the approach works in practice.
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Action-oriented Approach in Practice
The action-oriented approach foregrounds learner agency in situated, collaborative learning.
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Action-oriented Plurilingual Tasks
Now that you know about plurilingualism, it is time to do a deeper dive into a few action-oriented plurilingual tasks.
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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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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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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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CEFR & Language Learning and Use
The CEFR models language proficiency as the process of mobilizing and combining competences and strategies…
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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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Exploring and Selecting Descriptors
Descriptors for communicative language activities are organised under four modes: reception; production, interaction and mediation.
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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…
