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Demand High EAP

Demand High EAP | TELT | Scoop.it

"I strongly believe we need to be (re)creating a climate of knowledge building in the EAP classroom." Steve Kirk

Shona Whyte's insight:

Steve Kirk argues that in language for academic purposes classes, fluency activities where learners "just speak" are insufficient: learners also need to learn to develop "contentful" contributions.  

 

I think a) this is also true of other second/foreign language teaching contexts and b) a strong version of task-based teaching can help address this concern.

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TILA: Telecollaboration for Intercultural Language Acquisition

TILA: Telecollaboration for Intercultural Language Acquisition | TELT | Scoop.it

"The TILA project seeks:


(1) To innovate and enrich language teaching programs at secondary schools and make them more motivating and effective by stimulating telecollaboration for intercultural awareness with
peers of other cultures.


(2) To empower teacher training programmes for developing ICT literacy skills and organizational, pedagogical and
intercultural competences of (student) teachers for telecollaboration, by promoting experiential learning in task development, implementation and evaluation.


(3) To study the possible added value telecollaboration might have in language learning for intercultural understanding of younger learners."

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