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Hi everyone! I have found an interesting web page I would like to share with all of you. In this web site you will find interesting information about cooperative and collaborative Learning. You will find 4 different sections: Explanation, demonstration, exploration and implementation. The first section explains different aspects related to this technique, the second one includes real-world examples and information on how to make cooperative and collaborative learning work in your classroom, the third section provides practical options for forming different kinds of groups for specific purposes and finally the fourth section offers some hints when using this interesting teaching technique. I hope you find it useful!

Hi folks! Searching on the Internet I have found an interesting article that includes a set of communicative activities that we can develop in the classroom. As we have been studying, one of the big challenges that language teachers face is to promote the skills of speaking and oral interaction. In several of the case studies the teachers express the difficulties they have developing oral language. However, as a language teacher it's really important to know what counts as speaking in language learning and how to promote such skills. I think that these are the advantages of using this kind of activities in the classroom: More exposure to the target language More authentic opportunities to use the foreign language Fun and interesting for learners These activities provides opportunity to use authentic materials Nevertheless, I consider that there is a big problem that we have to take into account: Learners can be resistant, specially if they are accustomed to teacher-centred styles of teaching. I hope you find it useful!