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This article is about the educational uses of Digital Storytelling. Telling and listening to stories is an ancient tradition that can benefit foreign language learners of all ages, languages, and levels of proficiency. Stories contain linguistic, paralinguistic, discourse, and cultural features that provide the comprehensible input and output that students need to develop their oral skills. As with traditional storytelling, you tell stories using computer-based tools, usually contain some mixture of images, text, recorded audio, narration, video clips and/or music.

I found an interesting article on lesson planning. This article gives us some guidelines and interesting things to think about when planning a lesson such as the grammar knowledge and its effect on fluency. They pay a lot of attention to the importance of fluency activities, something that hasn´t come forward in our classes and that is not taken into account very often in the classroom. And fluency is exactly the reason why we are teaching/learning foreign languages. Fluency is what students need to be able to communicate with native speakers or speakers from other countries.

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!

Hello class! Here you have a web with interesting documents about diversity. I think it's useful because it presents a very different view of the diversity of "special educational needs". It is intended for foreign language teachers in primary. I hope you like it!

This article discusses different types of assessment and recognizes the importance of affective considerations for the acquisition of a foreign or second language.

I find this article quite interesting, especially the last part that talks about the portfolio. I think that the author explains briefly and simply in what it consists. On the other hand, I agree with the writer's conclusions. I strongly believe that we must use various assessment tools in the classroom of FL in order to be as objective as possible and to develop all the skills and abilities of the student. As we have just seen in class the exam tests serves for the memory capacity but does not encourage critical thinking and autonomy on the part of the learner. Thank you so much for sharing it!

This article emphasizes the need for teachers to use a variety of types of alternative assessments. I think it could be quite useful to remind us the different techniques of assessment that we can do and the most important thing: they can be used every day in our class. We have to start to discard the traditional tests that only indicated us a numerical description about our students. In our future we are going to be teachers so we have to be aware of the different kind of assessment to take them into practice. Rather useful the article.

This is a research project which are analyzed the assessment instruments that the foreign language teachers usually use in their classrooms. The aim of this project is very clear: the teachers who participate in this project must identify their own mistakes (in the assessment field) and finally correct them. As the majority of foreign language teachers, specifically, of our country, these teachers don't plead for an assessment which exist a feedback between the teachers and the pupils. We know that this feedback is the better way for get a fair assessment, but perhaps by the lack of time... They use these instruments. I recommend take a look to the annexes.

Hi mates, I want share a page with you that is really useful for the teachers, I never had listened speak about it. This page going to allow you work of a very easy way the foreign language with very useful watchings, readings, writings, speakings... You will can work with dinamic and motivate activities all the skills with your pupils, I'm sure that the guys will enjoy while they learn. You can also press the button "teaching english" and the page will take a teachers profile and you can found other very useful resources. I know that this page goes a little out of the script of our contributions in Diigo, I know that it's a very practical page, but I considered that I should share it with my classmates, I believe that this kind of page should also be shared here in Diigo. THANKS SO MUCH!

This article presents a reflection about evaluation process of EFL in Primary Education. It also offers the principles of evaluation, as well as teachers' daily duties,which require them to observe, keep records, and analyze the evaluation process. It deals with the influence that the European Framework has in the evaluation of pupils' capacities in Primary.

I really like the activity that appears on page 72. I think it is an activity that can be used perfectly in class and it can be very useful to teachers in order to know the evolution of their pupils in the five skills. Thanks for this contribution.

As Jorge said, I like so much the activity that appears on page 72, I think that it is really useful for us in the future! I'm going to surfing the internet and I'm going to try found some activities like this!! Good work! =)

Lia Plakans (Assisstant professor of Foreign Language), explain us and give examples and key ideas in assessment. In this web you can find videos, information and resources about AFL