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This is an interesting and briefly presentation about some different items that we have studied in that course. For instance, this presentation talks about premises of Curriculum, give definitions about content, objectives, CEFR structure... Also it´s talk in depth about communicative language competences and linguistic domains. For last, it´s talk about the 5 skills and the Common Reference levels o Language Proficiency (A1,A2,B1,B2...) Is very interesting because it teaches you that everything is related. In that website you can find another interesting presentations abour other tasks as portfolio... I would like to finish that summary with the last sentence of the presentation: "Don't be afraid to have an open-minded look to so many unknown and unfamiliar things around us… we have just to try to discover them unconditionally!Success!" I believe that this attitude is that we need to keep improving!!!

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!

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!

Hi classmates: This is a collection of books for young learners. As children read these quality storybooks, not only are they boosting their reading skills, but they are also learning socially responsible tools for life. I think it will be very useful for our pupils.

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.

Hello everybody! This is a video about task-based learning in Japan. I think it's very interesting because they have to complete a timetable with cards and these have pictures and short texts. I invite you to see it, because it's no long and it's shows that children can learn a lot by doing, and they can practise speaking skill in a low stress atmosphere in groups.

Hello mates! The other day in the class of Desarrollo de Competencias de Comunicación en la Lengua Extranjera, Daniel told us that most of us have problems designing previous activities. Searching on the Internet I have found this interesting article that talks about pre-listening activities. It includes these aspects: * Why do pre-listening tasks? * Aims and types of pre-listening tasks * Selection criteria I believe that the part that talks about the different kinds of pre-listening tasks could be very useful for us when we create listening activities in class. Hope it serves!

Hey mates, This link will conduce you to a website about storytelling. It will help you with this topic. Here you can find some basic nuances about the three core tools for oral storytelling: the story, your voice and your gestures.

Hello..! I´m going to share my Glogster for Daniel´s task with you..! If you still haven´t done it, you can take ideas. My Glogster is about food... it is very interactive and usefull for all grades of primary, because the activities have different dificulty´s levels and you can use it for develop different skills. Here you can found, drills to work the new vocabulary, games, information and games about the nutritional pyramid, a song, recipes... etc. It takes into account the multiple intelligences and is really funny! I hope you like it!

really nice! :-)

I really like your Glogster. I think that you include a lot of activities and they are varied. From my point of view it's very complete!!! Good work!!

In recent years, many programmes and projects related to multilingualism have increased and have been implemented in educational centers all over Europe. Many of these programmes are already present in different educational areas in both compulsory and non-compulsory levels. This trend is motivated by the guidelines of the European Union (EU) that directs its work towards a multilingual society. According to the EU, one of the challenges of the current society is to train students to master different languages, to promote intercultural dialogue and a greater social cohesion and integration. The present text provides a sample of a CLIL unit planning procedure to give answer to some of the questions regarding methodology and materials design arising among the bilingual teaching community. Well mates, we think that in this issue we can see a lesson planning procedure to be used in a CLIL primary setting. This is a different methodological approach in current bilingual classrooms. The text provides a planning tool for unit planning for content and language integrated as well a series of strategies aimed at achieving the necessary objectives for successful bilingual teaching. The development of this unit planning procedure allowed the teacher to anticipate to the demands of the students in the necessary tools to develop the tasks assigned for a proper acquisition of content knowledge and language skills.

is a web page where explain the learning objectives and is useful because it has verb to create goals for skills, knowledge and attitudes.

Hi Laura! Thank you so much for sharing this page. It helped me to solve some mental gaps that I had, also it's very easy to understand. Frequently, most of us have doubts about the verbs that we have to use when we formulate objectives, so I strongly suggest to take a look at this page.

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.

Hello to everyone! This is a short article that talks about peer assessment, an evaluation technique very interesting. This document emphasizes that peer and self assessment are key strategies to involve students in taking more responsibility for their own learning. While the benefits may not initially be obvious to students, this process offers a means of enhancing the learning experience and developing key capabilities in our students. The document also refers to the advantages and disadvantages of this type of assessment. Perhaps the biggest drawback is that it requires greater involvement by the teacher. Throughout the article, I'll take this vital phrase from my point of view: "Peer and self-assessment help students develop the ability to make judgements, a necessary skill for study and professional life" (Brown, Rust and Gibbs, 1994). Self and peer-assessment are often combined or considered together. They have many potential advantages in common. For instance, peer assessment can help self-assessment. By judging the work of others, students gain insight into their own performance.

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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! =)