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TEXTS
STUDIES
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EXPERTS

Focus:

HOW

 

What methods employ the special role of language?

Lenses:

instructional effectiveness

Scope:

as intercultural as possible

Subject matter:

methods, practices, strategies

INTRODUCTORY THOUGHTS

Language is not learned; language is participated in.
— James Paul Gee

Students do not learn language by studying it, but by using it to learn.
— Douglas Barnes

We use language not only to express ideas, but to do things.
— J. L. Austin

Language lives only in dialogue.
— Mikhail Bakhtin

ERL Conceptual Bank’s components:

Arguments
Settings
Implementations
Visions