ERL CONCEPTUAL BANK - IMPLEMENTATIONS
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