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Congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Combining CLT and CALL in the English Language II Classroom
Lugar:
Tucumán
Reunión:
Conferencia; XXXVI FAAPI Conference: Communicative Language Teaching and Learning Revisited.; 2011
Institución organizadora:
FAAPI
Resumen:
Harmer (2007) states that one problem when trying to define Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is that its meaning and the way in which its principles (the communication principle, the task principle and the meaningfulness principle) can be applied are not clearly defined (p.69). However, one major strand that has been central to CLT since its beginnings is that if students are involved in meaning-focused communicative tasks, then they can develop what Hymes (1972) has termed ?communicative competence?. Nowadays, the rapidly growing advances in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) have led to novel and multiple ways in which language teaching and learning can be carried out (Beatty, 2003, p.1). In fact, thanks to the use of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) it is possible to make use of different Internet materials and multimedia resources that can encourage interaction and can prompt our students to use their knowledge of English to carry out communicative and meaningful tasks. In this session, we will show how we have made use of CALL devices to engage English Language II students of the School of Languages, National University of Cordoba (UNC), in different communicative activities related to a subtopic of the unit ?Work?, which is the first unit of the subject. First, we will refer to different CALL materials, such as the overhead projector, DVDs and audios that have been used in class to foster communication and interaction among students. Second, we will show how we have made use of resources such as forums, wikis and quizzes available in the Virtual Classroom on Moodle to design online communicative activities. Finally, we will refer to the implications of such activities for both, English Language teaching and learning.