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This episode takes a closer look at how EAP students can cooperate and collaborate as a team to deepen and increase each member's understanding of the topic. While some discussions are designed to allow students to demonstrate their stored knowledge of a topic, many discussions can be utilized in the Socratic manner of developing each participant's understanding of a topic. Just as a basketball team works together to set up scoring, or any other sports team, so too can a discussion that works like a team.
This episode addresses constructivist teaching theory and its implications for the EAP classroom, especially in consideration of mediation. For many students, a constructivist teaching...
In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Viviana Marcel, an English language specialist, who has been teaching EAP at different levels...
This episode begins the exploration of the skill of mediation as laid out in the CEFR macro-strategies. Students need to learn not only the...