OVERVIEW
Communicative Competence might be considered the most important goal in the language classroom. But what does communicative competence really entail? How can we foster communication in the classroom? What can we do to overcome difficulties while teaching online?
The aim of this session is for participants to reflect on speaking as a productive skill and identify suitable activities that enable young learners to develop their “Communicative Competence” through discourse-oriented activities. Practitioners will work with a variety of activities that can be transferred to their classrooms to promote production in a meaningful and creative way while working both face-to-face or distance.
Franz Hoppenstedt
Franz Hoppenstedt is a highly experienced Educational Consultant with over 22 years involved in the educational world working as a teacher, coordinator, teacher trainer and consultant in public, private and language schools across the Latin American region. For the last 13 years, Franz has been helping educational institutions by giving talks, trainings, and workshops in Education, Blended Learning, Flipped Classroom, Technology in Education among many other topics in countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru. He is convinced that the fastest, most effective way to change the world is through education so he has dedicated his life to change one teacher at a time, so they have the right skill and mindset to help their students…
