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What is Language Activities

Developments in Virtual Learning Environments and the Global Workplace
Activities that involve the exercise of one’s communicative language competence in a specific domain (both receptively and/or productively) as to carry out a task.
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Stepping Up to the Challenge: Innovative Online Strategies in the ESP Digitalised Classroom
Ana Balula (University of Aveiro, Portugal) and Sandra Vieira Vasconcelos (ESHT, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7331-0.ch009
Abstract
Even though, over the last decades, most higher education institutions (HEI) have come to increasingly integrate technology in their practices, namely as a way of enhancing students' learning experiences and the cohesive development of skills and preparing them for a digital and global workplace, never before did technology play such a pivotal role. In the aftermath of the recent COVID-19 outbreak, this chapter puts forward an annotated list of strategies used within the scope of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching and learning. Focussed on technology-based approaches, it makes a case for collaboration and skill integration as a way of promoting practice-driven innovation and reflection.
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