Text mediation. Developing useful communication strategies in the ELT classroom.
We’ll see how training in text mediation can offer students an opportunity to develop useful communication strategies that they can immediately reuse in real situations outside of the classroom.
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What you will learn
In this webinar, we’ll be talking about the concept of text mediation, its place in the language classroom, and how to help students develop useful communication strategies to mediate information contained in texts.
We’ll start by analyzing some authentic communicative situations in which text mediation is possible or necessary. From these situations we’ll extract the main ingredients of text mediation (i.e. texts, participants, objective), and then we’ll put them back together to create practical classroom activities for different teaching and learning contexts.
We’ll close the webinar with a discussion on the importance of context in mediation and how a different target audience can translate into different mediation strategies and target texts.
Course content
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About the trainer

Riccardo Chiappini – Award-Winning ELT Materials Writer, Editor & Teacher Trainer
Riccardo Chiappini is an ELT materials writer and teacher trainer based in Madrid, Spain. He is the author of Activities for Mediation: Building bridges in the ELT Classroom (DELTA Publishing/Klett), which has recently won the British Council ELTon award for Innovation in Teacher Resources. He has also written mediation-related and many other types of course materials for the Spanish Ministry of Education, National Geographic Learning, Macmillan, and Oxford University Press.
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