Real-Based-Tasks in SLA: From the Classroom to the World

• Autores: María Celeste Moreno Palmero
• Localización: Estudios del Observatorio, ISSN 2688-2957, ISSN-e 2688-2930, Nº. 60 (Reshaping Hispanic Cultures: 2019 Instituto Cervantes Symposium on Recent Scholarship Vol. I. Ident), 2020, págs. 73-86
• Idioma: español
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  • A methodology of Real-Based-Tasks represents an experiential alternative to traditional approaches, focusing on meaning, real-world materials, technology, and hybrid learning. This particular proposal follows a three-steps sequence of intertwined in-class and online tasks. In the first stage, students are offered some in-class input and guidance to proceed with their Real-Based-Tasks at home. Then, students work on their own in real experiential aspects of the target culture(s) using the Internet as a window to the target language and cultures. In a third stage, students come back to class to work on the collaborative co-construction of new meaning. In this phase, Real-Based-Tasks become paramount and essential for the in-class experience; constituting not just a mere supplementary take-home assignment, but a meaningful expansion of the classroom realm. Indeed, with this type of hybrid approach the classroom becomes a laboratory of meaningful, collective, and experiential learning.