The Communicative Approach is a DISASTER - Dr. Enrica Piccardo
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ELT is full of disasters, including the destruction of the communicative approach. Dr. Enrica Piccardo tells us why.
Dr. Piccardo is a Applied Linguistics and Language Education Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research spans language teaching approaches/curricula, multi/plurilingualism, creativity and complexity in language education.
She recently published The Action-oriented Approach. A Dynamic Vision of Language Education 2019) Bristol: Multilingual Matters, co-authored with Brian North.
In this episode, Dr. Piccardo discusses:
leveraging the messiness of learning
how Headway destroyed the communicative approach
multiple disasters in ELT: the separation of languages, the native speaker model, organization curriculum around grammar, and others
how we're still teaching in a grammatical way because it's easier
what mediation is, its role in learning, and its 3 types
updating the CEFR to include mediation
the link between mediation and plurilingualism
the action-oriented approach and its benefits
why teachers need to delegate learning
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About Dr. Enrica Piccardo
Enrica Piccardo PhD is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She has extensive international experience in second/foreign language education research, teacher development and teaching of
multiple languages. A collaborator with the Council of Europe (CoE) since 2008 and Co-author of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) Companion Volume (Council of Europe, 2020), she has coordinated international research projects on language teaching innovation and teacher education in Canada and Europe. She has presented in numerous countries and in different languages and has published extensively - scholarly articles and books as well as publications for teachers. Her research spans language teaching approaches/curricula, multi/plurilingualism, creativity and complexity in language education.
She recently published The Action-oriented Approach. A Dynamic Vision of Language Education
(2019) Bristol: Multilingual Matters, co-authored with Brian North; The Routledge Handbook of
Plurilingual language Education (2021) London: Routledge, co-edited with A. Germain
Rutherford and G. Lawrence; Activating Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in the Language
Classroom. New York, NY: Springer International Publishing, co-edited with G. Lawrence, A.
Germain Rutherford and A. Galante; and La classe plurilingue. Insegnare con un approccio
orientate all’azione, Milano: Sanoma, co-edited with G. Langé.
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