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activities to the maximum, it is necessary that the context is highly motivating and that
the communication tasks take place on a concrete horizon, whose co-ordinates are
easily recognisable.
We believe that the product we are creating completely fulfils these premises; therefore
it will have a positive impact on the target group (children between the ages of 8 and
10) in terms of: increasing the pleasure of studying a foreign language; effectiveness of
learning; acquaintance with the new technologies used in learning contexts; easier
access to the study of less known and studied languages and cultures.
Those who teach a foreign language to children are included amongst the end users.
With regard to this group of end users, the expected positive impact is in terms of: the
availability of flexible teaching materials; the ability to use the computer in a way that
is at the same time coherent and integrated into the learning paths, and – above all – the
key role assigned to the teacher, who is a sort of co-author of the course, no longer
forced to follow the sequential order rigidly established by the authors, but able to
design and create tailored paths according to the needs of his/her class in full
autonomy.
The FLaChi framework consists of a strongly innovative linguistic path, that goes
beyond some methodological parameters that guided language teaching in the past (i.e.
the use of a fixed educational unit, the sequential order of the topics, the role of the
teacher). For this reason, a positive impact is expected both in the practice of language
teaching and in the promotion of the study of foreign languages, which will be in
keeping with more modern and updated principles that are closer to the imagination
and know-how of children of today.
References
LEWIS, M. (1993), The lexical approach, Hove: Language Teaching Publications.
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